While the crew of the UN Expeditionary Force’s pirate starship Flying Dutchman are enjoying a luxury vacation cruise (not!), UNEF troops are still stranded on an alien-controlled planet. Major Emily Perkins and her team are busy picking up the pieces, and it’s not easy, because there is trouble on Paradise….
Very enjoyable Humans rock! An enjoyable rollicking tale of the abandoned humans and how they deal with conflicting alien overlords. A compulsive continuation of the Columbus day series.
If you liked the series, you will probably like this one. I really liked the basic series and hope the author continues it. I really hate the 123 sequences and serial TV style now current in publishing. (I like to sit down and read the story, start to finish. I realize some stories take more than one, but few require exactly 3)This “side-bar” story fits okay with the originals, but I also want to know what’s going on with Skippy.
its ok, but it didn’t feel “real” This book is about the supporting characters from the main series to (I assume) keep up the interest in the series while the next arc is being written. The plot was ok, but it left me feeling that the plot was forced, since the problems would be thing like: being forced to be a farmer, what would happen to the women (i.e. raped, kidnapped, or force to marry a man and have kids, brothels, etc.), or working as force labor which wouldn’t be interesting or hard to write about. Basically, the…