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Father Chessman Saga #1
Ships of My Fathers
Another tale from Beneath the Sky's vast Hudson Confederacy universe...
Michael was orphaned at seventeen, light-years from home. His inheritance: a starship, distant relatives he never knew existed, and inescapable questions that challenge everything he thought was true.
Michael's quest for answers takes him halfway across the Confederacy, from the gleaming corridors of the wealthy super-freighters to the dark holds of Father Chessman's pirate ships.
The truth is waiting for him, but he'll have to survive to find it.
Michael was orphaned at seventeen, light-years from home. His inheritance: a starship, distant relatives he never knew existed, and inescapable questions that challenge everything he thought was true.
Michael's quest for answers takes him halfway across the Confederacy, from the gleaming corridors of the wealthy super-freighters to the dark holds of Father Chessman's pirate ships.
The truth is waiting for him, but he'll have to survive to find it.
289 pages, Paperback
First published April 28, 2013
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April 22, 2018
I found this to be a bit too similar to at least two other preceding series. The ship life was well described, and some of the characters were well developed, but there were too many of them. The plot wasn't overly convoluted, but lacked tension for most of it.
Good resolution as a stand-alone, with sufficient loose ends to provide a foundation for additional books. Which I may read.
Good resolution as a stand-alone, with sufficient loose ends to provide a foundation for additional books. Which I may read.
July 5, 2013
This book was actually a recommendation by another author (Nathan Lowell) who spoke on his blog about this book, saying it was similar to his own works. Now I have been waiting for ages to read the next part of mr. Lowell's own books which have been backlogged for ages due to a whole range of issues so when he spoke about this book and I saw it was free I just had to get it. Normally I take author's recommendations with a pinch of salt because they tend to be quite lyrical about colleagues and all that but this book certainly didn't disappoint.
First off this book is Space Opera in the true sense of the word. This science fiction is not about massive space battles, amazing technologies or advanced psychology or anything. There's nothing dystopian about this book either. The story is about a kid losing his father and making his way in the world and trying to come to grips with what happened. The fact that that story takes place on spaceships makes it just that much more fun but it's really about the people and the world that they live in. I should confess that I love space opera precisely because of this and this book was right up my street so perhaps I glanced over a few of it's flaws but I really was quite impressed by this story and I can't wait for the next one.
First off this book is Space Opera in the true sense of the word. This science fiction is not about massive space battles, amazing technologies or advanced psychology or anything. There's nothing dystopian about this book either. The story is about a kid losing his father and making his way in the world and trying to come to grips with what happened. The fact that that story takes place on spaceships makes it just that much more fun but it's really about the people and the world that they live in. I should confess that I love space opera precisely because of this and this book was right up my street so perhaps I glanced over a few of it's flaws but I really was quite impressed by this story and I can't wait for the next one.
March 25, 2018
[Jul 13 2013]
Nothing fantastic, just an enjoyable space adventure. A young man inherits his father's trading ship, but before he can take over it's operation, he must learn more about himself and his father, and take a turn working in his uncle's trading venture. Likeable characters, logical well-paced plot with some real surprises. I will likely read it again, and I will definitely read the next ones in the series when they come out.
[Mar 25 2018]
I enjoyed this just as much on the second reading. Maybe it's a little telling that I remembered so little of the plot from my first reading less than five years ago, or that could just be me. But it's an easy quick read and kept me engrossed and reading until 3 a.m. to finish it again.
Nothing fantastic, just an enjoyable space adventure. A young man inherits his father's trading ship, but before he can take over it's operation, he must learn more about himself and his father, and take a turn working in his uncle's trading venture. Likeable characters, logical well-paced plot with some real surprises. I will likely read it again, and I will definitely read the next ones in the series when they come out.
[Mar 25 2018]
I enjoyed this just as much on the second reading. Maybe it's a little telling that I remembered so little of the plot from my first reading less than five years ago, or that could just be me. But it's an easy quick read and kept me engrossed and reading until 3 a.m. to finish it again.
August 14, 2013
See? It can be done. Thompson tells a satisfying, self-contained story which also kicks off a larger series.
I especially liked how Michael's attitudes and opinions about ships and shipmates are revealed in concrete actions, rather than Thompson just telling the reader what Michael thinks. Shipboard life and duties are realistically portrayed by melding known life support and technical systems with invented propulsion and faster-than-light travel. Gives believability.
