Ep.#3.2 - "No Risk Too Great" (The Frontiers Saga - Part 3: Fringe Worlds Book 2)

Another amazing read. Boy, oh boy, if you like these books, they just keep getting better and better. Highly recommend.

I love this series. Mr. Brown is a very good writer and I’m not. Lol. I’m not very good at writing reviews so I’ll make this brief. I have read all the series except the ones concerning the plague that started the whole thing. I eagerly download the books almost as soon as they’re released and enjoy them tremendously. I have resisted until now the urge to say anything about this because these stories exudes quality in such abundance that I hate to say anything that seems like nit-picking, but I wanted Mr. Brown to know that using the word “wonder” is good in that a person wonders about something, but to spell “wander” as “wonder” doesn’t work to say that a person or a ship “wonders around the galaxy. The person or ship “wanders” around the galaxy. I hope that I haven’t insulted anyone’s intelligence here.Way back in part one where the Aurora was in a battle where light minutes and such were used to describe seeing an enemy ship was light minutes ahead of them and so on, I questioned the math. It didn’t seem to be possible because of the speed of light being what it is. I don’t know enough about that sort of thing; put it this way: I know just enough to know when something doesn’t sound believable, so I let it go as in movies or books, anything is possible, especially science fiction. I just figured that in that world of fiction, the Aurora had the technology to make that sort of thing possible.This idea is why I don’t read much hard science fiction. It’s also why I stopped reading much of Arthur C. Clarks books. He believed that the speed of light was absolute and wrote his fiction stories accordingly. If a space ship in his stories had a destination hundreds of light years away, the crew had to “long sleep” ‘til they got there or it was a generation ship where the descendants of the original crew settled the planet at their destination. These types of stories were always well written and entertaining but I grew tired of them because they seemed so limiting. I much prefer Mr. Brown’s type of stories where anything is possible and is made believable. The key to reading science fiction is the suspension of disbelief. They’re FUN to read. It makes a person wish such things were really possible.On another topic, I love the original series and Next generation Star Trek, but the one thing I could never find myself disbelieving was their shields protected them from energy weapons but not projectile type weapons such as photon torpedoes as depicted. There were a number of other technologies as well, but the suspension of disbelief kicks in to cover them. Entertaining as all get out. Well, so much for being brief. Lol

I have read all of the Frontiers Saga books so far, and I eagerly anticipate each new book Ryk Brown adds to these series. The characters are well written, and the action is always compelling. I always end up skimming paragraphs because I am so caught up in the action, I want to know how it gets resolved.Very light spoilers ahead!It's no secret from the previous book that the Aurora moved forward in time, and in this book we slowly learn how much time has passed. This revelation effects the crew in various ways, and they need to find a way to live with it. Not only is the Aurora damaged and stuck on a planet, their technology and knowledge are woefully out of date. They need allies, but not only that, they need a purpose. Captain Scott has to decide what to do, once they learn that the Alliance he fought so hard to create in the previous series appears to not be what he envisioned. There are also wrongs being committed out in the Badlands that they find themselves in, that the moral part of Captain Scott has a clear pull to try and right. This book starts to lay in what's next for Captain Scott and the rest of the Aurora personnel. Along the way, they meet some familiar faces that are out of place, centuries after Captain Scott knew them.I do have two minor quibbles about this book. First, there is a war that is described where "trillions of lives" were lost. That number is so big--trillions--that it does stretch credibility. Not only that, but in just a few hundred years, the human population of the galaxy seems to have completely rebounded.Second, I do have some trepidation that Mr. Brown might be falling into the "Evil A.I." cliché with this, part 3 of the series. A.I. are great at things like handling targeting of a missile that needs to hit a specific target seconds or even a few minutes later, but how good can an A.I. launch a missile today, to hit a specific target an hour from now? Or a day? Or a year? The probability quickly approaches zero, so the idea that an A.I. can put together a multi-year strategy, and execute it flawlessly, is laughable. Speculative Fiction is full of near-omniscient A.I that are never wrong, only for a band of plucky heroes to overcome all the odds to defeat the A.I. and save the day. Barf! I do hope Mr. Brown does not fall into this trap, but I calculate a 95% probability that he will. Of course that still means there's a 5% chance that I am wrong. Let's see if I'm as good as a near-omniscient A.I. or not.

The good writing continues. Thrown not only into distant space but the future, the series comes with a while new setting for the crew to explore.

Once again I'm brought into a new, yet familiar story. The good shows itself well. Interesting throughout. Thanks Ryk!Man,, I love this saga.

Lots of unanswered questions. But it looks like many of Nathan’s team are getting back together 535 years in their future. I will look forward to the next in the saga.

I found Ryk searching Amazon for something new, and was not disappointed. At first, it seems a bit juvenile, until you realize the author created such powerful characters they seem almost comical. Then, five books later he ties a detail hinted at earlier, and you get shown the depth hidden all along.I will continue reading Ryk's most excellent tales with great pleasure

I try really hard to not keep track of when a book in this series is about to come out so its always a welcome surprise when it arrives. If you have been following the series from the beginning you feel like you are visiting with old friends as Nathan, Jessica, Cameron, Josh, Loki, Vladimir and so many more bring you up to date with what's happening in their lives.We get to meet new characters and even some old ones in this book and as always it leaves you wanting more pages to turn!

Can't wait to see when the Aurora will finally be space worthy again, and Nathan and crew can start the real work of creating a better world, because that's what they do.

Ryk has done it again despite the agony of waiting until the next episode to come it is a thrilling and exciting story that constantly keeps you on your toes waiting for the next plot twist. The characters are all great and the continuity of the story is exceptional.

Continuing good story.

Really enjoyed the action in this book, and were it starts to take this new season, a great read, cant wait for book 3

Episode one was setting up the new and quite different place our favourite crew finds itself in, and very well done. This book starts with finding out about the part of the universe they now live in. And there is a lot to learn. They find some allies but it's not clear how much they can trust them. Then disaster strikes and they have to venture into places uncertain to save the life of a friend. Lots of risks, Jessica has some of her characteristic moments. Loved them, as always.Then suspence rises to top level, I had some time biting my nails. And then! You gotta read those final pages, simply amazing! I absolutely loved it.