![]() Right near the beginning of the novel, there was a little bit of futuristic jargon being thrown around, but this quickly gave way to minimalist yet entirely adequate descriptive work that gave a good impression of the military installations that Butler visits while allowing his investigation, questioning and assessment of suspects to take centre stage without distraction. By his arrival, though, I was completely engrossed and found the pages flying by. I was a little put off at the outset when I found that it would be a five month journey for the Colonel Butler to reach his assignment, after all this was supposed to be a top-priority, highly sensitive mission. ![]() ![]() Despite the far-future setting, Michael Mammay gives us an accessible, realistic story with a cast of very authentic-feeling characters. ![]() Colonel Butler is pulled out of semi-retirement to investigate the disappearance of a counsellor’s son on Cappa Three, only to find his investigation resented, blocked or undermined by the local military hierarchy. Set around two millennia in the future in a society of planetary colonisation and terraforming, ‘Planetside’ is Michael Mammay’s debut novel of mystery and conspiracy against the backdrop of a prolonged planetary war. ![]()
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