A review by smiorganbaldhead
The Bacta War by Michael A. Stackpole

3.0

(Minor spoilers.) A fun book, with more focus on space combat that I enjoyed. Still it felt like Rogue Squadron took unrealistically light losses. I think the final battle would have more impact and sense of danger with more significant character deaths. A nitpick I have with this book is its discussion of distance. Corran and Isard exchange several lines of dialog before her shuttle can travel 1 km to where it can go to hyperspace. Even real-word jet airplanes can fly 1 km in a few seconds, and real space craft can travel that far in just a fraction of a second. There are other similar issues, but this one was the most glaring. Obviously I don’t expect Star Wars to be hard SF, but that struck me as silly.