However, the blood of many stains his hands, and there are plenty of secrets just waiting to catch up to him. We are then introduced to Aden Robertson, a Gretian soldier who has just finished serving his prison sentence and would like to return to his homeland and find some quiet place far away to settle down, to forget about being in the losing side of the war. Though things do seem to be improving ever-so-slightly, the planet remains teetering on the edge of political, economic and social collapse. The story takes us to the Gaia system where an Earth-like planet by the name of Gretia is recovering from an interplanetary war, its people existing under the occupation of their conquerors. Marko Kloos is one of the few authors still standing by the genre and its methodical ways, and with his novel Aftershocks he marked the beginning of The Palladium Wars trilogy. They require a good deal of concentration and dedication to be fully enjoyed from start to finish, qualities increasingly rare in a world with an ever-declining attention span. Authors don’t really write epic science-fiction stories like they once used to.
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