Spacers, Part 4
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Narrated by:
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Mark Boyett
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By:
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Scott Bartlett
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The war they'd all feared
The star cluster's super-powers tried to make peace last. Truly, they did. But everyone knew war between Ascendant Horizon and the Coalition of Giants was inevitable.
Saddled with an alliance that seems to struggle with the basics of space warfare, Captain Thatcher must fall back on his tactical prowess—along with the steadfastness of the crews under his command—just to keep his people alive.
But an enemy lurks around every corner, and there is dissension even in Thatcher's fleet. What's more, he knows there are only two ways this war can end.
In victory, or in total defeat.
Spacers, Part 4 contains Book 7: Fleet Action through to the end of Book 8: Dawn War.
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- Stan Oldfield
- 28-06-2023
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- Cam
- 25-03-2025
This series has the worst ending of all time.
It's as if the author had no idea how to finish it off because it all became too hard. Right at the climax of the story, at the end of book 10—where the protagonist and the villain finally come face to face, all cards on the table—it just ends and jumps straight to an epilogue, where nothing is explained, and everything is all roses and happiness.
In fact, the author even went so far as to add an author's note at the end of book 10, begging forgiveness due to bad feedback from early readers.
You would get more satisfaction from slowly digesting in a sarlacc pit for a thousand years, with your eyes open and full of dry desert sand, than using them to read these books, given the absolute cop-out of an ending. It's as if the author is an insane Lex Luthor who delights in destroying the reader’s hopes and dreams for the main character—who comes so close to closing his character arc and redeeming himself, something that had been building for several books—only to have it all skipped over because the author ran out of ideas right at the end. He even admits as much in the tacked-on, aforementioned author’s note.
The fact that the author seems happy he didn't have an editor to "pander" to is almost delusional. If there had been an editor or publisher, this book would never have seen the light of day with such a supreme letdown for the reader at the end.
Never has a main protagonist been treated so unjustly, cruelly, and without care.
[SPOILERS AHEAD]
The most completely obvious ending would be for Middleman's presence at the end of time to be the wildcard that Moll didn’t expect, as Middleman’s prior duplicates had never before accompanied Captain Thatcher. This would have also bonded these two characters together—whose relationship, throughout all the books, was one of the more interesting ones, yet never seemed to have a real purpose.
Thatcher, realizing that he had been duped once again by the omnipotent Moll, should have made some sort of voluntary sacrifice (enabled by Middleman somehow—perhaps using some clever time travel gimmick he learned during the story), giving up his lifelong (10-BOOK-LONG) dream of reuniting with his wife and son in order to save humanity. This would be the ultimate selfless act if he had learned about the possibility of returning to them while visiting with Admiral Wilson. Then he gets a satisfying and completed redemption arc, triggering the time reset. Perhaps this act also teaches the Xanthic about humanity’s compassion, preventing us from attacking them in our far future, their past, breaking the causality feedback loop, by proving Moll wrong in front of them. Perhaps Moll is forced to see that this way, he also gets to reunite with his dead wife, which he had forgotten about long ago, being thousands of years old by now.
Then, the author could have jumped to the epilogue as written, and the fact that the Xanthic are now peaceful would actually have a logical reason—which is much better than just "BECAUSE…"
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