Zero Hour
- 299
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Zero Hour” leaves the Merry Band of Pirates without the AI that usually rescues them, a change some readers credit for the best volume so far. With a stolen ship failing far from home and Skippy apparently dead, the crew must solve its own problems. Some lose interest during the space battles. Light in tone, it is the fifth book and assumes the earlier ones.
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About the book
United Nations Special Operations Command sent an elite Expeditionary Force of soldiers and pilots out on a simple recon mission, and somehow along the way they sparked an alien civil war. Now the not-at-all-Merry Band of Pirates is in desperate trouble, again. Their stolen alien starship is falling apart, thousands of lightyears from home. The ancient alien AI they nicknamed 'Skippy' is apparently dead, and even if they can by some miracle revive him, he might never be the same.
Reading order · Expeditionary Force
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 192 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 57% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 192 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Zero Hour?
It has 299 pages — shorter than 81% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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