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Gibraltar earth: (a novel)

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In a couple hundred years humanity has started to explore nearby stars. Humans are investigating a new star system when two alien spaceships appear, fight with each other, and destroy each other. The humans are able to rescue one alien survivor. They learn of a Galactic Empire ruled by the ruthless Broa who tolerate no equals. All other alien races are slaves.
So what should humanity do? Several options are discussed, and finally our heroes go to get more data by studying the empire some. There are a number of surprises along the way.
This is a fun book; it is the first of three. I had trouble putting it down. It has a very classic space opera feel. We have the Milky Way Galaxy for the backdrop, there are lots of alien races, all of humanity is at risk, and the pace moves along fairly quickly.
If you like E. E. Doc Smith, David Webber, or James Schmitz, I think you'll enjoy this book.

First, the bad:
- The dialog in this book really brought me out of the story sometimes. Most people in this book talk without using any contractions, which is really strange. Instead is saying "Lisa, I couldn't find you yesterday." and "I don't want to do that." they'll say "I could not find you yesterday" and "I do not want to do that". It reads really weird, like they're robots or incredibly proper. I tried to get past this.

- The main characters are somewhat interesting, but I didn't really feel any attachment to them. The secondary characters were all very boring and ran together. I had a hard time remembering who was who.

The good:
- Cool idea for a story. I've never seen quite this take on the way the galaxy is setup. I don't want to give anything away here, but what the humans discover is pretty cool.
- Some good twists in the storyline that I was not expecting. There was some foreshadowing, but it didn't turn out to be what I was expecting

In my opinion this is good scifi, but not great scifi. For great SciFi, I would point to authors like Dan Simmons (Hyperion is the all time best scifi book ever) and Peter F Hamilton.

Outstanding. Much in the flavor of the Life Probe sieries.
If you liked them, you'll like this one. We'll see how he completes it in Gibralter Sun. Should be a good read.

Reminded me of the clean, clear writing style of Alistair MacLean but of sound science fiction. Leaves you wanting more.

Just barely finished these 3 books, and I must say, I am quite impressed. This series of books presents a complex future world, where men can travel among the stars at speeds much greater than that of light. It is realistically done, well written, and has you asking for more. I highly recommend this series!