02-07-2007, 06:55 AM
He is almost as prodigious as Nora Roberts writing at least five books a year by himself or with cowriters.
His Honor Harrington series rocked in the beginning, but his last few efforts in this serial have been a bit wordy and short on action. He's made Honor a god and it's hard to build drama around someone who can't fail.
His latest effort brings him back to form. Armageddon Reef depicts the last remnants of humanity. A vastly superior interstellar race has pushed them to the brink of extinction. In order to survive they escape with a colony to a planet far from home. The figure the aliens have tracked them because of their technology so the develop a world without a medieval level of technology and they breed and indoctrinate the colony to forswear technology. Their is dissension among the builders of the society over the level of technology. One side doesn't want even a hint of technology. The other side wants to start building a way to eventually go back and defeat the aliens. The Luddites win by destroying the group that wants to battle. The Technologist leave behind a robot that will eventually awaken with the complete knowledge of their society. The robot's name is Merlin.
It looks to be the beginning of a long series. It basically starts with Merlin waking up and coming to the aid of the one kingdom that has a hope of embracing technology.
It's a pretty good yarn. Lot's of battles and intrigue. The church that is in place to make sure technology doesn't make a comeback has become corrupt. Merlin's kingdom is the one threat to the church. The church rallies the kingdom's neighbors to go to war.
Ah, warmongering and church hating. What could be wrong with that.
It's not as good as the early Harringtons but it's light years better than his Hell's Gate series which came out last.
His Honor Harrington series rocked in the beginning, but his last few efforts in this serial have been a bit wordy and short on action. He's made Honor a god and it's hard to build drama around someone who can't fail.
His latest effort brings him back to form. Armageddon Reef depicts the last remnants of humanity. A vastly superior interstellar race has pushed them to the brink of extinction. In order to survive they escape with a colony to a planet far from home. The figure the aliens have tracked them because of their technology so the develop a world without a medieval level of technology and they breed and indoctrinate the colony to forswear technology. Their is dissension among the builders of the society over the level of technology. One side doesn't want even a hint of technology. The other side wants to start building a way to eventually go back and defeat the aliens. The Luddites win by destroying the group that wants to battle. The Technologist leave behind a robot that will eventually awaken with the complete knowledge of their society. The robot's name is Merlin.
It looks to be the beginning of a long series. It basically starts with Merlin waking up and coming to the aid of the one kingdom that has a hope of embracing technology.
It's a pretty good yarn. Lot's of battles and intrigue. The church that is in place to make sure technology doesn't make a comeback has become corrupt. Merlin's kingdom is the one threat to the church. The church rallies the kingdom's neighbors to go to war.
Ah, warmongering and church hating. What could be wrong with that.
It's not as good as the early Harringtons but it's light years better than his Hell's Gate series which came out last.
So much for the flickr badge idea. Dammit