- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Spectra; Book Club Edition edition (1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0553568922
- ISBN-13: 978-0553568929
- ASIN: B000RRWJXW
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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The four ships were small and milky white in color, shaped like thick hexagoal slabs of random sizes attached to each other at random edges. Alien as hell
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Very Entertaining,
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This review is from: Conquerors' Pride (Paperback)
With the first book of the Conqueror's trilogy, Zahn sets the mood for a gripping and exciting saga. When a fleet of human ships encounters a previously unknown species, they transmit a standard 'first contact' communication package. The aliens instantly open fire and destroy the entire task force in six minutes. As the human government moves towards war the saga focuses on the Cavanaugh family and thier involvement in the war. Zahn's development of specific technologies was facinating and unique. It is rare to find anyone in the SF field who can truely come up with anything new. If you are a SF fan I highly recommend that you read this book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Zahn masters this genre.,
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This review is from: Conquerors' Pride (Paperback)
I read these books when they first came out, the whole trilogy, based on the fact that I loved Zahn's Star Wars set so well. I think no other SF writer has contrived such cool aliens or such a great misunderstanding between humans and ET's. I loaned this particular book to someone who did not return it (shame on them), and so now I am buying it again so I can reread the series over and over.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A thrillig Military Sci-Fi book.,
By Andrew (Vermont) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Conquerors' Pride (Paperback)
Conqueror's Pride is the first book in a well conceived trilogy. Commander Pheylan Cavanagh, in charge of a space task force encounter a new race of aliens, and attempt to make first contact. However, when the radio package is sent over the airwaves, the mysterious aliens attack the force, destroying all of the ships and escape pods, save for Commander Pheylan Cavanagh's pod. They find him and take him prisoner. In the meantime, Cavanagh's father finds out about the disaster and uses his influence to organize a task force to find out what happened to his son and his fleet. Among his forces are Copperheads, fighter pilots who use an interlink to fly.They then set out to find out what happened. Cavanagh has been taken prisoner, and Zahn writes out this well. His discriptions of the aliens, who come in periotically to check up on Cavanagh and to study him, are well done. As Cavanagh learns more, we learn more, and soon he is plotting his escape from the aliens. What happens is that he escapes, and a war is about to be fought between the Humans and the aliens. Zahn does a great job with this book. It's top-notch Sci-Fi writing, down to the technical and social details of a galactic civilization. Along with the action, Zahn throws politics in, and plays with that well. The senators don't want to find out what happened, and Cavanagh's father has to play behind the scenes illegaly to get a task force together. The first contact situation is also well done, as I mentioned above. The aliens don't quite know what to make of Pheylan and probe him for his mentality and personallity. A well done book.
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