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Summary: Exciting and elevating.
Review: This book is quite an experience. I reread the book several times, it is that well written and that good. It is the best book I have read in years. It is both exciting and elevating. I hate to say it, but you will probably feel like a better person after reading it. It is philosophically, morally, and socially profound. It has a great story line and fantastic characters.
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Summary: Exciting and elevating.
Review: This book is quite an experience. I reread the book several times, it is that well written and that good. It is the best book I have read in years. It is both exciting and elevating. I hate to say it, but you will probably feel like a better person after reading it. It is philosophically, morally, and socially profound. It has a great story line and fantastic characters.
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Summary: Very imaginative, a fun read
Review: This has got to be one of the best human/alien interaction books I have ever read. It's not so much that this story is about alien conflict, the story takes place twenty years after Earth is conquered, but rather about how humans and aliens learn to live and fight together for their common survival. What I found so great about this was the way the authors wove alien customs and thought processes into the story. The Jao were truly believable and there actions and motives came across as alien rather than being human with just an alien flavour as so many sci-fi novels seem to do.Well worth the hardback cover price. Mark E. Cooper
Warrior Within (ISBN:0-9545122-0-0)
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Summary: Exceptional SF!
Review: This is one of the best books I've read this year. Eric Flint has created a consistent, believable premise, and follows it to a great conclusion. The Jao have conquered earth and been in control for 20 years now. There is great concern the evil Ekart will be coming to eradicate life on earth soon, but the people on earth are not cooperating with the Jao to build the forces necessary to fight the onslaught. Resistance movements still exist in many pockets of the planet, and the Jao governor is becomingly increasingly brutal and disturbed. A young Jao from the prominent clan group is newly assigned as the number 3 leader on earth. His clan is noted for deeper thought than the clan of the current governor, and he for the first time begins to bond with a few earth people. He takes some into his personnel service, and begins to maneuver to oust the current governor. Flint creates the Jao completely unlike us in motivation and response, and does an excellent job creating the Ekart as well. This book completely captured my attention with a combination of philosophy, politics, and warfare. It will satisfy any fan of Drake, Weber, or C.S. Forrester with his thoughtful mix of character and action. Please Mr. Flint, bring on the sequel!
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Summary: strong futuristic thriller
Review: Two decades have passed since the Jao conquered the Earth, but the victors still debate what to do with the defeated humans. Many Jao believe extermination by total destruction of the planet is the final solution. Some like newly arrived Commander Aille believes winning the hearts of the humans is the best long term solution. Before the Jao can resolve the human problem, they have to contend with the deadly Ekhat, who plan to commit solar system genocidal eradicating human and Jao without a second thought. The Ekhat turned the Jao into sentient beings, but expected loyal servitude bonds instead of ungrateful rebellion. For Human and Jao to vanquish the Ekhat they must forge more than an alliance. They need a consensus that is much greater than a simple summing of the parts. Only leaders like Aille and the human Stockwells have the foresight to see what must be done, but each race has xenophobics sitting in key positions. This futuristic tale works on several levels as readers will believe that the Jao and Ekhat exist as well as the conquering of the planet has occurred. The action is fast and furious so that this work will appeal to military science fiction buffs. However, the strength of the tale resides in the social, anthropologic, technological, and political make-up of the Jao and the Humans. Readers will observe the difficulty of blending the best of the conquered and the conqueror into a seamless oneness that might prove capable of surviving the Ekhat. Eric Flint and K.D. Wentworth provide a triumphant story that is as much cerebral as it is action-packed. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: strong futuristic thriller
Review: Two decades have passed since the Jao conquered the Earth, but the victors still debate what to do with the defeated humans. Many Jao believe extermination by total destruction of the planet is the final solution. Some like newly arrived Commander Aille believes winning the hearts of the humans is the best long term solution. Before the Jao can resolve the human problem, they have to contend with the deadly Ekhat, who plan to commit solar system genocidal eradicating human and Jao without a second thought. The Ekhat turned the Jao into sentient beings, but expected loyal servitude bonds instead of ungrateful rebellion. For Human and Jao to vanquish the Ekhat they must forge more than an alliance. They need a consensus that is much greater than a simple summing of the parts. Only leaders like Aille and the human Stockwells have the foresight to see what must be done, but each race has xenophobics sitting in key positions. This futuristic tale works on several levels as readers will believe that the Jao and Ekhat exist as well as the conquering of the planet has occurred. The action is fast and furious so that this work will appeal to military science fiction buffs. However, the strength of the tale resides in the social, anthropologic, technological, and political make-up of the Jao and the Humans. Readers will observe the difficulty of blending the best of the conquered and the conqueror into a seamless oneness that might prove capable of surviving the Ekhat. Eric Flint and K.D. Wentworth provide a triumphant story that is as much cerebral as it is action-packed. Harriet Klausner
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