Earth Strike, Ian Douglas
Earth Strike, Ian Douglas
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Earth Strike
Star Carrier: Book One

Author: Ian Douglas

Narrator: Nick Sullivan

Unabridged: 12 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/09/2011


Synopsis

In the vein of the hit television show Battlestar Galactica comes Earth Strike—the first book in the action-packed Star Carrier science fiction series by Ian Douglas, author of the popular Inheritance, Heritage, and Legacy Trilogies and one of the most adept writers of military sf working today. Earth Strike rockets readers into a vast  and deadly intergalactic battle, as humankind attempts to bring down an evil empire and establish itself as the new major power. Fans of Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers and Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War, welcome aboard the Star Carrier!

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

I would say this is a very conditional 4 stars. Depending on your proclivities it could easily be a terrible 2 star book. While this could obviously be said about any work of literature, I think this book is very good in a very, very narrow niche which I happen to enjoy. Succinctly put, Earth Strike......more

Goodreads review by Chris

This was so totally not what I was expecting. In a good way. I read his Heritage trilogy a bunch of years ago and loved that series. Good story, good action, it was a good experience. I see that this is a pretty long series and all the books are out and it doesn't hurt that a few people whose opinio......more

Goodreads review by Dirk

For the next several seconds, the combat was a confused blur of fast-moving ships, black space, and fireballs. Twice, her Starhawk AI intervened to throw the ship one way or the other to avoid hurtling pieces of whitehot debris. She saw her CPG beam spear through an oncoming Toad just ahead, and the......more

What we have here is a good solid, "not bad" space opera read. I like military science fiction. Give me fleets clashing in space or ground troops in future armor fighting giant bugs, or robots, or droids or...whatever and I'm happy. Generally if you blow up enough stuff I'm not to concerned about re......more