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 Orphan's Alliance - Robert Buettner
Newest Review: ... build the Mousetrap, a point of huge strategic importance for travelling between the galaxies Earth now controls. Of course, ... more  ... nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Jude decides he likes the almost communist policies of the new Tressen leadership and stays behind, undoing all Jason's hopes that they would get to know each other better. Even more serious is when the excavation of Mousetrap unearths an ancient Slug homing beacon and Jason is once more at war with the Slugs.
"Orphan's Alliance" is a lot slower paced than others I've read in the Jason Wander series. At a point in his "Last Legion" series, Chris Bunch dipp...more |
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Orphan's Alliance - Robert Buettner: Not a Great Alliance (952 words)
by - written on 13/05/09 (Very useful, 28 readings)
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Chris Bunch was the first to make the sci-fi space army genre his own, but Robert Buettner is certainly following close behind. Whilst I've always preferred Bunch's work over Buettner's, that by no means makes Buettner a bad writer and his work has always been enjoyable. Once again, Buettner has included much of what makes his work so much fun to read. In "Orphan's Alliance", the fourth in the series, Jason Wander has finally had enough of trolling around the galaxy fighting mankind's old enemy, the Slugs. Having watched and helped the Tressen army win a war against the Iridians on one of Earth's new outposts, he's decided he wants to spend some ... Read the complete review
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