Abraxmed's Full Review: David Weber - Mutineer's Moon: Mutineer's Moon
Um yeah basically the premise to the book is that the Moon is a space ship. If that sounds too stupid for you, well don't read the book.
Anyway here is the foundation as to why the Moon is a space ship. There was this great galatic empire that way almost destroyed by a race of aliens known as the Aku'Ultan. The humans of the empire fought the aliens off and rebuilt their empire. The empire's entire reason for being was to destroy the next attack by the aliens. Earth happened to be between the aliens and the humans. So they send this giant space ship named Dahak to stand look out. There used to be a moon where the Moon is. But they destroyed it and used the surface as camoflage for the space ship.
When Dahak got to our system there was a mutiny. The survivors got stranded on Earth. There the struggle continued. This was all fifty thousand years ago. The Human race descends from these stranded space farers. About thirty years in the future the main character, Colin MacIntyre, is a pilot for NASA. He flies around the Moon and gets captured by Dahak. He becomes the first captain of the ship in 50k years and gets all sorts of bio enhancements. Dahak tells him that the Aku'Ultan are coming back and he has to help him.
Colin goes back to Earth and makes friends with the "good guys" from the mutiny. They defeat the "bad guys" in a nuclear war that makes WWII look friendly. Than they go about setting up reconstruction plans for defeating the Aku'Ultan. That's where the sequel comes in and talks about new technology, or old depending on how you want to look at it.
If you are looking for great characters and a good plot well maybe this isn't the best book for that. Pure space opera. The plot is kind of stupid and the characters are predictable and sometimes annoying. The best character is the space ship Dahak, but he isn't in most of the book. The bad guy, Anu, is really stupid and unrealistic.
If you are looking for a book that won't make you think at all than this is the book for you. Also if you are waiting for the next instalment in the Honor Harrington series and want some filler. The sequell is much better than this one. It reminds me more of the Honor books than this one does.
Weber is good at sci-fi action, but his characters are always cliche. At least there are no Tree Cats in this series. That is a huge bonus. His technology is usually interesting and he doesn't drown you in it this time around. In the first three Honor books it felt like he was trying to show you he went to college for physics. I personally didn't care and his hyperspacial theory got a little heavy at times. This is much more pulpy than the Honor books, if you can believe that, so the science is too a minimum. Again if you want a simple page turner this isn't a bad choice.
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