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@beorn@starside.social I was late to get to this series in my stack, so I’ve been able to read them all in timeline order, including the shorts. So good!

I love these interstitial short stories, taking place between the much larger novels in the Galactic Cold War novels. They give a quieter chance to spend time with a character, learning more about them and seeing how they think and act outside their team. They also serve to give us fuller glimpses of places only mentioned in the novels. And, purchasing them felt like I was tipping Dan directly, beyond what he made from his publisher for the novels. He deserves that for a job well done.

Competing teams of spies on a luxury interstellar cruise ship owned by a mob boss, all trying to possess what might be the first discovered alien artifact. Action, intrigue, believable science fiction elements, and characters I care about. I'm already sad I have only one more book to read in this series!

Competing teams of spies on a luxury interstellar cruise ship owned by a mob boss, all trying to possess what might be the first discovered alien artifact. Action, intrigue, believable science fiction elements, and characters I care about. I'm already sad I have only one more book to read in this series by @dmoren@mastodon.social!

A fun little time travel story filled with all the usual tropes but also some new weirdness mixed in to keep things interesting, beautifully told and illustrated.

A fun little time travel story filled with all the usual tropes but also some new weirdness mixed in to keep things interesting, beautifully told and illustrated.

Really enjoyed this! Moved right on to the next book.

For a first book by Dan, I can’t find any faults. Maybe, if anything, some of the conversation and setting descriptions are a bit cheesy but not distractingly so. The characters are literal world building are compelling and I’m diving right into the next one. I’m only giving this one four stars to give me room for five stars for the rest of the series.