Review: A poor showing
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2014
I picked up a copy of this work free from the BookBub newsletter. I'm constantly on the lookout for other works of real science fiction out there in eBook land and thought I might have found one in Star Chase. I was wrong. The writing is sophomoric, the characters lack depth, the plot (such as it is) is by turns uninteresting and unbelievable. The "science" is also bizarre. The intro was OK, giving an explanation of how humanity found FTL travel and our spread throughout the arm of the galaxy. Unfortunately, Mr. Saxon took Arthur C. Clarke's dictum regarding advanced technology and magic far to seriously. It is simply a grab bag of cliched SF devices with no attempt at making sense of the mishmash on offer. The dialog is insipid and a lot of the action happens off page. I feel cheated and I got the book for free, I would be incensed if I had paid $4.50 for it.