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Summary: Not great, but not bad
Review: I read this on the recommendation of a publisher acquaintance (no, he didn't publish this one. :-) who, like me, likes SF. While the action kept me turning the pages, and the details kept things interesting, I would have liked more character development and plot twists. There's just a little too much predictability about the Big Picture here. But for an afternoon's read, this is quite enjoyable.
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Summary: Typical Weber--Great!
Review: If you liked Honor Harrington, you will like this book and the series. If you have not read Honor Harrington, your missing one of the best Sci-Fi series ever written. Mutineer's Moon is original, fast-paced, powerful and not at all predictable. This is what makes this book (and other Weber books) fun to read. However, if he describes one more character as "never will be a classic beauty" I will scream. David, if you are reading this, that characterization is way overused. But then again, the kid in the 3rd book does turn out to be quite ugly doesn't he? Well, anyway, enough ranting, the book and series is great, worth the money and then some. p.s. When are we going to see a Harrington Movie? Denise Richards would be a good choice...but that is just my opinion.
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Summary: Excellent fun
Review: Its always a pleasure to read a book that is not only fast paced and action filled, but has a "fun" flavor and a "don't take me too seriously" atittude. The ideas are refreshing and not just a rehash of old themes. Altogether a good book to pass the time and escape.
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Summary: Excellent sci-fi by David Weber
Review: Mutineer's Moon and the entire Dahak series is an excellent bit of si-fi writing. In my opinion, it's even better than his much more acclaimed Honor Harrington series. The action is intense and the characters well developed. Some of the best strategy around.
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Summary: A Hunter's Moon
Review: Mutineers' Moon is the first novel in the Dahak series. During the Fourth Imperium, 51 millenia ago, mutineers have almost taken the Imperial battleship Dahak and the captain has issued orders to evacuate the ship, to flush the internal spaces with chemical and radioactives, and to only re-admit the mutineers after all surviving crew have returned aboard. Fleet Captain (E) Anu, leader of the mutineers, had then sabotaged the power rooms and fled the ship in sublight parasite warships to the nearby planet. The loyalist crew have also evacuated in lifeboats to the same planet, Terra, where they have become the "indigenous" population.Sometime in the near future, circa 2040, Lieutenant Commander Colin MacIntyre, USN, is on a routine survey flight of the Moon as training for the first interstellar flight, but his survey systems are showing anomalous readings: the data indicate that the Moon is hollow! Then a bogey appears out of nowhere, pulls a 90 degree turn, overtakes his spacecraft, and grabs it with a tractor beam. When Colin hails the bogey, he gets no response, so he fires three missles at the other ship, but they all just vanish in thin space. Then the bogey stops dead, with no signs of exhaust, and zips back toward the moon with Colin's craft in tow. They enter a minor crater, through a suddenly revealed hole in the surface, into large tunnel, through dozens of huge hatches, and into a very large hangar. There the ship's artificial intelligence introduces itself, in English, as the Dahak, a 52 thousand year old warship disguised as Luna, the Earth's moon. It tells him that he cannot leave, briefs him on the mutiny and its aftermath, and informs him that he is now in command of the vessel. After hours of arguing with the computer -- a useless task at best and you might make it angry -- Colin gives in, undergoes a regime of "biotechnic enhancment", and, after the truamatic results of that, an extended training period in his new capabilities. However, time is at a premium, for the Achuultani, an alien species, are coming again for their periodic destructive visit, as they have been doing for 70 million years. Colin must help the Dahak to overcome the mutineers, who have spent the millenia in stasis, before they escape in Terran built starships. The Dahak has speculated that the mutineers have some sort of link with NASA, so Colin returns to Earth to find the contact. This novel has a lot in common with older SF tales, such as the stranded spacemen in Wilson's The Time Masters and the buried starship in Norton's Galactic Derelict. Moreover, the lost empire plot is similar to that of Van Vogt's Null-A series. The use of technological details is very similar to, but more up to date than, E.E. Smith's Skylark and Lensman series. Nevertheless, Weber's use of these familiar SF elements results in something very exciting to read. Recommended for Weber fans and anyone who enjoys technologically rationalized space opera.
