A Call to Duty
by:
Timothy Zahn (author)
David Weber (author)
Format: ebook
Publisher: Baen
Edition language: English
Given the two authors of this book, David Weber and Timothy Zahn, it should not come as a surprise to anyone that this book is very well written. It is quite some time since I read a book by David Weber. I had gotten a bit tired of his gradually changed style which ended up in a lot of talk, talk an...
This book reminded me very much of [b:Quarter Share|2334538|Quarter Share (Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, #1)|Nathan Lowell|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1273808382s/2334538.jpg|2341114] by Nathan Lowell. They were both about a naive young man who joins the crew of a space ship with no experience...
3.5 to 4 starsA new series in the Honorverse, slated to be released next week. We find ourselves back before Manticore knew it had a major wormhole, back before it had any spaceship building industry and soon after a Plague that wiped out much of its nascent population. One of our protagonists is ...
(I got an ARC courtesy of NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.)Let's not dwell for too long on the cover, which is definitely a reminder of older SF books design, but didn't do much for me. (To be faire, I got my share of gorgeous covers hiding stupid novels, though. So I assumed that the co...
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