Re: "To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark, 3)" by David Weber and Chris Kennedy

On 6/10/2025 8:10 PM, WolfFan wrote:

On Jun 9, 2025, Lynn McGuire wrote
(in article <1027odp$q7dg$1@dont-email.me>):
 

On 6/8/2025 8:14 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:

As I've kvetched before, not much of this
book review is about this book. Just one
paragraph.
>
How about putting that at the start of
a post, at least? But did I say that
before, too?

>
I am putting too many spoilers in my reviews of the current book in a
series. I am trying to cut back on that.
>
Lynn

 Weber’s going all George R.R. Martin, except with multiple series.
 There hasn’t been a new Empire of Man since 2005. No new Starfire since
2002. (Steve White has perpetuated at least two more by himself. They were
distinctly inferior.) There hasn’t been a new Safehold since 2019. There
hasn’t been a new Bazhell since 2015. No new Hell’s Gate since 2016. No
new Dahak since 1996. Lots of space vampires who are really solar-powered
nanobots and prequels to the AliciaDeVries and weird alt universe stuff.
 Personally I think that there ain’t gonna be any resolution of the
cliffhangers in the old series, and I am _very_ reluctant to start up new
series. I expect that he’ll lose interest. Again. And the space vampires
are just so utterly ridiculous. Especially after the bad guys from the first
book switch sides in the third book ‘cause they weren’t really all that
bad, they just killed a third of humanity, that’s all.
 Bloody hell.

BTW, the Shongari killed off 3/4s of the humans on Terra before the so-called vampires rode their shuttles into orbit and killed the millions of Shongari invaders.  8 billion humans reduced to 2 billion in less than a year using mostly kinetic weapons from orbit.
Lynn