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Star Force: Phase 1 - The Origin Series #9-12
Star Force: Origin Series Box Set #9-12
When the Lunar colonies for rent suddenly get grabbed by hostiles , the A7 program finally gets a real challenge to test it's effectiveness...and then things get even worse.
368 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 17, 2016
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April 21, 2018
Members of Goodreads and random browsers of book reviews, I come before you today with a confession. I am a literary masochist, I continue to read book series long after any sane person would have moved on to greener pastures. The series that caused me to truly realize this aspect of my reading habits is unoriginally named “Star Force.”
tl;dr – This series is bad, really bad. Do not read it, do not even start it, find something better to read. For more details, read on.
I have been curious about this series for a long time, watching books one through one hundred come out between 2012 and 2016, then watching the series continue into phase two. I finally decided that it was a good idea to check it out. Imagine my surprise when the first “book” was a mere 42 pages on my eReader. I hadn’t realized that this was actually a serial, with each “book” being an episode. So naturally I went to find a combined edition.
That’s when I discovered the omnibus collections, four episodes in one. This brought the page total up to a whopping 216 for the first four episodes, which to me is a short story, not even a novelette. But of course I’m used to series like The Wheel of Time, The Stormlight Chronicles, The Sword of Truth, Dune, and Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy. These are what I consider “Epic” Science Fiction and Fantasy.
As is my habit, I keep a loose count of grammatical errors that I encounter when I read a series. I give new authors, especially new ebook authors, a bit of a pass on this since often they can’t afford the services of a copy editor. This series started out decently, but actually got worse over the course of the twelve episodes that I managed to get through.
I’m not going to lay out every issue that I saw, but here is a list of a few.
Constant misuse of “Less” and “Fewer”
Using “Thrusted” as the past tense when referring to rocket engines
Using “Haven” when the situation calls for “Heaven”
Misusing “Too” and “To”
“Backwards Engineered” (It’s Reverse Engineered)
The grammar is actually what caused me to give up on the series, over and above the reasons I will detail below. By the time I finished episode twelve, there was at least one misuse of a word on every page, sometimes two. I can take a lot, but as with the “Wandering Engineer” series, I just could not get past the language issue.
Moving on, I can suspend a great deal of disbelief when it comes to a good story, but the concepts introduced in this series stretched me near to the breaking point. If the grammar didn’t get me, the super-tech dinosaurs would have. Here is a short list of things that made me cringe when they appeared.
Super-technological dinosaurs. Yes really, somehow we’re meant to believe that the Triceratops and Apatosaurus somehow advanced to a high technological level and were in competition with Velociraptors, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and all sorts of other reptilian species.
If that’s not bad enough, Humans aren’t actually from Earth, they were brought there as slaves to the dinosaurs. Conveniently ignoring the thousands of skeletons that were unearthed without any trace of high technology laying around. Also, Earth humans circa 2044 are sad and pathetic examples of the species.
The secret to immortality and super-humanity is training, not mere exercise, but focused training. There’s no need to grow old and die, train and you will reverse the aging process. But wait, there’s more, if you take this special wonder-vitamin called Ambrosia (which by the way is the FOOD of the gods, not the NECTAR of the gods. Nectar was the drink of the gods) then you can achieve levels of training that will catapult you to super hero status.
Oh, and as a side note, now there are seven foot tall humans called “Knights” who take special growth enhancing drugs and carry giant stun swords. Because bigger is better apparently.
Somehow it is possible in the physics of the Star Force universe to generate a full 1G of gravity using a disc the size of the U.S.S. Defiant of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fame (I’ll get to that later). The Coriolis effect of a disc that small spinning fast enough to generate 1G of gravity would be unreal. I’m letting the larger ships go, ignoring the size requirements for generating 1G of spin gravity, but that was just stupid.
Now that I’ve covered the things that stretch credulity to the breaking point, for my final segment I will list the things that are just plain irritating about the episodes that I read.
The author cannot write female characters, period, but to his credit he has decided that females only make cameo appearances with one notable exception. The one female that gets more than a few lines at a time is Morgan, who is a serious badass. I love Morgan, she’s great, but she’s also not a definably female character. Other than the initial description and referring to her in the feminine pronoun, you’d never know. Oh, with the one exception of someone asking her to take off her helmet, then saying that she’s hot. Yes really.
The constant referencing of 20th/21st century television, movies, and video games. There are “Halo” tournaments, they play Mario Kart, there are constant references to Star Wars, Star Trek, Dragonball Z, BattleTech, and a few other “popular” shows and games. If you can’t make your descriptive point without referencing an existing work, you need to work harder.
