Here's what I've read this week:
1) Tour of the Merrimack: The Myriad/Wolf Star by R. M. Meluch. Read another chapter in The Myriad. The UN earth politicians in the book are as nerve racking as the real one. Chapter 8 had LEG (League of Earth Governments) gave the commander of the Merrimack flack for staying at an alien's home world in a globular star cluster. The Merrimack was on a Bug hunt for the Hive, an alien life-form who likes eating other organic races. The UN pols have trouble dealing with the fact that Hive can't be reasoned, they'll wind up on the lunch menu if they interfere too much....
2) Proxima by Stephen Baxter. Yuri Eden and his family go to Mercury from Proxima c. His wife decides to become an astronaut again. She takes her daughter back to earth. Yuri can't go home because of the show trials of the Heroic Generation and their heirs. Eden would wind up being punished again if he headed back to earth. He chooses to go back to Proxima c the way he came through the alien gateway. Stef, an engineer, joins him in their return trip to Proxima c...
3) The Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob Drury. The Marines endure more encirclement and besieging as the battle takes its toll on Fox Company's effectives. Enough to move a grown man to tears...
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