Odysseus Awakening (Odyssey One)

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Evan Currie: Odysseus Awakening (Odyssey One) (2017, 47North)

320 pages

Published Dec. 12, 2017 by 47North.

ISBN:
978-1-5420-4847-7
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This book badly needs an edit. It's frustratingly difficult to read and stay immersed in the plot.
Repetitions of words that stand out as repetitions are repeatedly repeated in some of the more repetitive paragraphs. We're treated to bracketed three-letter-acronyms (TLAs) even when they are never subsequently referred to that way. We're an audience of military science fiction fans and we have HUD explained to us.

Oddly, when I was about 20 pages in, I had to check when this was written, because I had the impression it dated back to the 60s or early 70s. Some of the technology used made me check the copyright date and I was very surprised to find it was published so recently. I'm not saying this is a flaw, because I'm quite a fan of SF from that era, but it makes a modern book feel clunky. A couple of examples:

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