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Still loving the series! It's like a warm glass of SF milk by a fire on a stormy winter night, so comfortable and steady. I mean, seriously, what's more steady than the slow retrofitting of a space station and the refueling of an interstellar spacecraft while juggling aliens, lies, and family problems back home?
I mean, besides a cool drink of poison?
Is this the beginning of another coup attempt? Poor Bren has been left out of the loop again, but at least he thinks quickly on his toes!
And yes, t ...more
I mean, besides a cool drink of poison?
Is this the beginning of another coup attempt? Poor Bren has been left out of the loop again, but at least he thinks quickly on his toes!
And yes, t ...more
fifth book - 2nd of second trilogy
“Actually, you’re the alien”
Another great instalment in the Foreigner Saga. A few more years have passed by since the previous book and the space programme is well under way. The orbital station is finally operational, served by several shuttles, and the new ship in construction. Once again we have politics galore, and with the news that the senior captain of the Phoenix, Ramirez, has died, everything that could go wrong threatens to do so. Not only this but Bre ...more
“Actually, you’re the alien”
Another great instalment in the Foreigner Saga. A few more years have passed by since the previous book and the space programme is well under way. The orbital station is finally operational, served by several shuttles, and the new ship in construction. Once again we have politics galore, and with the news that the senior captain of the Phoenix, Ramirez, has died, everything that could go wrong threatens to do so. Not only this but Bre ...more
The human and atevi space program has advanced to the point of weekly shuttle missions to the space station orbiting the atevi homeworld and Phoenix is now refueled. The station is crewed by atevi and humans interacting like never before, but tensions are high, with constant worries about the hostile aliens that Phoenix encountered before returning. Tabini has again sent Bren into space where he finds himself in an unexpected position and where Tabini and the human leadership aren't telling him
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Good thing that I don‘t really read the blurbs before diving into these books, because the main plot line of this one was a complete surprise, for me and Bren Cameron. So I experienced it all firsthand though him. Fun!
“Actually, you’re the alien.“
Oh yes, that was a good one. The crew of the Phoenix in all their entitlement still haven‘t understood that the colonists have moved on and are their own society now.
And by now it seems that Bren Cameron is more Atevi than Mospheiran. Stretched out betw ...more
“Actually, you’re the alien.“
Oh yes, that was a good one. The crew of the Phoenix in all their entitlement still haven‘t understood that the colonists have moved on and are their own society now.
And by now it seems that Bren Cameron is more Atevi than Mospheiran. Stretched out betw ...more
“Coincidence is the rarest beast, Bren-ji. Its tracks look like so much else.”
I get the feeling I could just copy-paste my review from Foreigner book to Foreigner book and it would be largely relevant no matter which book it happens to be on.
Following the highport drama of PRECURSOR, a couple of years have passed. Atevi and humans are working together in relative harmony on the station, a ship for the Atevi themselves is under construction - when one of the captains of the Phoenix dies, and ...more
Sep 21, 2016
Juliana
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Oct 16, 2016
Niki Hawkes - The Obsessive Bookseller
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Nov 12, 2022
Rebecca
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