Military Sci Fi Earth Soldiers Versus Alien Cyborgs, Gravitic Technology, Mech
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1sab007
A race of humanoids from another planet come to earth in the near future seeking help in there war with some aliens.
Earth is divided politically and the aliens, a scientist father and daughter arrange with the astronaut/soldier they contact for a division of trusted men to go off and fight, which they do by essentially faking there own mysterious disappearance.
Action and adventure ensues. The aliens are squidlike but mostly cybernetic as I recall. There is mostly ground fighting but a section of the book is about using the scientist fathers new version of FTL to attack the aliens from an unexpected direction. There is some stuff in there about an ancient empire of humans that both earth and the humanoid aliens are remnants of and at the end a 'gravity shift' cuts the soldiers off from earth so they can't return.
Read this book about 10 years ago, I recalled it because I was reading about gravity and remembered gravity based technology was a pretty big part of the plot, but can't for the life of me remember what it was called. Was a mass market paperback.
Any help would be appreciated, it's giving me a headache trying to remember the title...
Earth is divided politically and the aliens, a scientist father and daughter arrange with the astronaut/soldier they contact for a division of trusted men to go off and fight, which they do by essentially faking there own mysterious disappearance.
Action and adventure ensues. The aliens are squidlike but mostly cybernetic as I recall. There is mostly ground fighting but a section of the book is about using the scientist fathers new version of FTL to attack the aliens from an unexpected direction. There is some stuff in there about an ancient empire of humans that both earth and the humanoid aliens are remnants of and at the end a 'gravity shift' cuts the soldiers off from earth so they can't return.
Read this book about 10 years ago, I recalled it because I was reading about gravity and remembered gravity based technology was a pretty big part of the plot, but can't for the life of me remember what it was called. Was a mass market paperback.
Any help would be appreciated, it's giving me a headache trying to remember the title...
2Nerilka
Reminds me of the Dahak series by David Weber, starts with Mutineer's Moon. I'm not sure if the ending matches though .
3michaelbirks
It's not the Dahak Series. It's almost reminiscent of W. Michael Gear's StarStrike, but there's no Cybernetics, and it isn't a Father/Daughter team.
There's something of a genre of 'Aliens come for our warriors' John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata series (Hymn before Battle, etc) comes to mind, as does Jerry Pournelle's Tran, but none of these match.
Sorry I can't help you in any detail. It sounds interesting, that he Father/Daughter thing almost seems 1950s SF Movie-ish. Best of Luck.
There's something of a genre of 'Aliens come for our warriors' John Ringo's Legacy of the Aldenata series (Hymn before Battle, etc) comes to mind, as does Jerry Pournelle's Tran, but none of these match.
Sorry I can't help you in any detail. It sounds interesting, that he Father/Daughter thing almost seems 1950s SF Movie-ish. Best of Luck.
4jjmcgaffey
It's The Disinherited by Steve White, who wrote the Starfire series with David Weber. I love that book. However, the second book (Legacy) is really truly bad. Alien direct meddling takes the descendents (second or third generation) of the exiled humans and...puts them back in King Arthur's time (and court) to fix...something...or maybe keep other aliens from changing...something...ghahh. I did read it, but I've been trying really hard to wipe it out of my brain - I guess it worked.
The Disinherited, however, is magnificent. I love the interaction of the Russian and American spacers - they have more in common with each other than either of them with the groundbound, and especially the politicians. The whole oddity with humans-from-elsewhere is interestingly presented. The tech they've got is fascinating...and all around it's a great book.
The Disinherited, however, is magnificent. I love the interaction of the Russian and American spacers - they have more in common with each other than either of them with the groundbound, and especially the politicians. The whole oddity with humans-from-elsewhere is interestingly presented. The tech they've got is fascinating...and all around it's a great book.
