"Odyssey" is part of the series The God Machine And it shows. The first quarter of the book is just to put the reader in the right frame of mind and makes you wonder more than once if you've made a mistake and already read this book.
Another quarter of the book is devoted to budgetary policy and to giving a very simple and basic opinion on marketing and public relations, which could easily have been dispensed with.
Some of the protagonists are the same as Omega, Chindi and Deepsix, although more mature as time has passed. This time they have to find out the truth about “the moonriders”, spaceships that appear near systems close to Earth and that threaten some of the human constructions outside the planet, among which is a particle collider built in the orbit of a planet outside the Solar System (obviously, they have technology that allows them to travel through hyperspace and therefore, to be located anywhere in the galaxy in reasonable times)… as in most of the works in this series, the book ends without it being clear who the visitors from another world are.
One part that is interesting is the one that talks about Space Tourism and the balance between research budgets and sources of income derived from Space Tourism.
The book is okay, but it's not one that hooks you.
