This one was too "hard" sci-fi for my taste. I don't care for space novels where we all have to wait 30 minutes for light to catch up to us to see what occurred 30 minutes ago. Plus, there seemed to be a lot of political elements included- not interested in that. I also don't like names with apos...
Loved the story and the action. Book 2 takes off where book 1 ended. After the successful battle at Arcturus Koenig is at it again this time bringing the war to the hated Sh'daar and its numerous allies: Turusch and the Hrulka.I've started to like Ian Douglas' writing style. Book 1 and book 2 ...
Summary: Good old space opera military SF. Good plot, good universe, well written, thoroughly enjoyed this one. The only real problem is that their is a rather obvious and fatal flaw which must be overlooked for everything to hang together.Plotline: Good plot well thought out with action all th...
It's... ok.This book starts to make good on the strife building at home on Earth but it's a bit clumsy. Overall it's repeating a lot of the same themes the books have already gone through and doesn't feel like it expands any long term plots enough to add as much as it could or should to the seri...
I didn't enjoy this book as much as some of the other books by Douglas. I thought there was too much philosophy and not enough story. The author did make his views on organized religion well known. When the story was going it was pretty exciting but it was slow in between. The other thing was tha...
I enjoyed this book much better than the first book in the series. Still the plot is a little predictable and the ending felt a little convenient. Also the only character that got any development was the main character which made the story one dimensional. Of course I was not looking for a great ...
When called to do battle many light years from home, the 1st Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit rose to the challenge -- and now thousands of enslaved humans have been freed from the alien yoke. But Earth is twenty-one years older than the home planet they originally left, and the Marines nee...
In the future,earth's warriors haveconquered the heavens.But on a distant world,Humanity is in chains ...Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a res...
The Year is 2040.The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets of an ancient and dangerous alien race: Ourselves.Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startling evidence of an alternative history that threatens to ...
The revelations on Mars -- a half-million year-old legacy of the vanished star-traveling Builders -- have fed the flames of catastrophic war. A beleaguered United States and its Russian and Japanese allies struggle to hold their own against the indomitable forces of the enemy United Nations. The ...
John F. Kennedy Solar orbit, 4.2 a.u. from Earth 2002 hours Zulu Captain Jeremy Mitchell entered the officer’s wardroom with his tray and walked toward the only occupied table. Gone were the days when the other officers present stood until he was seated; the JFK’s officer’s mess was patterned off...
—Admiral Lord Nelson ca. C.E. 1805 The weapon was called sempu, "whirlwind," and it was built into the hull of some warstriders as a close-range antipersonnel measure. Often it was set to fire automatically and indiscriminately, when any moving target came within range. A 40mm shell disintegrated...
A line of Grdoch were advancing across the meadow in an open formation, moving slowly but steadily toward the gap blown in the perimeter wall. “We’ve got to buy our people some time!” she told the others. The escaping prisoners had only just slipped through the gap. ...
in the future?” Sara Gutierrez, America’s skipper, was as shocked as Gray had been. “How is that even possible?” Gray had called a hurried meeting of the command staff, the team linking in through their in-heads. “Same way Koenig’s task force ended ...
Janis Fremantle was saying. “We’re getting reports that Marines are actually dropping off the tactical scans, as if they really are teleporting someplace else. Somewhen else.” “And Zephyr doesn’t think the Xul are doing it?” Garroway asked. “Oh, the Xul are involved somehow. All of our Zephyr pen...
Allyn’s voice snapped across the squadron’s communications link. “New orders coming through! Stand by for drop!” Gray watched the tactical feed downloading into his in-head display. Three alien ships of unknown design were racing toward the carrier battlegroup almost head-on. America had been dri...
Lance Corporal Phil Chaffee said, “is the Xul have a weapon, a machine of some kind, that eats your soul. . . .” “Bullshit,” Garroway said. “That’s squad- bay rot- brain bullsession bullshit.” Four of them—Garroway, Chaffee, Sergeant Milo Huerra, an...