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Loading... Columbus Day: Expeditionary Force, Book 1 (edition 2016)by Craig Alanson (Author)
Work InformationColumbus Day by Craig Alanson
   Overdue Podcast (574) No current Talk conversations about this book.  acb13adm | Sep 13, 2023 |  cshalizi | Aug 21, 2023 |   ) mlmccafferty | Apr 8, 2023 |  )1  debbie13410 | Oct 22, 2022 | I haven't read many space operas. Not because I am not interested, but because I have so much to read. However, this particular book I have now read twice. I love it. Here's what makes the story so great, the humor. Yes, aliens are upon us, yes, there's huge stakes for every move they have to make in this world but it never becomes too much because we have awesome characters with a great sense of humour. The first time we meet Skippy, he gets called an asshole (that's prime storytelling right there). Seriously though, Craig Alanson knows how to balance humor and serious Situations to give us an incredible story that doesn't get boring or too technical or too melodramatic. Anyone looking for a good book on aliens, soldiers in space, pirates and shiny beer cans should definitely give this one a go. (  ) Nannus | Jan 17, 2022 | no reviews | add a review
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We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the native Americans in 1492. Over the horizon come ships of a technologically advanced, aggressive culture, and BAM! There go the good old days, when humans only got killed by each other. So, Columbus Day. It fits. When the morning sky twinkled again, this time with Kristang starships jumping in to hammer the Ruhar, we thought we were saved. The UN Expeditionary Force hitched a ride on Kristang ships to fight the Ruhar, wherever our new allies thought we could be useful. So, I went from fighting with the US Army in Nigeria, to fighting in space. It was lies, all of it. We shouldn't even be fighting the Ruhar, they aren't our enemy, our allies are. I'd better start at the beginning.... No library descriptions found. 
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Want to like the central character and challenge, but author kept sacrificing the plot to drama and action.
DNF... TWICE. (