Into
the Maelstrom
David
Drake and John Lambshead
Baen,
Mar 3 2015, $25.00
ISBN
9781476780283
Having
served in combat and still containing the bitter taste of war stuck in his
throat, Allen Allenson prays for peace.
However, being a realist, Allenson knows the hostilities between the
Mother World and the distant colonies will soon turn violent. When the inevitable occurs, he knows which
side he will fight for though he expects his colonial forces to lose to the
overwhelming superiority of the homeworld.
When
the war comes, Allenson agrees to be the captain-general of ragtag untrained,
unprofessional and un-united internally bickering militias. His hope to snatch victory from certain
defeat (and death for him as a traitor if he survives combat) resides with the
mists that enable his unfit units to avoid the enemy’s trained professionals’ Brasilian
lasers and ergo force more face to face fighting.
The
second Citizen science fiction (see Into the
Hinterlands) is an outstanding outer space rendition
of George Washington leading the Revolutionary War. The hero is a magnificent lead with his
soliloquies particularly on the inanity yet inevitability of war as the
solution to disputes. Part of the fun
comes from matching events in the storyline with real incidents; although that
proves a double edge sword since the audience will know the outcomes to this
pleasurable read.
Harriet
Klausner
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