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The Border

door Robert R. McCammon

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Fiction. Horror. Science Fiction. HTML:The New York Timesâ??bestselling author "pulls out all the stops for this exhilarating alien-invasion epic . . . One of his finest" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
It happened one day in April. Huge explosions in skies across the world heralded the coming of the Gorgon ships, sparking a worldwide panic. Indestructible, they blasted Earth's greatest cities into rubble. Then, through portals opening in the air, came the skeletal Cyphers. And Earth became a battlefield in a war between two alien races bent on mutual destruction.
In Colorado, just over a hundred survivors have found sanctuary in the ruins of an apartment complexâ??and it's not just the Gorgons and Cyphers who threaten them. They are regularly besieged by the Gray Men, humans mutated by something in the atmosphere into monstrosities straight out of nightmares.
With their ammunition and supplies dwindling, the remaining humans face a bleak future. Then one day, a teenage boy appears, seemingly human, seemingly the victim of catastrophic injuries. He can't remember where he came from, but he senses a power within himselfâ??one that causes an earthquake to repel a horde of Gray Men. A voice speaks to the boy in his sleep, telling him to find "the white mansion." Now, the one thing the survivors need most of all is blossoming within them: hope. But only if they choose to trust in a boy who has no memory and only three words from a dream to guide him . . .
"A prime example of a master storyteller/writer returning to the type of novel that made him a master and an excellent addition to the alien invasion flavor of the Apocalyptic Novel canon." â??SF
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  nitrolpost | Mar 19, 2024 |
A story of humanity caught in the crossfire as powerful aliens species fight over control of Earth, this is a gruesome, wrenching novel with just a touch of hope.

The pride is McCammon's usual mix of lurid description and sentimental wistfulness, but the characters are well built and the action riveting. Fun, but falls a little flat in the depth department. ( )
  JimDR | Dec 7, 2022 |
Average sci-fi entertainment that is marred by a particularly weak "it was all a dream" type ending. We don't even get to shed any tears, none, and all those shed along the way were wasted. I found the characters tepid by McCammon standards and the scenario and plot, while showing early signs of innovation, settled into a fairly conventional class in the end. Hardly an occasion for rejoicing about McCammon's return to 1980s form. A fat read strictly for McCammon aficionados. ( )
  Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
Hoo, that was super grim. ( )
  Jon_Hansen | Feb 23, 2022 |
Well. That wasn't very good, was it?

Look, let's just get this out of the way. If you want to read better versions of this novel, read [b:Swan Song|11557|Swan Song|Robert McCammon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1445981000s/11557.jpg|2947187] for the apocalytic elements, then [b:Stinger|11556|Stinger|Robert McCammon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1340796928s/11556.jpg|16692450] for the really bad SF/alien elements.

McCammon is not a SF author. That's pretty damn obvious. He can be an excellent author when he wants to be. [b:Boy's Life|11553|Boy's Life|Robert McCammon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1314302694s/11553.jpg|16685995] proves it. Unfortunately, lazy, unfocused efforts like this one, or [b:The Five|10189558|The Five|Robert McCammon|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327896424s/10189558.jpg|15088657] shows how off he can actually be when he's off.

Seriously, there isn't a single character in the novel that has anything approaching a reasonable back story that's developed enough for the reader to give a shit about them, or to reveal any of their motivations.

The aliens are similarly loosely sketched. Big miss on the main character, Ethan as he struggles after coming back from the dead, losing his memory, and dealing with an alien presence encroaching on both his body and his mind. None of it was developed.

Finally, there's the base premise. McCammon would have us believe that some sort of strategic border "passes directly through the planet" and causes the fighting between the two races. Right through the planet? Because, last time I checked, the planet in question, the titular border in The Border actually orbits the sun at a distance of 93 million miles, meaning that particular border must move by a factor of 186 million miles, depending on where it is in the orbit.

But they scrap over this planet? Stupid.

This was a rather sad way to finish off the last of the series of books that I started not quite a year ago, beginning with McCammon's first effort.

But I'm done now. And after this one? Kinda glad I am.
  TobinElliott | Sep 3, 2021 |
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Fiction. Horror. Science Fiction. HTML:The New York Timesâ??bestselling author "pulls out all the stops for this exhilarating alien-invasion epic . . . One of his finest" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
It happened one day in April. Huge explosions in skies across the world heralded the coming of the Gorgon ships, sparking a worldwide panic. Indestructible, they blasted Earth's greatest cities into rubble. Then, through portals opening in the air, came the skeletal Cyphers. And Earth became a battlefield in a war between two alien races bent on mutual destruction.
In Colorado, just over a hundred survivors have found sanctuary in the ruins of an apartment complexâ??and it's not just the Gorgons and Cyphers who threaten them. They are regularly besieged by the Gray Men, humans mutated by something in the atmosphere into monstrosities straight out of nightmares.
With their ammunition and supplies dwindling, the remaining humans face a bleak future. Then one day, a teenage boy appears, seemingly human, seemingly the victim of catastrophic injuries. He can't remember where he came from, but he senses a power within himselfâ??one that causes an earthquake to repel a horde of Gray Men. A voice speaks to the boy in his sleep, telling him to find "the white mansion." Now, the one thing the survivors need most of all is blossoming within them: hope. But only if they choose to trust in a boy who has no memory and only three words from a dream to guide him . . .
"A prime example of a master storyteller/writer returning to the type of novel that made him a master and an excellent addition to the alien invasion flavor of the Apocalyptic Novel canon." â??SF

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