To The Stars The Harry Irons Trilogy Book 1 eBook Thomas Stone
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TO THE STARS is the first book in a science-fiction trilogy concerning an intrepid group of space explorers in the year 2107. Harry Irons dreams of escaping poverty and an over-crowded Earth by gaining employment with the Braithwaite Corporation. After proving himself in a series of tests, Harry gets his wish and soon enough finds himself struggling to survive on an alien world. TO THE STARS was written for a general audience and is sure to satisfy both younger and older fans of alternative fiction.
To The Stars The Harry Irons Trilogy Book 1 eBook Thomas Stone
I'm always looking for good new SF authors and originally had high hopes for this book. I was willing to overlook some early shallow characterization and thin motivation, hoping it would improve as the story developed. Unfortunately, it got worse.First of all, this author clearly doesn't understand the basics of the science involved:
--You can't sit on someone in a microgravity environment to subdue them
--It's VERY hard to imagine high-tech spacesuits that don't have radios and can't communicate with the ship in orbit or the shuttle on the planet.
--It's even harder to understand how these same suits magically DO have radios later as they're jetting across 90 MILES of open space up in orbit. Never mind surviving this with a major solar flare in progress...
--Red dwarf stars don't go nova
--Stars that DO go nova don't go from quiet and stable to imminent nova in a day and a half
--Shock waves require an atmosphere to travel--they don't propagate through space
--Electromagnetic pulses just don't 'dissipate quickly in the vacuum of space'
And so on. If you're gonna write SF you really need to get the science right. Otherwise, choose a different genre where this lack of understanding doesn't matter, assuming there is one.
Characters:
Almost every character other than Harry Irons (the main character) seems driven by shallow self-preservation. They're mostly ready to abandon shipmates without much concern, to collect their bonuses for finding a probably habitable planet. If the big corporation funding all these mission really sent such poorly trained people out on their missions they'd lose their investment so quickly they'd have to cash in the entire effort. Harry Irons is a little more three-dimensional, but the weak story and other insipid characters just kill the book.
I rarely abandon a book without finishing it but I did with this one. This book requires more than suspension of disbelief--it requires extensive ignorance of the science and mechanics of space travel. Sad to say, but it's just a waste of time. I can see why it was a FREE Kindle book.
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To The Stars The Harry Irons Trilogy Book 1 eBook Thomas Stone Reviews
This book is more like the old SF books written in the 60/70's and was a fun and easy read -- Much better than a lot of the new SF books that are really fantasy books. However, someone needs to do a better job as a proof reader and editor. There are many sentences written incorrectly and there are many places where the correct words are not used or they are in the wring context. I think this may be caused by using computer based spell/grammar checking and no human is doing proof reading.
Over all the book was enjoyable.
WOW!! This book has everything, and something for everyone. It is one of the few I've read recently that was actually hard to put down. I generally do my reading before bedtime, but this one came out in the middle of the day on several occasions. I will be looking up additional stories by Mr. Irons. As always, I'll hope he can create more characters, adventures and surprises for me.
Was looking thru the numerous books in the library and decided to pick this book because I hadn't read space fiction for awhile. Around about the third chapter I found I was hooked. Fairly light reading that held my interest. For those who want to relax with a good trilogy, this one hits near the top. Recommended for anyone who likes to escape for an hour or 2.
I enjoy science fiction that involves so much future "stuff". A linguist that gets a chance to go through a worm hole that transports him to nasty aliens and a group of aliens who are one step up from apes. These aliens have abilities that apes do not. Let us not forget the people on the space ship a crew member who is a 'wire head' and a captain who has a hidden agenda on this space trip.
It is quite good story. Pace is fast, plot is OK. Sure there are some dissonances (I could even say - plenty), but when closing ones eye in proper moments it doesn't matter much.Overall it was quite nice spend few hours. Style and language is quite simple, easy to comprehend even for less advanced non-english readers.
Most of my issues with this book I suspect are due to the author's inexperience but I certainly enjoyed it enough to be interested in more by this writer.
Interesting exploration/ first contact (only you get two for the price of one) and still a third if you include the sentient spaceship, who I'd really like to hear more about. The storyline flowed quite well and the three main characters were quite well developed. I wasn't so impressed with the other crew members' development, though it was obvious they were developed to be specifically 'difficult' and self-serving but it was done to a somewhat irritating extent.
Definitely a strong flavor of the 50s "adventure to the stars" space opera themes but overall a fun summer read.
Linguistic specialist, Harry Irons, gets selected by corporate powerhouse Braithwaite as a crew member to explore new worlds. But mission Commander Fagan knows more than he let's on and may have his own agenda for the mission.
The world they discover has interesting aliens, some primitive aborigines, but a visiting ultra intelligent species proves dangerous and puts the whole mission in jeopardy.
Interesting aliens and a creative world offer a nice scifi story.
I'm always looking for good new SF authors and originally had high hopes for this book. I was willing to overlook some early shallow characterization and thin motivation, hoping it would improve as the story developed. Unfortunately, it got worse.
First of all, this author clearly doesn't understand the basics of the science involved
--You can't sit on someone in a microgravity environment to subdue them
--It's VERY hard to imagine high-tech spacesuits that don't have radios and can't communicate with the ship in orbit or the shuttle on the planet.
--It's even harder to understand how these same suits magically DO have radios later as they're jetting across 90 MILES of open space up in orbit. Never mind surviving this with a major solar flare in progress...
--Red dwarf stars don't go nova
--Stars that DO go nova don't go from quiet and stable to imminent nova in a day and a half
--Shock waves require an atmosphere to travel--they don't propagate through space
--Electromagnetic pulses just don't 'dissipate quickly in the vacuum of space'
And so on. If you're gonna write SF you really need to get the science right. Otherwise, choose a different genre where this lack of understanding doesn't matter, assuming there is one.
Characters
Almost every character other than Harry Irons (the main character) seems driven by shallow self-preservation. They're mostly ready to abandon shipmates without much concern, to collect their bonuses for finding a probably habitable planet. If the big corporation funding all these mission really sent such poorly trained people out on their missions they'd lose their investment so quickly they'd have to cash in the entire effort. Harry Irons is a little more three-dimensional, but the weak story and other insipid characters just kill the book.
I rarely abandon a book without finishing it but I did with this one. This book requires more than suspension of disbelief--it requires extensive ignorance of the science and mechanics of space travel. Sad to say, but it's just a waste of time. I can see why it was a FREE book.
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