sigelphoenix

What I find interesting about his use of the straight white guy as his main character in Hunted is that he avoids the trope of white/male-person-coming-to-save-the-day. Festina and other Explorers are more competent than him in many ways, and he doesn't (thankfully) become king of the Mandasars. He has an important role to play (of course, being the main character) but he isn't the one who saves everybody. I think that's cool.

I'm confident in Gardner doing his homework, but I have absolutely no way of verifying that when it comes to his science. Most of it just whooshes over my head. ^^;;;

Okay, I guess I must have been mixing Edward up with someone else, because I could have sworn I got warned about one of Gardner's protagonists (not Fullin) being a little annoying. Ah well.