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A review by davidpaige
Duel in the Dark by Jay Allan
4.0
I wasn't sure at the beginning who to root for.
Part of what I liked in the book is that the ships were unshielded. Laser and particle beam weapons produced damage on the ships. I also liked that when approaching at .2C, the encounter would be very short, and certainly with damaged engines, it takes hours to slow enough to turn around for another pass.
And while the battles weren't in real time, they seemed to me to take a (somewhat) more realistic period of time to happen.
Part of what I liked in the book is that the ships were unshielded. Laser and particle beam weapons produced damage on the ships. I also liked that when approaching at .2C, the encounter would be very short, and certainly with damaged engines, it takes hours to slow enough to turn around for another pass.
And while the battles weren't in real time, they seemed to me to take a (somewhat) more realistic period of time to happen.