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Into the Hinterlands

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#1 in a new series from a military science fiction master with over 3 million books in print. A young hero comes of age in the crucible of war and galactic struggle.

When Allen Allenson, scion of a noble family that has fallen on hard times, gets a mission to roust the power-hungry Terrans from a “wild” star sector where they’re encroaching, he jumps at the chance to show h

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Hardcover, 374 pages

Published September 6th 2011 by Baen (first published September 1st 2011)

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May 13, 2011 Liviu rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011_release_read, review_fbc, genre-sf, read_2011, series_reading, t1_recommended_2011

The start of a new series from John Lambshead with David Drake and one I hope has legs and continues the story of our heroes; the set-up is quite intriguing physically, though the book is young Washington in a space opera context in many ways - the social setup is pre-revolutionary America with the main powers Brasilia as England, Terra as France and the proto-human Riders who ride continuum crystal living beings as the Indians, while the colonies are, well you got it and the Hinterland is well,...more The start of a new series from John Lambshead with David Drake and one I hope has legs and continues the story of our heroes; the set-up is quite intriguing physically, though the book is young Washington in a space opera context in many ways - the social setup is pre-revolutionary America with the main powers Brasilia as England, Terra as France and the proto-human Riders who ride continuum crystal living beings as the Indians, while the colonies are, well you got it and the Hinterland is well, you also got it...

The setup is the Fourth Civilization that spread across the stars when the nature of the universe was understood after the fall of (our) Third Civilization in resource scarcity and biowars and humanity now has the expected - lords of land at the top at least nominally, aggressive traders and merchants, while indentured servants take place of slaves in the Brasilian society and convicts in the Terran with the usual corruption, inefficiencies, class distinctions and pettiness....

The universe of the novel is a four dimensional membrane inside the continuum and the humans navigate it by "frames" aka glorified bikes/wagons though there are interesting details as to how this works and what limitations ensue (eg the hyperspace drag is determined at the subatomic level so what you can carry efficiently on frames is dependent on its properties rather than on mass/volume, so metals are hard to carry but ceramics are easy)

The story starts with Allen Allenson, young and promising colonial gentry and in-law to a secondary branch of a powerful Brasilian family, branch that decided to make its fortune in the colonies and married into the rising local families - leading a survey expedition into the Hinterlands under the nominal leadership of his learned but impractical in-law Destry (Destry's sister is married with Allen elder brother Todd) and with childhood friend, (bit socially lower on the totem pole) dashing ladies man Hawthorn as aide.

This part is awesome and hooked me on the story while it introduces both the universe and our heroes perfectly; later, visiting the dying Todd (of a gene wasting disease that no medical tech can cure), Allen is convinced by his sister-in-law the ambitious Lynsie to get Todd's position of Inspector General of the colonial militia; after the usual corrupt and patronage deals, Allen gets the position conditionally from the executive Governor, contingent of investigating reports of Terran penetrations into the Hinterlands and of renewing the treaty with some of the Riders tribes that have a representative at one of the few trading posts into the wild...

And of course from here the big-picture story starts and there is generally a predictable tone to what happens based on the events of the colonial wars of the 1750-1760's, but still I really enjoyed the story and the space opera milieu gives a great canvas to retell it.
There is much more including romance, seductive but dangerous women, politics, the book packs quite a lot despite not being that long at less than 400 pages

Highly recommended and a complete package with a great ending, but of course I want (and expect) more.(less)

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Oct 21, 2012 Jo (Mixed Book Bag) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: military-science-fiction, science-fiction

David Drake and John Lambshead have come up with a unique way to travel between the stars in Into The Hinterlands. You peddle on a Frame that creates a bubble that allows you follow a unique path through the Continuum. There are trails and colors and paths in the Continuum. Sometimes your ride was smooth and sometimes turbulent. There were times when you had to stop at the nearest planet and let the storms pass. I found the method strange at first but as the book progressed it fit the story.

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Jun 19, 2012 Nathan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviewed-2012, sci-fi

As a stand alone book it leaves me pretty unfulfilled. The plot closed too much too quickly and the depth that I have come to expect from Drake just isn't there. As the start to a series, it shows immense promise. Might want to hold off on reading this one until book 2 comes available.

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Jan 03, 2012 Ron rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: alternate-world, science-fiction

David Drake and John Lambshead take the life of George Washington and turn it into an almost decent SF saga.. We will hold final opinion till we read the next volume in the series.

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Oct 26, 2011 Michael rated it 3 of 5 stars

Good story with quite interesting takes on technology. Worth reading the next installment.

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Dec 14, 2011 Craig rated it 1 of 5 stars

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Simply awful. I gave it 100 pages, but that's all I could stand.

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Oct 23, 2011 Tom rated it 3 of 5 stars

Fairly standard set of David drake characters here in a new set of worlds.

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Nov 14, 2011 Eric rated it 3 of 5 stars

Not real worried about continuing this series.

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