Note: This is not a stand-alone book. If you're interested in this book—and you should be!—you're going to want to read
Trajectory Book 1 (New Providence)
first.
I'll copy this directly from my review of Trajectory book 1: Robert M. Campbell has created a fabulous story of exploration and survival on (and off) Mars. Unlike many other Mars-centred books I've read, his science is rooted in the here-and-now, with small, but entirely plausible, bits of science fiction thrown in, like fusion reactors. There's no artificial gravity here, and no warp drive—which makes the peril these characters are in all the more real. Think the seafaring yarns of the past, with timeframes in weeks and months, not seconds.
Book 2 picks up *directly* after book 1, which I'm thankful for, as I wanted to find out what happened to all these characters, about whom I've started caring dearly. A lot more character development happens in this book, particularly in the first third; unfortunately, I found that a little bit of a let-down after the action-packed climax of book 1. Book 2, however, picks up *greatly*, and I found myself once again unable to put down the book once I'd reached its climax.
Like the first book, this book doesn't wrap up these character's story, or the story of the colony of New Providence on Mars. If you're anything like me, you're going to want to continue on to the third book,
Seedfall: New Providence Series Book 3
. That's exactly what I'm off to do after submitting this review!
(Disclaimer: Robert M. Campbell is a friend of mine, but I bought this book with my own money, and wrote this review unasked.)
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John S
Excellent
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Interesting but dislike the run-on narrative style.
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