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Torch Honor

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This is one of my "keep and re-read" books that I have worn the paperback covers almost off of. A space action yarn, but with the unusual twist that the heroes are a happily married couple. Mac is the self-confessed comic-book-like hero and commander, while his wife Joslyn is the Brit spacecraft pilot, and a surpurbly skillful one ('hot pilot' - books own description - in the best sense). They are members of a new Survey service, but their first survey voyage is interrupted by drone sent from their base, which has the alarming warning that a planet called New Finland has been attacked by a (human) group calling themselves The Guardians - in fact, the very tough Finns have apparently already lost. There is a hint that at least one other survey ship, presumed lost, might have been captured by The Guardians. Mac and Joslyn are give the option of investigating this impossible invasion, or not, as they choose. Of course they go for the gusto, and a great space/military adventure begins...

Very clean writing, with no explicatives to marker-out, and married romance instead of steamy sex. Would that they all came that way...

I agree with the other reviewer that there are more sophisticated & thought-provoking SF books out there, but THIS one is "comfort food" for the eyes. Buy it if you can find it, and cozy up to the fire with a mug of hot chocolate.

The sequel was just as good, and also worth the read.

I don't think this book can be considered a masterpiece of SF,but it's certainly a good and involving book,and I think it's difficult to dislike it.Good reading