![]() ![]() ![]() To top it off, my copy (dated February 2016), while readable, could do with better editing, with spelling and grammar errors every few pages.Ĭolumbus Day will work for many, but it didn't hit the mark for me. The already-messy story also takes a turn for the worse, venturing through a wild tonal rollercoaster of pew-pew action sequences, space battle pirate hijinks, and frustratingly one-dimensional geopolitical nonsense. com (Columbus United States) ping response. We’re a collaborative community website about the Expeditionary Force series by Craig Alanson that anyone, including you, can edit. Perhaps they are in the sequels, but his abrasive character doesn't entice me to find out. 88 Newly Added Alien Gear Holsters Rapid Force Level II Light Bearing Mid Ride. His constant barrage of snark, while certainly successful as comic relief, repeatedly journeys into the unbearable, and despite apparently being a god-like intelligence, his indiscretions are inconsistent and never explained. ![]() I was introduced to Columbus Day via Skippy, but what I found was not a highlight of the story, but an inexplicable deus ex machina ( machina ex deis?), with no apparent character other than ‘he's an arsehole until he's not’. Critics rave about Skippy, but I must disagree. Joe Bishop is hiding from technologically-advanced aliens, then he's a Starship Trooper, a several page description of military technologies follows, and then not much happens while Joe does farming and slice-of-lifey things with a side of political intrigue. Columbus Day doesn't quite know what it wants to be. ![]()
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