Review: Better and stronger
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2013
After reading such books as Starship Troopers and Battletech, your collection of armored fictional war would not be complete without STRAT. It is complex, it is diverse, a good plot and its fun.The book seems to span something like fifteen years of our heros life. the first part of the book is somewhat unique that the author dosen't take a great amount of time to explain to the audeince the five W's, Who, What, When, Where, How or Why everything is the way it is. there's a little information mentioned here and there, but it's more like the character himself looked it up, rather than trying to feed you a portion of an encyclopedia. The story just starts right off and leaves it to the reader to figure things out as they go along, but that's part of the fun and it's not all that difficult to do so, since our hero comes from an isolated farming community, he's ignorant, not stupid. altogether a good character.the second half of the book involves a galaxy at war and our hero's involvment in it. like real life, the universe is full of grey areas, and sometimes you find that your allies are your greatest enemies.About the sicence. anybody with access to a computer can find similar technologies mentioned in this book and imagine what they'll look like two thousand years from now. things like powered armor which we haven't quite developed yet will in the future be as antiquated as the knights metal suit of armor found in a museaum and as about as helpfull when fighting against the weapons used in the future.if you like robots and underdogs, and don't particularly care for Tony Stark but still think Iron man if efffin cool, buy the book.