Monday, February 1, 2021

Odyssey by Jack McDevitt

Rating: WARTY!

Priscilla Hutchins isn't even a pilot in this one - she's an administrator and the book focuses on a different pilot whose main qualification, it seems, is that she's 'beautiful'. Interest in space travel is waning (despite a deadly omega cloud with Earth's name on it?!) and so Hutch is fighting that, and a mission is launched to try and figure out what these 'UFOs' are that are being spotted out in space. They're named moonriders for no good reason, but why is the novel called Odyssey? In Omega, the clouds are called Omega clouds, so the novel is called Omega. Not here I guess. Anyway, this new pilot drops monitors to discover what these moonriders are, yet they apparently can't drop monitors to watch the omega clouds, one of which is barreling down on Earth?!!)

The story made little sense and is perhaps the most boring of the series that I read.