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Title: One of the most compelling genre debuts in quite some time
Review: Karin Lowachee has written a marvelous debut novel. One of the most engaging and exciting debuts since _Ender's Game_, way back in the mid-80s.In _Warchild_, Lowachee has written a startingly good mil-SF yarn. I'll forgo any plot summary here. I'm sure it's available elsewhere on this page. Suffice it to say that Lowachee's novel is not only one of the best SF debuts in 2002, but it's one of the best SF novels of the year.The plot is exciting. Lowachee's aliens are fascinatingly different. The three-way conflict between space pirates, aliens, and Earth Fleet is convincing and compelling. Lowachee writes most of the novel in first-person, though the opening section is, daringly, written from a second-person perspective. This is a compulsively readable book. I was hard pressed to put it down.By the end of the novel, I was ready for more. Here's hoping there's a sequel!
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