Review: A good read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2013
Interesting and pretty well written.  While the afterword gives the writer's thoughts on moral relativity, I did find myself wondering from time to time in the first part of the book what it was that Commodore Singh had done that was so objectionable under the circumstances of the fall of the empire.  Democracies don't spring up automatically in the midst of the fall of the established order, after all.  Think of the fall of Rome, the French Revolution, and post-WWI Germany and Russia.  Only later did Nuttall throw in enough nastiness to make her rule really objectionable and it seemed to be done so because he was having trouble with it as well.  Still, a nice story with potential for the future.