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Updated: Just had to correct a typo. Pretty good book. I found it amazing how many slow spots there managed to be in an adventurous military science fiction novel. Drew me in held my interest pretty well. We get to follow the prince and his guard troop through subsequent volumes in this series. i fou......more

Travel to distant lands, meet strange and exotic native peoples, and kill them.That's military science fiction for you, although in this case it also is the slogan of the Bronze Battalion of the Empress' Own Regiment. After terrorist sabotage, Prince Roger MacClintock and the Bronze Battalion space m......more

This book is a fairly standard example of military scifi complete with overwhelming odds, alien villains and allies, and a space empire. Roger is the tertiary heir of the Empress and notorious as a spoiled dilettante more interested in clothes than people. From the beginning of course we recognize t......more

What a gripping series this was/is for me. I love the premise, a young spoiled prince, stranded on a hostile planet with few resources, must make his way toward a hope of escape. While at the same time growing up and maturing, both as a man, and as a leader. 05/05/17 re-read: So good, like visiting......more

I had trouble getting into this book, and even considered abandoning it early on because it wasn’t holding my interest. However, I did become more interested in it as things progressed. The story is that a group of space marines are escorting a prince to an event on another planet. The prince is the......more