A very good read.
I especially liked how Michael's attitudes and opinions about ships and shipmates are revealed in concrete actions, rather than Thompson just telling the reader what Michael thinks. Shipboard life and duties are realistically portrayed by melding known life support and technical systems with invented propulsion and faster-than-light travel. Gives believability.
A very good read.
August 23, 2017
Remember this name—Dan Thompson.
I just finished reading Ships of My Fathers (The Father Chessman Saga book 1), and I loved it from beginning to end.
He’s grounded his exciting deep space adventure in rich technical details that never distract you from the story, while creating a totally believable (and likable) main character, and given us an action/adventure science fiction tale that makes us want to keep on reading.
I’m heading out for book 2 right now
I just finished reading Ships of My Fathers (The Father Chessman Saga book 1), and I loved it from beginning to end.
He’s grounded his exciting deep space adventure in rich technical details that never distract you from the story, while creating a totally believable (and likable) main character, and given us an action/adventure science fiction tale that makes us want to keep on reading.
I’m heading out for book 2 right now
April 22, 2018
Excellent coming of age space opera. I will be watching for the sequels. Rereading doesn’t work very well as too many main plot points are memorable and it spoils the story.
July 27, 2013
This is a very old-school space opera in which an orphaned young man finds out who his real father was. It suffers from excessive detail, over-reliance on genre tropes and over-use of luck to get the protagonist out of trouble, but redeems itself somewhat with a good ending. That ending took it from the solid three stars which it had been sitting at through most of the book to a shaky three and a half (rounded up to four).
When I say it's "old-school", I mean that it's very much in the style of space opera's heyday, around the 1950s, if I had to pick a date. I grew up reading Andre Norton's Solar Queen series, which were about 20 years old even then, and there's really nothing in this book that couldn't have been written back in that era. It's set in the late 34th century (further from us in the future than the rise of Islam is in the past), yet not only is there no sign of technologies that are set to take off in the next 5-10 years, like 3D printing or augmented reality, but even technologies that have come into common use in the past 10 years are conspicuous by their absence.
Unlike you or me (and unlike Ishmael Wang from Nathan Lowell's Solar Clipper books, which appear to have been an inspiration), Michael Fletcher, the protagonist of Ships of My Fathers, does not carry a powerful pocket computer which can connect him to information, and other people, wherever he happens to be. He has to bribe his way into a bar to use a "terminal". It's not in order to stay under the radar (though that would be a reasonable explanation); he just doesn't seem to have an alternative. Likewise, he has to spend an exhausting day acting as a runner, carrying physical documents around a space station before cargo can be unloaded.
Of course, there are the spaceflight technologies which make the story possible: the tachyon sails and the artificial gravity. On the other hand, I found myself questioning as I was reading through why the story had to be science fiction at all. Apart from the presence of women in the ship crews, there really wasn't much that couldn't have been re-skinned as a story from the days of sail. So much so, in fact, that the size of ships is given in terms of their "displacement", which makes sense if you're talking about a ship that sits in the water and displaces it, but not so much when your ship is in vacuum. There, mass is the more usual measure. The protagonist even laces up his boots, something which reads oddly if those boots are expected to be used with a spacesuit.
Now, these are not problems of this single book, by any means. These are problems of the space opera genre in general. The setting tends to be technologically unsophisticated and off-the-shelf; the stories tend to be sailing-ship stories "in spaaace". Space opera can be much more than that, though, and at its best it is.
The influence of Nathan Lowell shows, to me, in a few ways. The close-knit, helpful crew is one. The fairly meaningless sex that doesn't come from or lead to a committed relationship is another. I like the first, could do without the second, personally.
I mentioned excessive detail. Early on, there's a very long section which gives a great deal of detail about shipboard operations, most of which has no relevance to the plot or characterisation. It's just worldbuilding for its own sake, and not even exciting worldbuilding. Later, there are a couple of times where the author does something like this: "Possibility A was that blah blah blah blah, but that didn't apply because blah. Possibility B was yada yada yada." In my view (as a person who's somewhat impatient with detail, and I know not everyone feels this way), we don't need to know about possibilities that didn't apply unless we can see - not hear about, but see - the characters pursuing them and being disappointed, and probably not even then.
