To The Last Page

I had some reservations when I read Shattermoon , the first part of Dominic Dulley’s SF adventure series The Long Game. The first book was by no means lacking action and incident, but it became a little repetitive in its chase sequences, racing from one battle, trap and escape to the next one. Despite its off-world setting, it was more like a Bond espionage thriller and rather short on science-fiction background detail. There were however indications that the relatively small-scale personal adventure of Aurelia ‘Orry’ Kent and her colleagues might open up as the prelude to a huge interplanetary war. We perhaps aren’t quite at that stage yet, but Dominic Dully has fleshed out the series considerably with Morhelion , and the future looks even more promising. I still had some reservations going into Morhelion however and the opening wasn’t particularly promising, seeming to open with nothing more than a reprise of the first book. Having narrowly averted a major war, Orry and the small cr...