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Space is vast, and it's no wonder Earth has been forgotten...but we won't be forgotten forever.
So what do you do when you discover Earth used to be a border colony of a galactic Dinosaur empire that is going to come back sooner or later to reclaim it? Dinosaurs that talk, plan, build, and fight in powered armor and spaceships...but they don't bite. Instead they rip you limb from limb with their telekinesis or just burn your heretical ass down with their combat armor's energy weapons.
That's right, you're a heretic. Why? Because you were born without permission. Humans aren't allowed to reproduce because we've been given special powers that the Dinosaurs want strictly regulated, and passing them on to another via reproduction is punishable by death, for both the parents and the children.
But when Earth was abandoned some of the 8 foot tall slaves were left behind for unknown reasons. They were our ancestors, and they built the great pyramids and the other megalithic structures across the planet. They patterned them off of Dinosaur technology, or what little they could replicate of it, for when Earth was abandoned every building on the planet was reduced to rubble. How some of our ancestors survived is still a mystery.
But when a modern day Antarctic research expedition stumbles onto a warm rock in the ice fields near the planet's southern pole, they unwittingly discover the only remaining Dinosaur pyramid on the planet. One too strong to be destroyed, so it was simply buried before the surviving Dinosaurs left.
And within it we learn that within our genetic code are the dormant psionics granted to our ancestors. We also gain access to maps, blueprints, history, and the bone chilling realization that once the Dinosaur empire recovers from the damage the galaxy-wide Raptor rebellion caused, they'll be back to reclaim their rimward colonies, and when they find Humanity here they will enact the penalty our lineage demands...and kill every last one of us without mercy.
How much time do we have? No one knows, but we can't defend ourselves. The Dinosaurs are so advanced we might as well be fighting the Terminator with two sticks and a rock. So what do we do? Run? Hide? We can't even do that without spaceships and technology far beyond what we now possess.
Earth's only hope is a private organization called Star Force, spawned from the corporation that discovered the pyramid and kept it a secret from the public so the planet's inept governments couldn't waste our slim chance of survival. Billed as a private venture to spurn the colonization of space, Star Force has a secret mandate.
Use the pyramid database and build up Earth into an interstellar empire that can at least defend us against the numerous other alien threats out there as we search for a way to do the impossible and survive the return of the galactic Dinosaur empire known as the V'kit'no'sat.
Episodes in this set:
SF5-Gemini
SF6-Ambrosia
SF7-Fabrication
SF8-Flashpoint
So what do you do when you discover Earth used to be a border colony of a galactic Dinosaur empire that is going to come back sooner or later to reclaim it? Dinosaurs that talk, plan, build, and fight in powered armor and spaceships...but they don't bite. Instead they rip you limb from limb with their telekinesis or just burn your heretical ass down with their combat armor's energy weapons.
That's right, you're a heretic. Why? Because you were born without permission. Humans aren't allowed to reproduce because we've been given special powers that the Dinosaurs want strictly regulated, and passing them on to another via reproduction is punishable by death, for both the parents and the children.
But when Earth was abandoned some of the 8 foot tall slaves were left behind for unknown reasons. They were our ancestors, and they built the great pyramids and the other megalithic structures across the planet. They patterned them off of Dinosaur technology, or what little they could replicate of it, for when Earth was abandoned every building on the planet was reduced to rubble. How some of our ancestors survived is still a mystery.
But when a modern day Antarctic research expedition stumbles onto a warm rock in the ice fields near the planet's southern pole, they unwittingly discover the only remaining Dinosaur pyramid on the planet. One too strong to be destroyed, so it was simply buried before the surviving Dinosaurs left.
And within it we learn that within our genetic code are the dormant psionics granted to our ancestors. We also gain access to maps, blueprints, history, and the bone chilling realization that once the Dinosaur empire recovers from the damage the galaxy-wide Raptor rebellion caused, they'll be back to reclaim their rimward colonies, and when they find Humanity here they will enact the penalty our lineage demands...and kill every last one of us without mercy.
How much time do we have? No one knows, but we can't defend ourselves. The Dinosaurs are so advanced we might as well be fighting the Terminator with two sticks and a rock. So what do we do? Run? Hide? We can't even do that without spaceships and technology far beyond what we now possess.
Earth's only hope is a private organization called Star Force, spawned from the corporation that discovered the pyramid and kept it a secret from the public so the planet's inept governments couldn't waste our slim chance of survival. Billed as a private venture to spurn the colonization of space, Star Force has a secret mandate.
