My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2701526809">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br />
MERCENARY CALLING is an exciting and engrossing science fiction novel which has everything going for it. I adored the characters (even the bad guys have their points and comprehensible rationales), the settings are wondrous, and the science fiction aspects inspire me to blast off into space myself. The story is really encouraging, inspirational, and hopeful. Earth's first interstellar voyage has resulted in the discovery scientists have hoped for over decades of searching the skies: a compatible planet to Earth. So a colony of volunteers remains on the newly-discovered planet, Elysia, and the spaceship returns in triumph. Unfortunately, the victory parade turns very ugly (although that makes for an explosive reader's hook) and the protagonist and his friends quickly show their good character by leaping into the fray. Attorney Calvin, employed at the U.S. Department of Energy, the very individual who exposed copyright and proved that a private corporation has the legal right to build a spaceship--not just a government--is quickly offered an opportunity which may make his career, or destroy it. Really, there's only one choice, and Calvin makes the right decision, propelling this novel along at light speed. I couldn't put it down and I expect it will soon become a re-read.
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