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Star Soldier (Doom Star #1)
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Star Soldier
It’s survival of the fittest in a brutal war of extinction!
Created in the gene labs as super soldiers, the Highborn decide to replace the obsolete Homo sapiens. They pirate the Doom Stars and capture the Sun Works Ring around Mercury. Now they rain asteroids, orbital fighters and nine-foot drop troops onto Earth in a relentless tide of conquest.
Marten Kluge is on the recei...more
Created in the gene labs as super soldiers, the Highborn decide to replace the obsolete Homo sapiens. They pirate the Doom Stars and capture the Sun Works Ring around Mercury. Now they rain asteroids, orbital fighters and nine-foot drop troops onto Earth in a relentless tide of conquest.
Marten Kluge is on the recei...more
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June 16th 2010
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The Doom Star series of books are one of the best sci-fi book series I've read in a very long time!
They're set in the distant future where Earth and most of the inner planets in our solar system are ruled by the communist Social Unity, who brutally repress their subjects. The main character, Martin Kluge, starts the first book by escaping the Sun Works Factory, an enormous space station ringing Mercury. He flees to Earth where most people live in giant cities buried miles deep into the ground.
As...more
They're set in the distant future where Earth and most of the inner planets in our solar system are ruled by the communist Social Unity, who brutally repress their subjects. The main character, Martin Kluge, starts the first book by escaping the Sun Works Factory, an enormous space station ringing Mercury. He flees to Earth where most people live in giant cities buried miles deep into the ground.
As...more
Bleak, dark, intense, grim, brutal, hopelessness, gloomy, suffocating...not the best way to described this quick-paced futuristic sci-fi military novel. As bleak as Star Soldier (Doom Star #1) is, I enjoyed reading this sci-fi novel and the way the story unfolded.
Earth in the future is a planet ruled with an iron fist by the Social Unity, similar to 1984 or Nazi Germany, lots of paranoia. Due to overcrowding on the surface, most people are forced to live in underground cities. Planets within the...more
Earth in the future is a planet ruled with an iron fist by the Social Unity, similar to 1984 or Nazi Germany, lots of paranoia. Due to overcrowding on the surface, most people are forced to live in underground cities. Planets within the...more
I read the first book off of the Kindle Lenders Library for free.
The concept is valid, the story is ok, not a lot of closure in character story lines. As soon as a character becomes interesting it dies or disappears from the story. One character is introduce then poof, never mentioned again. Maybe they reappear elsewhere?
The worst thing about this book is the editing. When you have to read a paragraph three times and then still end up guessing what the author intended to say, it is not edited...more
The concept is valid, the story is ok, not a lot of closure in character story lines. As soon as a character becomes interesting it dies or disappears from the story. One character is introduce then poof, never mentioned again. Maybe they reappear elsewhere?
The worst thing about this book is the editing. When you have to read a paragraph three times and then still end up guessing what the author intended to say, it is not edited...more
I have very mixed feelings about this whole series.
The author is clearly not polished. Much of the writing is quite good, then I'll come across an incorrect word usage (verses vs. versus, used repeatedly), awkward sentence construction, or just something a bit weird that a good editor would correct. Which leads me to believe that these are self-edited and self-published.
The overall plot is interesting, although it has some holes. The characters are a bit shallow/cardboard, as well.
And that said,...more
The author is clearly not polished. Much of the writing is quite good, then I'll come across an incorrect word usage (verses vs. versus, used repeatedly), awkward sentence construction, or just something a bit weird that a good editor would correct. Which leads me to believe that these are self-edited and self-published.
The overall plot is interesting, although it has some holes. The characters are a bit shallow/cardboard, as well.
And that said,...more
This is the first in a great SF series, the first SF I've read in a while. There are a lot of plots, but they all mesh and Heppner keeps them all from getting tangled. There are interesting themes about politics, freedom, security and the dangers of science, and what makes one human. One roots for Marten Kluge, the hero, but also for various other characters, such as Osadar Di, a woman who's in the wrong place at the wrong time once too often.
The first part of a series, but it didn't convince me enough to read the other books. The background for the story was a bit over the top in how it was set up. It also didn't really try to explain the inconsistencies inherent in the various governments, or how they came to be. That I could deal with, but the story simply didn't work for me either. There was no connection with the protagonist that could draw you into the story.
Took a while to empathise with the main character, just about got there in the end. I was not convinced that the author managed to convey the sheer scale of some of the concepts, geology, geography or space which contributed to my edging towards indifferent response to the book. I'm not sure I'll move through the series which, is unusual for me as I love a good long read :)
I took a chance on a $0.99 purchase at Amazon and the positive reviews about hard sci-fi. Some plausible physics, but mostly it was battle and fighting gore, nothing too insightful to the genre
This is a big ol' ramp to the next book and it end in a very serial fashion that is just about like hitting a wall. Get the second book and have it on stand-by.
Entertaining but the book is somewhat riddled with repeated passages and could have used a more thorough editor.
Not a bad sci-fi book. The main character is really lost at times and can not decide what he is becoming.
I'll continue reading the series, but so far it is choppy writing and the main character is a HUGE idiot.
good solid sci fi good solid story well worth the effort
Book #1; OK but not worth reading more
Typical Sci-Fi, not bad, not great. just a book.
A great sci-fi Series!
Pop sci-fi. same ol, same ol.
Entertaining serial scifi - kept me hooked throughout.
Good book. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
It was an interesting book and showed promise, there were parts however that just dragged, especially the communications between people in the latter stages of the book
Feb 08, 2012
James Kidd
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Not too shabby. A SF tale with lots of hard SF, lots of ideas, just not amazing. But as a free book on kindle, why not?
Great start....keep it coming
May 12, 2013
Mark Fowles
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Adriana
marked it as purchased
Apr 29, 2013
Mike
marked it as to-read
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