Jens Rehnvall

Classic story arc in a new shape

Revisado: 01-10-15

Would you listen to The Fallen Race again? Why?

Yes, they have loots of character and different sub-plots going on.

What other book might you compare The Fallen Race to and why?

All "classic" SF The Fallen Race have it all, fall of the space empire,heir to the throne, rebuild the empire, space pirates, lost fleets, psyker, not one but two xenophobic alien races who want to destroy the empire. Nothing is new or inventive but the author take meny parts that make a good epic space story and use them.

Which scene was your favorite?

The warlord part, then one surviving imperial battleship trying to survive day to day, like trying to keep and pay the crew. get spare parts, trying to get money by hiring themselves out as mercenaries to a planet, and sell fighter engines as racing engines.After that the story shift focus and become more epic and "large"

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The main character love to reference to (real) famous sf books and movies, it totally shatter the illusion that the story is "real" laughing about "pregnancy to to birth in 3 seconds" event. How the enemy commander rationalizes the genocide and think himself as a good person. How the biggest baddest imperial battleship escape the destruction. Irritated about, lack of diplomacy and/or cold logic, you purposely trying to exterminate the humans in the Empire, stop the genocide or we (and the big fleet we have) will start to nuke your planets to cinders, we have noting more to louse at this point but you have.

Any additional comments?

The biggest problem I have is that the two main character is to much of "mary sue" and almost never make a wrong decision, and even spell it out "my only weakness is that I am not omnipotent"

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