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Old January 10th, 2007, 10:28 PM
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I still will wait to hear some reviews from others first. I don't expect the book to be worth the money they are asking.
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Old January 10th, 2007, 10:45 PM
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If the picture on the front is the aliens, definitly passing. Might was well hold up a big sign saying 'EXTREME CAMP, RIGHT HERE!!111ElevenOneity!!'
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Old January 10th, 2007, 11:53 PM
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That's what got me confused. She is an anthromorphic alien, yet the excerpt (available at Baen site) has the aliens with tentacles. On closer inspection her hands appear to have little tentacles in place of fingers. I can live with cat people, though it get old that every time they mention the Orions look like cats they throw in the obligatory elephants are closer to cats than Orions, but it gets even older when the aliens are humans with perhaps extra bits and different coloured skin. In Star Trek it's so they can keep the budget down, but I tend to think anthroporthising aliens makes us too prone to thinking, at a subconscious level, that they should be treated as funny looking humans rather than as aliens with nothing in common with us that should be a threat if only as competition.
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"Never judge a book by it's cover"......After all, if you didn't know anything about SEV, would you BUY it based on the box art??
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Yeah, SF box art..sucks. Its actually a fun little game to go through my collection and see which cover arc resembles the book the least.

The winner so far is Storm Runner, with its radioactive glowing huskie and SR-78 atop a grid background. None of which relates to the book at all.
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Old January 11th, 2007, 02:31 AM
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I was reading once about Sci-fi in the 50's. An author, perhaps Poul Anderson or someone of that level, was explaining he had a friend who did covers and apaprently they are so busy doing cover after cover they don't have the time to read the book and get an idea what's inside. Thus you end up with the same giant green alien/robot/monster menacing the heroine while the hero looks on with his raygun. Not as bad as that these days but I guess perhaps they are busy. In the Posleen books I've seen 2 different images of them, either giant crocodiles or velociraptors.
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The book is a pale comparision of the first 4 books , it's just not as " tightly " written , and even though I enjoyed some of Steve White's previous books you can tell it was Dvid Webber who fleshed out the battle scenes in the other books
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