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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780061238581 ISBN: 0061238589 Label: Eos Manufacturer: Eos Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: February 01, 2008 Publisher: Eos Release Date: January 29, 2008 Studio: Eos Related Items:
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A power vast, ancient, and terrifying, the mighty Xul have lost track of the insignificant humans hundreds of years after devastating their home world—which has enabled the United Star Marines to operate unnoticed and unhindered. A near-autonomous intergalactic policing force, they battle in defense of an Earth they may not live to see again. Now, following the trail of a vanished twenty-fourth-century transport, they are journeying through an unexplored stargate to the edge of an unknown galaxy many light years from their sun. For the last, best, and only chance to defeat the tyrants of the universe may at long last be at hand . . . Average Rating:
 Rating: - Good book, full of technical detailBeing a former Marine was really the only thing that brought me to find this book. While not a big sci-fi reader once I started it, this book hooked me pretty good. Lots of attention to detail especially the way Marines think and operate. Add to that a pretty good story with some action and I was reading away. I will read other books now by Douglas Ian and perhaps this will change my feelings about the genre as a whole. Rating: - Good space battlesAnother great book in the long line of Ian Douglas. You should start with his first books since they follow the same time line and family. Worth the money. Rating:  - Boring - Series Has Ran Out its WelcomeI real yawner. I read the first six books in these three sets of Trilogies, and there were some good books that came out of this series, but I've completely had it with this series now - I basically tossed this book in the trash at Page 225, when the author names "Global Warming" as a #1 issue in mankind's history - above even the Xul threat whereby the Earth was basically WRECKED! ...even when the author had never mentioned "global warming" as any kind of real issue before in the series... ... Read More Rating:  - Wow!I recall reading Semper Mars some years back and not being very impressed. I don't know what has changed, but I devoured this one and I'm working on doing the same for all the rest. I bought and read all the Heritage series and blasted through them in a couple of nights reading. Mr. Douglas does good work. I hope he's writing more, though the last trio has probably put paid to this Universe of his. Rating: - Great readI have read every book in the series and this one continues the great story. 
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