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catsy2022's review against another edition
4.0
Wavering between 4 - 5 stars.
The story itself is not that intricate, but has a lot of unnecessary information bogging it down. The author drops information about the different species of aliens here and there, mostly when they're mentioned, partly in completely unrelated parts.
There is a subplot about a star-shaped implant that Cmdr Halley has above her collarbone giving her dreams and visions to talk to the Seouras but ultimately it doesn't do anything except make her look more tired. She hardly eats or sleeps but never passes out once in the book lol.
All the alien names sound like the author mashed her keyboard. H'digh, K'Cher, Q'chn, even the name of the station is all a collection of letters arbitrarily assigned. Additionally it wasn't until the end of the book before I really retained what the major alien species look like.
I spent all morning reading the remaining parts of this book. Cmdr Halley is the head of the Jalypso station orbiting an abandoned/uninhabited planet light years away from earth. One day, in the midst of strained, resouce-scarce life on the station due to the occupation by the Seouras, a mine explodes destroying the tail end of a human ship that is carrying cryogenically frozen humans from 100 years ago.
Navigating the politics between the station's various alien races and trying to uncover the mystery of the ship, Halley has to help the residents, contact the council to assist, and communicate with the Seouras.
By the end of the book it's all quite well wrapped up and the plot elements are layered quite well, I was impressed
The alien species, the Invidi, on Earth, assist humans by providing the technology for them to be cryogenically frozen to embark on a 50-year journey to Alpha Centuri. They disappear for an additional 45 years as the aliens secretly installed a jump drive on the ship, with the express purpose of having them show up exactly at the time of the story to prove that they were helping humans and dissolve the Council (9 separate races of aliens, 4 races as part of the sub-council - less power - includes humans) as the laws state that the Invidi technology cannot be given out to the sub-council races. The council position is not good for the 4 races at the bottom and so a rebel alliance was made to fight back against them, but in the end they were wholly unnecessary as the Invidi had the same plan 95 years prior to the story.
This is my first Australian author book for the year; I wholly recommend reading this book if you have a chance for some good 90s science fiction.
The story itself is not that intricate, but has a lot of unnecessary information bogging it down. The author drops information about the different species of aliens here and there, mostly when they're mentioned, partly in completely unrelated parts.
There is a subplot about a star-shaped implant that Cmdr Halley has above her collarbone giving her dreams and visions to talk to the Seouras but ultimately it doesn't do anything except make her look more tired. She hardly eats or sleeps but never passes out once in the book lol.
All the alien names sound like the author mashed her keyboard. H'digh, K'Cher, Q'chn, even the name of the station is all a collection of letters arbitrarily assigned. Additionally it wasn't until the end of the book before I really retained what the major alien species look like.
I spent all morning reading the remaining parts of this book. Cmdr Halley is the head of the Jalypso station orbiting an abandoned/uninhabited planet light years away from earth. One day, in the midst of strained, resouce-scarce life on the station due to the occupation by the Seouras, a mine explodes destroying the tail end of a human ship that is carrying cryogenically frozen humans from 100 years ago.
Navigating the politics between the station's various alien races and trying to uncover the mystery of the ship, Halley has to help the residents, contact the council to assist, and communicate with the Seouras.
By the end of the book it's all quite well wrapped up and the plot elements are layered quite well, I was impressed
This is my first Australian author book for the year; I wholly recommend reading this book if you have a chance for some good 90s science fiction.
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