Into the Void

More background for this series, with not a lot of action. We continue to build up characters, bring them together (one major character stows away), and establish background political tension with refugees and an area of space known as the Gauntlet.

Onward! So far this series definitely reads like a large book that could have been edited down into a single volume but that was instead chopped into pieces and sold separately. I suppose that's not a bad way to make money -- it's faster to write, faster to edit, and creates more units for fans to procure.

I love the cast of characters that Pater David has assembled and I think the situation into which he has dropped them has a lot of potential. However, I'm not overly enthused by the current format of the series, with each book running directly into the next, much like a comic book series. While I certainly have no problem with continuity between books, I would like more of a complete story in each novel, rather than just another chapter in a continuing serial.