Stratagem - BookWyrm

Paperback, 213 pages

English language

Published June 20, 2017 by Haikasoru.

ISBN:: 978-1-4215-8497-3

In the thirty-sixth century, humanity has conquered the galaxy and colonized countless star systems. The Galactic Empire, modeled along Prussian lines, and the democratic Free Planets Alliance are at war, and the fate of every human being in the universe

In the thirty-sixth century humanity has conquered the galaxy and colonized countless star systems. The Galactic Empire, modeled along Prussian lines, and the democratic Free Planets Alliance are at war, and the fate of every human being in the universe hangs in the balance. This classic Japanese space opera, adapted into a legendary anime, is finally available in English for the first time.

Remnants of the high nobility, manipulated by the third power of Phezzan, abduct the seven-year-old Emperor and, with the cooperation of the Free Planets Alliance, declare the establishment of a traditional Imperial government. Reinhard, however, has turned the tables by making a secret pact with …

In the thirty-sixth century, humanity has conquered the galaxy and colonized countless star systems. The Galactic Empire, modeled along Prussian lines, and the democratic Free Planets Alliance are at war, and the fate of every human being in the universe

In the thirty-sixth century humanity has conquered the galaxy and colonized countless star systems. The Galactic Empire, modeled along Prussian lines, and the democratic Free Planets Alliance are at war, and the fate of every human being in the universe hangs in the balance. This classic Japanese space opera, adapted into a legendary anime, is finally available in English for the first time.

Remnants of the high nobility, manipulated by the third power of Phezzan, abduct the seven-year-old Emperor and, with the cooperation of the Free Planets Alliance, declare the establishment of a traditional Imperial government. Reinhard, however, has turned the tables by making a secret pact with Phezzan high officials, and plans a grand invasion of the Alliance by way of the Phezzan Corridor.

So begins an epic battle to the death between Yang, who despite surmising Reinhard s true intentions must defend Iserlohn, and the Imperial Army s peerless fighter, von Reuentahl."

1 edition

Fulminata reviewed Stratagem by Yoshiki Tanaka (Legend of the Galactic Heroes, #04)

Review of 'Stratagem' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Like the previous volume, this one also starts slow. Unlike the previous volume, it never really picks up. That's because this is the first volume in the series to not be a self contained story. It sets up the conflicts to be explored in the next volume.

Also, the entire series suffers from a problem that I haven't mentioned in my previous reviews, and which was more apparent in this volume: failing to follow accepted norms in formatting the dialogue. Generally, if there is a conversation, and the speaker changes, then either the new speaker should be identified, or there should be a paragraph break. In this series there are both paragraph breaks where the speaker doesn't change, and changes in speaker within the same paragraph. Both in cases where the speaker isn't directly identified! I'm guessing that this is a failure in translation, and that the Japanese original follows …

Like the previous volume, this one also starts slow. Unlike the previous volume, it never really picks up. That's because this is the first volume in the series to not be a self contained story. It sets up the conflicts to be explored in the next volume.

Also, the entire series suffers from a problem that I haven't mentioned in my previous reviews, and which was more apparent in this volume: failing to follow accepted norms in formatting the dialogue. Generally, if there is a conversation, and the speaker changes, then either the new speaker should be identified, or there should be a paragraph break. In this series there are both paragraph breaks where the speaker doesn't change, and changes in speaker within the same paragraph. Both in cases where the speaker isn't directly identified! I'm guessing that this is a failure in translation, and that the Japanese original follows proper norms for written Japanese, but that the translator is being too faithful to the original and not making it more readable in translation.

These two issues combined caused me to lower my rating on this volume in comparison to the previous three volumes.