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-- "In difficult ground, press on;
-- In encircled ground, devise stratagems;
-- In death ground, fight".
-- In encircled ground, devise stratagems;
-- In death ground, fight".
-- Sun Tzu in The Art of War (circa 400 B.C.)
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Five thousand years after Sun Tzu writes The Art of War, his advice is followed during the Fourth Interstellar War between the terrible Bugs and the humans, who are aided by their catlike Orion allies.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Space Opera,
By J. Friesen "Avid Reader" (Edmonton, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: IN DEATH GROUND (Mass Market Paperback)
This book isn't going to win a Pulitzer, but that's not why most people would want to read it. This novel is about massive space battles with dozens of different ships and a wide variety of strategies and tactics that they employ. While the aliens are a stereotypical race of homicidal 'Bugs' used in a number of other sci-fi classics, their outright savagery and brutality has one siding with Humanity and its allies almost instantly.The best thing about the novel is the suspense it creates. Unlike the sequel - in which the ending seems a foregone conclusion - In Death Ground shows humanity and its allies on the ropes, struggling against massive odds to beat back a threat that is determined to annihilate all intelligent life in the galaxy. A good, quick read for lovers of action.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding space action,
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This review is from: IN DEATH GROUND (Mass Market Paperback)
Anyone who has an interest in good old fashioned rip-roaring space battles, who ever loved a story of a war between good and evil, who ever stared with fascination at movies of space aliens battling brave human spaceships will *love* this book. It's almost non-stop action, but intelligently told, with incredible space battles on an epic scale for enormous stakes. The aliens are mysterious and unfathomable, and relentless, and you know from the start (as one of the characters says) it will be a battle to the death between them and humanity and its allies.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Could be better,
By Peter Downing (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: IN DEATH GROUND (Mass Market Paperback)
OK lets get one thing straight. The evil aliens are formulaic instant parallels to Gamesworkshop's Tyranids, Heinlein's Bugs and the Buggers from Ender's Game (minus the character) and no doubt a whole host of other things besides. Also all of the other aliens (bar the Zarkoloyans in the second book) are humanoid animals.On the other hand they are well realised and to counter this relative lack of imagination, the physics of the universe are innovative and rather cool, in particular the warp points lead to excellent writing. The characters are rarely well done, with the exception of Kthaara'zarthan and Ivan Nikolayevich who'se hatred of politics (and accompanying descriptive language) is a refreshing attitude. The space combat however (and face it this is what you bought it for) is excellently done with real descriptions of what is going on, so rare in this genre (in my experience) well to the fore, in particular the Pesthouse battle near the end is brilliantly realised. Get this book it'll bring you back for seconds. (but next book they must do one about ISW three because they always mention it but never tell you much.)
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