Use the pyramid database and build up Earth into an interstellar empire that can at least defend us against the numerous other alien threats out there as we search for a way to do the impossible and survive the return of the galactic Dinosaur empire known as the V'kit'no'sat.
Episodes in this set:
SF5-Gemini
SF6-Ambrosia
SF7-Fabrication
SF8-Flashpoint
336 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 16, 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.
September 10, 2018
I'm not totally sure where to start this review. I rated the first "book" 4 stars, but it turns out that this series is terrible. If you make it this far please stop. There are so many things wrong:
* author uses this book to share own personal opinions instead of things which make sense in the universe.
* physics used actually doesn't work, high school students know that.
* all the characters have the same personality and always agree, there are never disagreements and none of them have any depth.
* attempts to talk about how human physiology works but clearly has no idea about that, doesn't even get it close to right. Did he consult with an actual scientific document or just make up what ever he thought was true?
* no ability to actual paint a picture with words, I found it impossible to actually understand layouts or battles, because the description of them makes no sense. This really took a lot out of it for me, did he even bother to listen to feedback about the book? Or was "his stupid mother too stupid to understand when he talked to her" clearly there some underlying issues going on which are rampantly visible throughout the text.
* I keep waiting for something to happen, but it is just again and again, yet another puzzle without any resolution.
* Most of the interesting parts make me miss Ready Player One and Ender's Game. It's like he read those two books and thought he could write it better, but without character development and an understanding of the nature of humans it can't be even close to those.
For evidence that the author is an ass-hat, read his third person documented website, he is not a good person http://aerkijyr.com/aer-ki-jyr/
* author uses this book to share own personal opinions instead of things which make sense in the universe.
* physics used actually doesn't work, high school students know that.
* all the characters have the same personality and always agree, there are never disagreements and none of them have any depth.
* attempts to talk about how human physiology works but clearly has no idea about that, doesn't even get it close to right. Did he consult with an actual scientific document or just make up what ever he thought was true?
* no ability to actual paint a picture with words, I found it impossible to actually understand layouts or battles, because the description of them makes no sense. This really took a lot out of it for me, did he even bother to listen to feedback about the book? Or was "his stupid mother too stupid to understand when he talked to her" clearly there some underlying issues going on which are rampantly visible throughout the text.
* I keep waiting for something to happen, but it is just again and again, yet another puzzle without any resolution.
* Most of the interesting parts make me miss Ready Player One and Ender's Game. It's like he read those two books and thought he could write it better, but without character development and an understanding of the nature of humans it can't be even close to those.
For evidence that the author is an ass-hat, read his third person documented website, he is not a good person http://aerkijyr.com/aer-ki-jyr/
April 25, 2018
Questions answered and more questions
The continuation of the star force series now introduces us to the military ships.
The time jump to explain the developments was well managed.
Explaining the black Knight helped to better explain the radical difference.
One concern is the adept levels correspond to physical accomplishments rather than other advances. Paul at a level 8 because of the time needed to design the navy isn’t as fair as the higher levels for Jason since he pursued the knight tract.
I hope there is a way to examine mental training rather than pure physical conditioning.
Great read
The continuation of the star force series now introduces us to the military ships.
The time jump to explain the developments was well managed.
Explaining the black Knight helped to better explain the radical difference.
One concern is the adept levels correspond to physical accomplishments rather than other advances. Paul at a level 8 because of the time needed to design the navy isn’t as fair as the higher levels for Jason since he pursued the knight tract.
I hope there is a way to examine mental training rather than pure physical conditioning.
Great read
December 16, 2018
It's like the author is being paid by the word.
It's all so juvenile it's hard to know where to begin. I waded thru the first book waiting for an interesting storyline to flesh out. But all I got was chemically enhanced kids with no military or engineering experience being tasked to design spacecraft, tactics and a military force capable of defending our planet. Forget the fascist politics. We're bombarded with page after page of endless physical and martial arts training. When I gave up, our hero was running 30k per day, while looking to Star Wars for inspiration on starship design. WTF?
It's all so juvenile it's hard to know where to begin. I waded thru the first book waiting for an interesting storyline to flesh out. But all I got was chemically enhanced kids with no military or engineering experience being tasked to design spacecraft, tactics and a military force capable of defending our planet. Forget the fascist politics. We're bombarded with page after page of endless physical and martial arts training. When I gave up, our hero was running 30k per day, while looking to Star Wars for inspiration on starship design. WTF?
