I would always recommend reading (or listening to the narrator is excellent) the book yourself either first or in tandem with your child and speaking with them about any ambiguous content that comes up. As Kc Merrill mentions, it does have some language, violence and sex, but I did not find any of it to be gratuitous likely it is tamer than what our internet-age children are exposed to on an all-to-regular basis. Tim Martin As the father of three children and a United States Army vet, I would say that, yes, Columbus Day is a good read for a 14 year old with an interest in …more As the father of three children and a United States Army vet, I would say that, yes, Columbus Day is a good read for a 14 year old with an interest in military science fiction. We shouldn't even be fighting the Ruhar, they aren't our enemy, our allies are.Īlternate Cover Edition can be found here.more
So, I went from fighting with the US Army in Nigeria, to fighting in space.
The UN Expeditionary Force hitched a ride on Kristang ships to fight the Ruhar, wherever our new allies thought we could be useful. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn't win.
Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, This is a previously-published edition of ASIN B01AIGC31E. This is a previously-published edition of ASIN B01AIGC31E.