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The Armageddon Inheritance

The Armageddon Inheritance

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A very exciting book.
Review: This book shows David Weber at his best. I consider this book to be one of David Weber's best. This is true for a number of reasons.

First of all it is one of the most action-packed books I have ever read. There are multiple climaxes that are different enough in scope and scale to not be redundant.

Also it is a very tightly woven plot. This book never bogged down in any place.

This book was an exciting novel. Highly Recommended.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A very exciting book.
Review: This book shows David Weber at his best. I consider this book to be one of David Weber's best. This is true for a number of reasons.

First of all it is one of the most action-packed books I have ever read. There are multiple climaxes that are different enough in scope and scale to not be redundant.

Also it is a very tightly woven plot. This book never bogged down in any place.

This book was an exciting novel. Highly Recommended.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Almost five stars were it not for one glaring error
Review: This book was almost perfect for me. It was the first book I've read where mysterious and power beings come into our contemporary world (I did not read Mutineer's Moon beforehand.). Thousands, even millions of warships each with the firepower to render Earth lifeless slug it out in glorious, titanic battles. That is the stuff I love the most. However, I believe that the negative impact of the sudden introduction of Imperium technology was unrealistic. People should have been ecstatic not panicked by the sudden boon of advanced technology. If you suddenly told people today that an alien library containing advanced knowledge have been found and that would allow space travel, tripled lifespan, eradication of all diseases and health concerns that currently trouble us, and not to mention technology that would allow us to avoid annihilation, we would throw a bigger party than the one we are hosting for the Millenium! Of course if you are a Neo-Luddite. . .

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Very Good. couldn't wait for Heirs Will there be more?
Review: This is a very good book. Mutineers Moon was good and this one followed thur. The way that some factions continued to fight the empire even when everyone new that this was the only hope seems very realistic. At the end i was glad that dhake (spelling) was "upgraded" to the new more powerful ship.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Another great one!
Review: This is another great book from David Webe

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good offering
Review: This is the 2nd book from the "Empire from the Ashes" Trilogy. It is a fast-paced and fun read.

It is an improvement in virtually every way versus the original book from the Trilogy - Mutineer's Moon, which was a decent offering itself. It is larger, faster-paced, and has a less confusing presentation. Especially improved is the "maturity level" of the writing style, which was a definate sore spot in the first book, but which still could stand some improvement here. Another major advancement is in the area of Earth-bound politics - the first book was published in 1991, and still carried a lot of Cold War baggage, this book came out in 1994, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, so there are less political non-sequitors.

Dahak's evolution into a sentient being is one of the highlights of the book... along with numerous and exciting battle scenes. The Achuultani are interesting and worthy alien enemies, and many surprises await potential readers(I don't want to spoil the ending).

Another point worth commenting on, this trilogy appears to offer enough material to form the basis for a television series, and possibly even a feature-length movie or two.

I'm looking forward to getting started on the final and largest book from this trilogy - Heirs of Empire.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Two words--"Assault Planetoid"
Review: This was my first DW book, and it made a lot more sense after I read Mutineers' Moon. In this book, Senior Fleet Captain Colin MacIntyre, having defeated the mutineers and restored the Imperial Planetoid Dahak to working order, goes off to find as much of the Fifth Imperium Battle Fleet as he can, because the Achuultani have returned, and this time, they're going to finish the job. But at the first few stops he makes, certain clues lead Colin to suspect an unthinkable conclusion--maybe the Achuultani aren't the only danger to the Imperium this Galaxy holds! Finally, Colin decides the heck with it and sets sail for the capital system, where he's sure to find someone who can help him, right? Those who are into Solar geography will be pleased or outraged as Weber "juggles borders," while tipping a hat to Arthur C. Clarke's 2001. The battle scenes are very realistic (as far as the word "realitic" can apply between starship battles) and the human interest is very touching. Those readers who are active Whovians will recognize the obvious ripoff--the names have been changed to avoid copyright infringement. For those of you who like battles, bureaucracy, alien enemies, and imponderables like how a Galactic Imperium fifty-odd thousand years ahead of us can fall apart in a matter of months--without the Achuultani's help--then this book is for you!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: If you can either buy this book or eat lunch - skip lunch
Review: This was the first David Weber book I read, and it is still my favorite of all books I have ever read, and that number is legion. In the military sci-fi triumvirate of Drake, Stirling and Weber, Mr. Weber reigns supreme. When the sublight parasite battleship Nergal refuses assistance and lands on her own power after a fierce battle, your heart will swell as if John Williams had written a score to the prose. When frightened morons sabotage installations out of spite while the greatest enemy humanity has ever known is bearing down on them, your hands will clench with rage. And when the heavens are ablaze with gravitonic fire and starships are burning in the blackness of space you will flip pages faster than a Porsche 911 Turbo. Not only will you read about glory and duty and honor, but the true cost of aggression and war. Only David Drake can match the horror of a battlefield's aftermath; while so many books and TV shows and movies show a joyous celebration with diverse liquors and singing and such, in reality people are dead and families are shattered. Too many hours of DOOM can make you want to kill, but only an author of Mr. Weber's prodigious talent will send you off to fight with courage and with sadness. I wish I had space to discuss the incredible universe he has created, with the dead Fourth Imperium living on in ghostly remnants or of the valiant struggle the ageless Imperials have waged to safeguard humanity through millenia of loneliness. If you read only one book in your life, read this one. And then read the rest. You won't regret it

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wow. No really, I mean it. Wow.
Review: What a book! Imaginative, well written, funny in places, sad in others. Why aren't David Weber's books published in England? I have to go to America to buy them! The storyline of this book was great, revolving around Colin MacIntyre's journey across the Galaxy to find more Imperial Starships to fight off the genocidal Achuultani, culminating in a really great ending. (I won't say what happens though!) The characters developed in Mutineer's Moon are explored in greater depth in this second volume of his series. Anyone reading this review- don't. Just go and buy the book. I'll give you all the encouragement you need.


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