Rouge Clone: A fast paced story about why "big" boats are a bad idea.

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	• Rogue Clone Steven L. Kent Ace, 2006 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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Good followup, good yarn.

Good followup, to the original, the next one is as good I hope. If you like s-f action, this is for you. Even has some thought on free will and thinking for yourself.

Second installment in "Clone" series

"Rogue Clone," the second of a series, picks up the story of Wayson Harris, a clone especially adopted for warfighting, who we first met in "The Clone Republic." There, Mr. Kent's readers were treated to an efficient tale involving military strategy and tactics.

In this followup, after a thankfully brief admittedly tacked-on prologue to bring readers unfamiliar with the first book up to speed (obviously the suggestion here is not to skip that first book), we again meet Harris, now engaged in security and espionage--a role he will play for most of the tale.

Some of the characters from the previous novel return (notably the bounty hunter Ray Freeman and Admiral Klyber), and some new ones are introduced. It's a fine well-planned, well-plotted professionally done action thriller that doesn't waste time with setups. The mayhem begins right after the prologue and keeps going right to the end of the book.

Mr. Kent obviously wants to entertain his readers, and does quite a good job of it. So why four stars and not five? As in the first book, some readers may object to the fact that while the book is set 500 years in the future, except for the "broadcasting" of spacecraft, the tech seems next year, not something a half-millennium down the line.

Naturally, as this is a book in an ongoing series, the ending here is slightly less than satisfying, as Mr. Kent uses his final pages to set things up for the next episode. The third in the series, "The Clone Alliance," has already appeared, and a fourth, "The Clone Elite," will have appeared, Amazon says, in October 2008.

Notes and Asides: Sunrise would not come at 8:00 a.m. in Hawaii in late March (if at any time of year in a state so close to the Equator); if one is "nonplussed," one has not remained calm when receiving disturbing or surprising news--quite the reverse, actually; people have "dour" expressions on their faces, not dower "expressions."

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Rouge Clone: A fast paced story about why "big" boats are a bad idea.

Wayson Harris is one of the few remaining clones of his kind. He is a liberator clone, bred for fast reflexes and a clear head in a combat situation he is conditioned toward violence and taking out the enemy as fast as possible. His class of clone also does not have the built in death reflex that kills all other clones when they find out what they are, he also is not as conditioned to be blindly loyal to the UA and patriotic as other clones. This has earned Harris a fair share of enemies both in the military and the other feuding factions of the six galactic arms. This book picks up a few months after he was "killed" defending a remote outpost from a admirals secret genetically engineered soldiers. Harris is summoned by his mentor and creator fleet admiral Barclay and is charged with finding out who is spying on his secret project ( a enormous state of the art battle ship) and leaking information to others in the military. Meanwhile the galactic civil war rages on with the separatists getting bolder and deadlier with each attack. Soon the pivotal battle will be reached and the UA will find out why they should have paid attention in history class...
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This is the second book in the series and it is not really necessary to start with the first one if you happened to pick this up first. The author does a pretty good job of summing up what happened before so the reader is not completely lost when starting from page one. This is definitely a fast paced scifi book that starts off with a bang and doesn't really slow down until near the end when the main characters starts to have some issues with his programming. I haven't read the first book yet but I'm hoping that it and the next book in the series is just as good. Would recommend this to anyone who likes fast paced scifi with a little different premise on what happens to clones when they no longer serve their creators.
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Rogue Clone

Death, destruction, mayhem. Alliances are made and betrayed. Kent continues on with a galaxy being run with the limited intelligence of man and mans' most terrible creation, Wayson Harris, Liberator Series Clone; outlawed by the UA.

What a fun series to read, very enjoyable.

No death reflex! No Peace!

Flawed, but still enjoyable

Two years after the first book, THE CLONE REPUBLIC, ends, Wayson Harris is still unofficially working for Admiral Klyber, the man responsible for making him. The action starts on the planet New Columbia, where Harris is checking out the claims by a local thug that he has information on a renegade general who has gone over to the fanatically religious Mogats who are in rebellion against the United Authority. Things start with a bang, or rather a terrorist bomb cum murder attempt on the thug. And it moves quickly on to Harris attempting to keep the Admiral safe during a summit meeting, and infiltrating the Mogat/Confederate Alliance and all-out war against the UA and Earth.

The author speaks of having a bit of trouble starting the book, and I agree that he doesn't have the smoothest ability with working in information that the reader needs to know while trying for an action-packed opening. He's tacked on a Prologue that explains the basics of the military clones and the UA and the Mogats and Confederates, etc., but then goes on to repeat most of it here and there without added information. The explanations were sometimes too brief, leading me to wish for evidence of more in-depth world-building. Some aspects of the history and society seemed a bit strange and improbable without further information.

So the beginning annoyed me a bit, but the action and adventure of the middle of the book quickly caught me up and I really enjoyed it. The ending, however, was also a bit weak and anti-climactic.

Overall, I still liked this book and would be interested in reading more, despite the flaws.

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Earth, 2512 A.D. Humans have spread across the six arms of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Unified Authority controls Earth's colonies with an iron fist and a powerful military-a military made up almost entirely of clones. But four centuries of relative peace are about to be shattered...

Lt. Wayson Harris is one of thousands of clones born and bred to be the ultimate soldiers. But unlike the others, Harris is an outlawed model-one with independent thoughts and an addiction to violence.

Presumed dead after his troops were massacred, Harris-who blames the U.A. for the slaughter-has gone AWOL as a bounty hunter. Still, it's hard for a clone to overcome his conditioning, and Harris finds himself drawn back into the U.A.'s service by his mentor and creator, Fleet Admiral Bryce Klyber.

Now, with separatists rebelling throughout the galaxy, the fate of the U.A. depends on Admiral Klyber's plans for the Doctrinaire-the largest, most powerful battleship ever constructed. But there are those who would do anything to stop Klyber, and Harris must decide whether he should fight against them...or work for them.

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