October 13, 2020
There are several personal peeves I have reading sci fi.
the first is that humans are not smart enough to develop the technology we have, just because it is complicated and your not understanding does not mean some others of us to don't.
second is that we must have been brought here which is the failure in this series " it is rediculus to image that complex life came from a single cell." To that, I say, not if you have imagination and look at the evidence that supports evolution.
Just put this book down, it is no longer worth reading.
the first is that humans are not smart enough to develop the technology we have, just because it is complicated and your not understanding does not mean some others of us to don't.
second is that we must have been brought here which is the failure in this series " it is rediculus to image that complex life came from a single cell." To that, I say, not if you have imagination and look at the evidence that supports evolution.
Just put this book down, it is no longer worth reading.
January 27, 2019
Couldn't finish it.
I got through the first four book set and after such anticipation after a fantastic start, this turned out to be a collection of written descriptions of sporting commentary.
People obviously love the series but chapter after chapter of blow by blow retellings of people's training activities got to me in the end. Please tell me where in the series the story starts and I'll go there.
I got through the first four book set and after such anticipation after a fantastic start, this turned out to be a collection of written descriptions of sporting commentary.
People obviously love the series but chapter after chapter of blow by blow retellings of people's training activities got to me in the end. Please tell me where in the series the story starts and I'll go there.
February 19, 2018
Propaganda
Only 34% through but author kind of went off the rails with characters idea of how the nature and the human body works. Gives a good try but blatantly ignores some mechanics of human growth to make his theory work and started to feel to preachy or I am willfully lying to myself because I am to lazy to want to live for ever through training.
Only 34% through but author kind of went off the rails with characters idea of how the nature and the human body works. Gives a good try but blatantly ignores some mechanics of human growth to make his theory work and started to feel to preachy or I am willfully lying to myself because I am to lazy to want to live for ever through training.
July 30, 2019
Great continuation of this Space story
The Star Force company keeps developing its operation in space and Davis and the Archons plan to stay ahead of what they think the governments might do. I love the way the story progresses. Each book ends at a logical place and leaves you wanting to read the next one.
The Star Force company keeps developing its operation in space and Davis and the Archons plan to stay ahead of what they think the governments might do. I love the way the story progresses. Each book ends at a logical place and leaves you wanting to read the next one.
May 9, 2018
Gets better with each book.
Well thought out world, characters are interesting. The science is realistic. Very enjoyable. Would recommend the series and I will continue on and hope the author keeps improving
Well thought out world, characters are interesting. The science is realistic. Very enjoyable. Would recommend the series and I will continue on and hope the author keeps improving
September 4, 2018
Better than the first four
Started with more watching sports but finally got some good SYFY at the end. Does keep you entertained and interested. Anyone who likes video games would likely enjoy this book.
Started with more watching sports but finally got some good SYFY at the end. Does keep you entertained and interested. Anyone who likes video games would likely enjoy this book.
January 5, 2019
Good SCI FI
This box set much better than the first. Lots of action good storyline definitely looking forward to the next in the series. This issue has kept my interest much better then the first. Bring on the next in the series I'm ready.
This box set much better than the first. Lots of action good storyline definitely looking forward to the next in the series. This issue has kept my interest much better then the first. Bring on the next in the series I'm ready.
April 13, 2020
Continued - Book 2
Start with the basics. Technically ... perfect as far as this non-English major can tell. That's it. The story is continuing logically.
As in my first review, the technical details are almost too much. I'm a stubborn reader, so I pushed on where others might stop. If Reader's Digest (are they still around?) were to have a go at the series so far, I think they would "condense" quite a bit of the technical descriptions.
I found one instance of an unclear sentence, "he exited in approximately the middle of what was a double pyramid, blunted point up and point down", maybe 'one with the base down, the other with the base up'? Maybe it wouldn't confuse you, but it dragged me to a complete stop.
The one non-technical place that was entirely skipped was regarding what makes humans grow old. The contention is that it is totally mind set that controls the aging process. That you grow old because you get tired of pushing yourself, start setting on your duff too much and your body starts breaking down. This might fly if he was talking about a parallel type universe or another world altogether, but this is supposed to be near future Earth with all countries having the correct names on earth, all the same planets and all the same space history as earth.
What is completely ignored is the biological science of aging. Aging is a result of extrinsic forces (diet, illness and activity to name a few - over which we have some control) and intrinsic forces over which we have no control, a great deal of which is the genes we inherit.
Current researchers "have shown that the aging process is influenced not only by the accumulation of mitochondrial DNA damage during a person's lifetime, but also by the inherited DNA from their mothers." Too bad, Dad.
Since I gave no spoilers in my previous review, I'll continue my habit.
