I like Mike’s Science Fiction. He is good at bickering characters and his world building contains some spiffy concepts like smart metal ships that can reconfigure in flight.
Let me tell you about his books.
After reading Undaunted I got an urge to reread Intrepid. I thought it came out this summer, but it was the summer of 2008 it did.
Kris is heading out into the Rim on the starship Waspto explore and hunt down pirates. Masquerading as a merchant ship they happen on a pirate. They capture the ship after a short battle. After returning their prisoners for trial, they happen on a colonist trying to get home. So they decide to head that way. First they stop at Xanadu, the next planet before Panda. Xanadu is govern by a religious cult hiding from what they believe is an unavoidable alien invasion. They also keep their people drugged and obedient. After slapping the Elders on their fingers they head off to Panda only to find Kris first captain, Thorpe there with two ships in orbit. There is a filibuster operation going there. A bunch of Mercenaries, the majority of them are religious fanatics from New Jerusalem, have taken over the planet.
The rest is again an entertaining rumble with our favorite princess.
After the rumble they return via Xanadu only to discover a plot to start a war between Peterwald and United Setiends with foreseeable consequences.
Ta ta, brilliant. I can’t wait on the next novel.
The next Kris Longknife novel to be out in 2010 will be Superb Redoubtable and the 2011 one is Daring according to mikeshepherd.org (See New Releases)
Kris have the watch and the rest of the crew are asleep when The Wasp enter another of those newly discovered worm holes out in the Rim. It comes out just as the probe sent ahead is destroyed by laser fire from 2 Peterwald cruisers engaged in a fight with an alien Death Ball.
To her surprise the Iteeche don’t fire back, they are indeed on a diplomatic mission to her grandfather Trouble. If you expected that to play out in this book you are wrong. Kris is sent to the planet Texarkana to keep it in support of the king in the coming constitution poll bringing the Iteeche along.
The rest is an enjoyable rumble.
I don’t know when the next book will be published. Maybe next summer? It ought to be about the next mission kris is sent to before she is sent to the iteeche (quite annoying to be honest, why all these side stories before the big beef)
I must have been really focused on my work today because I totally missed their arrival (I worked from home today). But there they where on top of the desk in the hallway when i foraged out of my room for dinner. Must have been the stealthy B. that recovered them for me.
I have been waiting since summer for the next Longknife novel and now it’s here, I will read it now. I have no impulse control when it comes to books I like.
The Devil’s Eye will have to wait with the other 30 or so unread books in my night stand. I’ll get to them sooner or later.
Ta ta for now!
Kris gets her first command PF-109 one out of 12 fast patrol boats commanded by other Navy misfits. She and Nelly prove that they can take out a Battleship when used right when she is arrested for misappropriation of government funds on her mission to Olympia. Her father’s party lost a vote of Confidence in the Parliament and the interim government haste to make clean house in the military while promoting anything that can embarrass the old government. King Ray sends her to hold an old friends hand while she dies. Kris dance nude on the beach and free some hostages before returning home where her accuser has been shredded to pieces by her friends from Olympia.
They can all relax and celebrate the marriage between Tom and Penny. Almost on cue 6 battleships of unknown origin arrive, demanding surrender. Since the new government sent the whole fleet away there is only Kris and her motley crew to defend them all.
Kris discovers what sacrifices are when people all over volunteer to fight.
One very good Longknife book.
In Deserter Kris personal computer: Nelly really comes out of the box. Kris friend Tom takes off on leave with Penny (his former interrogator. See Mutineer). They head for an archaeological dig when Tom is somehow waylaid. Kris comes to the rescue.
Introducing Abby, Kris mysterious maid. Hired by her mother so at first Kris resist her, but she has an uncanny ability to produce what Kris needs from her luggage. There is much going on there.
Also introducing Jack, Kris new handsome bodyguard.
Kris and Company rushes of to Turantic, a planet boiling a stew that threatens to change the map in humanity’s part of the galaxy for the next century or so. And of course Kris does the damn Longknife thing and havoc commence.
Hank the handsome Peterwalder are there, so are also ghosts from Kris past.
There is lots of spiffy tech here: Nano spies, three artifacts and true Booby traps (Kris gets a temporary boob job or 2).
Really entertaining, fast action, mystery and a lot of sass. If you like military scifi with more than testosterone this is a good read.
Mike Sheperd is a pseudonym for Mike Moscoe.
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