The battleships of the Star Force fleet are named after video games. Not games that could be reasonably thought of as ship names, but rather the battleship Smash Brothers, and the battleship Mortal Kombat. I just can’t take an author seriously when he does things like that.
In the span of approximately sixty years since the discovery of the super-tech dinosaur ship under the ice of Antarctica, there has not been one single leak of Star Force technology, or even a hint that the ship exists. Star Force employs millions of people, hundreds of thousands of engineers, but somehow they managed to hire only the people who will keep their mouths shut in the face of massive amounts of money offered by rival companies. I don’t think so.
There are countless other things that I could talk about as reasons why I stopped reading this series, but I think my litany of annoyance has gone on long enough. Thank you for reading, and I wish you luck in finding other, better books to read.
tl;dr – This series is bad, really bad. Do not read it, do not even start it, find something better to read. For more details, read on.
I have been curious about this series for a long time, watching books one through one hundred come out between 2012 and 2016, then watching the series continue into phase two. I finally decided that it was a good idea to check it out. Imagine my surprise when the first “book” was a mere 42 pages on my eReader. I hadn’t realized that this was actually a serial, with each “book” being an episode. So naturally I went to find a combined edition.
That’s when I discovered the omnibus collections, four episodes in one. This brought the page total up to a whopping 216 for the first four episodes, which to me is a short story, not even a novelette. But of course I’m used to series like The Wheel of Time, The Stormlight Chronicles, The Sword of Truth, Dune, and Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy. These are what I consider “Epic” Science Fiction and Fantasy.
As is my habit, I keep a loose count of grammatical errors that I encounter when I read a series. I give new authors, especially new ebook authors, a bit of a pass on this since often they can’t afford the services of a copy editor. This series started out decently, but actually got worse over the course of the twelve episodes that I managed to get through.
I’m not going to lay out every issue that I saw, but here is a list of a few.
Constant misuse of “Less” and “Fewer”
Using “Thrusted” as the past tense when referring to rocket engines
Using “Haven” when the situation calls for “Heaven”
Misusing “Too” and “To”
“Backwards Engineered” (It’s Reverse Engineered)
The grammar is actually what caused me to give up on the series, over and above the reasons I will detail below. By the time I finished episode twelve, there was at least one misuse of a word on every page, sometimes two. I can take a lot, but as with the “Wandering Engineer” series, I just could not get past the language issue.
Moving on, I can suspend a great deal of disbelief when it comes to a good story, but the concepts introduced in this series stretched me near to the breaking point. If the grammar didn’t get me, the super-tech dinosaurs would have. Here is a short list of things that made me cringe when they appeared.
Super-technological dinosaurs. Yes really, somehow we’re meant to believe that the Triceratops and Apatosaurus somehow advanced to a high technological level and were in competition with Velociraptors, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and all sorts of other reptilian species.
If that’s not bad enough, Humans aren’t actually from Earth, they were brought there as slaves to the dinosaurs. Conveniently ignoring the thousands of skeletons that were unearthed without any trace of high technology laying around. Also, Earth humans circa 2044 are sad and pathetic examples of the species.
The secret to immortality and super-humanity is training, not mere exercise, but focused training. There’s no need to grow old and die, train and you will reverse the aging process. But wait, there’s more, if you take this special wonder-vitamin called Ambrosia (which by the way is the FOOD of the gods, not the NECTAR of the gods. Nectar was the drink of the gods) then you can achieve levels of training that will catapult you to super hero status.
Oh, and as a side note, now there are seven foot tall humans called “Knights” who take special growth enhancing drugs and carry giant stun swords. Because bigger is better apparently.
Somehow it is possible in the physics of the Star Force universe to generate a full 1G of gravity using a disc the size of the U.S.S. Defiant of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fame (I’ll get to that later). The Coriolis effect of a disc that small spinning fast enough to generate 1G of gravity would be unreal. I’m letting the larger ships go, ignoring the size requirements for generating 1G of spin gravity, but that was just stupid.
Now that I’ve covered the things that stretch credulity to the breaking point, for my final segment I will list the things that are just plain irritating about the episodes that I read.
The author cannot write female characters, period, but to his credit he has decided that females only make cameo appearances with one notable exception. The one female that gets more than a few lines at a time is Morgan, who is a serious badass. I love Morgan, she’s great, but she’s also not a definably female character. Other than the initial description and referring to her in the feminine pronoun, you’d never know. Oh, with the one exception of someone asking her to take off her helmet, then saying that she’s hot. Yes really.
