Review: The next Hienlein??
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2014
This is an excellent book and fully justifies my belief that Mr. Evan Currie may be the next Robert Heinlein.  His books are well crafted and every one of them seems to get stronger character development, along with better plotting.The only reason that I did not give this one a full 5 star rating is that IMO he went off the deep end from Science Fiction into Metaphysics and frankly La-La land.  When you introduce an entity like Gaia with no foundation in what has been a pretty hard SCI-FI series, it seems to this reader to violate the agreement between the author and the audience.  While this reviewer has no problem with fantasy (and in fact enjoys reading it), he feels that combining SCI-FI and fantasy is not good for either genera.That rant aside, I enjoyed the story in "Out of the Black."  It is the story of a final battle of us vs. them, with no question of who are the bad guys.  Yeah, the end is a little western, with calvary coming in at the rescue.  But it is a real Space Opera at  its finest.  There are very few breaks in the action.Come on Evan, when are you going to get the next installment out???