Now, luck. One of the Pixar Rules is that you shouldn't rely on luck or coincidence to get your protagonist out of trouble, only to get them into trouble, and it's a good rule. I counted at least six consecutive pieces of good luck (some of which were actually highlighted as such), including the hoary old "convenient eavesdrop" where the hero just happens to be in a position to overhear the antagonists discussing some vital information that he couldn't otherwise get hold of. These pieces of luck got the protagonist out of trouble.
It's true he had to work for them, something which was overdue. This was about 80% of the way through the book, and up to this point the protagonist hadn't really been a protagonist, just a main character. He was being led around the nose, or other protruding organs, by other people. He had his own agenda, but he hadn't really made the decision that he had to work towards that agenda with determination until about two-thirds of the way through, and even then he was heavily manipulated. In the Seven Point System of plotting, the moment that the protagonist decides to take action, rather than being forced or manipulated into action, is known as the "midpoint", and the fact that it arguably comes 80% of the way through this book highlights that the first 80% of the book may be longer than it needs to be.
Once his luck ran out, though, the book improved. He took action - action that involved doing three time-consuming things before someone with a gun already in hand could fire, but he did take action - and he got a resolution out of it that I, as a reader, found satisfying.
The best character in the book, in my opinion, dies almost on the first page. This is Malcolm Fletcher, who brought Michael, the main character, up. Quotations from him stand at the head of each chapter, and they're the best writing in the whole book: compact, pithy, funny, vigorous. In a sense, the book is about Malcolm Fletcher, and who he was, and what he did.
If the author can take the writing ability that he shows with the character of Malcolm Fletcher and put it into the next book, without long digressions on meaningless detail, without relying on luck and coincidence, and without leaning too hard on the adventure-story tropes, then that next book will be a solid four stars, even if it continues to be outdated space opera that could equally well be set on historical Earth in the age of sail.
When I say it's "old-school", I mean that it's very much in the style of space opera's heyday, around the 1950s, if I had to pick a date. I grew up reading Andre Norton's Solar Queen series, which were about 20 years old even then, and there's really nothing in this book that couldn't have been written back in that era. It's set in the late 34th century (further from us in the future than the rise of Islam is in the past), yet not only is there no sign of technologies that are set to take off in the next 5-10 years, like 3D printing or augmented reality, but even technologies that have come into common use in the past 10 years are conspicuous by their absence.
Unlike you or me (and unlike Ishmael Wang from Nathan Lowell's Solar Clipper books, which appear to have been an inspiration), Michael Fletcher, the protagonist of Ships of My Fathers, does not carry a powerful pocket computer which can connect him to information, and other people, wherever he happens to be. He has to bribe his way into a bar to use a "terminal". It's not in order to stay under the radar (though that would be a reasonable explanation); he just doesn't seem to have an alternative. Likewise, he has to spend an exhausting day acting as a runner, carrying physical documents around a space station before cargo can be unloaded.
Of course, there are the spaceflight technologies which make the story possible: the tachyon sails and the artificial gravity. On the other hand, I found myself questioning as I was reading through why the story had to be science fiction at all. Apart from the presence of women in the ship crews, there really wasn't much that couldn't have been re-skinned as a story from the days of sail. So much so, in fact, that the size of ships is given in terms of their "displacement", which makes sense if you're talking about a ship that sits in the water and displaces it, but not so much when your ship is in vacuum. There, mass is the more usual measure. The protagonist even laces up his boots, something which reads oddly if those boots are expected to be used with a spacesuit.
Now, these are not problems of this single book, by any means. These are problems of the space opera genre in general. The setting tends to be technologically unsophisticated and off-the-shelf; the stories tend to be sailing-ship stories "in spaaace". Space opera can be much more than that, though, and at its best it is.
The influence of Nathan Lowell shows, to me, in a few ways. The close-knit, helpful crew is one. The fairly meaningless sex that doesn't come from or lead to a committed relationship is another. I like the first, could do without the second, personally.
I mentioned excessive detail. Early on, there's a very long section which gives a great deal of detail about shipboard operations, most of which has no relevance to the plot or characterisation. It's just worldbuilding for its own sake, and not even exciting worldbuilding. Later, there are a couple of times where the author does something like this: "Possibility A was that blah blah blah blah, but that didn't apply because blah. Possibility B was yada yada yada." In my view (as a person who's somewhat impatient with detail, and I know not everyone feels this way), we don't need to know about possibilities that didn't apply unless we can see - not hear about, but see - the characters pursuing them and being disappointed, and probably not even then.
