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Title: Sci-Fi malware
Review: I finished Mr. Resnick's five Starship novels and I'm sorry I wasted my time. The series' plot stumbles from highly unlikely to increasingly unbelievable, and ultimately to absurd. The cast of poster board characters endlessly repeat the same few thoughts. The central figure, Captain Cole, spends more time going for snacks and napping than fighting the enemy. Mr. Resnick (in his preface) and through his protagonist continually avows his preference for thinking ahead vs. blindly rushing in, then finds his captain in the midst of battle having overlooked some obvious flaw in his plan. There are long tedious stretches of dialog with the format: bla, bla, bla, he said; bla, bla, bla, she said; etc.A vastly better example of this sort of space opera is Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet Series.
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