Austin B. reviewed on 4/4/2010

Helpful Score: 3

What a deceptively "business as usual" book! It starts out with a big "oh wow" premise, tosses in some "hostile aliens", and it seems that it's just gonna roll along from there, as have many inferior books before.... but then Ringo starts to develop the major characters, we start getting into metaphysics, alternate universes, concepts of God, and a maulk-load of physics, and BOOM: great story! And even if you don't really like infantry military sci-fi (such as the "Hymn Before Battle" series by Ringo), press on through this first book in this series, because the next books are VERY different and worthwhile!

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