A cool idea—an international naval fleet from 2021 is transported back in time to the Battle of Midway in WWII—is made dull by being a zillion pages long and full of stock characters and constant POV shifts. This is another “Man” book—overly lengthy and much more interested in the technical specifications than in the people. It’s the first volume of a trilogy, but I found it such a slog that I definitely won’t be continuing.