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The Sagittarius Command (Tour of the Merrimack #3)

Description

After the finest battleship-class spaceship in Earth’s fleet, the U.S.S. Merrimack, rescues a near-space Roman world besieged by a destructive alien life-form known as the Hive, the Romans’ leader, Caesar Magnus, insists on honoring the ship’s captain, John Farragut. But when Caesar is assassinated, Farragut must lead a mission into the heart of Hive territory in search of a Roman who has been presumed “dead” for decades.

Reviews

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-09-01
Summary: "Just can't stop myself..."

Third in the Tour of the Merrimack series, Sagittarius Command brings new sub-plots to light while remaining faithful to the overarching storyline. The characters remain dependable and true to their "roles", as well do the general constructs of this particular "space opera". I think the science gets further-fetched and the storyline flounders a bit here and there, but overall, this is another solid and entertaining read. I don't think it's one of the "greats", but it's definitely another fine installment in an engaging series, and I just couldn't seem to put it down.

Something I've missed the opportunity to remark on in my two prior reviews (of this book's predacessors) is how the "silent" or dormant Roman culture sub-plot is kinda neat. Meluch uses this in different ways, such as to type cast certain characters, making them caricatures of themselves, thus outlining some irony or truth. At other times, she takes a brief moment to graze the surface of some very true and interesting historical fact about Roman or human history, and thus keeps prodding the reader with the underlying idea that this is part pulp, but also written by an educated woman who knows her history.

A brief look at the author's bio reveals her scholarship with regard to Roman history, and it's no wonder she has incorporated this sorta neat-o idea of a dormant Roman culture persisting through and beyond the modern day. It's part "enemy among us" and part Da Vinci Code or Freemasonry-type conspiracy. Like I said, the supporting factoids make it all believable enough. For instance, ever wonder why Latin has persisted? Sure, it's a dead language ... but in the Church? In law? In medicine? ...all rapidly changing entities these days, yet medicine adopts techno-speak rather slowly. Law remains so cryptic that lawyers have trouble reading it now ... Perhaps there's a sub-culture; a hidden influence left over from Ancient Rome biding it's time to rise again...perhaps by exodus to our first colony planet... I know, it's a little formulaic, but the basic idea is still plausible enough (if the Da vinci Code is, it is) to sort of make you grin and buy in...

I begin the next book shortly, and I have high hopes for Strength and Honor, the final installment of John Farragut's Merrimack, and all the characters I've grown fond of thus far. With any luck, Colonel Steele will bag the cutie for good this time, the space monsters will die, and Earth and Roma Nova can make nice and be friends once it's all over...or maybe not! :-)

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-03-06
Summary: "Pretty Good Stuff"

Suspend disbelief and let yourself be dragged along by the fast flowing story. It's an enjoyable yarn but not up the likes of Niven or Weber. I could do with less interplay between the characters and more space battle but your tastes will vary.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2009-03-25
Summary: "Interesting plot; too many distractions"

This book offers an interesting, although implausible storyline concerning a futuristic conflict between the USA and an apparently stealthy Roman Empire. You will likely enjoy it if you don't mind incomplete sentences. Apparently the editor couldn't be bothered to fix such problems.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2008-12-15
Summary: "Some frustrating qualities . . ."

Let's start with some excellences of this novel. I thought the imaginary world of fleet action during a future war was very convincingly done. The Gorgons -- an extraterrestrial enemy -- were well rendered, and were rather frightening. Some of the battle scenes came through as high-excitement, and enough action was supplied to maintain the tension and interest throughout.

There were some aspects of the book I found very wearisome. The commanding officer, who is also the book's protagonist, was a caricature of a military officer. His deep-South accent was larded on with a spatula, and I got deathly tired of the "Y'all" and the rest of it. As well as another "southern" trait -- this officer going about the ship addressing every subordinate as "son." Unfortunately, I'm quite familiar with the U.S. military and there used to be quite a few officers like this-- fortunately, most of them have died off.

Many of the space-going Marines in this novel are also caricatures -- just cardboard cut-outs. Meluch's Marines are illiterate, potty-mouthed, and rather vulgar types who seem to love rushing forward into danger and getting themselves killed. They represent the author's "notion" of what combat arms military are like. But, just as in real life, illiterate people who have never read a book in their lives are not very interesting people. They quickly get boring. The endless four-letter words are no more interesting on page 250 than on page 50. In other words, "it gets old pretty fast."

I will say this. With all this boilerplate, I still managed to read through to the end. So the book's draw and pace must be powerful indeed.

Might not be a bad book to bring along on a transcontinental airplane flight. Just be sure to leave it on the seat when de-planing.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-09-22
Summary: "Great SCI FI book"

This is the 3rd book but you could read this one first and be fine. I would read all three books if I was you. Well worth your money.