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Fire With Fire
Mar. 24th, 2014 10:43 amOver the weekend, I purchased and devoured the e-book version of Charles E. Gannon's new novel Fire With Fire. I heard of it because it's up for a Nebula Award. Since Gannon got a sale he wouldn't have otherwise, yes, Virginia, awards matter.
The book itself was quite entertaining. Intelligence analyst Caine Riordan is investigating a conspiracy on Earth's moon when he gets kidnapped and "put on ice" - literally - frozen in suspended animation. 13 years later, he's defrosted and sent to Earth's new interstellar colony on Delta Pavonis 3. There's some evidence that sentient beings live or lived there, and Caine's supposed to get to the bottom of it.
He does, and things get really interesting from there. Structurally, the book is like pealing an onion in that it keeps revealing new mysteries, some of which are known to some of the humans in the book. There's no fleet-vs-fleet action in this book (which is clearly Book One of a series) but this is definitely Space Opera. I highly recommend it.
The book itself was quite entertaining. Intelligence analyst Caine Riordan is investigating a conspiracy on Earth's moon when he gets kidnapped and "put on ice" - literally - frozen in suspended animation. 13 years later, he's defrosted and sent to Earth's new interstellar colony on Delta Pavonis 3. There's some evidence that sentient beings live or lived there, and Caine's supposed to get to the bottom of it.
He does, and things get really interesting from there. Structurally, the book is like pealing an onion in that it keeps revealing new mysteries, some of which are known to some of the humans in the book. There's no fleet-vs-fleet action in this book (which is clearly Book One of a series) but this is definitely Space Opera. I highly recommend it.
