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Transition

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Described on the cover of my copy as "A powerful new novel set in the universe of Starfarers". Which is true enough but rather misleading, Transition is a sequel to Starfarers and shouldn't be treated as a stand alone novel, ninety percent of the character development and scenario creation takes place in the earlier novel, anybody starting with Transition is going to be half way through the book before they really come to grips with who the main characters are or what the hell is going on. It also has the statutory cliffhanger ending pending the next volume in the series.

Our crew of misfits have evaded the attentions of Earths military and are limping through space in a crippled ship following a trail of artefacts and inter spacial highways in a search for aliens.

While I quite enjoyed it, I don't really think that the gallant crew could organise a trip to a local mall, let alone run a starship. They take anarchic liberal thinking to ridiculous extremes, nothing is ever done without a series of meetings, nobody takes responsibility for anything and everybody agonises about it on the occasions when something does get done. The truth is no group of people with their heads jammed that firmly in the clouds achieve anything and in this scenario, they simply wouldn't survive. Interesting approach to hard core Sci Fi, but flawed.