no prob Dogscoff. I am being quite honest here, I really do like it. Kinda remainds me of a Michael Connelly/Simon R. Green mix. (Connelly wrote the Harry Bosch detective novels, and Green of course wrote the Deathstalker series.)
You have a good grasp on characterization, without being too 'wordy' as my English proff use to say. I've written some stuff in the past but it is mainly Fantasy, don't have the 'science' for sci-fi to come across as believeable. (that and my grammar and spelling usually sucks
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