Lines of Departure is a great military sci-fi novel. It felt very much like a middle novel and moved the story along from the first book, introduced some new alien baddies out to wipe out the humans and delivered a first victory against the aliens to wrap up the book.I enjoyed the first book a l...
Most of them are smaller warships, but there’s a fair number of destroyers, cruisers, and even carriers. It’s a much more credible-looking defense force than the motley collection of small orbital combatants that assembled in Earth orbit a year ago to fight off the Lanky seed ship that rained see...
There was nothing wrong with her, technically speaking. She was an older model Wasp, not one of the new Dragonflies, but most of our wing was still on Wasps back then. But pilots are a superstitious bunch, and it had been decided that Lucky Thirteen was an unlucky ship. Before they gave her to me...
All hands, prepare for battle. Alcubierre transition in two minutes.”I know that we aren’t really going faster than light speed—in an Alcubierre bubble, the ship moves at subluminal speed while the drive shifts the space around it—but it still feels like we’ve been racing through space for the la...
Come over here and have a seat.”She obeys and sits down at the table with the First Sergeant, who is the only person in the battalion that scares her as almost much as Sergeant Fallon. “I need a squad leader,” the First Sergeant says. “After that clusterfuck last week, I’m short a few heads. You ...