Review: Good read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2012
I enjoyed this book.  A disgraced Captain is sent on a journey to recover a ship that has been drifting for 100 years with all its crew killed by a plague.  His journey, recovering the ship and return were quite well presented with most of it being relatively logical.My two main concerns were the fact that apparently the human race and its weaponry had not changed much in the 100 years the battle cruiser was drifting.  I think the time span was too long.  Given the tensions between the various groups in space that is depicted, I would have expected human ingenuity to have come to the fore with new and better weapons in the time.  The author could have kept it at about 20 years and things would have been a bit more believable.Secondly, I could not quite believe that the main character had people flogged for disciplinary breaches.  I know that all "space opera" authors are trying to be a bit Horatio Hornblowerish, but really, are we going to take 17, 18th and 19th century concepts of discipline to the stars with us?  I certainly hope not.However, those and a couple of minor other matters aside, it was an easy way in which to pass the time.  There are a lot worse books out there.