IronStar eBook Grant Hallman Jennifer Garstang
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AN EXCEPTIONAL MISSION
Marooned by treachery and alone on an unexplored planet far from the frontier, Lieutenant Kirrah Roehl of the Regnum Survey Service finds herself in exactly the sort of simple, pastoral environment a jaded tourist, or a properly enthusiastic RSS field agent, would give her eyeteeth to explore.
…Except that Kirrah is not qualified for fieldwork, and dislikes tourists. She is a highly trained and competent starship navigator, dependent on the technology she grew up with, and far more at home on the bridge of a starship than wandering the surface of a planet, trying to recall her rusty field survival training.
…Except for the raiders, the politics, the monsters, and the young boy who saves her life, and the war she must wage and win, to save his.
…Except for the locals who make her their Warmaster, trusting their lives to her skills and her promise that help will come, in the form of a ‘ship of iron’ that will appear in their sky as a star.
…Except for the fact that she is not nearly so alone as she believed. It seems her Regnum is neither the only, nor even the first starfaring empire to discover this planet.
…And except that somehow, when rescue finally arrives, things only seem to get worse. Altogether, a positively exceptional mission.
IronStar eBook Grant Hallman Jennifer Garstang
I usually wait for Weber and a few others to come out with their next one. When I stumbled on to this book and began reading, I had never bothered to look at the authors name. I was convinced after a few chapters that the author had to be one of the big guys writing under a pen name. Mr. Hallman thank you very much for this story. It, and you, are why we all spend so much time sifting through Amazon and other sources looking for the gems. This one will go right beside some of the old greats on my book shelf, like mutineers moon, and the lensmen. Well done Sir.JT
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IronStar eBook Grant Hallman Jennifer Garstang Reviews
This is, without question, the best indie science fiction, no the best science fiction from any source, I have read in a couple of years. I recommend it to anyone who likes hard science fiction. It has believable aliens, believable technology, and a believable high-tech future civilization. It's long, but I read it in 24 hours. Now for the nits....
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The protagonist, without any justification, is a unending fount of information about technology. The society she attaches herself to is at a low technology level. She describes, from memory, exactly what they need, when they need it, to defeat the bad guys using tech that is just within the society's reach, if they had just thought of it. Example, ships of sail and oars, so she describes a steam turbine engine, in detail, to the metal workers, and they build it and it works, with some handwaving over the engineering/testing details. Why does she know how to build a primitive steam turbine engine? She's never presented as an engineer or hobbyist who might have studied such things. She just knows. This would have been easy enough to fix her "wrist comp" has many other functions. An "encyclopedia" would certainly fit in the memory of a computer as powerful as the author describes. Then a few brief scenes of her searching her wrist comp for appropriate tech would have made the leaps more believable.
Also, the utopian human society she falls in with is a bit farfetched. Somehow, they have developed social norms far in advance of the other barbaric human societies on the planet, and even of the galactic civilization the protagonist comes from. Sort of a Shangri-La but without the isolation of the Himalayas (they are in regular, close contact with the "evil" societies that surround them.)
Still, a must read.
A very interesting read and very well-written. The story line builds up from the eyes of the main character and you share in this enlightenment as the details are introduced, so you really believe what is happening and why. There is a lot of action, so the story moves along quickly, but it is satisfying and believable, making this fiction seem almost like a chronicle of events that really happened. And, at the end, you believe that this story could enfold somewhere and sometime. I don't want to give away any more details than you can read in the plot summary as I want you to enjoy this book as much as I did. The action starts after only a very few pages and at that point you will be hooked. While many action novels are not well written, this one is a pleasure to read and it is apparent that the language comes first and is used to describe the action, not the other way around. You always know what is going on in the head of the main character, but you don't know the extent of her knowledge and you assume that she knows even more than she is making apparent, and this sets up a great drama as you look to her for her inside knowledge on how to get around problems. This book also shows sympathy for the locals who are in awe of the main character and how her high technology affects them. In one instance, a the main character asks the locals for a favor and the locals think it a death sentence; this type of comparison makes this novel interesting as it illustrates how much we take for granted that could scare someone who does not understand that technology (again, I don't want to give away plot points, but you will see this type of dichotomy throughout the novel). A really great read with lots of action that starts very early on and that is well-written with characters that you care for and technology that is believable. Nice job, Grant Hallman!
Wow! Fantastic! A page turner! Griping!
Yea. A must read for sci-fi readers!
CONS There were a few minor ones
1) IMHO, the title is a bit anemic.
2) The cover could use a bit of an artistic upgrade.
3) In the first few chapters, the human-Kruss relationship is not explained very well. It left me hanging.
4) I found Captain's Leitch's command decisions to be questionable - until the Kruss were more adequately explained later in the book.
PROS
1) The author's command of the English language is absolutely top-notch. There was never an awkward phrase, a mis-applied word or an tangent into limbo-land. Reading this book was a pure joy for the writing style alone.
2) Lots of interesting characters, even the enemy!
3) Lots of original ideas, both technical and sociological. Also a joy to read.
4) A really great plot.
In short, an outstanding book. I loved it! Well worth the read!
Excellent.
Lieutenant Kirrah Roehl is a navigator on a scouting spacecraft, seeking life bearing planets. As her small team discovers a new planet, their ship is destroyed by rivals. Her emergency suit allows her to land on the planet's surface, where she initially learns to survive with the aid of a small boy whose village has been destroyed.
This a a great story with moral, philosophical and ethical dilemmas and conflicts. The indigenous people have much to learn from Kirrah and much to teach her.
This is a Science fiction with the science done correctly. Mr Hallman is well known is astrophysic circles as someone who does not appreciate sloppy science.
I usually wait for Weber and a few others to come out with their next one. When I stumbled on to this book and began reading, I had never bothered to look at the authors name. I was convinced after a few chapters that the author had to be one of the big guys writing under a pen name. Mr. Hallman thank you very much for this story. It, and you, are why we all spend so much time sifting through and other sources looking for the gems. This one will go right beside some of the old greats on my book shelf, like mutineers moon, and the lensmen. Well done Sir.
JT
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