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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780061238581
ISBN number: 0061238589
Label: Eos
Manufacturer: Eos
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 400
Printing Date: February 01, 2008
Publishing house: Eos
Release Date: January 29, 2008
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Planet by planet, galaxy by galaxy, the inhabited universe has fallen to the alien Xul.
Now only one obstacle stands between them and total domination: the warriors of a resilient race the world-devourers nearly annihilated centuries ago . . .
A power vast, ancient, and terrifying, the mighty Xul have lost track of the insignificant humans hundreds of years after devastating their home world—which has enabled the United Star Marines to operate unnoticed and unhindered. A near-autonomous intergalactic policing force, they battle in defense of an Earth they may not live to see again. Now, following the trail of a vanished twenty-fourth-century transport, they are journeying through an unexplored stargate to the edge of an unknown galaxy many light years from their sun. For the last, best, and only chance to defeat the tyrants of the universe may at long last be at hand . . .
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Being a former Marine was really the only thing that brought me to find this book. While not a big sci-fi reader once I started it, this book hooked me pretty good. Lots of attention to detail especially the way Marines think and operate. Add to that a pretty good story with some action and I was reading away. I will read other books now by Douglas Ian and perhaps this will change my feelings about the genre as a whole.
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Another great book in the long line of Ian Douglas. You should start with his very first books since they follow the same time line and family. Worth the money.
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I real yawner.
I read the very first six books in these three sets of Trilogies, and there were some good books that came out of this series, but I've completely had it with this series now - I basically tossed this book in the trash at Page 225, when the author names "Global Warming" as a #1 issue in mankind's history - above even the Xul threat whereby the Earth was basically WRECKED! ...even when the author had never mentioned "global warming" as any kind of real issue before in the series... it makes me sick when these SciFi authors pander to their peer group, and manage to work this garbage into their books... how can I believe a SciFi author's "predictions of the future", when they believe in superstitious future "ghosts" today?
The fact is, these books always had a problem with character development, and this entry is no different. There is simply no way to relate to any of the characters - with which you are never given an
explanation what they look like, or who they really are... and the re-using of the same family names over and over again, centuries and centuries later is ridiculous.
Additionally, the technology has "advanced" to the point that I can't relate to it at all - at least in the very first few books, the technology was completely believable and perceivable... At this point in the series, I'd just as soon the Xul show up and destroy mankind, it would be very merciful.
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I recall reading Semper Mars some years back and not being very impressed. I don't know what has changed, but I devoured this one and I'm working on doing the same for all the rest. I bought and read all the Heritage series and blasted through them in a couple of nights reading. Mr. Douglas does good work. I hope he's writing more, though the last trio has probably put paid to this Universe of his.
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I have read every book in the series and this one continues the great story.
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