|
|
List Price: $5.50 Price: $0.01 You Save: $5.49 (100%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780380777341 ISBN: 0380777347 Label: Avon Books (Mm) Manufacturer: Avon Books (Mm) Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 1995-09 Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) Studio: Avon Books (Mm) Editorial Review: Product Description: Assigned to overtake a planet that resists the Universal Will of the Stellar Collective, the deathbird kamikaze fighters of the Collective Landing Detachment begins what may be the most terrible battle in the history of the galaxy. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Harsh and Nasty, but a great read!I first read this book years ago when it first came out. I have re read it about 6 times since. I keep checking to see if a new one in this series has ever come out. Im wondering why Mr Milan has never written the next one. Please do so! Rating: - Makes David Drake seem jolly by comparisonThis is probably the darkest, most brutal novel I've ever read. It's the story of a futuristic penal unit used as canon fodder by a brutal totalitarian regime, and then left for dead on a hostile alien world after the invasion of it goes wrong. It's extremely grim and depressing, but the story is very good, and Milan does a good job of bringing the characters to life. Highly reccomended. Rating: - Vivid & GrislyThis isn't a happy ending, enjoyable sort of book - far from it. But after reading a lot of military SciFi, this story sticks tenaciously in my mind, whereas many others quickly fade, and to me, that by itself makes it a noteworthy accomplishment. If you aren't squeamish, and can enjoy a gritty, grisly story about an group of criminals force-drafted into a vicious, bottom-of-the-barrel military outfit, who are abandoned during a botched invasion on a hostile planet, look for this one; otherwise ... Read More Rating: - Military SF with an *extremely* hard edgeThis is one of the grimmest pieces of Science Fiction I have ever read. I found it to be well written and funny (in an extremely brutal and nasty way). I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys military SF. Rating:  - Sven Hassel did it first, and better, IMOA lot of this book seemed very familiar to me, but I was reading Sven Hassel's novels about the 20th Panzer Penal Unit in World War II years ago. In general, this book is even more of a downer than a lot of Hassel's work; these future-soldiers do their work in a society and army so degrading that Hell itself would be preferable. |
