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Starship Freedom

Starship Freedom, Book 1

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Starship Freedom

Von: Daniel Arenson
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The starship Freedom is just a museum ship...until the aliens attack.

The starship Freedom was once a mighty warship. Today, she's a tourist attraction. The space wars ended long ago. The Freedom is now a flying museum; the tourists love it. The Changing of the Guard, the starfighter aerobatics, the starboard cannon salute...it's the best show in the galaxy.

James King commands the starship Freedom. He hates his job. He was a real soldier once, back when the Freedom was a real warship. He never imagined himself running a tourist trap. Right after Christmas, he plans to retire. Then, on Christmas day, the aliens attack. Horrifying aliens. Creatures of claws, fangs, and endless malice. Within hours, they devastate Earth's military. Millions die. So much for retirement.

The aliens spare the starship Freedom. After all, she's only a tourist attraction. But not to Commander King. He will get his beloved starship battle-ready. He will enter the fight. The Freedom will fly to war again!

Battlestar Galactica meets Starship Troopers in this sci-fi adventure from Daniel Arenson, the USA Today best-selling author of Earthrise.

©2021 Daniel Arenson (P)2021 Podium Audio Militär Science Fiction Space Opera

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The premise of the story is interesting and could have been great but sadly falls flat in the actual implementation. The plot is basically BSG, almost too much so but in my opinion with enough differences that it is it's own story. The world building is interesting, although leaving some questions, the tech and characters too. And then the problems started. Maybe my disappointment is based in the fact that I was searching for military scifi, which in my opinion this is not. I think for true military fiction, scifi or otherwise, there should needs to be a certain realism, both in the action and how the military in question functions. Scifi may take liberties and make some differences but they need to be logical. In the end, I didn't find that here. The author has a company defending a fortified base, the company commander having previously met the alien threat, knowing first hand how hard they are to kill and even taking measures to study the corpse of one of them. And then his defence strategy is to have all his men grap their rifles and man the walls. In this future, a infantry company apperantly has no heavy weapons section, no long range fire capabilites, no marksmen, not even squad automatic weapons. They don't plan fields of fire, no close in defence, no fall back points, just "Hold the walls lads and give them hell". Sorry, but unless it is explained why they choose to do away with the last few hundred years of development in infantry tactics and equipment, it comes across as the author not knowing even the basics. And that doesn't bode well for a military fiction story.
Besides that, there is too much pathos and hero worship for my taste. That has its place and I love it if done well but here it wasn't. It reminded me too much of how hollywood or the average action game portray the military. And did the human bad guys really need to be a caricature of communism, described as so absolutely horribly evil without even one ounce of nuance? That trope is really tiring.

All in all, I cannot recommend it, not as military fiction and not even as a middle tier scifi novel.

Good premise but a disappointing story

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