Another continuation of the classic Piper story. And though the author states he followed the tradition of Piper you might wonder and go reread Piper to see if every bit of a dialogue was as long winded, as Wehr has his character talk.

Each character pontificates rather than talks, and that is a problem as the entire story is made up of long paragraphs. A disservice to us as readers, and improperly formatted as well for dialogue. This is probably the errors of a new writer.

There were few other typos but still a series of unbiased editors would help with the authors craft. Plot and story wise there are only a few holes, such as the use of time and decision making. A problem Piper avoided by taking years for Trask to catch Dunnan. Here things are moving faster with action, resolution smart chess like decision that is thinking three moves ahead.

Not something that every side is capable of. And with the villains ability to recruit so easy and acquire great fleets so quickly, clearly not well thought out. (SPOILER-By my count, the good guys have destroyed a third of all ships available to the bad guys in the old Federation by the end of the first book and this is just one little bitty slice of the old Federation, where it would take many more times as long to gather such a fleet then we have covered in the tale.)

So aside from that, things do move forward, the tale is interesting, not riveting, and slightly better than average. Worth a second read, and with a lot less formatting problems then the John F Carr continuation. Still whose will be the best vision of Piper's Terro Human Future? ( )