The Lost Command. Book II Of The Lost Starship series.

The Lost Command by Vaughn Heppner
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

The Lost Command. Book II Of The Lost Starship series.

The hard science subjects here are:

Genetic Engineering.
Long and short-term interstellar travel.
Imprinted engrams AI.
Ancient alien artifacts.

Same topics as book one. One thing I did observe. The expansion of the human race. This has also been the topic of many science fiction stories. Once there was a way to achieve FTL colonization of exoplanets that are Earth-like the human race will unite to get to space then go on their separate ways. In this book, you can see this covered. So far I have noticed socio-political systems. You have the "commonwealth", "Wahabi Caliphate", "Brahma" and others.

These systems make a grandiose effort to keep their culture religion and belief systems. We run into the Axiom: " the more things change the more thing stays the same"

Of course, you have a genetically engineered new species of human called the Newmen they have created a culture and anti-religion of their own. Where did they come from? what is their purpose? I am reading book 3 to find out.

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