This book appears to have been professionally edited and proof read. As a fan of sci-fi, i believe other readers will find this to be a great read with much detail.

Eric weston is the captain of the odyssey, a new type of spaceship. The odyssey has been designated as the first ship to use a transition drive system to allow faster-than-light travel. Even after diplomats were sent back to earth on the long trip hom...  Read More

Currie seems to have a fascination with lagrange points, and has some guy say that a bunch of debris that they have encountered shouldn't be there because they aren't at any lagrange points. There are no conspirators popping up at every turn.

More time could be spent making universe and characters more fleshed out with a bit more emotion. The details, the characters and the story-line are interesting, logical and ‘believable’.

The writing is merely serviceable and even a bit choppy in places. The author seems capable of more, but he chose not to do that. This is a tedious read until it grows annoying. While i fully expect to find errors and typos, this book is probably the ...  Read More

Its story is directionless and unrealistic. You know the characters will act a certain way with their stereotypical cliched statements.

The human targets, unfortunately, are somewhat pacifistic and do not have the weapons they need to defend themselves. The evil aliens of the piece are an unimaginative combination of the borg and aliens.

The first ftl earth starship gets a signal that a space cadet somehow figures out is a distress signal. The crew is mostly military, both male and female, and this is where i started to react negatively. Why send a warship on the first interstellar vo...  Read More