This is my review for: The Slaver Wars: Alien Contact ( The Slaver Wats Book One )
I had read all of the moon wreck books, and I could not put them down until I finished each one that same night.
But my biggest complaint was that they were just... Too darn short! Mr Weil, please write the next novel now!! And make it even longer then this first Novel length Moon Wreck novel was...
I signed up to Mr Weil's website so I could receive prompt notices for each new Moon Wreck installment that came out.
I NEVER sign up to an Authors website!
So having absolutely loved the short stories, I was finally notified that the Author had finally made good on his promise to write a good sized first novel. -:)
And this was an incredible book. Mr Weil has this extremely complex and great style of being able to interweave so many separate threads into a whole story that is more then the sum of its parts. Reading Mr Weil's novel reminded me a bit about what it may be like to play 3 dimensional chess as they did in Star Trek. The different personalities were pretty well described. I could almost picture each charactor and their thoughts, fears, bravery, and their lives as seen through their family relationships. I loved this novel approach, as each character was defined and built upon, using relationships as the medium for humanizing them. Which is how things seem to work for me within the relationships with my family, the estrangements, the coming back together, the closeness developing, and in that process finding out some amazing stuff about each of them as well as myself.
So I am off topic right? The action scenes were excellent too. Not too long, and thankfully, not to short. I was fascinated by Mr Weil's entire approach and descriptions of the AI's, the good and the bad of them. And he has an excellent point that he made. Pretty soon, we may be creating our own AI's. especially as Moore's Law seems to still apply, perhaps at even a greater rate then even he predicted.
So how will we handle them? Won't they be as aggressive as we are as a race, since we are the ones who wrote their code? Questions like these could all too easily become the issues of the next decade.
And settling on Earth? Why not. What were we all told in regards to there being "The Missing Link" that should be out there and that should "link" is to our predecessors? Just look at the spin using that term implies. By calling this disconnect "The Missing Link" we are taught that we are linked to our hominoid ancestors. But the facts tell a different story. There just is. No. Link. Missing or not. From us to earlier mankind.
We can find skeletons like Peking Man from a million years ago, we find tons of skeletons of Neanderthal Man, but what gives here? We cannot dig up a single skeleton that would be the connector between modern man and the last human version we keep finding. So instead of teaching us that there is no linkage that exists between us and our supposed ancestors which is what seemingly is exactly the case, we are controlled in a way to not even consider what should be blatantly obvious. Our race as we are and as we first became must, most probably, have come from a different point of origin. Nothing wrong with that. It is a remote possibility. Maybe a bit more then remote. And remember that the term "missing link" is a true Oxymoron. Anyway, Its an interesting line of thought..
I loved this book and can't wait for the next Novel. One thing that really made me smile, was whenever that communication officer, I forget which ship she was on, it was one of the cruisers run by the AIs.
Arial perhaps. I really liked those AI's. and they became so real over the course of the book, however back to this woman at her comm station, and whenever the next horror of an attack would begin she would always turn to her friend of the bridge and say, " I am so scared, what if we don't make it," I am paraphrasing. So of course, I had the immediate recall of being a kid, and watching the original lieutenant U'Hura ( spelling? ) always saying Captain, I am so scared...
I was maybe 8 or 9 years old watching original first aired Star Trek episodes and oh Man! I had such a crush on that actress! So anyway, this is a wonderful and action packed and humanistic thriller of a novel that leaves me thinking...
I want to read the next one, like yesterday! Mr Weil, excellent work! Please get going on next one..... Cheers!!!
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this is a great set of books on a well described combat story ...
I've been reading SF since grade school. My teacher said I would never amount to anything due to my reading SF all day in school. lol. I found this author "at first" to be overly concerned with relationships in a novel obviously devoted to space combat. Once I got past that, as a Retired USAF I found his writing to be especially well done in regards to his ships, manning, and descriptive battles. Well done. Over all, this is a great set of books on a well described combat story line and one where I intend to read every book. Keep it up, maybe lessen the interaction of the principles some, but overall, I really liked it. 5 stars. I will also read and see how your other story lines are. Best to you. Happy New Year.
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StarbooksIH
Good supplement to the moon wreck stories
Reviewed in Germany on September 28, 2013
Anthony Colfelt
A good story that lacks writing finesse
Reviewed in Australia on February 19, 2015