Start with the basics. Technically ... perfect as far as this non-English major can tell. That's it. The story is continuing logically.
As in my first review, the technical details are almost too much. I'm a stubborn reader, so I pushed on where others might stop. If Reader's Digest (are they still around?) were to have a go at the series so far, I think they would "condense" quite a bit of the technical descriptions.
I found one instance of an unclear sentence, "he exited in approximately the middle of what was a double pyramid, blunted point up and point down", maybe 'one with the base down, the other with the base up'? Maybe it wouldn't confuse you, but it dragged me to a complete stop.
The one non-technical place that was entirely skipped was regarding what makes humans grow old. The contention is that it is totally mind set that controls the aging process. That you grow old because you get tired of pushing yourself, start setting on your duff too much and your body starts breaking down. This might fly if he was talking about a parallel type universe or another world altogether, but this is supposed to be near future Earth with all countries having the correct names on earth, all the same planets and all the same space history as earth.
What is completely ignored is the biological science of aging. Aging is a result of extrinsic forces (diet, illness and activity to name a few - over which we have some control) and intrinsic forces over which we have no control, a great deal of which is the genes we inherit.
Current researchers "have shown that the aging process is influenced not only by the accumulation of mitochondrial DNA damage during a person's lifetime, but also by the inherited DNA from their mothers." Too bad, Dad.
Since I gave no spoilers in my previous review, I'll continue my habit.
May 14, 2024
so so, if you can get past the ridiculous, way to drug out patts.
The story and the characters are ok, no one in particular really makes you care about them though.
No matter how much I read, I can’t seem to get over their arrogance towards, what they call normal humans.
Then there is the fact that apparently, according to them, if you work out non-stop and eat tons and tons of sugar - plus the super space sugar- you’ll live forever, in optimum health? What I think you’d actually have is a compound full of overweight people, with blown out knees, who die young from diabetes!
The story and the characters are ok, no one in particular really makes you care about them though.
No matter how much I read, I can’t seem to get over their arrogance towards, what they call normal humans.
Then there is the fact that apparently, according to them, if you work out non-stop and eat tons and tons of sugar - plus the super space sugar- you’ll live forever, in optimum health? What I think you’d actually have is a compound full of overweight people, with blown out knees, who die young from diabetes!
February 5, 2018
Strange ideas
You create leaders who are not leaders and scoff at doing their duty... Going so far as to remove duty to those under them nearly completely. Also only war makes you a warrior... I really like Paul and the others,but they feel like they're becoming what destroyed the Jedi... Separatists. Crying over training missed when they potentially have hundreds of years to live.
You create leaders who are not leaders and scoff at doing their duty... Going so far as to remove duty to those under them nearly completely. Also only war makes you a warrior... I really like Paul and the others,but they feel like they're becoming what destroyed the Jedi... Separatists. Crying over training missed when they potentially have hundreds of years to live.
January 15, 2019
This one gets bogged down for a bit
I liked the overall idea involving entropy but the explaining of ambrosia and life got really technical and complicated. Made it hard to read in the middle of the book up to the point where I literally just skimmed several pages almost a whole chapter. But it ends on, not really a cliffhanger, but a good setup for the next book.
I liked the overall idea involving entropy but the explaining of ambrosia and life got really technical and complicated. Made it hard to read in the middle of the book up to the point where I literally just skimmed several pages almost a whole chapter. But it ends on, not really a cliffhanger, but a good setup for the next book.
May 13, 2019
Great except for the bunk science.
The book was overall good except when they got to the part about training being able to make you live forever. There is a physical limit on how many times your cells can replicate. The more they do so the more mutations and damage that occurs. Unfortunately we don't have a way to overcome that(yet at least) but training ain't gonna do it.
The book was overall good except when they got to the part about training being able to make you live forever. There is a physical limit on how many times your cells can replicate. The more they do so the more mutations and damage that occurs. Unfortunately we don't have a way to overcome that(yet at least) but training ain't gonna do it.
November 27, 2023
Archon = Jedi…Someday!
As the Trailblazers of group 1 continue to push themselves and add more responsibilities for Star Force’s long Rand planning and execution, they prioritize developing their self defense force. Walking between the functions of a business and government, Star Force focuses on preparing humanity to defend itself against any enemy, including ourselves!
As the Trailblazers of group 1 continue to push themselves and add more responsibilities for Star Force’s long Rand planning and execution, they prioritize developing their self defense force. Walking between the functions of a business and government, Star Force focuses on preparing humanity to defend itself against any enemy, including ourselves!
July 12, 2024
I love Star Force.
