Friday, February 6, 2009

Off Armegeddon Reef - David Weber

3/5

Interesting idea - Earth is killed off and a last colony of humans are sent to another planet but literally the fear of god is put into them against developing technology for fear of the aliens getting to the planet.

Turns out a loan pica (cyborg) is set to wake up after 800 years and tell the people the truth. This doesn't really happen though. There are a bunch of interesting wars going on in old school naval battle style - but no real progress is made towards fighting off the aliens or getting back to earth, etc. I assume there must be sequels, but I wouldn't be interested enough to read them. Don't think I'll read Weber again.

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