I would love to see a review of this series in Freelance Traveller;
unfortunately, it's going to take at least a year and several re-readings
before _I_ could do it justice (you don't want to know how many times I
read the Jao Empire series before writing my review of _The Course of
Empire_).

Nevertheless, this is a book that I would think most Traveller fans would
enjoy: While I don't see Walter as another K.D.Wentworth when it comes to
alien creation, I do feel that the zor, as portrayed in this series, are a
good answer to the Campbellian Challenge*.

There is also a lot of other setting material that will resonate with
Traveller fans; one could easily see this as an Alternate Traveller
Universe. The story as told is at the epic-influence level, similar to the
dire goings-on of _The Lord of the Rings_, though spanning several
viewpoint characters and about a century of time, rather than being a
single person's quest.

The series is available in print from Amazon, and in e-book from Baen
Books. Titles in the series (in order):

   1. The Dark Wing
   2. The Dark Path
   3. The Dark Ascent
   4. The Dark Crusade

* John W. Campbell, as editor of Astounding, is said to have challenged his
authors to "Write me an alien that thinks _as well as_ a man, or _better
than_ a man, but not _like_ a man." A successful answer to this challenge
also answers the common challenge to make one's aliens _not_ be "humans in
rubber suits", a challenge that really has to be considered to be failed by
the Vargr and the Aslan in Traveller, though not necessarily by the K'kree
or Hivers.

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