Thomas F. (hardtack) -
I was most of the way through this book and decided to stop reading it. I like a good space opera and David Weber is one of my favorite Sci-Fi authors. BUT.....
Steve White is the senior author and I've been disappointed by some of his books. In this one, the main characters always seem to be confronted by odds against which there is no hope. Then a MIRACLE occurs... i.e. somehow they are provided with stunning new technology from other groups which seem to be guiding humanity from the background. And one of those groups is a dying race of immortals which seems to know the future.
Steve White is the senior author and I've been disappointed by some of his books. In this one, the main characters always seem to be confronted by odds against which there is no hope. Then a MIRACLE occurs... i.e. somehow they are provided with stunning new technology from other groups which seem to be guiding humanity from the background. And one of those groups is a dying race of immortals which seems to know the future.
Fast-paced space opera from an author who has had several collaborations with David Weber and John Ringo. A good read.
From back cover: It wasn't much of an empire anymore--- but it was all they had.
Afterwards, Basil Castellan was always certain thaat it had all began the day he'd been rescued by the dragon. Oh, it hadn't been a real dragon, of course, or so he hastily assured everyone to whom he told the story. Only ... it had been a real dragon. But he wouldnever share that particular knowledge with anyone byt Sonja and Torval.
The Empire had preserved peace and order throughout human-inhabited space, but it had grown weak with the passing of the centuries, and now the self-styled New Humans were rising in open rebellion, striving to seize control and impose their fanatical grand design on all humans everywhere.
Basil, Sonja and Torval had only recently graduated from the Imperial Deep Space Fleet Academy, and the three comrades had no inkling of the crucial role they would play as the rising storm of war engulfed the galaxy--nor of the importance of the Luon, the dragon-like beings from Basil's homeworld, who were older, wiser, and more powerful than humans could imagine.
From back cover: It wasn't much of an empire anymore--- but it was all they had.
Afterwards, Basil Castellan was always certain thaat it had all began the day he'd been rescued by the dragon. Oh, it hadn't been a real dragon, of course, or so he hastily assured everyone to whom he told the story. Only ... it had been a real dragon. But he wouldnever share that particular knowledge with anyone byt Sonja and Torval.
The Empire had preserved peace and order throughout human-inhabited space, but it had grown weak with the passing of the centuries, and now the self-styled New Humans were rising in open rebellion, striving to seize control and impose their fanatical grand design on all humans everywhere.
Basil, Sonja and Torval had only recently graduated from the Imperial Deep Space Fleet Academy, and the three comrades had no inkling of the crucial role they would play as the rising storm of war engulfed the galaxy--nor of the importance of the Luon, the dragon-like beings from Basil's homeworld, who were older, wiser, and more powerful than humans could imagine.
