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Entertaining and Thought Provoking

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2019

Starship Mine is another brilliant work of Peter Cawdron. This book explores first contact with extraterrestrial life and the selection of who they would choose for first contact. Peter's characters are relatable and provide not only an enjoyable read, but the opportunity to explore one's own thoughts about biases.

I appreciated the storyline being written to share that a family goes beyond traditional viewpoint. Peter shares the emotions and struggles that can be found within any family structure. He also extends the possibilities that are available to us, if we are willing to challenge preconceptions that are based around fears of the unknown.

Peter,
As I have ready many of your books, what I find most compelling is your diversity of story and voice. With each book, I am introduced into a new world and thoughts patterns that cause me to reflect. Your books are a great combination of entertaining and thought provoking.

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Rayfer

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2020

I like this author, but this book (somewhere between a short novella and a long short-story) just goes nowhere. It's engaging in the beginning but it ended abruptly, with little explanation as to the what's and why's things happened as they did. It was more a heartfelt tale about the difficulties of being openly gay and the effects of poor parenting on foster care children who finally find family when placed with a loving gay couple than about the unfolding science fiction story.

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Rayfer

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2020

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Tlbremer

Really stupid

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2021

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No good science, more of a poor soap opera, gave it two honest stars but considered one. Deleted from my kindle.

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spaddriverdavis

Not my kind of SCI FI

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2017

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I normally dont write book reviews as over the years I have determined I have a style I like and dont think its fair to judge on my style. However I found this book to be one that took me four tries to finish since I wanted to give it a chance.
I just could not find a reason to keep on reading after four or five pages.....children always crying, vomiting in church a big deal, a world of rings, stars etc. The final killer for me was the alien being a small girl, once he sees the aliens he gets a screaming fit...then he comes back to earth and gets a lobotomy..............not my idea of what I like in a book.
I guess Im a Dune kind of SCI-FI reader and this kind of soft Sci -Fi just does not make it for me.................plus almost $8 for 78 pages????

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Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2020

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Not so great sci fi

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Bryan G

Climaxes but then instantly fizzles

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2016

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Extremely disappointing after an interesting start. The story climaxes with first contact with aliens, but then instantly fizzles, as if the author got bored and decided to wrap things up as quickly as possible.

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