Surrender Your Dreams
by Blaine Lee Pardoe
MechWarrior: Dark Age (#23), BattleTech Novel Reading Order (87), BattleTech (MWDA #23)
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The Fidelis fight on . . . They are the Fidelis, a brotherhood of warriors whose devotion to honour and courage on the battlefield is unmatched. Their existence known only to a former exarch, they are a fighting force to be reckoned with-a force three knights must consider as they undertake missions that could save the Republic . . . or cripple it.Tags
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Blaine Lee Pardoe has been a contributor to the BattleTech universe for many years, first working on sourcebooks and then on novels. Surrender Your Dreams is his second MechWarrior: Dark Age novel, and in my opinion, an improvement on the first.
Where Target of Opportunity seemed to be divided into two halves, the first plot, the second combat, there was none of that here; Surrender was well-paced throughout, doing a good job of interspersing character moments with action. While the chapter organization was... unusual, in the end I think that it was to the book's benefit. Rather than simply being three novellas, it let the reader compare and contrast the different stories, see how each person was affected by similar events.
I liked that show more we got a deeper look at Damien Redburn; even though he's the former Exarch of the Republic, no longer in power, I've always thought that he needed some fleshing out. Here, after his "retirement", we get that. We also get something that was missing at the end of Fortress Republic: hope that things might just turn out okay after all. Even though we aren't privy to it, there's definitely the feeling that there's a plan at work here. It's not just the Fortress that will be working to save the Republic, but those outside it (as we see over the course of the novel).
Surrender Your Dreams is the first book to really deal with the consequences of the declaration of Fortress Republic. Blaine really hammered home just what the declaration meant for the other nine Prefectures now without a nation. With luck, this won't be the last we'll see of the efforts to save the Republic from itself… show less
Where Target of Opportunity seemed to be divided into two halves, the first plot, the second combat, there was none of that here; Surrender was well-paced throughout, doing a good job of interspersing character moments with action. While the chapter organization was... unusual, in the end I think that it was to the book's benefit. Rather than simply being three novellas, it let the reader compare and contrast the different stories, see how each person was affected by similar events.
I liked that show more we got a deeper look at Damien Redburn; even though he's the former Exarch of the Republic, no longer in power, I've always thought that he needed some fleshing out. Here, after his "retirement", we get that. We also get something that was missing at the end of Fortress Republic: hope that things might just turn out okay after all. Even though we aren't privy to it, there's definitely the feeling that there's a plan at work here. It's not just the Fortress that will be working to save the Republic, but those outside it (as we see over the course of the novel).
Surrender Your Dreams is the first book to really deal with the consequences of the declaration of Fortress Republic. Blaine really hammered home just what the declaration meant for the other nine Prefectures now without a nation. With luck, this won't be the last we'll see of the efforts to save the Republic from itself… show less
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Blaine Pardoe is a novelist and military historian. He has been a featured speaker at the United States National Archives, the United States Navy Museum, and the New York Military Affairs Symposium. His books have been printed in six languages. Pardoe resides in Amissville, Virginia.
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- Canonical title
- Surrender Your Dreams
- Original title
- Surrender Your Dreams
- Alternate titles
- Mechwarrior Dark Age: Surrender Your Dreams; Surrender Your Dreams: A Battletech Novel
- Original publication date
- 2006-12-05
- People/Characters
- Crystal Livingstone Synd; Hunter Mannheim; Kristoff Erbe; Damien Redburn; Paul Moon; Devlin Stone (show all 38); Jeremy Chin; Thomas Marik (The Master); Jonah Levin; Jerome Blake; Allison Stewart; Ceresco Hancock (Cheryl Gunson); Jayson Greene; Sasha Korkova; Thelos Auburn; Daniel Peterson (Ezekiel Crow); Victor Steiner-Davion; Héloïse Montgolfier; Aleksandr Kerensky; Immortal Warrior; Nehemiah Leif; James Paulis; Malvina Hazen; Jessica Marik; Michel de Nostredame; Alexi Holt; Reo Jones; Andrew Brunner; Francis Kaff; Joseph Henzel; Cheryl Gunson; Albert Synd; William Shakespeare; Henry V of England; Rita Mannheim; Judith Mannheim; Ron Mannheim; Jacob Erbe
- Important places
- Callison (Republic of the Sphere); Kwamashu (Duchy of Andurien); Andurien (Duchy of Andurien); Oriente (Oriente Protectorate); Tharkad (Lyran Alliance); Outreach (Chaos March) (show all 14); Ryde (Jade Falcon Occupation Zone); Terra (Republic of the Sphere); Northwind (Republic of the Sphere); New Earth (Republic of the Sphere); Towne (Republic of the Sphere); Bernardo (Republic of the Sphere); Skye (Jade Falcon Occupation Zone); Talitha (Republic of the Sphere)
- First words
- Greetings, Damien, my dear friend.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I will let the rest of the Inner Sphere know that the wayward children whom they damned have returned to their doorstep as their saviors."
- Publisher's editor
- Mulvihill, Sharon Turner
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.6
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