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Summary: Book Three Better Be As Good
Review: A continuation of The Herigage Trilogy about the Marine Corps in the mid 21st century. This fast paced techno thriller is excelent. His writing style is a cross between W.E.B. Griffin and Tom Clancy. His knowlege of the "grunt mentality" provides a realistic view of warfare in the next mellinium. The premise of this book, continued from his first book (Semper Mars) pits the U.S., Russia and Japan against the United Nations led by France and China. He takes us into the hearts and minds of people confronting the fact that alien races not only tampered with the earliest beginnings of man, but in more recent times enslaved humans and became our "Gods".
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Summary: The second of an excelent series for the Techno Junkie
Review: A continuation of The Herigage Trilogy about the Marine Corps in the mid 21st century. This fast paced techno thriller is excelent. His writing style is a cross between W.E.B. Griffin and Tom Clancy. His knowlege of the "grunt mentality" provides a realistic view of warfare in the next mellinium. The premise of this book, continued from his first book (Semper Mars) pits the U.S., Russia and Japan against the United Nations led by France and China. He takes us into the hearts and minds of people confronting the fact that alien races not only tampered with the earliest beginnings of man, but in more recent times enslaved humans and became our "Gods".
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Summary: Book Three Better Be As Good
Review: After waiting for quite some time I was very pleased with the book. I am starting book three and hope it is as good as the past two. This book was even harder to put down than the first. Overall I couldn't have asked for more.
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Summary: Superb
Review: Bill Keith (Ian Douglas here) has yet again proved that he is one of the great writers of our time. The characters are detailed and believeable, the plot is tightly written and well thought out, and the technology is very possible. Like Semper Mars, I was left wanting more (and I told him so!) I hope that this series takes off and expands to additional books. The third one is finished, and at the publishers. I can hardly wait.
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Summary: Above Average Military Sci-Fi
Review: Ditto. This book, and the previous one (Semper Mars) both provide solid summer escape reading. Unlike Sherman & Cragg's "Starfist" or Diehl's "Legion of the Damned" series, Douglas's characters are actually believable. For those of you who like Douglas's (ie. Bill Keith's) work, I also recommend his "Seals: The Warrior Breed" series, written under another pseudonym, H. Jay Riker. While not exactly sci-fi, this is a great series for techno-thriller buffs.
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Summary: Above Average Military Sci-Fi
Review: Ditto. This book, and the previous one (Semper Mars) both provide solid summer escape reading. Unlike Sherman & Cragg's "Starfist" or Diehl's "Legion of the Damned" series, Douglas's characters are actually believable. For those of you who like Douglas's (ie. Bill Keith's) work, I also recommend his "Seals: The Warrior Breed" series, written under another pseudonym, H. Jay Riker. While not exactly sci-fi, this is a great series for techno-thriller buffs.
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Summary: Semper Fi to the stars!
Review: I liked this book. His first in this trilogy (Semper Mars) was good, this, his second, was even better. Ian Douglas' characters are more developed this time around and he makes good use of the world he developed in the first installment. The geopolitical situation remains complex and the responses of the characters and the nations in Douglas' story reflect that. It is the better degree of complexity that really shows the improvement of this book over the first. Don't get me wrong, this is still a "Rah! Rah! US All the Way!" book and a fun read. However, Mr. Douglas is clearly showing his skills as a writer as he fleshes out his characters and his story line. I finished this book in one night's reading, as I normally do with a damn good book, and it left me wanting to read "Book Three:????" now! Instead, we all will have to wait until sometime next year to read of how the US Marines will make space safe for truth, justice, the American Way of Life, and the human race as well. Ohh Rah! Madoc Pope
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Summary: Not high art, but worth the afternoon spent reading it.
Review: In his second installment, Douglas does a nice job of telling a roaring space opera story. The plot is interesting, and so are the characters (if a little one dimensional). The only real criticism I have is that Douglas didn't seem to spend more than five minutes on his Marine Corps research. I realize that this is probably sour grapes, but having spent eight years as an enlisted Marine Corps Infantryman, I would sort of like to see a little accuracy (at least in tems of uniforms, Marine protocol etc...). Davis, in this book as well as the last, seems to have gotten his behvior/speech models for the Marines, both officers and enlisted, from a really bad movie or comic book. All criticisms aside, I enjoyed it. You will too if you like military science fiction.
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Summary: Great Military Sci-fi
Review: Luna Marine is the second of three books in the Heritage Series, a well written trilogy that combines some excellent military fiction with an engrossing science fiction plot that borrows heavily from the speculative archeology in Graham Hancock's "Fingerprints of the Gods". The characters are interesting and multi dimension, the plot is imaginative and the dialog is gritty and realistic. Once you get started, these books are hard to put down. The second book takes place in 2042, two years after the astonishing discovering on Mars described in "Semper Mars". Conflict rages on Earth between the US and the United Nations. When additional alien remains are discovered on the Moon, including a possible super weapon, the US Marine Corp is called upon to seize the technology before it can be exploited by scientists from the other side.
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Summary: A nicely written, engaging military sci-fi piece.
Review: Not much to add to other reviews here, except for a little FYI: despite the cryptic pseudonim, "Ian Douglas" is identified as a certain William H. Keith ("Warstrider" and others) by the copyright. It actually sort of makes sense in retrospect as the young Marine hero of this novel, Jack Ramsey bears a certain similarity to the protagonist of the Warstrider series. Not a clone by any means, but some stylistic similarities in the character sketch are definitely there.
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