Now, luck. One of the Pixar Rules is that you shouldn't rely on luck or coincidence to get your protagonist out of trouble, only to get them into trouble, and it's a good rule. I counted at least six consecutive pieces of good luck (some of which were actually highlighted as such), including the hoary old "convenient eavesdrop" where the hero just happens to be in a position to overhear the antagonists discussing some vital information that he couldn't otherwise get hold of. These pieces of luck got the protagonist out of trouble.
It's true he had to work for them, something which was overdue. This was about 80% of the way through the book, and up to this point the protagonist hadn't really been a protagonist, just a main character. He was being led around the nose, or other protruding organs, by other people. He had his own agenda, but he hadn't really made the decision that he had to work towards that agenda with determination until about two-thirds of the way through, and even then he was heavily manipulated. In the Seven Point System of plotting, the moment that the protagonist decides to take action, rather than being forced or manipulated into action, is known as the "midpoint", and the fact that it arguably comes 80% of the way through this book highlights that the first 80% of the book may be longer than it needs to be.
Once his luck ran out, though, the book improved. He took action - action that involved doing three time-consuming things before someone with a gun already in hand could fire, but he did take action - and he got a resolution out of it that I, as a reader, found satisfying.
The best character in the book, in my opinion, dies almost on the first page. This is Malcolm Fletcher, who brought Michael, the main character, up. Quotations from him stand at the head of each chapter, and they're the best writing in the whole book: compact, pithy, funny, vigorous. In a sense, the book is about Malcolm Fletcher, and who he was, and what he did.
If the author can take the writing ability that he shows with the character of Malcolm Fletcher and put it into the next book, without long digressions on meaningless detail, without relying on luck and coincidence, and without leaning too hard on the adventure-story tropes, then that next book will be a solid four stars, even if it continues to be outdated space opera that could equally well be set on historical Earth in the age of sail.
February 25, 2018
Three and half stars. This is a strong entry for an early work. The book is slow to start and many of the characters seem underdeveloped. The later half of the book adds some minor plot twists, but more importantly it finishes strong with better pacing, better dialog and some better character development.
I really loved the tropes of wisdom from Malcolm Fletcher that started each chapter. This was a nice touch that actually left him as one of the best developed characters in the story.
I really loved the tropes of wisdom from Malcolm Fletcher that started each chapter. This was a nice touch that actually left him as one of the best developed characters in the story.
November 7, 2017
Really enjoyable
This was recommended in a group of fans of the Quarter Share series, as yes, if you enjoy those, I recommend this to you. I'm going to go read the next book now, and then go see what else this author has.
This was recommended in a group of fans of the Quarter Share series, as yes, if you enjoy those, I recommend this to you. I'm going to go read the next book now, and then go see what else this author has.
April 1, 2018
I have a new author and series to follow.
July 1, 2013
Growing up aboard a smuggler's ship is exciting, but not Mal Reynolds or Han Solo exciting. So Michael Fletcher thought he was on course for a low-key kind of excitement in his life, working for his father aboard the Sophie's Grace. But when his father dies unexpectedly, all his protections are stripped away and Michael is flung into a world of smugglers, cheats and family secrets. As Michael races to uncover the truth about who his father really was, his search drags him into the converging worlds of desperadoes, big business, and Navy Intelligence, all of whom seem anxious to get their hands on Michael himself.
At its core, this is the story of one young man coming to terms with the sudden arrival of adulthood, and having to learn to stand on his own, despite the plans that everyone else seems to be making for his life. Ships is a well constructed tale set in a well-conceived universe, told simply, and with sensitivity for the protagonist and his situation. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
So what's next? With Michael's origin story out of the way, the stage is now masterfully set for an ongoing series of adventures, as Michael gains greater agency and (hopefully) assembles a team around himself that will permit him to become a true badass in the tradition of other bigger than life action heros like Reynolds, Solo, King Arthur, Captain Kirk, and Buffy Summers. That's what I sense here, coming to me through my magic crystal, and if that's what Thompson has in mind, I will be here for the long haul.
If there are weaknesses to be found, they are minor. Ships is every bit as good as anything I've seen coming out of the major SF houses, and none of my following quibbles should be taken as problems. I include them merely in the hopes that Thompson will see them and that they might influence his upcoming stories so that I will like them even more. (I'm selfish that way. :-)
1) I like my science fiction best when it offers some clever extrapolations of technology or cultural developments, but nothing in Ships of My Fathers struck me as new. While this future universe seems well thought out, it also seems familiar. I'd like to have seen a bit more novelty.
