Scott Bartlett (1)

Scott Bartlett’s Spacers series continues to be competently written military sci-fi straight out of the C. S. Forester playbook. We have a budding romance on the down low because the chain of command inhibits both parties. The rigors of command dominate character drama in Free Space as they did in First Command. The fictional world features conflict between government forces, private space navies, pirates, and powerful aliens. Action, of course, is a major plot element—both in space and on the planet. Suspense in the series comes from the Xanthic aliens. Will we finally defeat them? Will we ever understand them? Maybe not until the next book in the series.… (altro)

Supercarrier was a fun read and I really did enjoy the book. I also enjoyed that humanity wasn't some sort of benevolent force that saved the rest of the galaxy, especially when there were other races that have been galactic powers for longer. However, humanity was still ridiculously powerful.

My two biggest grips though are 1) why would most of Captain Keyes crew continue to follow him when most aren't even able to hold a friendly conversation with any of the Aliens? 2) I'm also pretty confused on the idea that forcing battle and threatening to Nuke the Winger's home world would force them to talk with the humans and negotiate.

All in all though it was a fun read, and worth picking up imo.… (altro)