Star Strike (The Inheritance Trilogy, Book 1)
by Ian Douglas
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Author: Ian DouglasEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2008-02-01
ISBN: 0061238589
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Eos
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Book Review: More future marines
Summary: 3 Stars
This is the first volume in the "Inheritance Trilogy," his third trilogy in his future history of the Marines. It's about 500 years after the events of the "Legacy Trilogy," and humankind has spread over a considerable number of stars, as the Xul seem to have lost the location and even knowledge of the existence of Earth after the Marine raid destroying one of their bases at the end of the previous trilogy. But then a final message squirted from the AI running a ship bound for the Andromeda galaxy, carrying a lot of Important People (in cold sleep) who'd decided not to risk being around when the Xul attacked Earth, reveals that the Xul had found that ship and downloaded all the information from the AI's data banks before destroying it. So someone of the Xul knows of Earth again, and the question isn't if but when they'll strike again (and then search out other human-inhabited planets and annihilate them). So the Marines to the rescue again, with an expedition to take the war to the Xul. And they're also looking for help, and think they may have found it in the region of the Orion Nebula... This series isn't a patch on several others of similar nature that I've read, like Weber's Mutineers' Moon/Armageddon Inheritance/Heirs of Empire trilogy, or the first few of Ringo's Posleen War books (though that one has gotten tedious as Ringo has let his far-right politics dominate the stories, so I haven't read the last few), but it's readable enough and has fast action, so I keep buying and reading it even though the characters are generally pretty cardboard and it's not terribly imaginative.
Summary of Star Strike (The Inheritance Trilogy, Book 1)
Planet by planet, galaxy by galaxy, the inhabited universe has fallen to the alien Xul.
Now only one obstacle stands between them and total domination: the warriors of a resilient race the world-devourers nearly annihilated centuries ago . . .
A power vast, ancient, and terrifying, the mighty Xul have lost track of the insignificant humans hundreds of years after devastating their home world—which has enabled the United Star Marines to operate unnoticed and unhindered. A near-autonomous intergalactic policing force, they battle in defense of an Earth they may not live to see again. Now, following the trail of a vanished twenty-fourth-century transport, they are journeying through an unexplored stargate to the edge of an unknown galaxy many light years from their sun. For the last, best, and only chance to defeat the tyrants of the universe may at long last be at hand . . .
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