Bright Horizons (Audible Audio Edition) Wilson Harp Jim McCabe Books
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Earth has made first contact with an alien race. At the historic first meeting, an ambush put peace for humanity out of reach. Colonel Kyle Martin was there that day. It was his leadership and the bravery of his marines that saved what little hope mankind had. When Earth was threatened with invasion, Martin again felt the weight of war pressing down on him.
Known as the Butcher of Hyderabad for his decisions in the Indian War, Martin seemed a poor choice to guard the peace but the perfect man to organize the forces of Earth to defend itself from the coming alien scourge.
With a select team of humans and a few allies among the alien races, Martin is tasked with not only defeating the invading armada, but with making sure that Earth is kept free from any alien domination.
Faced with impossible odds against an overwhelming foe with advanced technology, it is only a secret about Earth itself that gives Martin the glimmer of hope to succeed.
With his "lucky charm" Ramirez, his go-to girl Kitch, and an unshakable Sergeant Major, Martin rolls the die time after time in audacious gambles with the stakes being nothing less than the survival of the human race. Face-paced action awaits in this military sci-fi adventure.
Bright Horizons (Audible Audio Edition) Wilson Harp Jim McCabe Books
This book like many is a balance of disappointment and enjoyment. I highly recommend you read the other critical reviews most of the criticism there are well deserved. It's plus and minuses are so balanced I'm struggling with whether or not to buy the remainder of the series. Note to all. According to the customer reviews the second book Eclipse does not stand alone and resolution requires the purchase of the third book.Virtually all combat happens off stage which is both a pro and a con. It's a con because you never get the sense of how the battle unfolds which in a "military" sci-fi novel is something of a traditional staple. It's a pro because writing combat so it flows believably is hard and the author avoids getting bogged down in the details of combat and the story feels fast paced if a bit unsatisfying.
This is referred to as "hard" science fiction. Well not so much. Early in the story it is revealed that mankind's understanding of the world is inherently flawed and that the periodic table is fundamentally incorrect. There is a "zero" element called mosar which is missing from humanity's environment, but is part of the environment of all alien species. The author proposes to rewrite man's theoretical understanding of the world and then does nothing with it other than use it as a plot device which makes alien weapons largely ineffective against humans and various common substances in the solar system valuable as trade goods.
Hard sci-fi requires more than just tossing in some numbers and references to acceleration and velocities. It generally requires some reasonable adherence to our existing understanding of the physical world. Various aspects of physics, that challenge hard sci-fi, are simply ignored. For example what happens to the motion enjoyed by a physical body before it enters warp when it leaves warp? There are similar common questions that are never discussed. This doesn't detract from the story which flows fine without it, but it does move the story somewhat outside the "hard" sic-fi realm.
The motivations and behaviors of the various aliens are both bizarre and hard to accept for creatures capable of building star faring civilizations. This sort of gets hand waved away because "aliens". There is little reason to expect aliens to reason and behave as we do so in some sense this is okay, but it doesn't seem reasonable that star faring civilizations wouldn't generally share behaviors that lead to competitive success instead of assured failure.
All in all this wasn't a bad book and it was free, which makes me more willing to overlook its flaws in favor of its virtues. The weight of virtues and flaws in a book are always personal. Depending on your evaluation of the one and two star reviews, I'll give this a conditional recommendation as a free introduction to the author's work.
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Bright Horizons (Audible Audio Edition) Wilson Harp Jim McCabe Books Reviews
I had to start three times before I could force myself past the first chapter or few. The writing was ok at a technical level, but long-winded and unexciting. Eventually I did get to some action; but once again, it wasn't very engaging. Then I tripped over "enormity" used to mean "really really big". Yeah, the unenlightened among us think that's sensible, but it really means "something hugely awful". Oh well. Somewhere around there, we were told, in passing, that it takes 10 minutes for the whole squad to load aboard the shuttle and be ready to take off. Sigh. Though it did seem as if the author had some of the lift off and orbital insertion right, and nicely described. Then there were the aliens. ALIENS who aren't just bipedal and bigender, but they also share our body chemistry well enough to eat our food and breathe our air... but at (low) oven temperatures. Um, no? Protein structures at that temperature denature. Oh, and we and they share enough world view that we can quickly learn each other's languages. Then there's a raid. OK, _finally_ we'll get some plot. But after a very brief battle, everyone escapes unharmed, and heads back to Earth. Where the chief scientist tells us that Earth has no McGuffin-Element, which the aliens _do_ have. It's the element with zero protons. I gave up in disgust. The one saving grace is that I got it without having to pay for it. Alas, I did waste an hour or so deciding it wasn't even worth that much.
