Joe Zieja

This book has been sitting on my personal TBR pile for a very long time, mostly because I didn't care to start a trilogy when I couldn't get easy access to the follow-up books. Even though, at the time, I was really interested in reading an old-fashioned send-up of military service. Be that as it may, our protagonist, one R. Wilson Rogers, is mostly a competent slacker on the make who finds himself "reactivated" for active duty, only to find that the lackadaisical space navy he "served" in has gone stark raving mad, and is ostensibly gearing up for war. Rogers' efforts to get to the bottom of this state of affairs is what drives the plot, and the funny parts are very funny. However, the absurdity is layered on a little too thick at times. Still, I liked it enough to carry through and look at the rest of the series.… (meer)