L. NEIL SMITH - HENRY MARTYN & BRETTA MARTYN

SMITH, L. NEIL. HENRY MARTYN. R. YET ANOTHER SAILING THE STARS BOOK, I WISH WE'D STAYED WITH 'HENRY' MORE OR AT LEAST FOLLWED ALL HIS ADVENTURES INSTEAD OF SKIPPING THE MIDDLE AND WATCHING HIS EVIL BROTHER SO MUCH. BUT A GOOD BOOK, IDEAS 8, STORY 7
WRITING 6. Reread 20060818. that was neat, but perhaps a bit overly brutal? Still quite, fun, and yes should have stayed more with 'Henry' and less with the villains, but that's my nitpick with POV and not necessarily a fault of the story. rather think it's more an 8 this time there was a lot of invented modified language, but I 'got' it more this read. Loved the archaic Walther .22 and the old Lego style of building! amusing fun bits. but the story freedom vs. governance of empire underlying theme is still a good one.

SMITH, L. NEIL. Bretta MARTYN. sequel to Henry Martyn. R. 20060821. very libertarian, and it shows in the luna colony. not quite as good as Henry, not due to story, but due to sequel, spent quite a lot of the beginning - felt like over half recapping (and revising) the 1st book, but it was all telling little showing. Once it finally took off - when they took off, it when quick and was quite fun. A bit less rape and pillage, lots of adventure & pirates at war. anti-slavery, pro-self government. a 7.