Astral Fall
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3.9 • 7 Ratings
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- £7.49
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- £7.49
Publisher Description
A hundred-year interplanetary war receives little attention from the military’s greatest warriors.
Until five of them devise a secret plan to end it.
From Midwest Book Review:
Without providing spoilers, suffice it to say that Astral Fall attempts to identify, address, and turn upside down reader preconceptions of [...] the nature of military sci-fi as a genre. And, it succeeds.
Think the classic Ender's Game, but without any attempt to mimic Orson Scott Card's scenarios or success. Think a military battle structure holding the epic confrontations of Lord of the Rings, complete with its promise of multiple series books; yet with an attention to intricate detail that belays the (too-often) hasty series production. There is no artificial division of action felt in Astral Fall.
Astral Fall is highly recommended for any military sci-fi fan looking for superior writing and fresh, original plots.
- Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan
Customer Reviews
Where’s the ending?
This book is great, and does a particularly good job of world-building, and making you work things out for yourself instead of explaining everything. It introduces an interesting set of characters, sets up the story... and then just stops. There’s no ending, it just stops. I actually thought I had accidentally only downloaded half a book at first. If this is meant to be a deliberate cliffhanger for the next book in the series, it does a very bad job of it; it doesn’t feel like the first book in a series so much as just incomplete.
Great, but where's the rest?!
This was an interesting read, with a somewhat enigmatic cliffhanger at the end. But it felt like it ended prematurely; seems like half a book rather than a whole book, which is sad.
Also, the preview is not the start of the book, which is a mistake on the part of the publisher as it means you read one chapter before going backwards to read the beginning, then find yourself in part of the book you've already read.