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Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series) by David Weber
Review: Mutineer's Moon and the entire Dahak series is an excellent bit of si-fi writing. In my opinion, it's even better than his much more acclaimed Honor Harrington series. The action is intense and the characters well developed. Some of the best strategy around.
Review: I puchased the book, not being a big fan of Webber's Honor Series but this book was great. It pulls you in and refuses to let you put it down. I would recommend this and others of this series to those who love adventure, intrigue, and good old fashioned space opera.
Review: A fun 'space opera' where it turns out our moon is a giant space ship. Not the best of David Weber's books, but good. It does stand alone reasonably well, which is nice as the rest of the trilogy is not quite as good.
Review: This book was the best of the series in my view. It starts out normal then reels you into a world of outstandingly advanced technology. The charecters are described in vivid detail and the epic ship battles were out of this world. I think Weber has a very bright future ahead of him and if he keeps doing this kind of work he will be racked umong the greats.
Review: The 'rock' that is Earth's moon is perhaps not exactly what you think it is...
When Colin MacIntyre (an astronaught for NASA) flies a solo mission orbiting the Moon to run some tests, his equipment shows him something strange. Strange enough for him to believe the 'sophisticated' equipment has malifunctioned. Colin lands up being picked up out of his life and thrown into a new life based around a 50 000 year old, long dead society . That has a dilema worthy of it's size and age.
There is something strange about our Moon... Join Senior Fleet Captain Colin MacIntyre and find out what threatens our very excistance.
Review: David Weber is a shining star in the sci-fi heavens these days. I was never much a fan of the "military" sci fi before I started reading Weber and he turned me on to it.
Colin was an astronaut on 21st Century Earth. He was on a flight to the dark side of the moon - and out of contact with his superiors - when he was approached by a strange ship, which was unaffected by his weapons and which thereupon kidnapped him and drug him into the moon itself. To his surprise, he learns that the moon is actually a vast spaceship called Dahak, run by a central computer (Comp Cent) also calling itself Dahak and build by the Fourth Imperium, an ancient civilation and the basis for the human race. The Imperium came to Terra over 50,000 years ago on Dahak and were marooned there by a mutiny. Dahak has been waiting all this time for the right human to come along and become his new captain, for the ancient race of the Achuultani - which has almost competely destroyed the ancient Imperium, with its vastly higher technolocaical base, at least 3 times - is approaching earth and will arrive in the next 2 - 3 years. To make matters worse, the few remaining mutineers are divided into two factions: one which is still holding to its mutinous ways under the guidance of the unstable Anu, and another which regrets its involvement in the mutiny, led by Horus. Colin must first defeat the mutineers, who have hoarded all the weaponry and technology, as well as outnumbering the reformeds members of the crew by a large amount. Once that impossible task is done, then comes preparation to stop the Achuulanti . . .but that is the next book. . .
I'm reading this in the omnibus "Empire from the Ashes," so am able to read this story as a single tale rather than 3 individual books, but I feel it is easier to present reviews for each book individually. If yo are a fan of military sci fi, space opera, science fiction, or just a rousing adventure, this is the book for you!
Review: I couldn't ask for a better si-fi of this type. Make sure to read the 2nd and 3rd parts of this series.
Review: Being involved in law enforcement and having been in the military it is a pleasure to be able to escape with someone who knows what they are writing about, humans performing at their best under stress. The ideas in this series are fun but the individual characters and their loyalties are even better. Thanks.
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