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Much is made of 'soft' science in SciFy- such as stasis. On introduction, Jenetta is smart but timid. Reflecting on Jen's escape from a disaster, you see her attempting to fire rockets to halt headlong departure from the accident scene, and filling her days with reading strategy books or playing a gunnery sim. Before food runs out, she accepts the inevitable and gets into the chamber. The author could easily claim that once in stasis, her brain would continue to integrate those lessons into her personality. Instead, there is no explanation for her sudden change of personality upon rescue by an improbable meeting with a freighter. From then on, she becomes assertive and confident. Other officers are empathetic but incapable of making decisions. Soon, combat challenges the crew to great deeds.
Jen is captured while doing recon of a pirate base. Borrowing from In Enemy Hands (Honor Harrington Book 7), she appears helpless. At this point, the plot veers into bondage and kinky incarceration. Recognizing that women in the armed forces run a risk of abuse in captivity, the author still lingers in an unhealthy way on the experience. To a man, the guards are pulp-fiction animals.
She does gain her liberty, and just in the nick of time. Effect is campy. I will not divulge any more plot points.
The writing does a fair job of painting a visual of ship positions and bases within solar systems. I wish we experienced more of shipboard life besides the impersonal exchange of orders during maneuvers. Grammar and spelling were better than many E-books.
Finally, the last chapter is contrived even as it prepares us for the next stage of Jenetta's career. The logic of command decisions seems contorted. There are many, many instances of monologues and info dumps to set up following scenes.


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A Galaxy Unknown A Galaxy Unknown Book 1 eBook Thomas DePrima Reviews

I've now read this book and several of the sequels. I'm progressing through the rest of the series. If you like real space opera, an intelligent and capable main character, and innovative solutions to the challenges put in the path of the main character, you will enjoy this series.

Essentially the series is the career of Jenetta Carver, starting in a Space Academy and moving on as an ensign in Space Command, the military arm of the Galactic Alliance (essentially the good guys). The writer puts Carver into situations way above her pay grade, and she must innovate and command her way through them. The situations are interesting and her solutions are often unusual. So far, in each of the sequel books, she moves up a level in rank and is presented with new situations to solve. The situations are not repetitive and some are new to this very long-time SF reader.

The most pertinent word I can use about reading this series is -- satisfying. The writer stays well within the confines of the universe he has created and doesn't tend to violate his own "rules". He does NOT use many of the frustrating gimmicks such where the bad guys, although highly improbable both in time and unknowable location, show up at just the worst moment to destroy the best laid plans. He also doesn't tend create important characters that are "The Jerks" just to create conflict. Many of the situations show good, intelligent planning and execution on the part of the main characters. Although, as the characters implement their plans, unexpected occurrences often do happen, the characters respond intelligently in a way you would expect professionals to act.

As for negatives, there are some sections that are a bit slow to get through where the writer is explaining or setting things up for a later element. Some are just, well, what the characters are doing as they wait for long periods of transportation time to complete. Probably could use a bit of thinning in some of these places, but getting on through them is worthwhile. They don't tend to last long.

Also, more curious than distracting. The writer is obviously into a "word of the day" club. He periodically tends to drop in uncommon words in place of the more usual ones. Not a plus or minus, just interesting.

At this point, I'm hooked and will read the rest of the series. I suspect I will also look into other things this writer has produced.
I might only give it 4.5 stars if that were possible, but definitely 5 instead of 4. I liked this book. It's not classic literature, it's enjoyable, escapist, entertaining reading. I've been reading science fiction for over 60 years. I've read the best (Asimov, Heinlein, etc.) and some of the worst (no names here), and this is, in my opiion, far from the worst. That's not an insult. So let me defend this book a little regarding some statements from negative reviewers.

This is science fiction. That's fiction. Not real, imaginary, so it is necessary to suspend belief at times. Pretty much true in all hero/heroine fiction of any genre.

This is space opera. And it's good space opera. The character building and character interaction are more than adequate. The story hangs together well - at least I had no trouble following it, or picking it up again after a week without having to review. The author makes everything fit together plausibly within the suspended belief parameters of the universe in which he is writing.

I read the appendix, and the author clearly put a lot of thought and imagination into the science and make-up of this universe and galactic civilization.

Regarding one particular negative comment, regarding the use of the term "larboard" instead of "port." That reviewer belabored this point, but who is to say that two hundred years plus into the future they wouldn't be using larboard again. And it is fiction! We also don't have stun guns, datfa travel, lattice pistols (that's a neat concept, by the way, and thoroughly explained). and several other things imagined into this story, so why quibble about an inconsistency with our "real" world. Enough said (probably too much), that one just bothered me.

Are there stereotyped characters? Yes, in some cases, but not out of place.

I liked it, enjoyed it, was entertained, and didn't have to do any mental heavy lifting but did, however, get engaged in the story and invested in the characters.. If you like a good space opera, with a slightly unbelievable but very human heroine, I think you'll like it.
Much is made of 'soft' science in SciFy- such as stasis. On introduction, Jenetta is smart but timid. Reflecting on Jen's escape from a disaster, you see her attempting to fire rockets to halt headlong departure from the accident scene, and filling her days with reading strategy books or playing a gunnery sim. Before food runs out, she accepts the inevitable and gets into the chamber. The author could easily claim that once in stasis, her brain would continue to integrate those lessons into her personality. Instead, there is no explanation for her sudden change of personality upon rescue by an improbable meeting with a freighter. From then on, she becomes assertive and confident. Other officers are empathetic but incapable of making decisions. Soon, combat challenges the crew to great deeds.
Jen is captured while doing recon of a pirate base. Borrowing from In Enemy Hands (Honor Harrington Book 7), she appears helpless. At this point, the plot veers into bondage and kinky incarceration. Recognizing that women in the armed forces run a risk of abuse in captivity, the author still lingers in an unhealthy way on the experience. To a man, the guards are pulp-fiction animals.
She does gain her liberty, and just in the nick of time. Effect is campy. I will not divulge any more plot points.
The writing does a fair job of painting a visual of ship positions and bases within solar systems. I wish we experienced more of shipboard life besides the impersonal exchange of orders during maneuvers. Grammar and spelling were better than many E-books.
Finally, the last chapter is contrived even as it prepares us for the next stage of Jenetta's career. The logic of command decisions seems contorted. There are many, many instances of monologues and info dumps to set up following scenes.