Spaceside
Just finished reading "Spaceside" by Michael Mammy, published by Harper Voyager.
Taking a chance on a novel by a new author is always a hit and/or miss affair since it's a 50/50 chance that you might not like the book you've purchased - and returns can be a hassle because you have a limited window of opportunity to return the book on Amazon.
I'm glad I took a chance on Mammy's first novel "Planetside" which introduced Colonel Carl Butler who was asked to look into the disappearance of a missing soldier. Butler's discovery of human soldiers augmented with Cappan biotechnology led to his decision to destroy Cappa.
In "Spaceside" Butler is not adjusting well to his forced retirement He is not adjusting very well at all. He's working for a corporation but he's not happy with his job. His wife divorced him because of the fallout from his actions at Cappa. He drinks way too much. He suffers night terrors and flashbacks, and he's in therapy. But his guilt over the Cappans has become debilitating. Then he starts to see Cappans. He doesn't know if it's reality or hallucinations.
About this time he's drawn into a mystery pertaining to a rival corporation. His CEO asks him to look into it in order to protect his own company. The CEO's self-interest, not Carl's. And that's when Carl starts to come back to the land of the living. The mystery takes some ominous turns, and he doesn't know who to trust.
Ganos, Butler's reliable computer-geek systems analyst who has never met a system she couldn't hack, is also back.
And as the mystery unravels before Butler he may find himself once again committing an act of planetary destruction as a means of atonement for the genocide he was responsible for on Cappa.
Mammy has been compared to the late Jerry Pournelle, and there are some stylistic elements that Mammy uses that are similiar to Pournelle's beloved Janasaries series of military science fiction.
Strongly Recommended!
Five Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Spaceside-Plan...
Taking a chance on a novel by a new author is always a hit and/or miss affair since it's a 50/50 chance that you might not like the book you've purchased - and returns can be a hassle because you have a limited window of opportunity to return the book on Amazon.
I'm glad I took a chance on Mammy's first novel "Planetside" which introduced Colonel Carl Butler who was asked to look into the disappearance of a missing soldier. Butler's discovery of human soldiers augmented with Cappan biotechnology led to his decision to destroy Cappa.
In "Spaceside" Butler is not adjusting well to his forced retirement He is not adjusting very well at all. He's working for a corporation but he's not happy with his job. His wife divorced him because of the fallout from his actions at Cappa. He drinks way too much. He suffers night terrors and flashbacks, and he's in therapy. But his guilt over the Cappans has become debilitating. Then he starts to see Cappans. He doesn't know if it's reality or hallucinations.
About this time he's drawn into a mystery pertaining to a rival corporation. His CEO asks him to look into it in order to protect his own company. The CEO's self-interest, not Carl's. And that's when Carl starts to come back to the land of the living. The mystery takes some ominous turns, and he doesn't know who to trust.
Ganos, Butler's reliable computer-geek systems analyst who has never met a system she couldn't hack, is also back.
And as the mystery unravels before Butler he may find himself once again committing an act of planetary destruction as a means of atonement for the genocide he was responsible for on Cappa.
Mammy has been compared to the late Jerry Pournelle, and there are some stylistic elements that Mammy uses that are similiar to Pournelle's beloved Janasaries series of military science fiction.
Strongly Recommended!
Five Stars!
https://www.amazon.com/Spaceside-Plan...
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