Good characters, feasible technology with a compelling storyline make this book an enjoyable sf read. The story ends with a classic miraculous save, easily explained within the science of the era. It gives this aspiring sci-fi writer hope that the pro...  Read More

The performance by mark boyett is as expected…stellar! This book blasts off beautifully. Dalzelle is a good writer, and i've read thousands of sf stories.

Ark royal, frontlines, honorverse. Fast moving book as over-matched destroyer captain makes first contact with mysterious alien warship. On the last voyage for him and his aging destroyer class spaceship, he finds a devastated planet and the alien shi...  Read More

Story ramps up and then the writer ignores the universe. The writing style is amateurish, what i expect from a first (and promptly buried in a drawer) manuscript. The characters, their actions, and the battles are so cliched it was tough to finish.

The author tries to infuse the character with an aura of leadership, but doesn't seem to have a firm grasp of the concept so the protagonist is mostly just stern. The details are simply too similiar. But it has too many hackneyed stereotypes and the c...  Read More

Small font, no page numbers, almost unreadable. Location numbers are as useless as an automobile odometer reading in feet or inches.