After eleven years I’ve finally completed the Gibraltar series by Michael McCollum. I enjoyed all three books and actually read them quickly.  Eleven years was just the interval between the first and last book of the series were published. Now that you don’t have to wait as long to read the last book, I highly recommend this series.  The first book, called Gibraltar Earth tells of humanity’s first encounter with an extraterrestrial intelligence and of the chilling revelation that one species dominates all others in hundreds of thousands of worlds. Those who...

Kevin J. Anderson has done a remarkable job in creating this Saga which is composed of as many books as there are suns in its name. It is a single, continuous story that picks up in one book just where the previous one had ended, taking the reader on a long ride. The characters of the novels are well crafted and at no time do you have the feeling that you are reading something which is not relevant to the story line, regardless of whether the passage is about a little girl in an out-of-the-way colony planet or the King of multi-planetary confederation. Everything is weaved into a pattern and...

This book is a sequel to Off Armageddon Reef and a very good one at that.  When I finished reading Off Armageddon Reef I was eager to find out how the story would continue.  Not only had I liked the characters but the whole situation in which we humanity finds itself in its new home in the planet Safehold is intriguing. By Schism Rent Asunder takes us through the continued, and unstoppable, events that were triggered by the events in the previous book.  As with with Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder is the kind of book which you will not want to put down.  In this book David Weber seems...