The constant referencing of 20th/21st century television, movies, and video games. There are “Halo” tournaments, they play Mario Kart, there are constant references to Star Wars, Star Trek, Dragonball Z, BattleTech, and a few other “popular” shows and games. If you can’t make your descriptive point without referencing an existing work, you need to work harder.
The battleships of the Star Force fleet are named after video games. Not games that could be reasonably thought of as ship names, but rather the battleship Smash Brothers, and the battleship Mortal Kombat. I just can’t take an author seriously when he does things like that.
In the span of approximately sixty years since the discovery of the super-tech dinosaur ship under the ice of Antarctica, there has not been one single leak of Star Force technology, or even a hint that the ship exists. Star Force employs millions of people, hundreds of thousands of engineers, but somehow they managed to hire only the people who will keep their mouths shut in the face of massive amounts of money offered by rival companies. I don’t think so.
There are countless other things that I could talk about as reasons why I stopped reading this series, but I think my litany of annoyance has gone on long enough. Thank you for reading, and I wish you luck in finding other, better books to read.
June 26, 2018
Get through the first three books, then it gets better.
If you like world building you will enjoy this book the first three books were boring because of the minutiae of world building but follow through because it does get better. I enjoyed this book because you have a lot more action, intrigue, and get to know the characters in the books a little more. The only issue I have is paint guns really! I don’t care if they have stunners in them but other agencies that the archons have to deal with use real bullets give me a break. But since I know the series goes on I will continue to read it. It is addictive, so I suggest if you start Reading the series from the beginning as I did as log to the first several books you will start to enjoy this series.
If you like world building you will enjoy this book the first three books were boring because of the minutiae of world building but follow through because it does get better. I enjoyed this book because you have a lot more action, intrigue, and get to know the characters in the books a little more. The only issue I have is paint guns really! I don’t care if they have stunners in them but other agencies that the archons have to deal with use real bullets give me a break. But since I know the series goes on I will continue to read it. It is addictive, so I suggest if you start Reading the series from the beginning as I did as log to the first several books you will start to enjoy this series.
March 3, 2020
Missed the mark
The series holds great promise. Unfortunately, this book fell into the trap of a typical military engagement after military engagement book. Actually, it became so dull that I skimmed through the last third of the book. Hopefully, the next entry to this series gets back to the theme of building out a spacefaring society with the normal technology trappings.
The series holds great promise. Unfortunately, this book fell into the trap of a typical military engagement after military engagement book. Actually, it became so dull that I skimmed through the last third of the book. Hopefully, the next entry to this series gets back to the theme of building out a spacefaring society with the normal technology trappings.
September 1, 2021
I am done with this series
I limited along with this series because it was a Kindle Unlimited book series. These book are a a 2 dimensional flat mess, I still don’t know any of the characters except they have a name and do stuff. No interpersonal relationship nothing. Don’t waste your time.
I limited along with this series because it was a Kindle Unlimited book series. These book are a a 2 dimensional flat mess, I still don’t know any of the characters except they have a name and do stuff. No interpersonal relationship nothing. Don’t waste your time.
January 20, 2020
This is the third book of many and the story continues to pick up pace in this book. As I've stated in reviews of the other books the story started kind of slow and covered a lot of details of how Star Force got started and built their organization. This book covers a lot of fighting / politics between key nations which is frustrating that we humans have not learned much :-) But Star Force keeps its promises and forces nations to behave or else. Their long term goal is to prepare humanity for the possible future run in with the aliens that originally enslaved humans many thousands of years ago. You need to read these books in order so if you haven't read books one and two you will miss out on a lot of details as to how Star Force is using alien technology to help get ahead in terms of physical strength and technological strength. I'm already into the fourth book and it is good so far :-)
May 31, 2019
This last book was AMAZING
#12 I loved how Star Wars, Halo, Mass Effect were all used in the making of Star Forces peace keeping teams! I also loved Liam’s speech to the Naval Admiral at the end, beautiful! I got misty eyed! I’m glad to see a solution offered instead of just ignoring WW3, or actually joining in to fight for peace.. instead they use non lethal weapons. Sure some people still die but not many, and most are offered new choices and those who are irresponsible have consequences (not just death) economic consequences, which I think is pretty smart. Everyone should read this because our way of “Government”, our way of thinking doesn’t have to be the way it is. The world is actually getting much better than we think and we have more options than we think.. I am now thinking that reading just might free everyone from the media and bonds of commercialism.
