- Mass Market Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: DAW; Reissue edition (Aug 1 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0886774276
- ISBN-13: 978-0886774271
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.6 x 3.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 263 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #926,515 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
From School Library Journal
YA-- When the Ahimsa, a nearly immortal race, become more intellectual, allowing the Pashti to assume more control of the galaxy, a renegade Ahimsa plans to restore his race to its "rightful place" by using the violent, barbaric race of humans to destroy the Pashti leaders, thus leaving the Ahimsa blameless and Earth holding the bag. The quality of the writing, good characterization, and element of tension all combine to make Starstrike a superior sci/fi tale. YA readers who have exhausted the library's supply of Jerry Pournelle and Larry Drake novels will welcome it.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Humanity's first contact with alien life is no less than a nightmare, as the Ahimsa take control of Earth and force humanity to do their bidding. Soon Earth's most skilled strike force, composed of Russian, American, and Israeli experts in the art of war and espionage, find themselves aboard the Ahimsa vessel, training for an offensive attack against a distant space station. Andas they struggle to overcome their own prejudices while preparing to face an enemy of unknown capabilities, none of them realize that the greatest danger to humanity's future is right in their midst....
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4.0 out of 5 stars
An interesting read with some thought provoking ideas.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Starstrike (Mass Market Paperback)
Michael Gear shows some thought provoking ideas of alien thought processes while slapping us in the face about how we use stereotypes. As a average sci-fi reader this book gives some interesting twists in the plot while keeping your attention and does a good job of showing how hard it should be to understand a completely different way of thinking.
4.0 out of 5 stars
An interesting read with some thought provoking ideas.,
By jmelia@compsol.net (Connecticut, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Starstrike (Mass Market Paperback)
Michael Gear shows some thought provoking ideas of alien thought processes while slapping us in the face about how we use stereotypes. As a average sci-fi reader this book gives some interesting twists in the plot while keeping your attention and does a good job of showing how hard it should be to understand a completely different way of thinking.
2.0 out of 5 stars
contrived, stereotypical, weakly researched,
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This review is from: Starstrike (Mass Market Paperback)
On the bright side, Gear develops some fairly interesting characters in spite of the failings, and keeps a high suspense level. He did make a real effort to create aliens who thought in an alien way.However, his humans are hopelessly stereotypical. Just as every Chinese person a Caucasian meets does not say 'ancient Chinese secret' every time s/he comes up with a bit of wisdom, neither do Israelis make constant Holocaust/Lebanon references, nor did Russians (late Cold War) make constant statements about political matters, and nor do black Americans always make reference to the mean streets of Detroit (or wherever). If the characters had been allowed to be themselves, rather than their nationalities, they'd have been more interesting. While on the topic of nationality, Gear had best do some more research on language. 'Yeled' means 'child' in Hebrew, and is not a likely name for a male. One Russian character's last name is done wrong for her gender. On top of all this, it is too obvious that he got a lot of his information on the Soviet Army from Victor Suvorov's (real name Vladimir Rezun, a Soviet defector) books. You'd think he would have at least camouflaged the references, but authors who take the easy way always get caught, and Gear is busted with the goods here. If one can get past all of the above, it's not a bad book.
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