April Cruels

Hi,

I weep that this is a joke and not a real thing I can purchase.

Although I feel like Ferris would have to be part of the team somehow...
Tom

April Cruels

Hi,

I weep that this is a joke and not a real thing I can purchase.

Although I feel like Ferris would have to be part of the team somehow...
Tom

The Review Servers

Hey,

So a couple days ago I finished The Timeservers by Russell M. Griffin. It's the story of Calvin Troy, a junior officer with Earth's Diplomatic Service. He's been assigned to a dreary backwater world on the fringe of the galaxy known as Depaz. The natives are stupid and dull, the planet is covered with lacerating sawgrass and predatory flies and the only large body of water is a 20-meter puddle. A wretched world and Earth is six years away by high-speed communication link, longer by inter-stellar ship. Cal hopes to serve out his time here as best he can and then get back into stasis and go somewhere else.

All of that changes when the Acting Chief of Mission goes missing sometime in the night. Through a series of diplomatic wranglings, Cal is promoted to the head of the line. But his colleagues are all incompetent or have agendas of their own. Now it's his job to find the Ambassador, keep the other embassies from finding out, and deal with the Depasians. Things very quickly escalate from a simple disappearance.

The book is mostly black humor that uses sci-fi to take pokes at US Foreign policy and diplomatic endeavors in general. Cal is hopelessly unprepared for the stew of trouble he gets dumped into and you feel pretty sorry for him, even as you're yelling at him to pull his head up and get a grip on what's going on around him. It was a fun, fast read and covers a genre that could stand to have some more company.

later
Tom

The Review Servers

Hey,

So a couple days ago I finished The Timeservers by Russell M. Griffin. It's the story of Calvin Troy, a junior officer with Earth's Diplomatic Service. He's been assigned to a dreary backwater world on the fringe of the galaxy known as Depaz. The natives are stupid and dull, the planet is covered with lacerating sawgrass and predatory flies and the only large body of water is a 20-meter puddle. A wretched world and Earth is six years away by high-speed communication link, longer by inter-stellar ship. Cal hopes to serve out his time here as best he can and then get back into stasis and go somewhere else.

All of that changes when the Acting Chief of Mission goes missing sometime in the night. Through a series of diplomatic wranglings, Cal is promoted to the head of the line. But his colleagues are all incompetent or have agendas of their own. Now it's his job to find the Ambassador, keep the other embassies from finding out, and deal with the Depasians. Things very quickly escalate from a simple disappearance.

The book is mostly black humor that uses sci-fi to take pokes at US Foreign policy and diplomatic endeavors in general. Cal is hopelessly unprepared for the stew of trouble he gets dumped into and you feel pretty sorry for him, even as you're yelling at him to pull his head up and get a grip on what's going on around him. It was a fun, fast read and covers a genre that could stand to have some more company.

later
Tom