Re: "Out of the Dark" by David Weber

On Wed, 28 May 2025 15:15:06 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<[email protected]> wrote:

>"Out of the Dark" by David Weber
>    https://www.amazon.com/Out-Dark-David-Weber/dp/076536381X/
>
>Book number one of a three book science fiction alien invasion series.=20
>I reread the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Tor in 2011=20
>that I bought new on Amazon recently.  I did have the hardback that I=20
>bought in 2011 but the dirt dobbers destroyed that book in my garage=20
>storage.  I have the other two books in the series and plan to reread=20
>the second book soon and read the third book that I bought recently.
>
>The Shongairi, a canine omnivore aggressive race of the Galactic=20
>Hegemony, announced their presence in Earth orbit by dropping thousands=20
>of kinetic weapons and killing a quarter of the human race on the first=20
>day.  The Shongairi then landed enormous numbers of troops and weapons=20
>and tried to force the human race to submit as they had done to several=20
>other alien space races.  But humans do not submit and we fought back,=20
>losing another quarter of the human race to the invading ground soldiers=
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>and more kinetic strikes.  And starvation and disease.
>
>Hey, there are vampires in my alien invasion story !  Leave it to Weber=20
>to write a great alien invasion story and then use a deus ex machina of=20
>Vampires in the last 50 pages of the story to close it out.  Worked for=20
>me but quite a few people on Amazon did not like it.  Also, Weber really=
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>cut back on his description of military technology in the book, not that=
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>I care.  Also, Weber makes a great argument for private ownership of=20
>Stinger missiles (MANPADS).

There are several areas around here where Stingers would be /most/
welcome, as they are near enought to a major airport for low-flying
jets to be very very noisy.

>The author has a website at:
>    https://www.davidweber.net/
>
>My rating:  5 out of 5 stars (I raised my rating on the reread from 4 =
stars)
>Amazon rating:  4.3 out of 5 stars (3,927 reviews)
>
>Lynn
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"