Re: "The Armageddon Inheritance" by David Weber

On 10/29/2025 3:06 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "The Armageddon Inheritance" by David Weber
>     https://www.amazon.com/Armageddon-Inheritance-David-Weber/ 
> dp/0671721976/
> 
> Book number two of a three book space opera military science fiction 
> series.  I reread the well printed MMPB published by Baen in 1993, my 
> book is the sixth printing from 2009.  This is my favorite SF series of 
> all time as I have reread it eight or ten times now.  In fact, the 
> binding of my book has broken since I have read it so many times.  This 
> book has sadly has gone out of print as a standalone book.  But, the 
> omnibus is still available as a new book:
>     https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Ashes-David-Weber/dp/141650933X/
> And the first book in the series is still available new:
>     https://www.amazon.com/Mutineers-Moon-Dahak-David-Weber/dp/0671720856
> 
> 55,000 years ago, a Fourth Imperium Utu class 2,000+ km diameter 
> planetoid, Dahak hull number 177291, dropped out of Euchanch drive due 
> to a supposed failure.  Dahak and his 250,000 person crew were headed to 
> a picket post for forty years at the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy.  It 
> had been 7,000 years since the last genocidal invasion of the 
> Achuultani, a race who periodically swept the Milky Way of all life, who 
> had destroyed three Imperiums and countless civilizations.  But the FTL 
> drive failure was not a accident, it was sabotage.  And the mutiny that 
> followed exiled the mutineers and crew alike on Earth, the third planet 
> of the Sol System.
> 
> Today, the unmanned picket posts are warning of the imminent invasion by 
> the Achuultani.  And Dahak is not receiving any warnings by hypercom 
> from Central Command.  Dahak is transmitting a warning to Central 
> Command now as that capability was restored when Colin MacIntyre 
> defeated the mutineers.  So, Dahak and his new crew of 100,000 Terrans 
> are going in search of help after offloading most of the space 
> battleships, the two massive industrial rebuilders, the space cruisers, 
> the space pinnaces, and the space fighters to help the Terrans fight off 
> the Achuultani scout forces, a force of well over 10,000 twenty 
> kilometer to forty kilometer long cylindrical battleships that want to 
> destroy all sapient beings.
> 
> I do not know why this is my favorite SF book and series of all time.  I 
> think that I like the standup position of the chief protagonist, Colin 
> the First.  Or that there are so many different species of intelligent 
> space races.  Or that the book is written so tightly, especially when 
> compared to Weber's later works.  Or that an self aware artificial 
> intelligence shares the main protagonist job in the book, much like 
> Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress".
> 
> I keep on hoping that David Weber will write more books in the Dahak 
> series but, I doubt it.  He did write the Safehold series which is along 
> the same lines as this book, overpowering space aliens and self aware 
> artificial intelligences.  BTW, there is an ending to the Safehold, 
> Honorverse, and Dahak series that David Weber wrote as joke:
> 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20211128164744/https:// 
> forums.davidweber.net/viewtopic.php? 
> f=7&t=4078&sid=e6322fa55d3aaf53b9dfd49f72db54c7
> 
> Here is my 2006 review of the book: "Great sequel with awesome space 
> battle scenes.  The story line is solid and the awesome battle scenes 
> are just the icing on the cake.  Plus, I really enjoy dual scene stories."
> 
> My rating: 6 out of 5 stars
> Amazon rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (60 reviews)
> 
> Lynn
>