Dark Matter, Ian Douglas
Dark Matter, Ian Douglas
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Dark Matter
Star Carrier: Book Five

Author: Ian Douglas

Narrator: Nick Sullivan

Unabridged: 11 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/27/2014


Synopsis

An enemy might just have to become an ally . . . in order to save humankind The United States of North America is now engaged in a civil war with the Earth Confederation, which wants to yield to the demands of the alien Sh'daar, limit human technology, and become a part of the Sh'daar Galactic Collective. USNA President Koenig believes that surrendering to the Sh'daar will ultimately doom humankind.But when highly advanced, seemingly godlike aliens appear through an artificial wormhole in the Omega Centauri Cluster 16,000 light years from Earth, President Koenig is faced with a tremendous choice: continue fighting the Sh'daar . . . or ally with them against the newcomers in a final war that will settle the fate of more than one universe.

About Ian Douglas

Ian Douglas is one of the many pseudonyms for writer William H. Keith, the New York Times bestselling author of the popular military science fiction series The Heritage Trilogy, The Legacy Trilogy, The Inheritance Trilogy, The Star Corpsman series, The Andromedan Dark series, and The Star Carrier series. A former naval corpsman, he lives in Pennsylvania.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike

Dear Star Carrier Series, I am writing this in an effort to salvage our relationship, a relationship I have enjoyed since we first met. You weren't like a lot of the other space operas out there. You didn't give a damn about things like character development, or subverting traditional sci-fi tropes,......more

I have to say that I was rather disappointed with this book. The star rating I have given it is just barely and I was tempted to give it an even lower one but the writing itself is good enough so I stuck to the one I have given it. Previous books have impressed me with their detailed space combat and......more

Goodreads review by Björn

Boring, repetitive and politics. A lot of wasted words. The first 75% of this book can be skipped. Nothing of interest happens here. It's all just ranting about politics and blah blah blah. None of it adds any value to the story or the characters. Since "Sandy" has become an admiral (in the previous b......more

1.5 Stars It's something that I didn't notice the first time I read the series (up to book 3) but this guy repeats the same explanation of the concepts used, in every goddamn book he's written MULTIPLE TIMES per book. It's more than a little annoying when you have to go through dozens of pages of exp......more