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Bezig met laden... We Few (editie 2006)door David Weber, John Ringo
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Prince Roger's return to Earth is epic. His adventures with the Bronze Barbarian/Marines in all four novels makes for one of the best military series... It's a modern Odyssey. I don't know if it'll still be told after two thousand years like the Odyssey, but it does have that kind of epic power. Enjoy! Rollicking good fun - military SF with a good twist of humour. Prince Roger returns home with a motley crew of assorted aliens to save the interstellar empire and his mother the empress from the evil usurpers. Since everybody, including his mother, originally thought that Roger was a useless playboy git, he has some persuasion to do. He needs local allies as well as his motley crew, who are busy setting up an ethnic restaurant as cover story. This is a later book in a series, but it stood alone well enough. I'll be looking out for the earlier ones, in which Prince Roger gets over being a useless playboy git and learns about toughness and loyalty and sword fighting and plasma cannons and stuff. There is rather too much of the battle techno-babble, in which we learn that the XKCD stardroidraptors can outmanoeuvre the HHGG Arcturan mega-battlecruisers at sublight speeds but only when running on their hyperblowwave engines with the antimatter polarity reversed. Or something like that. But that's a minor gripe; I skimmed those bits. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: Prince Roger MacClintock was heir to the galaxy's Throne of Man and a spoiled young bratâ??that is, until he and his Royal Marines were stranded on the barbarian planet Marduk. So far, they've traversed a continent, taken over an enemy spaceport, and hijacked a starship. But they're not home free yetâ??because home is no longer free. Traitors have murdered Prince Roger's brother and sister. His mother, the empress, is still alive, but in the hands of Roger's own biological father, who controls her through drugs and torture. A new heir to the throne has been conceived, and once he is born, Roger's mother will no longer be necessary to the traitors' plans. Prince Roger must somehow retake the empire before his new brother is born and his mother dies. It's an impossible taskâ??but Prince Roger knows all about impossible ta Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Weber and Ringo steal an appropriate phrase from Shakespeare for their title because there are very few of Prince Roger’s original company left by the time he gets back to Earth to rescue his mother from her kidnappers and restore peace to the empire. He must go undercover to prepare for his assault on the palace. He hides his allies in a Mardukian restaurant, which becomes a fad in exotic dining in the capital. We Few is a fun and fitting conclusion to this epic saga. 4 stars. ( )