One transport touched down in a Maine, United States town where Army sergeant Joe Bishop happened to be visiting on leave. But for some inexplicable reason, they didn’t just rain fire from orbit. Columbus Day will leave you binging the whole series before the day is over.On Columbus Day, an alien race named the Ruhar struck Earth. I would also recommend this novel if you are a fan of military fiction, space adventures, and just looking for an overall good story. Overall, if you are looking for a sci-fi space adventure, then I would recommend Columbus Day. Even with Skippy doing a lot of the critical technical aspects of the operation, this doesn’t slow the momentum down. Once you get over that significant speedbump, the story smooths back out into military space action. I have since gotten used to Skippy helping Bishop and other human soldiers. I felt this dialogue was unnecessary to the overall plot. The author then forces us to read a game of “Pete and Repeat” about everything we had learned up to this point. I feel like the author hit a roadblock in the story and created Skippy as a way to get the story going again. However, my opinion of the story took a dip when the author introduced Skippy, an all-powerful AI built by ancient beings many millennia ago. I mean, they blew the hell out of it, those soldiers must have had something against potatoes.” – Craig Allison, Columbus Day So, logically, the Ruhar lobbed a missile at the most imposing structure in the area, the potato warehouse, and took it out in impressive fashion.
“Soldiers are soldiers, whether they have fur, skin or scales.
Later, we learn Bishop felt guilty for not being able to check for injuries on the enemy. When the Ruhar first attack, Bishop and a ragtag team of military friends abduct one of the enemy soldiers to get intel on the enemy, and one of the other enemy soldiers got hurt by debris. I like how the main character is telling his story like he’s talking to ordinary people, all of the lingoes is explained, and he explains various types of strategies and the pros and cons of each.Īnother thing I enjoyed about Columbus Day is how the main character relates to the enemy as well as their allies.
Luckily Columbus Day explains all of the jargon and military slang. I don’t usually read military fiction because the author can forget that not everyone reading their books may not know all of the military terminologies. I have been looking for a sci-fi novel that involved first alien contact that didn’t leave the reader with their nose stuck in a military dictionary trying to figure out what was going on.
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