Awesome premise of an older more technologically advanced race, who's planet obviously never experienced an ELE (extinction level event); & from our standpoint are culturally backwards, & pigeon-holed in their way of thinking /advancement (as we seem to them). A great story, although I don't believe a 6 year rampage would have been allowed in real life, nor the self-sacrificing military leader. Before the beast's leap, any & all military leaders I've seen, heard, &/or read of would've had his men strafe a swath betwixt himself and the alien, then immediately strafe behind the alien to let him know he'd walked into a trap. And call me greedy, but I'd really have like to have read/heard how they managed to get around the alien's phased-locked-loop - like thought processes: I'm quite sure it'd help me in dealing with Faux Noise viewers.
As usual Mark Nelson brings the story to life but even he must have wondered when will it end ! Seemed very long winded with a bunch of psychology mumbo jumbo towards the end .
Great read. Very interesting story, plots and with a bit of a psychological twist - ending interesting with a somewhat unusual approach to the story telling. Much enjoyed, Thanks!
I really enjoyed this story. Great depth of story and enjoyable characters with good twists. Excellent reading once again would recommend to any sci-fi book fan!
glad I ignored reviews that said the story got boring as I think it was good to the end. well read as usual.
Fine crafting of several plot themes into a cohesive whole. Any thing said further would lead to the need of a "spoiler" alert !!!