Manxome Foe (Looking Glass, Book 3)
by John Ringo, Travis Taylor
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Author: John Ringo, Travis TaylorEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-02-05
ISBN: 1416555218
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Baen
Book Reviews of Manxome Foe (Looking Glass, Book 3)
Book Review: Ridiculous but fun
Summary: 4 Stars
This book, like its predecessors, is an utterly ridiculous space blast-em-up with aliens, spaceships, power armor suits, and a thin veneer of science to make it seem like you're learning something in the process.
It's still an entertaining read though. The action is good, the dialog is snappy, and the ideas are novel enough that the book isn't as predictable as some in the genre.
Thing I didn't like were the not-swear-words in the book, the wholesale importation of characters and language from other series ("Shiny!", from Firefly, and Portana, from the "Down to the Sea" series"), mainly because they were obvious nods to fandom.
The way the book ended on an anti-French note, of all things, after cool action sequences was just jarring. The crew of the Blade informing the President of the US that the French aren't allowed to defend the planet, because, they're, well, French, was ridiculous. Chinese? Ok. Russians? Sure! French? Hell no! They aren't allowed to contribute to the defense of the planet and help prevent the extinction of Humanity! (Except the French Foreign Legion!).
David Weber's Armageddon Inheritance did an excellent job of presenting a fairly reasonable and interesting look at the gearing up of Earth to fight alien invaders to-the-death, without falling back into right-wing hyperbole. I've read more than a few rah-rah-America technothrillers in the past, but there's a line at where it becomes just silly and detracts from the book, and this book managed to just cross that line at the end.
Summary of Manxome Foe (Looking Glass, Book 3)
In the midst of recovering from their successful if casualty prone first mission, the crew of the Alliance Space Ship Vorpal Blade are suddenly scrambled back into action. All other priorities take second place as word arrives on earth of a gate colony which has fallen to an unidentified alien assault. As the only space ship currently available to the Human-Adar Alliance, the Vorpal Blade is dispatched to find out what happened to the colony, rescue any survivors and learn the identity of the attackers.
With new complexities added to the universe started in the novel Into the Looking Glass and continued in Vorpal Blade, Manxome Foe continues the tradition of non-stop action, valorous if quirky characters and rigorous science drawn from the frontiers of current theory. The odd-ball crew of the Vorpal Blade is an unlikely savior of earth, but none dare say they quail at engaging the Manxome Foe.
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