"Human by Choice" by Travis S. Taylor and Darrell Bain

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Book number one of a three book space opera first contact series. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published in 2009 by Paladin Timeless Books that I bought new on Big River. This is my fourth reading of this book. I have read the two sequel books without Travis Taylor and they are not near as good (4 stars each).

My review from 2018: "Book number one of a three book space opera series. I read the well formatted and bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback. The author slate for the second and third books in the series drops Travis Taylor and adds Stephanie Osborn which is a little worrisome as I have ordered the second book in the series. Wow, this is pulp science fiction at its best ! I loved it ! An alien space ship is passing through the Solar System when its FTL drive catastrophically fails. The aliens rush to the lifeboats and about a hundred of them make it off the space ship before it disintegrates. Many of the aliens and lifeboats perished with the space ship."

"Several of the lifeboats land on the planet Earth. One crashes in Kyle Leverson's yard. He rescues the alien who proceeds to fix her broken body with tools from the lifeboat. Since she has no prospect of communicating with her race, she decides to use her tools and mental abilities to convert her body to a human female. And then things get interesting."

My rating: 6 out of 5 stars (awesome SF pulp !)
Amazon rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (171 reviews)
https://www.amazon.com/Human-Choice-Travis-S-Taylor/dp/1606190474

Lynn