2) Another thing I like in a science fiction story is that it take advantage of its science fiction setting, but Ships could easily be transformed into a Victorian high-seas yarn with just a few global search and replaces, so this is more piratical space opera than science fiction. I hope subsequent instalments will make better use of the setting.
3) Science fiction usually offers fairly flat characters, and so I can't fault Thompson for staying the course on this, but I was a bit disappointed not to find more sizzle and variety in the secondary characters.
4) While the writing is excellent, it never goes beyond simple expedience. My favorite authors have an ear for language and a knack for witty banter, clever turns of phrase, etc. I didn't see much of that here, and I thought there were a few scenes where a bit of that could have made them fabulous.
All things considered, not much to complain about, really. So if you're looking for a great yarn, and maybe hoping to get in on the ground floor of a truly worthwhile series, check out Ships of My Fathers. You won't be sorry.
At its core, this is the story of one young man coming to terms with the sudden arrival of adulthood, and having to learn to stand on his own, despite the plans that everyone else seems to be making for his life. Ships is a well constructed tale set in a well-conceived universe, told simply, and with sensitivity for the protagonist and his situation. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
So what's next? With Michael's origin story out of the way, the stage is now masterfully set for an ongoing series of adventures, as Michael gains greater agency and (hopefully) assembles a team around himself that will permit him to become a true badass in the tradition of other bigger than life action heros like Reynolds, Solo, King Arthur, Captain Kirk, and Buffy Summers. That's what I sense here, coming to me through my magic crystal, and if that's what Thompson has in mind, I will be here for the long haul.
If there are weaknesses to be found, they are minor. Ships is every bit as good as anything I've seen coming out of the major SF houses, and none of my following quibbles should be taken as problems. I include them merely in the hopes that Thompson will see them and that they might influence his upcoming stories so that I will like them even more. (I'm selfish that way. :-)
1) I like my science fiction best when it offers some clever extrapolations of technology or cultural developments, but nothing in Ships of My Fathers struck me as new. While this future universe seems well thought out, it also seems familiar. I'd like to have seen a bit more novelty.
2) Another thing I like in a science fiction story is that it take advantage of its science fiction setting, but Ships could easily be transformed into a Victorian high-seas yarn with just a few global search and replaces, so this is more piratical space opera than science fiction. I hope subsequent instalments will make better use of the setting.
3) Science fiction usually offers fairly flat characters, and so I can't fault Thompson for staying the course on this, but I was a bit disappointed not to find more sizzle and variety in the secondary characters.
4) While the writing is excellent, it never goes beyond simple expedience. My favorite authors have an ear for language and a knack for witty banter, clever turns of phrase, etc. I didn't see much of that here, and I thought there were a few scenes where a bit of that could have made them fabulous.
All things considered, not much to complain about, really. So if you're looking for a great yarn, and maybe hoping to get in on the ground floor of a truly worthwhile series, check out Ships of My Fathers. You won't be sorry.
April 29, 2014
A good read. A little long-winded in parts (Michael's first days on the job of the Heavy Heinrich), but once you read through to the end the excessive mundanity begins to make sense. Additionally, I could have done without the extended narrative of his "mourning" with the hooker - kinda cliché; once would have been enough, but we're to believe this 17-year-old is at his peak, so we have to suffer through numerous innuendos celebrating his libido.
All of that being said, I did enjoy Ships of My Fathers - very much so. The author made very few errors (missing preposition, wrong choice of words, sentences ending in prepositions, etc) that would have easily been cleaned up by a decent editor. Since there were so few I didn't feel myself being distracted by them as much as I usually am with Indie novels, and that's a great thing.
The characters, while somewhat cliché, were well-rounded and put in scenarios that were believable. The dialogue was decent (minus Michael's, which I found to be a bit stiff), and the sparse action was enough to keep me turning pages til the end. But this wasn't an action novel, so I can't fault the author for lack of action scenes. The book moved along well once the drudgery of learning space plumbing and the calculus of space navigation passed.
I would recommend this book to anyone that enjoys a good space opera. Kudos!
