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Bio-Weapon (2010)

by Vaughn Heppner(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Amazon Digital Services

series

Doom Star

review 1: Vaughn Heppner's second outing in his "Doom Star" series tones down the organized warfare and increases the personal stakes for hero Marten Kluge. In "Bio-Weapon," Marten's life just got worse. Now his superiors want to geld him and his successful soldiers after surviving a grueling battle in the first novel in the series. Marten's dilemma is that life sucks from every angle. He hates the Social Unity system that has earth in its political talons. The Highborn super-soldiers created by the Social Unity leadership are no better. They think of humans as "premen," worthy only as canon fodder in their battles to take over the earth. The Highborn rebelled, and their success appears inevitable. The bio-weapon in the title refers to a Highborn battle tactic to use their deadly hu... moreman soldiers as anti-spacecraft weapons, shooting them at massive velocity at Social Unity's secret and deadly ship that can shoot a proton beam from 30 times the distance of Highborn capability. Marten is in this group. His wits keep him alive somehow, and he becomes one of the baddest fighters in the galaxy. But disaster lurks at every step. Highborn gelding or Social Unity, which makes communism practically right-wing. Neither appeals. He's got to do his own thing. Seriously intense, all the way through.
review 2: The Doom Star series of books are one of the best sci-fi book series I've read in a very long time!They're set in the distant future where Earth and most of the inner planets in our solar system are ruled by the communist Social Unity, who brutally repress their subjects. The main character, Martin Kluge, starts the first book by escaping the Sun Works Factory, an enormous space station ringing Mercury. He flees to Earth where most people live in giant cities buried miles deep into the ground.As bad as things are under the Social Unity rule, they could get worse, and very quickly they do. The SU rulers had previously created a genetically enhanced super race called thr Highborn, designed to be their army and fight their wars for them. Unfortunately for the SU, the Highborn rebelled and attached the SU and an interplanetary war began.If they SU were the worst sort of communists, the Highborn took more or less the opposite approach, admiring the Nazis of 20th century Earth, emulating the German assumption that they were of a superior race. Genetically speaking, the Highborn were right, being bigger, stronger, and smarter than normal humans.Kluge hasn't been getting along very well on Earth and when the Highborn attack it first helps save his life. He soon finds himself drafted into a human army fighting on the Highborn side of the war, but between the Nazi-like Highborn and communist Social Unity, neither side are the "good guys". Kluge wishes nothing more than to find another option, possibly on Mars, home to a group of humans who have rebelled against SU but have not (yet) fallen to the Highborn, or maybe to the outer planets where there are rumors of free humans remaining...Having finished books one through three very quickly, I cannot wait for book four to be released. less

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