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-- "In difficult ground, press on;
-- In encircled ground, devise stratagems;
-- In death ground, fight".

-- Sun Tzu in The Art of War (circa 400 B.C.)

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''In difficult ground, press on. In encircled ground, devise strategems. In death ground, fight.'' 5000 ye ars later, in the time of the 4th Interstellar War, Sun Tzu'' s advice still makes perfect sense for the humans and their allies the Orions. '

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding space action, May 13 2004

By	John D. Angus "The Critic" (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Could be better, April 26 2004

By	Peter Downing (UK) - See all my reviews

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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3.0 out of 5 stars not the best, April 22 2004

By	Charles P. Dyer (West Palm Beach) - See all my reviews

Weber & White like to make things explode. If you like lots of explosions, you'll like this book. If you like telegraphed plot turns (see page 459 for an absolutely classic example of Famous Last Words, just for one example) you'll like this book.

It'll do for light reading. People looking for serious work should look elsewhere.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The best of the series...
Of Weber's series with Steve White, I thought this was by far the best--straight ahead, linear action, with multiple groups of aliens and cultures. Read more

Published on Feb 16 2004 by monsieurms

2.0 out of 5 stars Great fights, uninspired story, poor delivery; lack of depth
To begin with, there are several things Weber seems to have copied from other people's material. Take for instance Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (1994), where implacable... Read more

Published on Oct 26 2003 by Josh Lam