By: David Weber Publisher: Baen Average Rating: Binding: Mass Market Paperback Label: Baen Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 352 Publication Date: December 01, 1993
Product Description: Colin MacIntyre has gone from being a NASA astronaut to commander of a vast space armada. But the ancient and powerful alien enemy is approaching, and all his forces may not be enough to save the Earth.
Good series. I enjoyed this, the final book in the series, but it did leave me wanting a fourth book.
conceptual overlap with Off Armageddon Reef This book is the middle one in a trilogy, commencing with Mutineer's Moon and ending with Heirs of Empire. Weber wrote these in the early 90s and never extended these, as of 2007. He has certainly been busy writing much else in science fiction.
But it turns out that this year, 2007, he has recast this trilogy in a new series, that starts with "Off Armageddon Reef". The latter just came out, in hardcover, and is ubiquitous in many bookstores. A far more numerous presence than those earlier books, when they first came out.
The overlap in the basic premises between the trilogy and OAR is striking. Out there in space is a genocidal race, deploying immense fleets. A mortal threat to humans. The opening chapter in OAR talks about 24th century humans, being destroyed on its worlds by far more numerous fleets. In Armageddon Inheritance, we see in a different universe how this conflict might have gone otherwise. Here, the enemy fleets are millions strong. But Weber writes ingeniously, in the tradition of grand space opera, of an embattled human fleet, that takes them on and wins, at least for now. Readers of OAR who gritted their teeth at the human defeat can read a different conclusion.
I do wonder at the coincidence of "Armageddon" in this book's title and in OAR. The plots clearly overlap. Was this recurrent word an explicit hint to the reader?
If you have read OAR, but not this trilogy, and are waiting for Weber to write more in the new series, then you should check out these books.
Terrific continuation Colin, now self-declared Governor of Earth, has defeated Anu's mutineers. However, now the true count-down begins, as the Achuultani are just over 2 years away and somehow he has to unite the entire world and prepare them to use the Imperial technology that will, hopefully, save Earth. He also decides to go and search for Imperial help - unfortunately he doesn't find any, but in an amusing twist he ends up the new Emperor.
This novel doesn't give much time to breath and the Achuultani keep coming; in total somewhere around 3 million ships are sent to break on the shoals of the Sol system. We also discover at least a tiny bit of their reasoning for their rampage through the galaxy and that they are technically called Aku'Ultan. This is a most entertaining series and indeed I am well to half-way through the final book already and am quite enjoying it at well. Give these most excellent books by Weber a try!
great sequel with awesome space battle scenes My title says it all. The story line is solid and the awesome battle scenes are just the icing on the cake. Plus, I really enjoy dual scene stories.
Easier to Swallow that Book 1 I thoroughly enjoyed MUTINEERS MOON but it did take me a while to get into it. The plotline was just outlandish enough to require an extra effort to get in the right frame of mind. Still, It was lots of fun. I had no such problems with the ARMAGEDDON INHERITANCE. It picks up where the first left off and now humanity must prepare for the onslaught of some nasty aliens making their way across the galaxy. The problem is that early 21st century Earth technology is probably not up to the task at hand.
They do have an ace in the hole. Dahak, the self aware ship posing as Earth's moon is a formidable weapon. It is also part of a 50,000 year old fleet designed to face just this menace. All that is needed is for earth to hold out while the ship and its crew go looking for help from the rest of the fleet. That proves a bit more difficult than one would suppose.
It's a fine story. Nothing meaty, just entertainment
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