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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark, 3)" by David Weber and
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:24:52 -0500
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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