K. B. Wagers
Autor(a) de Behind the Throne
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- Sexo
- non-binary
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Pequena biografia
- Andrew Zack
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Membros
- 1,193
- Popularidade
- #21,548
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 74
- ISBNs
- 68
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 3
The essence is that Ships have been going missing from the Trappist system. It's unclear if humanity has managed to colonize other worlds, but the implication is that they have, and hence unclear again, why we're back on this one. Or why it's the NeoG's job to investigate and then solve the problem. They do have some Navy assistance when they ask for it. The action then skips back and forth between various character's personal problems, the ever-present (but diminishing importance) Games and a couple of different angles around the main quest. I think it's a lack of balance between the characters and the action that I didn't quite get on with. Whether you'll enjoy this depends what you like in your science fiction.
And a fundamental technology plot hole is that a space ships' 'rail gun' fired on the ground will do a lot more than just knock over a few space suits. The principle of magnetic acceleration usually applied to the term doesn't scale down to land war. Wagers has up until now avoided errors like this.
Although I enjoyed a lot of it I'm not sure I'm that interested in reading more of the NeoG, and will wait until Wagers writes in another world.… (mais)