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Mini-review: Damocles by S. G. Redling is a First-Contact drama, done well. In this case, the aliens are the humans, a team of six sent off into deep space to look for... well, we know the drill.

Redling concentrates on the trials and tribulations of learning to communicate with an entirely unknown and unknowable group/society/culture, and she does a good job of pointing out some likely mistakes and errors that would crop up in this kind of venture. While a relatively short book (for me, anyway), the length is appropriate, and though this is obviously a one-off novel plotwise, it would be interesting to see her revisit one or more of the characters in a future book.

The formatting of the ebook was good, and I found but a single error in the entire reading, which is a nice change.