Emancipation, Book 1.0: Dalida by G. P. Eliot
As promised, here is my review. I tried posting it to Amazon, and received this error message upon making the attempt —
The other reviews posted to Amazon are spot-on, for the most part.
If you’re looking for swashbuckling adventure of the Indiana Jones variety, with tidbits of Star Trek thrown in, Eliot is your guy.
The good guys aren’t the angsty, indecisive types that so many other writers like to put out there for your entertainment FRNs. Sure, they have their flaws, but they’re basically good, stand-up people when it counts. You won’t find any socialist just-us wankers on the crew of the Dalida, insisting that everyone sing “Kum-bah-ya” with everyone that they encounter.
Likewise, I suspect that most readers would want to see the main bad guy (the “Jackal”) killed in a firefight at some point. He’s a conniving, backstabbing, untrustable son of a bitch, and makes no bones about it.
The only “bad” thing in the 500 pages of the ePub version that I saw was on page 343.4 —
Instead, the ansibles worked on encoding data into neutrinos—tiny sub-atomic particles that could travel faster than light. Without them, humanity would dissolve into a mess of disparate colony worlds, never able to talk to each other.
Neutrinos usually travel at the speed of light, as far as the current research shows.[1]
So “neutrinos” should be changed to “tachyons,” the technobabble catch-all faster-than-light subatomic particles, for v.2 of Dalida.
NOTES
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino#Speed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurements_of_neutrino_speed - Reposted –
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