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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: "Out of the Dark" by David Weber
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 15:15:06 -0500
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"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. 
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.

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.

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).

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