All of that being said, I did enjoy Ships of My Fathers - very much so. The author made very few errors (missing preposition, wrong choice of words, sentences ending in prepositions, etc) that would have easily been cleaned up by a decent editor. Since there were so few I didn't feel myself being distracted by them as much as I usually am with Indie novels, and that's a great thing.
The characters, while somewhat cliché, were well-rounded and put in scenarios that were believable. The dialogue was decent (minus Michael's, which I found to be a bit stiff), and the sparse action was enough to keep me turning pages til the end. But this wasn't an action novel, so I can't fault the author for lack of action scenes. The book moved along well once the drudgery of learning space plumbing and the calculus of space navigation passed.
I would recommend this book to anyone that enjoys a good space opera. Kudos!
November 6, 2013
Michael Fletcher worked on his father's starship when, aged 17, he was suddenly orphaned after his father died in an accident. His father left him his starship, but he can't captain it until he's turned 18 and been able to pass his captain's his exam. Unfortunately, he learns that he was adopted, and there are family secrets that need to be uncovered...
The story is a relatively simple one of family secrets, space travel and a little bit of piracy. It doesn't bore you with tonnes of descriptions, biographies, historical backplot etc, instead getting right down to the story. One thing I really liked though is that it goes into a lot more detail (without becoming boring) about life on board a starship, how it works and what people's jobs are. There's also quite a bit about how starships travel faster than light - it covers this much better than most sci-fi books which just stick with 'go to warp speed'...
The book is approximately 300 pages, and is the first in a planned series. The storyline in this book comes to a satisfactory conclusion so you don't need to read any more books, but there's enough unresolved plot hooks in there to make you want to read more. The quality of the writing (and editing) is very good. The book really flows, and there are no silly errors or clumsy writing to jar you out of the story.
The story is a relatively simple one of family secrets, space travel and a little bit of piracy. It doesn't bore you with tonnes of descriptions, biographies, historical backplot etc, instead getting right down to the story. One thing I really liked though is that it goes into a lot more detail (without becoming boring) about life on board a starship, how it works and what people's jobs are. There's also quite a bit about how starships travel faster than light - it covers this much better than most sci-fi books which just stick with 'go to warp speed'...
The book is approximately 300 pages, and is the first in a planned series. The storyline in this book comes to a satisfactory conclusion so you don't need to read any more books, but there's enough unresolved plot hooks in there to make you want to read more. The quality of the writing (and editing) is very good. The book really flows, and there are no silly errors or clumsy writing to jar you out of the story.
May 4, 2015
This was a decent book, but not phenomenal. Lots of ships and conflicts, but the characters seem somewhat two dimensional. I had expected something more on a grand epic scale.
Still, if you liked the Solar Clipper series, this one is along those general lines. It's a quick read, I'd use this one for times when you need a mental break between more serious books. Still, I will look at see if Thompson continues the Chessman series. I think the author has more legs than this one example of his work.
Still, if you liked the Solar Clipper series, this one is along those general lines. It's a quick read, I'd use this one for times when you need a mental break between more serious books. Still, I will look at see if Thompson continues the Chessman series. I think the author has more legs than this one example of his work.
July 16, 2013
Another Nathan Lowell recommendation which bears a bit of similarity with his work, but with more political intrigue and danger added. I found myself really enjoying it (almost to my surprise) and will probably check out the next book in the series.
June 29, 2013
Very enjoyable space opera with a commercial bent. In addition there is even some Naval Intelligence involved. Well written characters and great story line.
July 7, 2013
Hope Dan Thompson writing more books like this. Meanwhile it reminded me of Heinlein's citizen of galaxy. I still feel as if I am on a space ship.
July 17, 2013
Excellent debut work in what promises to be an excellent series.
July 29, 2013
Picked this up thanks to a mention in Nathan Lowell's blog and quite enjoyed the book. If you are a fan of Space Opera or Nathan Lowell, this will feel like home. Quite an enjoyable, easy read.
August 8, 2013
A very promising start.
January 3, 2017
Good read
I highly recommend this book. It is a good start to series that grow over
Over time. Please try it.
I highly recommend this book. It is a good start to series that grow over
Over time. Please try it.
July 3, 2013
Exactly what I expected. No surprises. Decent, not memorable in any way.
September 28, 2013
Great book by a great new author. Can't wait for the next one. Write faster Dan, write faster!
November 3, 2013
I found this to be a very enjoyable book.
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