Review: Imagination is very interesting!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2014
The ancestors of the human race came from another galaxy. They were once known as the Malron Empire, but due to infighting and some sort of genetic warfare, they were hunted to near extinction. The Malron Empire was one civilization made of two species; the human beings and their twin race the Peridians. The background of the story is inventive and complex, with a lot of very similar names for a different races and species. Sometimes it’s not absolutely clear which names belong to what organism. Malturian or Malron? Peridian or Saffron? Are the humans are on Earthor Peru? These are small questions that are glanced over that make it difficult to get a grasp of the universe, and are a quick fix with at little bit more organization in the writing.After the background of the universe in the prologue, there’s a short explanation of the battleships involved in the story. There’s a page where I believe we’re suppose to be accessing a database on a computer system where it gives us, “Four files accessed. Proceed when ready.” I think this sort of thing is cheesy in movies, but in a book, it’s simply laughable. I believe this is to lend credibility to the story, to make it seem more “realistic” but with no explanations of what a “mammoth class” starship is, it really just turns into a bunch of unnecessary details. The pictures are interesting though, but without any reference to tie the names to, it’s really just, “Oh, cool, a picture of a spaceship.”The twin races were able to separate themselves from one another and start over on separate planets. They are then involved in a very uneasy alliance of trade and information. A new leader has taken over for the Peridian people on Saffron and is anti-Earth and anti-human. They conducted a search of an Earth-bound vessel, which had an Earth spy with sensitive information on board. The humans then launch a mission to try to rescue the spy and the information on board. This has the potential to start a war between the two planets, so this is going to take some delicate maneuvering.Overall the imagination is very interesting, especially in the creation of the world. The action is a bit dry, as well as the dialogue. There are a lot of grammatical problems that would help with the readability; missing commas, missing capitalization of names, that sort of thing. One thing that really stuck out to me was the “biogenic weapons of mass destruction”. The Malron Empire unleashed these weapons that, “killed everything biological,” and spread to attack all the worlds that opposed the Malron Empire. The text states that, “in total, they eradicated six species from existence.” Any biologist knows that if another life-bearing planet exists, it is statistically improbable that the world is inhabited by one single species of life. There would be lower forms of organisms that branched off from the evolutionary chain, in our case plants and lower animals that we need to be able to eat and to breathe to survive. The other thing is that there are so many unnecessary details that I think contribute to the dryness of the action. There is a 10-digit number and 5 sentences, just to say that the guy that placed the distress call is one of their spies. Unnecessary details.