I found this entertaining science fiction and it held my attention until the end. But there were some rough spots that really made me work to suspend my disbelief. Overall, though, it lived up pretty well to the shoot-em-up space opera genre. If you like complex characters who grow and mature as they face conflict, you won't find much of that. The hero, Colonel (later General) Kyle Martin, is an action figure much in the model of Captain Kirk of Star Trek. He leads the forces of planet Earth in contacting not one but numerous alien species, some more-or-less friendly and some hostile. Earth is challenged like never before and still wins the victory. There were aspects of the plot that showed creativity, and that kept me going.
I was puzzled that in 2042 the space shuttle is still flying. Not sure how that would be possible. There was an incident when an alien invasion force, an existential threat to earth, is beaten easily by the brave earthlings. The author could have done so much more with this incident. Oh, yes, Earth lost a million people killed, but this fact is simply tossed out, never to be mentioned again. There should have been more detail showing the horror of it all, but that opportunity was missed.
Earth quickly changes from being the most backward, primitive planet of the universe, to the 800-pound gorilla of all the known species. It just seemed to be too easy, and because of that, the suspense simply was not there.
Editing, particularly the punctuation of dialogue, was poor.
I give the novel three stars because it was still a fun read for me.
This book like many is a balance of disappointment and enjoyment. I highly recommend you read the other critical reviews most of the criticism there are well deserved. It's plus and minuses are so balanced I'm struggling with whether or not to buy the remainder of the series. Note to all. According to the customer reviews the second book Eclipse does not stand alone and resolution requires the purchase of the third book.
Virtually all combat happens off stage which is both a pro and a con. It's a con because you never get the sense of how the battle unfolds which in a "military" sci-fi novel is something of a traditional staple. It's a pro because writing combat so it flows believably is hard and the author avoids getting bogged down in the details of combat and the story feels fast paced if a bit unsatisfying.
This is referred to as "hard" science fiction. Well not so much. Early in the story it is revealed that mankind's understanding of the world is inherently flawed and that the periodic table is fundamentally incorrect. There is a "zero" element called mosar which is missing from humanity's environment, but is part of the environment of all alien species. The author proposes to rewrite man's theoretical understanding of the world and then does nothing with it other than use it as a plot device which makes alien weapons largely ineffective against humans and various common substances in the solar system valuable as trade goods.
Hard sci-fi requires more than just tossing in some numbers and references to acceleration and velocities. It generally requires some reasonable adherence to our existing understanding of the physical world. Various aspects of physics, that challenge hard sci-fi, are simply ignored. For example what happens to the motion enjoyed by a physical body before it enters warp when it leaves warp? There are similar common questions that are never discussed. This doesn't detract from the story which flows fine without it, but it does move the story somewhat outside the "hard" sic-fi realm.
The motivations and behaviors of the various aliens are both bizarre and hard to accept for creatures capable of building star faring civilizations. This sort of gets hand waved away because "aliens". There is little reason to expect aliens to reason and behave as we do so in some sense this is okay, but it doesn't seem reasonable that star faring civilizations wouldn't generally share behaviors that lead to competitive success instead of assured failure.
All in all this wasn't a bad book and it was free, which makes me more willing to overlook its flaws in favor of its virtues. The weight of virtues and flaws in a book are always personal. Depending on your evaluation of the one and two star reviews, I'll give this a conditional recommendation as a free introduction to the author's work.
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