What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Is it the Animorph series????
Sounds vaguely like Bloom, although I can't be sure as I didn't finish that book. But I remember skin-tight bodysuits and Russians being involved.
Thanks for the replies after so lengthy a time. Unfortunately, neither one is the story I read, nor do the authors appear to have written it. :(
Jesse, Members here keep responding with suggestions for months and years after the initial post so please keep checking back; someone may find your book.
Lisa,where do we look for follow-up once the discussion is no longer on the thread?
didn't realize that people may still respond.
thanks for the information
Patty, The threads stay in the UNSOLVED folder (or occasionally the POSSIBLY SOLVED folder) until the book(s) are found.If you can't find a thread where you posted a query, you can click on your name at your post to see all the posts you've made in a particular group.
Here are your posts so far:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/commen...
Does that help? Or, are you asking something else?
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@LobstergirlWell... I suppose. At this point it's more out of curiosity of who the author is than any intention to re-read this particular tale.
Well, I am afraid I don't know the book. I do, however, now have a bruised tailbone from falling off the chair laughing at your description of that famous scifi cover pose in point 4.
My first thought was The Bug Wars by Robert Lynn Asprin, but I don't remember there being any humans in it and none of the covers on goodreads even remotely resemble what you describe, so this probably isn't it...
The Bug Wars I thought was lizards vs. bugs. Good read, but not what's going on here.And really Ann? I'd've thought no Ringo fits this. But, granted, I've not read all his stuff - but usually he starts series... This sounds like a stand-alone.
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I don't know if it is Ringo, but, thought I'd throw them out there and let the OP check.
Besides, I just like Ringo--especially the scene where he blows up the Federal Building in Downtown Fredericksburg, VA. (Can we all guess where I live? And how much that stupid 1970's ugly block is hated in this area? It really is ugly and doesn't make any effort to blend into the historic district where it was built.) Sigh, think I'm going to give up for the evening and go let my fingers rest since I really can't type today.
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Not for this title, no. At this point just knowing the author would be enough, but I'm at peace with this ;)
Alien bugs book bump.I'm still curious, at least.
I have read this book some time ago. It featured an alien species that was psuedomorphic. The main antagonist was named "Tan". He wanted to gain fame and power by ending a war his race was in witha technologically inferior but much more aggressive race. To do so he violates a long standing quarantine placed around Earth and kidnaps what he believes is a crack team of military officers from every major military in the world. Their nominal leader is a red headed woman who is an analytical genius. They mutiny and take over the ship in the end and force humanity's release from quarantine. I remember all this but i'll be damned if I rememeber the name.
Oh. My. Goodness.That's it, that is the book. Almost six years after the initial post and there it is. :D
Hooray!Alien bugs book.
What's the Name of That Book???
Books mentioned in this topic
Starstrike (other topics)The Bug Wars (other topics)
Bloom (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
W. Michael Gear (other topics)John Ringo (other topics)
1. There are two alien races apparently striving for political dominance. One of these is very bug like, perhaps locust-like. This bug civilization endures a wild, crazy phase similiar to the Vulcan Pon-farr mating deal every 'x' amount of years. The other non-bug race is represented by a single sneaky chap who takes advantage of the bug's mass insanity by executing a military plan of his own against them when they can least afford to combat it. He does this by...
2. ...making first contact with humans, who he has been studying from afar and admiring their ingenuity and tenacious warring and tactical abilities, and makes them "ooh" and "ahh" over his advanced technology. He gathers up a large multinational group of specialists & military folks (a US woman is put in charge -- there's also a co-leader, a Russian tank commander with horror stories from his battle-strewn past -- and a data/hacker type individual also comes to mind, who later cracks the aliens computers). The alien teaches some (but not all) of his technology while also trying a social experiment on the side by giving every human skin tight uniforms which hide nothing (*cough* strictly scientific, I'm sure *cough*). What he doesn't count on is the rapidity which the humans learn his tech, execute training runs, and how they hide their full knowledge of just how susceptible he is to them should the deal go sour.
3. I never finished, but what I did read was around 1997 or 1998. It was a ramshackle paperback which looked like it could have been published during the early 90's (it didn't seem like a major title, just another genre piece).
4. The cover presented a woman striking that sci-fi *pose* (you know the one, where they hold a gun or something to their chest, one leg slightly ahead and up of the other, and give you ever-so-squinty-eyed "yes, I am a fine specimen of sci-fi badassery" look). Her hair might be blowing a little. The cover text was a lighter color (orange-ish, tan, golden) against a darker backing, possibly a starry expanse above a planet. A think a ship of some sort flies in the background and to her left. But don't count that last thought as a certainty. :S
5. Age range is adult, as there is sexually explicit and violent war imagery depicted (particularly when the mating mania hits the bug aliens).
6. Oh! And there is one individual bug alien (with some degree of political authority) who contemplates the craziness his people succumb to, and also realizes (too late) that the other alien is mounting his attack just at the worst time when no one is thinking straight, and he tries desperately to control himself and regain some semblance of a sound mind in the midst of his people's biologic chaos, but he too eventually gives in.