{"id":1232,"date":"2016-05-13T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:35:54","slug":"admiral-launches-a-promising-new-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/admiral-launches-a-promising-new-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Admiral<\/em> Launches a Promising New Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"admiral\"<\/a>Admiral<\/a><\/em>
\nSean Danker<\/a>
\nRoc Books
\nHardcover $26.95
\nebook $7.99<\/p>\n

I’d like to thank Ace\/Roc Books for the review copy of Admiral<\/em>. \u00a0It was a fun space opera. \u00a0I’m looking forward to further installments in this new series.<\/p>\n

The unnamed narrator is the last of four people to wake up on a damaged freighter that’s stranded on an unknown planet. \u00a0The other three people are all graduates of one of the Imperial military academies.<\/p>\n

It quickly becomes obvious to them that our narrator is no admiral, even though the ship’s computer confirms he is an admiral. \u00a0The Evagardian Empire has just won a war with another power, and one of the graduates (who happens to have the highest rank among the three) thinks he’s a spy.<\/p>\n

But they’ve got other problems. \u00a0The freighter’s crew are dead in an airlock. \u00a0They don’t know where they are. \u00a0The freighter has no power. \u00a0The planet is not suitable for human life. \u00a0Their air supplies are limited. \u00a0And they keep hearing sounds from other parts of the ship, as though something is moving.<\/p>\n

The characters are well developed and have their own personalities. \u00a0There’s some depth to them. \u00a0Danke handles their interactions well. \u00a0One of the graduates is the first daughter of a minor noble family. \u00a0Pay close attention to the conversations she and the narrator have and think back to them while you read the last chapter. \u00a0They take on a somewhat different context then. \u00a0I also liked how the narrator and the ranking graduate start out as enemies and end up as teammates as they struggle to stay alive.<\/p>\n

Things keep going from bad to worse. \u00a0One of the things I most enjoyed was watching the admiral use his wits to keep everyone alive. \u00a0There’s some good old fashioned sf problem-solving going on here.<\/p>\n

The story reminded me at times of Alien<\/em>. \u00a0That’s a good thing. \u00a0There were several scenes that were completely creepy.<\/p>\n

Finally, one of the things I found most refreshing was the lack of graphic content. \u00a0While Admiral is clearly written for an adult audience, there was nothing in it that would make me hesitate to give it to my 14 year old son (provided I can get him out of his not wanting to read phase). \u00a0There was no profanity, sex, or graphic violence. \u00a0It was a nice change from the grimdark stuff I’ve been reading for the last few months.<\/p>\n

In the end, Admiral<\/em> was a lot of fun. \u00a0I’m looking forward to the next volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Admiral Sean Danker Roc Books Hardcover $26.95 ebook $7.99 I’d like to thank Ace\/Roc Books for the review copy of Admiral. \u00a0It was a fun space opera. \u00a0I’m looking forward to further installments in this new series. The unnamed narrator is the last of four people to wake up on a damaged freighter that’s stranded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[788,816,759],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-opera","tag-roc-books","tag-sean-danker","tag-space-opera"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-jS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}