"Currently reading" should actually be "read" since this is a completed story, the fourth in a series about the protagonist pair.  Although this story isn’t in my top all-time favorite list of web lit, I enjoyed enough that when I realized it was the fourth story, I went back and read the first one and skimmed the second one.  Not because I had to, since the author does a fairly good job of keeping you up to speed if you’re reading it as a standalone, but because I was sufficiently engaged to want to read the backstory myself.

This is an easy-to-read scifi tale set among spaceships, stars, post-apocalyptic civilization and a few conspiracy theories and shady business deals.  The protagonists are an expert Explorer who’s personal integrity makes him firmly opposed to genetic slavery . . . and his kinda-sorta-not-really-like-that-anymore genetic slave.  Consider this is a recommendation that you go read the whole story in all four installments, because if you end up liking the adventures of Captain Alex Marcase and his Sha’erah, Evan, you’ll enjoy reading the whole tale from the beginning. 

The story is well-written in a technical sense, and solidly entertaining.  I didn’t find myself swept up in the moment with the characters, but I was certainly engaged enough to want to know what happened next.

This story doesn’t wrap up every single loose end for the protagonists, so I’m hoping there will be at least one more Alex and Evan story in the future.

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