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Summary: from cover to cover, an exciting adventure
Review: I've read all Dietz's books from "legion" to "for more than glory" and i must say that each novel has been a non-stop page turner. The writing style isn't bogged down with too much techical explanations, just enough to give the reader a basic idea of how things works. Fast paced action scenarios are easy flowing and don't give a forced or rushed feeling. Dietz is able to encompass both sides of action so the reader can easily understand what's going on without losing the intesity of the situation. i've highly recommended reading his books to everyone i know and do so to whomever i meet.
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Summary: This book was five stars until it received my reveiw!
Review: If your looking for Courage, mixed with outstanding science technology and the every day struggle to do what's right. Then this book is for you. I've always loved armor eliments in a story and now with the addition of brain boxes you have mobile support that thinks. Mixed with your firpower is the grunt. The humanoid soldier that has no home but the Legion. I discoved Mr. Dietz while on vacation. I had come across the books in a random brook buying spree that resulted in a real find. For anyone that has read David Drake and followed the Slammers from campaign to campaign you can appreciate the way that the Legioniars come to life. Be it a knife fight in the desert or a full out assult against suppior odds you can really sink feel the emotion and Loyality that these troops have for their home. You will be introduced to a race that has only one rule submit or Die. A race that has for thousands of years have had to struggle not only with other races but with nature to survive and thrive. A race that doesn't understand negotiations. Only the total control of another race will make them less likely to wipe you out. This is an excellent adventure for anyone that knows the words Via La Legion!
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Summary: Cyborgs, Lasers, and Aliens are the Make up of the Legion
Review: If your looking for Courage, mixed with outstanding science technology and the every day struggle to do what's right. Then this book is for you. I've always loved armor eliments in a story and now with the addition of brain boxes you have mobile support that thinks. Mixed with your firpower is the grunt. The humanoid soldier that has no home but the Legion. I discoved Mr. Dietz while on vacation. I had come across the books in a random brook buying spree that resulted in a real find. For anyone that has read David Drake and followed the Slammers from campaign to campaign you can appreciate the way that the Legioniars come to life. Be it a knife fight in the desert or a full out assult against suppior odds you can really sink feel the emotion and Loyality that these troops have for their home. You will be introduced to a race that has only one rule submit or Die. A race that has for thousands of years have had to struggle not only with other races but with nature to survive and thrive. A race that doesn't understand negotiations. Only the total control of another race will make them less likely to wipe you out. This is an excellent adventure for anyone that knows the words Via La Legion!
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Summary: Outstanding !
Review: One of Dietz's best and my personal favorite. The story features one of today's most fantasized military units, the French Foreign Legion. But in this future, the Legion is created of volunteers of condemned criminals, patients with terminal illnesses, and those who have simply given up on life. So upon death, their brains are removed and installed in high-tech military cyborgs which are armed with all sorts of deadly weapons. These thousands of cyborgs form the "Legion of the Damned." Their principle enemy...a highly aggressive race of aliens who want to turn earth into a giant crater. Chock full of action, suspense, and intrique. Definitely alot of fun to read.
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Summary: Mad Sweet
Review: Pretty campy with cookie-cutter characters. The legion could (should) have been the main subject of the book but too many meaningless extras are thrown in (does anybody really care at all about the emperor in this book?) Too many angles are suggested and then never properly developed. Try as I might I just couldn't care what was going on. Only the Cyborgs evoked any real interest and they just weren't in it enough. Not quite ... but just barely above.
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Summary: So so
Review: Pretty campy with cookie-cutter characters. The legion could (should) have been the main subject of the book but too many meaningless extras are thrown in (does anybody really care at all about the emperor in this book?) Too many angles are suggested and then never properly developed. Try as I might I just couldn't care what was going on. Only the Cyborgs evoked any real interest and they just weren't in it enough. Not quite ... but just barely above.
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Summary: A roller coaster ride of sex gun's and cyborgs
Review: The human empire spans the galaxy and is fueled by greed and the lust for power. Until a force of beings decides that it is time to attack the over extended and undermaned human empire. Now trust head long into this galatic stuggel a force of funded by worried business men led by bold leaders, and manned by seemingly unstoppable cyborgs goins the frey. This force is fighting a two front war. The empire fearing colapse attacks these brave rebels and the aliens bent on total domination trust what seems to be an unstoppable blow. But through it all the love of a man and a woman(of diffrent races) survives
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Summary: Mad Sweet
Review: This novel by William C. Dietz introduces the interesting concept of life after death in the form of a cyborg solider. This book is not only wicked cool, but should be considered a literary masterpiece. Dietz makes his words flow with undeniable flair. His story plot is original.
Dietz's characters are real and easy to relate with. They have depth and experience the joys and follies of real people. His insights into the minds of his aliens are fascinating. They truly do think in an alien way.
His aliens always manage to stay in their race's persona. That is something that a lot of authors manage to slip up on. Despite my inklings towards evil, I can't help rooting for the good guys. Usually it's hard not to root for the bad guy, but Dietz somehow manages to put me in the situation of liking both.
Dietz's action sequences are second to none. When the action is going full tilt it's mad sweet. He also isn't afraid to kill off his characters,which is both refreshing and frustrating at the same time. It makes things more realistic, giving the baddies a fair chance at killing the good dudes.
Ok to sum it all up. Dietz is a sick writer definitely worth your time reading. I can't pump it anymore than that so I'll stop writing. I will leave you with this though. For Sci-Fi, Dietz is as realistic as you can get.
One more thing, I have to agree that this book should have been more about the cyborg themselves rather then being sidelined. That would be my only beef about the story. Hopefully Dietz will read this and because of these reviews decide to write a novel just about the borgs.
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Summary: Intriguing at first, but falling a little short later
Review: This was the first book I had ever read by Dietz and found it worth the trouble. I was captivated by the concept of a cyborg army with brains, something you don't see too much of on the silver screen. The intimate scenes in the book, especially the one with Mosby and the emperor/emperor were interesting to say the least. The character development in the book was well done and there were a few suprise deaths in the book, which I like. However, for some reason late in the book I became a little bored. To me it became a little too predictable but was still a good read. I am currently reading the next book in the series.
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Summary: An answer to a question
Review: To answer the reviewer who asked why didn't humans just nuke the enemy its really simple, if you do it them they do it to you and you both and up dead. And another thing, the hudathen could live on a terra compatable world and humans on most of their world(though not on the homeworld). And then there are the other races to consider, if humans could bomb one race out of exictance then what's to keep them from doing it again? The other races would always bee higly suspicious of the humans and might even band to gether to knock them down. This book is good, great characters and fun action it keeps you reading on even after you should have turned the lights off.
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