#12 I loved how Star Wars, Halo, Mass Effect were all used in the making of Star Forces peace keeping teams! I also loved Liam’s speech to the Naval Admiral at the end, beautiful! I got misty eyed! I’m glad to see a solution offered instead of just ignoring WW3, or actually joining in to fight for peace.. instead they use non lethal weapons. Sure some people still die but not many, and most are offered new choices and those who are irresponsible have consequences (not just death) economic consequences, which I think is pretty smart. Everyone should read this because our way of “Government”, our way of thinking doesn’t have to be the way it is. The world is actually getting much better than we think and we have more options than we think.. I am now thinking that reading just might free everyone from the media and bonds of commercialism.
August 15, 2022
Great addition to the series
Have to give this author some credit The way he portrays space battle and the issues of dealing with flight and space. Just everything has really well thought out. More so than most other books I've ever read and this empire building being done is just top-notch. It takes a bit to get through it all. So if you're looking for non-stop fast-paced battle scenes, this is not it though. The battle scenes are very good. It's well worth the read really well done
Have to give this author some credit The way he portrays space battle and the issues of dealing with flight and space. Just everything has really well thought out. More so than most other books I've ever read and this empire building being done is just top-notch. It takes a bit to get through it all. So if you're looking for non-stop fast-paced battle scenes, this is not it though. The battle scenes are very good. It's well worth the read really well done
November 10, 2018
The story is really moving forward now!
The first two batches of books were great introductions. A little slow, but a lot of promise. Some parts were hard to make it through, but I knew it'd be worth it someday.
Today is that day.
All the build up is bearing fruit, the story is moving forward, and the excitement is real.
The story really started taking off and I can't wait to read the next set of books.
The first two batches of books were great introductions. A little slow, but a lot of promise. Some parts were hard to make it through, but I knew it'd be worth it someday.
Today is that day.
All the build up is bearing fruit, the story is moving forward, and the excitement is real.
The story really started taking off and I can't wait to read the next set of books.
February 10, 2019
Seriously needs an editor
Not bad evolution of the story.
But out of those 2 million words the author boasts, oh my, half of them could be culled.
And this book must have been hastily published, with typos and grammatical errors, lots of painful repetitions.
In the spirit of Show, don't tell", there are endless battles that unreadable, with lengthy descriptions that dont engage the readers.
The storyline and the philosophy remain interesting.
Not bad evolution of the story.
But out of those 2 million words the author boasts, oh my, half of them could be culled.
And this book must have been hastily published, with typos and grammatical errors, lots of painful repetitions.
In the spirit of Show, don't tell", there are endless battles that unreadable, with lengthy descriptions that dont engage the readers.
The storyline and the philosophy remain interesting.
September 5, 2025
Excellent entertainment
Aer-ki Jyr has become one of my favorite si-fy authors.
1) The language in his work is decent and clean.
2) Illicit sex is never mentioned.
3) I love the careful thought that reflected by the elite soldiers.
4) I highly appreciate the bond and respect the Archons have for each other and the respect they demonstrate for the Nations on earth.
Altogether, it is a solid read and I always look forward to the times when I can enjoy it.
Aer-ki Jyr has become one of my favorite si-fy authors.
1) The language in his work is decent and clean.
2) Illicit sex is never mentioned.
3) I love the careful thought that reflected by the elite soldiers.
4) I highly appreciate the bond and respect the Archons have for each other and the respect they demonstrate for the Nations on earth.
Altogether, it is a solid read and I always look forward to the times when I can enjoy it.
March 19, 2020
De moment la sèrie no em cansa gens. La trobo molt interessant malgrat tingui algunes deficiències (personatges plans, petites trames que no s’acaben d’aguantar, etc). L’estic gaudint i ho comparo amb veure una peli de Hollywood. De fet, trobo que la última peli d’Star Wars de J.J. Abrams s’aguanta argumentalment molt menys que aquests llibres 🤣
May 6, 2022
hard to rate this.
This book has its moments. You go from laughing out loud to feeling like you’re reading a war correspondent newspaper. Also there’s lots of time jumps; decades between some of the scenes that makes it hard to follow. Although the characters are aging time-wise, there’s not a lot of character development in play here so the overall story is just battle scenes.
