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The Disinherited #2

by Steve White

A sequel to The Disinherited, finds the U.S. Space Force confronting the complexities of ultralight drives, alternative universes, and an alliance with King Arthur. Original.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Ebooks, Arthurian

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Born in 1948.
Steve White is an American science fiction author best known as the co-author of the Starfire-series alongside David Weber.

He is married with 3 daughters and currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. He also works for a legal publishing company. He previously served as a United States Navy officer and served during the Vietnam War and in the Mediterranean region.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wh...

Reviews

[Aaron Anderson]

I lost interest in this series around the 40 percent mark. The prologue made zero sense. Now, I'll admit that had I finished the book, it may have made sense eventually, but oh well.

So some frigate was captured fully undamaged enough to make use of. The other humans didn't disable it or blow it up, and the supposedly horrible aliens who never can innovate made complete use of it to follow a ship through a version of FTL they had no prior knowledge of. Yeah, this follows. It's what basically tipped me over the edge of not finishing this.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is the second in the Disinherited series. It takes place 200 years after the story in "The Disinherited". Earth is in the middle of a major war with a fragment of the former Korvaashi empire. On a fringe world a survey team from earth runs into explorers from Raehan and an enemy force of Korvaashi. Escaping the Korvaashi they flee to Earth to report the Korvaashi menace and to introduce Earth's new allies, the Raehan. Unknown to them the Korvaashi are hot on their trail. They are captured by the Korvaashi and then the Korvaashi ship encounters a temporal anomaly which transports them into another time where they meet and advanced ship of humans from the distance future. After being freed from the Korvaashi's these advanced humans transport them back to the time of King Arthur as observers. Thing don't quite as expected however. A great blend of Space Opera/Time Travel and historical fiction. I recommend this book and series.

[Ron · Rating 3 out of 5]

A really confusing mashup of SF, time travel and Arthurian fantasy which fails to be convincing in any of these roles. At times quite entertaining, but would be more convincing as a stand-alone novel instead of being enjoined on by the backstory of the preceding novel.