Customer Reviews
More than just a shoot-em-up! - By: , 28 Jul 1999 
The foreground story is more complicated & interesting than most military sci-fi. The people have believable, individual motivations, & the issues aren't black & white. There seems to be a LOT going on in the background, & not just the peculiar war against the mysterious aliens. I wish Fawkes had done more than just sketch in some of the governments, personalities, other interests that complicate things with their private agendas. Maybe this was deliberate, to whet our appetites for the rest of the trilogy (series)? If so, it worked for me.
This was a great SF book! - By: , 18 Jul 1999 This was a sci-fi book for the mind it was'nt so much action it was more, about getting into the minds of the charactors which is a welcome change to the old shoot-em up sci-fi books.
Good new entry in Military SF field - By: , 11 Jun 1999 
Good, in that it combines a relatively smalll amount of sterotypical military action (competently, if not thrillingly handled) with a real SF mystery. Clearly has some bugs, e.g., what drives the xeno-sociologist character to "go native"? what happens to a couple of secondary characters at book's end? characterization can be a little flat (e.g. Stone); & just who is the wacky, mysterious billionaire/guru figure with the bad cryptic lines, other than an awkward device for moving the plot along? Despite some first novel quirks, I'll certainly buy the requisite sequel, if only because Fawkes has tried hard to add a little alieness & to a frequently stale SF sub-genre.