This book has its moments. You go from laughing out loud to feeling like you’re reading a war correspondent newspaper. Also there’s lots of time jumps; decades between some of the scenes that makes it hard to follow. Although the characters are aging time-wise, there’s not a lot of character development in play here so the overall story is just battle scenes.
July 7, 2018
Space
The combat is way better than most, the way the star force archon's deals with other opposing sides is to be admired and something to hope for in any nations military or people.
The combat is way better than most, the way the star force archon's deals with other opposing sides is to be admired and something to hope for in any nations military or people.
September 6, 2018
Now we're getting to some good SYFY
Lots of good action, still some slow stuff but much more good than slow. Lots of star wars and video game references. Say good for any and that is allowed to play video games.
Lots of good action, still some slow stuff but much more good than slow. Lots of star wars and video game references. Say good for any and that is allowed to play video games.
July 18, 2019
Arrogant children
This series has turned into utter rubbish. Pure trash. Everything they complain about others doing, they do first. Star Force has turned into complete fascists. It’s honestly sickening.
This series has turned into utter rubbish. Pure trash. Everything they complain about others doing, they do first. Star Force has turned into complete fascists. It’s honestly sickening.
December 27, 2019
A Good Story
I love the opportunity to follow a story line that actually provides good life values while leading along to a final outcome. I encourage anyone to take the time and see where this leads.
I love the opportunity to follow a story line that actually provides good life values while leading along to a final outcome. I encourage anyone to take the time and see where this leads.
September 19, 2020
Awesome
First few books were slow going, but this one was amazingly different. If you are reading this review after putting down the first couple of books, pick them back up and continue. You won't be disappointed.
First few books were slow going, but this one was amazingly different. If you are reading this review after putting down the first couple of books, pick them back up and continue. You won't be disappointed.
January 10, 2021
Dark times ahead?
In the real world there is a large amount of uncertainty, but these books give me hope that certain people will guide us to peace between nations.
I love and enjoy everything said in these books and look forward to continue reading them.
In the real world there is a large amount of uncertainty, but these books give me hope that certain people will guide us to peace between nations.
I love and enjoy everything said in these books and look forward to continue reading them.
February 18, 2021
I like the overall story and world building. We've gotten to know some of the characters pretty well. There are plenty of proof reading errrors, but those can get fixed in digital copies over time at least. I'll keep reading to see what happens in the next installment.
December 18, 2021
Cannot stop reading to see what comes next
I was shocked to see I had completed this book. I am enthralled and must read what happens next. The character development of Davis and of the Anchons is cleverly done.
I was shocked to see I had completed this book. I am enthralled and must read what happens next. The character development of Davis and of the Anchons is cleverly done.
April 19, 2024
Star Force :Book 3
These books just keep getting better
The story just feels fast paced and as space operas I just loved it. Be warned it is addictive and it shows humanity as a greedy bunch.
These books just keep getting better
The story just feels fast paced and as space operas I just loved it. Be warned it is addictive and it shows humanity as a greedy bunch.
May 18, 2018
Best ones yet!! Finally some action
November 25, 2018
Getting better.
Seems to be improving. Good story flow they characters are fairly steady. Storyline kind of like out with the old in with the new... My way or else.
Seems to be improving. Good story flow they characters are fairly steady. Storyline kind of like out with the old in with the new... My way or else.
December 4, 2018
Excellent
The series continues with high drama and action. The Earth nations display their propensity to repeat the sins of the past. Star Force surges toward the future.
The series continues with high drama and action. The Earth nations display their propensity to repeat the sins of the past. Star Force surges toward the future.
May 5, 2019
I enjoyed this set very much and look forward to reading the next in the series!
June 5, 2019
Interesting
The problems caused by greed and jealousy are manifest. I am looking forward to a meeting with the original source of knowledge.
The problems caused by greed and jealousy are manifest. I am looking forward to a meeting with the original source of knowledge.
July 15, 2019
lots of editing errors
good story, very good. It keeps getting better but the editing errors are getting more frequent with each series that I read.
good story, very good. It keeps getting better but the editing errors are getting more frequent with each series that I read.
September 4, 2019
Like an old movie serial ... more and more to come love the volume Content
Fun read almost a book that never ends
Fun read almost a book that never ends
December 16, 2019
Lack of care
The story is still good but no contents page AND quite a few errors in the text. A few weren't an issue but some left a minor puzzle.
The story is still good but no contents page AND quite a few errors in the text. A few weren't an issue but some left a minor puzzle.
January 19, 2020
I like what's happening. I'm excited to see where everything goes next.
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