The Lost Fleet Into the Darkness A Slaver Wars Novel Volume 2 (Audible Audio Edition) Raymond L Weil Liam Owen Books
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For over six years, the Lost Fleets have been trapped in the Triangulum Galaxy. Every day has been filled full of danger as the galaxy conquering Simulins search relentlessly for them.
With the arrival of the Distant Horizon, a daring plan is made. A message drone will be sent back home to give them warning of the deadly danger the Lost Fleets are facing. A danger that will soon boil over into the home galaxy as well.
In the heart of a massive star cluster, Admiral Jeremy Strong learns the Simulins' greatest secret. A secret that is so dangerous it could mean the end of all civilized life.
Back home Admiral Race Tolsen waits for a Simulin attack. An attack that the politicians in the Human Federation of Worlds don't believe will ever come. But Race knows better, all the evidence points to an imminent invasion. An invasion he doesn't have the forces to stop. He will need a miracle, but miracles sometimes are hard to come by.
The Lost Fleet Into the Darkness A Slaver Wars Novel Volume 2 (Audible Audio Edition) Raymond L Weil Liam Owen Books
Raymond L. Weil is really becoming an amazing story teller. His ability to put the logical sequence in order, balancing the complexities of weaving a multiple-viewpoint story, and providing just enough information before the jump to another perspective is masterful. It's so very easy to visualize his complex battle scenes, they are so well written.The only constructive criticism I have for this series is that it reads like a novel written for young adults. This isn't a bad thing if the intended audience is young adults. But as a middle-aged adult, it's hard to find some of the dialog between characters believable. I'm speaking of characters whose role would require a deep level of scientific expertise in their field, but asking questions that seem to suggest they have no basic knowledge of the underlying science. Another example would be characters who would be in command roles on a very important military mission, but fall into teenage-like dialog about hamburgers or wedding dreams. To a mature reader this seems a bit silly. To a young reader, it might make sense.
Nevertheless, I have a deep appreciation for Mr. Weil's ability to construct a story and put the reader in the moment. I look forward to his next novels.
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The Lost Fleet Into the Darkness A Slaver Wars Novel Volume 2 (Audible Audio Edition) Raymond L Weil Liam Owen Books Reviews
The slaver wars series is really good S/F writing with each new story eagerly antisipated although i have been concerned that the Alton ships have been far to easily destroyed when realy they should be the very hardest to damage little own destroy,they should be the race of beings that give humanity and the Alliance the edge over all the other rat bag allian races,perhaps Raymond you could find a sub plot within the Alton science team that has allowed their ships to be a bit more vulnerable than they should have been,allso a new gravity based propulsion system that the Altons have been secretly working on could be introduced that would be the deciding factor that would give the Alliance the real edge to unite the Galaxys again,just a thought,really love your writing.
The "Lost Fleet" and its precursor series "Slaver Wars" occupy a special niche in sci-fi begun by E.E. "Doc" Smith and running through Isaac Asimov's classic "Foundation" series to David Weber/Steve White's "Stars at War" series and more recently to the similarly named "Lost Fleet" series by Jack Campbell, to name a few of the best. It is one characterized by immense battles between space fleets sometimes numbering in the hundreds, pitting rival races against one another for galactic domination. Raymond Weil's books fit nicely into the genre even if they may fall a bit short of the others, in my opinion. At the very least, they bring a vast scale and breadth to the conflict between humans (and their allies) and the Simulin, who are bent on being the last organics standing in the universe.
Mr. Weil's characters are not the books' greatest strength, but the fleet commanders are usually pretty well done, and the two AI's Ariel and Clarissa -- as distinct from the AI race that was an enemy but is now an ally -- are quite engaging. Hedon Streth, hero of the "Slaver Wars", is rusticating in retirement and becoming a bit of a mystic with visions of the future, perhaps intentionally channeling Asimov's Hari Seldon.
Tactics in these space battles are rudimentary, and outcomes are usually determined by who has the better tech. Shields are weakened, briefly go down, nuclear missiles sneak through, ships explode. Ships enter a swirling white vortex, Rinse and repeat. There is so much repetition of these events, one supposes that Mr. Weil has them on hot keys.
These books may not be the best, but they are good enough that if you hanker for really big space battles, you should definitely be reading them.
How do you reason with a species of narcissistic psychopaths? You don't. It's kill or be killed in Into the Darkness.
Man is stripped down to his elemental base self. How to survive when crazy is trying to kill you. The battles are brutal, stripping down each ship's commander into 'the good of the many' mentality. Each clash a last stand.
Much like the D Day invasion of Normandy, the Lost Fleet must ignore individual losses to survive. The crews are heroic, making sacrifice after sacrifice trying to gain an edge, even a simple toehold in a hostile galaxy. A galaxy dominated by emotionless killers bent on wiping out every perceived, though imaginary, threat.
The Simulins refuse to compete with any other species for resources in their universe. Any species capable of any space flight is wiped out, their planet wiped clean of life, and terrifying spiderlike robots deployed to hunt and kill any survivors who manage to escape the initial devastation.
Humans enter this scenario, unaware of the pogrom underway. A galactic Holocaust in which humans are the elusive prey.
The latest installment in the Lost Fleet series has just confirmed why I began reading Weil's Slaver Wars in the first place - this book is flaming awesome!!!!!!!! The action never lets up and the battle sequences were brilliant - so much so that I couldn't stop reading until I had finally finished the last page. In this installment Jeremy and his fleet of ships find out the Simulin's little secret - one they will do anything to protect, including finding and wiping out the human forces in the Triangulum galaxy. Meanwhile, Admiral Race Tolson does everything he can to spread the word of the Simulin threat - will anyone listen? The only downside to finishing this installment is the wait until the next book - wish it was out now!!!! I highly recommend Into the Darkness to all old and new fans of the Slaver Wars series.
Raymond L. Weil is really becoming an amazing story teller. His ability to put the logical sequence in order, balancing the complexities of weaving a multiple-viewpoint story, and providing just enough information before the jump to another perspective is masterful. It's so very easy to visualize his complex battle scenes, they are so well written.
The only constructive criticism I have for this series is that it reads like a novel written for young adults. This isn't a bad thing if the intended audience is young adults. But as a middle-aged adult, it's hard to find some of the dialog between characters believable. I'm speaking of characters whose role would require a deep level of scientific expertise in their field, but asking questions that seem to suggest they have no basic knowledge of the underlying science. Another example would be characters who would be in command roles on a very important military mission, but fall into teenage-like dialog about hamburgers or wedding dreams. To a mature reader this seems a bit silly. To a young reader, it might make sense.
Nevertheless, I have a deep appreciation for Mr. Weil's ability to construct a story and put the reader in the moment. I look forward to his next novels.
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