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Dexta
Dexta
Date: 14 April 2011, 05:18

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Writers from Gore Vidal to Harry Turtledove has observed that empires are run by the bureaucrats. Until now, no galactic empire story has picked up on that idea. "Dexta" does so in an almost hilarious fashion, featuring not just bureaucrats, but highly charged, highly sexed, super bureaucrats, the least of whom has more power than any platoon of Imperial Marines.
Eponymous Dexta is the Department of Extraterrestrial Affairs, overseeing more than 2,600 worlds in Man's empire. Gloria VanDeen is the Emperor Charles' ex-wife, now a low-level Dexta Sector Supervisor making a name for herself independently. She is, of course, stunningly beautiful, sexually overpowering, highly intelligent and quick on her feet. She uses each and every one of these attributes -- some, arguably, to excess -- in accomplishing her mission.
That mission arises when one primitives on one of Gloria's planets suddenly sport, and use, AK-47s (tribute to "Guns of the South"?). Charging off to investigate, Gloria encounters a predictably intertwined plot to -- well, you'll just have to read the book. The "what" isn't all that important, anyway, there's no serious effort to create a real mystery. The fun is how it all gets sorted out.
Ryan's writing is very fluid and vivid. Most star empire novels are quick reads; this one is like mercury. Unlike most writers in this sub genre, Ryan unapologetically refuses to invent new technology. What makes this book great is that it's fun. And the author clearly had fun with it too -- there's no sonorous, self-conscious writing here.

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