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Summary: Solid Sci-fi by a rapidly rising talent in the genre
Review: Mutineers' Moon was my first exposure to David Weber. Oh sure, I had half a dozen Honor Harrington novels on my shelf along with one of his collaborations with Steve White. But these novels sat unread. They didn't feel right. The novels sounded good but I couldn't get past the covers. I know it sounds silly but the book covers always looked very cheesy to me. Just a personal taste issue you understand. Anyway back to the point, the book. The book begins with a mutiny and ends fifty one thousand years later. Not a complete enough summary for you? Well maybe this will help more. The backdrop of the story is nothing less then the Galaxy in its entirety. Mankind, and many other species, have been chased and exterminated by a ruthless race called Achuultani. Now, the Achuultani do not play an active part in this book but they do provide the motive for many of the actions and reactions played out in the book. This is only logical as any race, which nearly exterminates your race several times, is bound to have an impact. The story we are told in 315 pages (Baen paperback edition) takes place on Earth in the near future. (About thirty years best as I can tell.) Two factions of long-lived humans fight a clandestine war to determine the future of Earth. All the action takes place unknown to the great majority of humanity. Two characters prove to be the main characters throughout this novel and the next two books so far. These two characters are Colin MacIntyre, Lt. Commander US and an ancient spaceship named Dahak. If you have read the book you will realize that I have left a great deal out and if you haven't read the book I am sorry. If I were to tell too much more I would ruin much of the fun from reading this book. In closing, I enjoyed this book a great deal. The writing was good and the plot moved along at a consistent and clean clip. The characters were believable if a bit predictable. I enjoyed Mr. Weber's writing enough that I purchased and read everything of his that I could find and feel confident in saying that this is a rather good representation of his Science Fiction writing thus far. (He has also written at least two Fantasy novels.) One final note. I do recommend this book with little to no reservation but new readers of David Weber should be aware of something. Mr. Weber is very good at attempting to explain the technical aspects of the toys he writes into his story. Many readers enjoy this; I could care less most of the time. The explanations are consistent but lengthy. If this type of thing annoys you please just ignore it and skim through it. Ignoring the tech spiel won't ruin the story, at least I don't think so, and it would be a shame to cast aside this yarn over such a minor qualm. I hope this helps. Happy reading.
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Summary: Space Opera lives!
Review: My first David Weber novel, an excellent introduction to the author. Story is well-told and thought provoking (imagine a ship the size of a moon). Space opera is fun and interesting. Give it a try.
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Summary: Space Opera lives!
Review: My first David Weber novel, an excellent introduction to the author. Story is well-told and thought provoking (imagine a ship the size of a moon). Space opera is fun and interesting. Give it a try.
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Summary: Good old-fashioned Space Opera
Review: OK, the plot is downright silly. The prose is functional, at best, and verbose at worst. The interpersonal relationships are completely stylized, and the attempts at Elizabethan English are laughable. So why do I enjoy it so much? Because it's good clean fun, good guys and bad guys and clever computers and awesome futuristic technology and myths that turn out to be factual... and an honest appreciation of the heroic and the noble. Classic space-opera, as immersive as you'll let it be. You'll feel like you're reading under the covers by flashlight again. (And the prose is a bit better in the sequels...)
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Summary: SciFi Cotton Candy
Review: Sort of a literary combination of the X-files and The Matrix, this space operatic novel is cotton candy of the science fiction genre. Weber's story seem totally unbelievable, but hey, what's science fiction without unexplained mysteries? Despite his utter irreverent attitude towards science and physics, Weber puts together a story that is wholly riveting and exhilarating, and gives to the reader what is lacking in many novels nowadays - fun. Readers will love how Weber's story ties in with Earth history.
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