Falling Stars
 Michael Flynn
  (Sr. Staff Reviewer - D. H. BROWN)
 2001 TOR Books
  ISBN: 031287443X


In the early years of the 21st century, there has been a massive worldwide financial crash & politics is hindering any recovery. Meanwhile humanity has advanced into space & through constant monitoring, discovered some asteroids that have changed their orbits & are now headed for Earth.

The matriarch of the vast space industry van Huyten family sets about preparing her considerable resources to reach the asteroids with the idea of either destroying or diverting them.

Meanwhile there are others with their computer & security expertise & dedicated pilots & space travelers to get on board even as the political movers & shakers throw obstacles in everyone's way.

Senior Staff Reviewer D. H. BROWN writes:

Since discovering Michael Flynn & his book In The Country of the Blind I have been following this author's body of work. With every one of his new books I feel like I have discovered an author I can trust.

His characters & characterizations & the story lines he puts forth ring true. Like someone who has been there, done that & is came back to tell me about it. Though his body of work to date is not long his potential seems to grow with each new project he brings to fruition.

Over the years my experience with authors, especially within the Science Fiction genre, is that they are hard pressed to keep a train of thought from book to book & yet allow each book in a series to stand on its own. Michael Flynn does this grandly!

Whether it's a year between books or two, when I pick it up I am enthralled & engrossed immediately, & it keeps me turning the pages, wanting to find out what happens next.

Falling Stars is the final book in his Stars Series which brings together a dream for the human race & its stepping out of the cradle with the hard realities & political necessities such dreams must really face. Anyone with children knows that first steps bring bloody noses & so it is brought to life in vivid color in Flynn's writings.

I think if anything characterizes a Michael Flynn book it's about hope & first steps & that's what keeps me coming back when I see his name on the spine of a book.

I would have to say that since my years of reading Robert Heinlein I have yet to find an author that has drawn my attention more than Michael Flynn. He takes a very messy world view, scrambles it up with a host of characters & their very messy lives & brings a clarity to the struggle. I really like that!

So take my word for it! Go hunt Michael Flynn up in your library, bookstore or Amazon.com & sit down & be entertained!

More from Michael Flynn: In the Country of the Blind, The Nanotech Chronicles, Fallen Angels(with Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle); Firestar, The Forest of Time and Other Stories, Lodestar & Rogue Star
(01/06/02)

David
A RebeccasReads.Com Sr. Staff Reviewer

Reviewer's Bio:
D. H. BROWN is the author of the critically acclaimed HONOR DUE and the Citizens Warrior Series. The son of missionary parents and with the help his Uncle Sam, he has touched base in more than 40 countries.  In 1986 he produced the independent children's film Lessie's Rainbow.  During the late 80s and early 90s, he wrote the book Common Sense and delivered the seminars of the same name for the Community Action Network of Seattle (CAN).  While doing his early Vietnam recovery work, he counseled Veterans and spoke widely to men's groups in Washington state, and was a founder of The Lodge of the Wolf.

D. H. BROWN has worked as a Logistics and Weapons Specialist in Viet Nam; day laborer; Director of Security; Armored Car Driver; Police Officer; Professional Hunting Guide; Trapper; Dog Sledder; Homesteader; Truck Driver; General Contractor; Minister; Editor; Writer; Speaker; Restaurateur; Movie Producer; Antique Restoration Specialist; Personal Care Worker; PC Repair Specialist; Computer Instructor; Webmaster and Web Designer. "I write about what I know."

He lives deep in the Pacific Northwest rainforest with his wife, author and editor Rebecca and Buddy Dog, working on his next book.
Visit him at: www.dhbrownbooks.com