Re: "Out of the Dark" by David Weber

On Wed, 28 May 2025 15:15:06 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

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

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