S. Andrew Swann
Revolutionary (1996)
Hostile Takeover #3
Reviewed: 1996-12-08

After Profiteer and Partisan, this is the third and closing part of the Hostile Takeover trilogy, a 1990s space opera with touches of cyberpunk, nanotechnology, and transhumanism. Essentially, the series is a fluffy but thoroughly enjoyable adventure story.

The plot continues where it left off in the previous novel: The cities are under siege, the communes are destroyed, Bakunin is about to fall to the Confederacy. A new player is revealed in the twisting maze of intrigues, and while the pieces of the puzzle fall into place it is up to Dominic Magnus to undertake a last desperate attempt to save Bakunin's independence, and to find his personal destiny along the way.

In the end, Swann manages to wrap up most threads in his grimly realistic fashion, although a few strands are left dangling. Readers of all too clichéd space operas beware: at the end of this book, not everybody will live happily thereafter. A fitting completion of a trilogy which has retained its pacing and kept the reader's interest from beginning to end.

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