Such a great series, good character development. Great world building. Leading to a fabulous time spanning story. I reread this series every couple years. As I wait for new books to come out. Book realses have really slowed down with Gauntlet Wars. But the story continues and I love it.
Such a great series, good character development. Great world building. Leading to a fabulous time spanning story. I reread this series every couple years. As I wait for new books to come out. Book realses have really slowed down with Gauntlet Wars. But the story continues and I love it.
June 21, 2018
Entertaining
A good, fast read. The only problem I have is in some words used: break instead of brake and fainted instead of fronting. I will continue reading the series and hope Aer gets a good proofreader!
A good, fast read. The only problem I have is in some words used: break instead of brake and fainted instead of fronting. I will continue reading the series and hope Aer gets a good proofreader!
May 31, 2019
Trouble brewing
Peace is hard to keep.. I was wondering what was going to happen with all the recruits after they finished training.. I like the idea that human aging is a cultural myth.
Peace is hard to keep.. I was wondering what was going to happen with all the recruits after they finished training.. I like the idea that human aging is a cultural myth.
October 19, 2020
I'm at a loss for words. DNF this second compilation book. Grammatical errors abound, funky physics, and notably - training after training after training - the characters have no growth. How this series got to have such numerous books, I'll never know.
January 7, 2021
A mighty good read
I love the preparation and the training regime of the participants.
I don’t know where they get their ideas from but it’s a crackerjack book to read
I’m looking forward to the rest of the series
I love the preparation and the training regime of the participants.
I don’t know where they get their ideas from but it’s a crackerjack book to read
I’m looking forward to the rest of the series
February 4, 2021
Continue building and preparing!
Who are the bad guys on earth going to be?
Why do we always have to try to take things from others.
Lord of the flies is true every where.
Will earth ever take on the Star Fleet paradigm?
Who are the bad guys on earth going to be?
Why do we always have to try to take things from others.
Lord of the flies is true every where.
Will earth ever take on the Star Fleet paradigm?
June 19, 2021
Very Good Read
I didn't write a review of the previous book (1-4), but it was as good as this one. The books just keep building on each other in succession that keeps you riveted. I am looking forward to the next level!
I didn't write a review of the previous book (1-4), but it was as good as this one. The books just keep building on each other in succession that keeps you riveted. I am looking forward to the next level!
August 13, 2022
Great read empire building galore
Really fun read , more depth of the building of a space empire than most and better space battles at least in actual realism than most as well. So sad when authors do the 2d battle when it's really 3d or 360 degrees. This author gets it
Really fun read , more depth of the building of a space empire than most and better space battles at least in actual realism than most as well. So sad when authors do the 2d battle when it's really 3d or 360 degrees. This author gets it
April 1, 2023
a bit slow but good story
This second in the series is interesting with great details as
Star Force builds its base. Overall this book is rather tedious at times and very slow. Still fun to read with finally some action action towards the end.
This second in the series is interesting with great details as
Star Force builds its base. Overall this book is rather tedious at times and very slow. Still fun to read with finally some action action towards the end.
July 23, 2023
Good escape fantasy
Good writing but some flaws in detail, like calling a 20m by 30 m space an enormous cavern. And the unrealistic fantasy that extreme exercise grants longer life. But good light reading and a new perspective.
Good writing but some flaws in detail, like calling a 20m by 30 m space an enormous cavern. And the unrealistic fantasy that extreme exercise grants longer life. But good light reading and a new perspective.
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November 25, 2023slightly better than book 1
Book 2 was still mostly boring training scenes, but at least he advanced the story a little. Too much description of infrastructure. Still no character development. No romantic interests, very unnatural among young, vigorous people.
Book 2 was still mostly boring training scenes, but at least he advanced the story a little. Too much description of infrastructure. Still no character development. No romantic interests, very unnatural among young, vigorous people.
May 28, 2024
Building..personnel, ships
The initial students are leading the pack in every way. They are the trailblazers, indeed. There is much to do..very detailed "much"..
Narrative slowed in a few places, but it is clear this is a massive undertaking. How many books in the series??
The initial students are leading the pack in every way. They are the trailblazers, indeed. There is much to do..very detailed "much"..
Narrative slowed in a few places, but it is clear this is a massive undertaking. How many books in the series??
June 8, 2024
Hmmmm
I feel like I missed something between the first book and this one. Lots of questions remain.....where are the process development they went through. Did they graduate? Suddenly there are Archons???
I feel like I missed something between the first book and this one. Lots of questions remain.....where are the process development they went through. Did they graduate? Suddenly there are Archons???
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