Collection of longer stories/novellas than in Volume 1.Each one focuses more on a few individuals within the Slammers rather than trying to cover a whole army. This means the characters really come through in each story.There's a lot of combat, Drake describes the action well. There's some explanati...
Ranks of Bronze is a military science fiction story with much emphasis on the “military” aspect. It features soldiers from ancient Rome who have been recruited by an odd commander to fight various odd enemies, which they’re transported to via odd methods while enjoying odd forms of recuperation and...
A classic bit of sci-fi from 1951, presented here with some background info about how it came to be - this is a pretty nice format, I'd be very happy to read a lot more of these Rosetta e-books. The background info is just enough to place it in the overall world of SF, and not so much you're dazed ...
I really liked the 6 books telling the story of Belisarius. History mixed with a little bit science fiction. Only thing I didn`t like was the too fast technolocial progress in the last book (radio towers,...)
First volume in the collected Hammers Slammers stories.Overall, it's a good collection, following Alois Hammer from being the commander of one of the best mercenary regiments around to the Presiden of a whole planet.The stories focus more on the people in the regiment rather than the why's and where...
I liked some aspects of this book, but I disliked other aspects. Let’s start with the beginning. I was overwhelmed in the beginning. We’re immediately thrust into a major battle, with a large number of characters splitting up into small squads, each heading off in different directions to accompli...
This book was a great end to a great series. I read all six books in the series one after the other. Since I don’t have a lot of spare time to read, this means I spent the past 52 days with these characters. I’m going to miss them. I almost don’t want to start my next book, because the character...
Although I enjoyed this fifth book in the Belisarius series, I found it to be a little slower than the previous four. It’s difficult for me to pinpoint why, but I can think of three factors that probably contributed to it: 1. I’m not sure if this is quantitatively true, but it seemed like there ...
Originally read May 8, 2014 Out of the four books in this series that I’ve read so far, I enjoyed this one the most. I enjoyed the previous three books a lot, but this one stood out more for me because Belisarius’ enemies finally presented him with some real challenges. This added more tension to ...
Originally read May 3, 2014 This was yet another enjoyable book in the Belisarius series. I like how each book tells a complete story, with a sense of victory at the end, even while you know that the over-all story isn’t done yet. I really don’t have much to write by way of a review, because the s...
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