The Unincorporated Woman was a little bit better than the last book, but not really by that much. This one had much better space battles and action and less of the politics of the world. There was more annoying religious stuff in this book and I mostly ended up skimming a lot of the paragraphs that talked about religion since they were incredibly boring. The space battles were exciting and there was plenty of action. The unincorporated woman as a character is just as flat and boring as Justin Cord was. Not much of a character like most of the characters in this series. I don't think much about Sandra O'Toole, she just seems like another character to have the other characters worship since she is from the past and oh so smart. I think she is kind of annoying in that she definitely thinks she is better than everyone else in the story. I actually do like JD Black quite a bit and think that it has been interesting seeing her develop throughout the series. She's the only character with any real substance, a little less flat than the others. I am hoping that things end well for her. This book was better than the second book since I felt that stuff was actually happening, I wasn't just being told that stuff happened. In the last book, it felt like there was a lot of discussion and theory and not a whole lot of action until the very end. I am getting bored of the war just dragging on and on with no end in sight, but I am hoping that it gets wrapped up fairly quickly in the next book. I would like to see the end of the war and then the rebuilding of society in a way that makes everyone happy. I also want to see Hektor get what he deserves. I am also hoping that Justin Cord is found and comes back to life but I am not sure that will happen. I liked Justin for all that he was a flat and boring character, he is the whole reason for the world being in an uproar and it seems cruel to kill him and then have that be it. Overall, 3 out of 5 stars and I really hope that the last book is good, since right now I am sort of wishing that I hadn't wasted my time reading this whole series and ended after the first book.
Not a bad book, and I am enjoying the series. I did encounter two things that broke my suspension of disbelief: interplanetary craft don't "stop" or "turn back" in space, as anyone who lived through Apollo 13 times ought to know; and anyone who writes about nukes in space ought to remember that there is no atmosphere to carry a blast wave (you DO get an explosive effect as surfaces facing a burst heat exceedingly rapidly). For other effects (e.g., ionizing radiation dose attenuating only by distance) see pp. 46 to 48 of "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons," third edition (1977, U.S. Department of Defense and ERDA), which talks about extremely high air bursts.
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Third "Unincorporated" continues the war between corrupt Corporate Earth/Mars civilization and the more loosey-goosey asteroid/outer planet culture. As the titular woman took almost a quarter of the book to get unfrozen and on track this seemed slow to start, and the space battles have ships stopping, turning around and like howlers. Still, it's a grand space opera with great characters---and Sandra's encounter with the Avatars in Chapter 6 is alone worth the price of admission...one of the finest moments in any SF I have ever read.
—John
So we are not quite there yet, but almost. Like the last book, this one has some very thought provoking moments. It also has some epic space battles (oh yeah? let's see what my orbats (Orbital Batteries) have to say about THAT!) Mostly though, it is a story of an amazing woman. I would say that Dani Kollin is pretty amazing at creating positive female heroes. I can't say that I have ever read anything approaching the level of character development in a woman hero than what he has put out there. In a lot of ways, he doesn't treat them any different. They are people and that is it. But there are some nods to their uniquely feminine qualities like a softer side that is hidden from the general public. The only flaw I can see seems to be that the women heroes (Sandra and JD Black etc.) never get laid. Sure Janet got laid in the first book, but that was basically a different person. That was before she became JD Black, the most feared woman in the solar system. On the other hand, the male heroes like Ohmad and Justin can shag all they want. Not really a complaint, just an observation. So in for a penny, in for a pound, on to book 4 where hopefully we can bring things to a conclusion.
—Dan
