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Dan Moren

Auteur van The Caledonian Gambit

10 Werken 271 Leden 5 Besprekingen

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Werken van Dan Moren

The Caledonian Gambit (2017) 107 exemplaren
The Bayern Agenda (2019) 77 exemplaren
The Aleph Extraction (2020) 37 exemplaren
The Nova Incident (2022) 16 exemplaren
Pilot Error (2020) 11 exemplaren
Showdown (2020) 9 exemplaren
All Souls Lost (2023) 4 exemplaren
All Souls Lost 4 exemplaren
Macworld (March 2014) (2013) 1 exemplaar

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The Aleph Extraction is a covert ops caper story that in bygone days could have been an Alfred Hitchcock movie about spies on the Orient Express. The undercover team here roams around a luxury starliner making its way through a wormhole. The McGuffin is an ancient gold tablet that is meant to do I am not quite sure what. And, because it is the McGuffin, I am not obliged to care. The action involves good drinks in the bar and a nifty EVA to break into the ship’s vault. There are stun guns, old-fashioned projectile weapons, and on-again-off-again gravity boots. So, not many new sci-fi wrinkles but readable all the same.… (meer)
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Tom-e | Oct 14, 2023 |
I really wanted to like this. The plot was entertaining and constantly moving. But the characters were one dimensional. Snark is not a personality. Definitely a debut book that could have used more development. And a different motivation for one of the MCs - the fridging trope was never good.
½
 
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elvendido | 2 andere besprekingen | May 15, 2021 |
Good fun - shows its authors inspirations, but in this case that isn't a problem or a criticism.
 
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dmmjlllt | 2 andere besprekingen | Jul 20, 2020 |
Moren, Dan. The Bayern Agenda. Galactic Cold War No. 1. Angry Robot, 2019.
In a good spy story, there is usually an element of melancholy, because the agents often discover their own complicity in the evil they oppose. John le Carré is the master of this genre, and as several reviewers have noted, Dan Moren uses le Carré’s model to create his interstellar special-ops espionage team. If anything, the story is a bit too old school for its setting. There is an empire opposing a commonwealth, and even cold war is not an idea that fits well in a plausible interstellar future. Helicopters and other military gear also seem more near future than deep time. Even the medicine is not far from what we have now. But on a certain level, the story of the sadder-but-wiser agent still works, so the story is readable if you can suspend your disbelief.… (meer)
 
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Tom-e | Jun 15, 2020 |

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Werken
10
Leden
271
Populariteit
#85,376
Waardering
½ 3.6
Besprekingen
5
ISBNs
12

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