Moonstruck

Rating:
Summary: Moonstruck Stikes Gold
Review: Lerner reverses the standard SF viewpoint where humans show up and play with primitive alien's heads when an alien movie company drops in to make a film...though they forget to mention that detail to us. They wouldn't want us not act naturally, and who knows...we might not even want to star in a disaster movie.

The central character is a science advisor that acts oddly for this genre, which is to say, he's smart, outspoken, and doesn't mind banging politicos heads together to get their attention.

The action is fast and the plot twisty, and despite a truly off-putting cover (Doug Chaffee has done much better) this is a book I can happily recommend to fans of John Ringo, Jack McDevitt and other action oriented authors who are also good storytellers. It's the author's second book, and I've got to go back and read the first one (Probe).

Ernest Lilley
Editor - SFRevu.com