Book Review: Echoes of Earth (The Orphans Trilogy #1) by Sean Williams and Shane Dixs (three stars)
“Aliens on one side, spies on the other. That’s not much of a choice. I’m glad it’s you and not me who has to make it.”
A different sort of first contact fiction. Well done. Everyone seems broken and at odds, then things get worse.
“You are aware of the need for caution in the face of new technology. If you follow our guidance, you will be safe.” As the psychologist said to the laboratory rat, he thought.
Hard science fiction of a most speculative sort. Gratuitous profanity. Religion-based profanity doesn’t ring true so far in the future. Talk about your apocalypse.
‘If, as the [redacted] had suggested, there were hostile races out there, looking for victims, it would be dangerous to announce one’s presence quite so readily as Earth had once done.’
Begins a series but manages a satisfying conclusion to this book.
‘Not even the promise of immortality could take the sting out of getting older.’
As a Matter of Fancy 