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Earth Strike (2010)

by Ian Douglas(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0061840254 (ISBN13: 9780061840258)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Harper Voyager

series

Star Carrier

review 1: I finished this book and have continued the series, it's gotten better, or at the very least it managed to rope me in.It's a bit worrying when you're less than 30 pages in to the book and it suggests a planet with a radius 1.9x that of Earth and a density 0.973 that of Earth would have a mass of only 1.8 Earths.The series tries to get more involved in a lot of science but doesn't really understand it all, which is unfortunate. The Lost Fleet doesn't try as hard to be "sciency" and benefits from it. Sure, it's a bit daft, repetitive, and silly too but is much more likable in comparison.I'm on book three now and it's not a bad series but I'd suggest you go read the Lensman series and see it done right decades ago.
review 2: What we have here is a good solid, "n... moreot bad" space opera read. I like military science fiction. Give me fleets clashing in space or ground troops in future armor fighting giant bug, or robots, or droids or...whatever and I'm happy. Generally if you blow up enough stuff I'm not to concerned about redeeming sociological themes and so on.This starts out on the right road but it does a sort of left turn and tries to become...relevant. Like a lot of books set in the "not too distant future" (say 500 years or so) the need was felt to "stop and show us how we got here. As in a lot of books lately the results of "global warming" are on display here. You know high ocean levels, flooded coastal cities... tribes of ragged, starving dissidents living the ruined cities (though I'm not quite sure how global warming brought that about). We get to see that bigotry and prejudice still walk among humans and so on. Then...happily we get back to the actual plot of the book without losing more than say a quarter of the text.So, pretty good book. Another story where we meet another intelligent species with whom there's just no getting along. It seems they'd be happy if we'd just sort of...be what they want us to be, "one of the guys" so to speak (no slur against female readers intended there), like every other race and/or species they know if. See we actually met a species who aren't the species I spoke of but the work for that species..sort of but see they're so alien we can't really understand what they want and so....Wait, wait, let me start over. See there comes a time for any sentient species when the seem to be reaching a or the singularity.(See technological singularity...I can't go into all that. Suffice it to say "when human brain/intelligence can interface with machine intelligence). Well the Sh'daar are dead set on keeping anyone...or anything for that matter from reaching said singularity.So, we sort of disagreed with them, emphatically. This involved space fleets, missiles, kinetic weapons, lots of explosions, lots of dead "beings" and some emotional angst of course.So, aside from the angst and social conciseness I like it and can recommend it. Enjoy. less

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