Tamahome’s Reviews > Center of Gravity > Status Update

"Party politics—or the ancient division of political groups into factions with labels such as “conservative” or “liberal” were widely seen as corrupt—the old way of doing things, and one that had not, after all, worked very well. The two-party system of the old United States had collapsed centuries ago in scandal and corruption. Multi-party governments—some with as many as a hundred different competing political..."

"The H’rulka were, in fact, colony organisms; a very rough terrestrial analogue would have been the Portuguese Man of War . . . though the H’rulka were not marine creatures, and each was composed of several hundred types of communal polyps, rather than just four."

I liked the ebook sample. No shortage of tech descriptions in space. I just skipped the first book. There's giant gas bag aliens coming.