Review: Promising opening salvo
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2013
This takes me back to glory days of James Schmitz and his can-do heroes and heroines. I mean that in the nicest way.I really love the idea of a B-team of not-quite professional-grade diplomats who nonetheless have great improvisational skills. I think that it's a lot easier for us to imagine ourselves as, rather than being part of the A-team of brilliance and unfettered success.Here's a problem. Figure it out.This is the first installation in a serial. I think it's an interesting and hopeful turn in the experimental world of self-publishing right now. I think I will go ahead and purchase a few in a row so they arrive automatically as a treat on Tuesdays. I'm surprised there does not seem to be an option to purchase the "pack".Read if: You love the glory days of hopeful sci-fi. You loved the moral complications of the Old Man's War universe. You like the less slapstick side of Scalzi.Skip if: You are going to be annoyed by the serial style, you want a more gradual approach to the start of a story.Also read:TNT: Telzey Amberdon & Trigger Argee Together (Federation of the Hub, 2)