A review by cdaetwyler
The Alexander Inheritance by Gorg Huff, Paula Goodlett, Eric Flint

2.0

I very much wanted to like this; I'm fond of the authors, and the concept is cool. But it just felt like it badly needed another pass of editing and revision. Too many dropped narrative threads that didn't go anywhere yet, too many conversations where people reached conclusions without any apparent means of getting there... it felt a little too much like the characters had already read the forum discussion about the planning of the series.

Also, while the one point where a couple of the uptime characters make a homophobic joke didn't really bother me overmuch, it was clearly not meant maliciously and was in character for their friendly banter, but it did make it all too obvious that somehow this ship of 5,000 people had no visible queer characters.