Empire Star Force Series B V Larson Books
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Kyle Riggs has been away from Earth for a long time…what’s happening back home? In EMPIRE, the sixth book of the Star Force Series, the story moves in a new direction. Earth falls quiet, and the few reports coming out of the homeworld are increasingly strange. Isolated in the Eden system, Riggs realizes his enemies are forming an alliance against him. Crushed between two monstrous fleets, the last defenders of Star Force must forge their own alliance with the biotic aliens. But which alien race can Riggs truly trust? EMPIRE is a military science fiction novel by bestselling author B. V. Larson.
Empire Star Force Series B V Larson Books
This series is excellent the whole way through. Whenever you think a rhythm has been established, it evolves into a new situation with clever implications. The writing is fast paced but not simplistic. The plots are sometimes cliche, but they shift around so fast that they aren't predictable or boring. It's not deep philosophy or dense reading, but it is extremely creative and have a consistent treatment of the futuristic technologies.Caveats
(1) Books 1-9 are excellent and end at a logical stopping point. Books 10-12 are pale imitations that can be skipped without missing anything. I didn't hate the last 3, but they are disappointing after the brilliance of the first 9. The first 9 are better left unblemished with an anticlimactic sequel trilogy.
(2) There is some mild implicit sexism. It doesn't get in the way of the good parts of the books, but it is there. Every female character is described in terms of her attractiveness when first introduced. All women are either objects of desire, incompetent under pressure, or schemers. The men, by contrast, are portrayed with much more variety in personality and role. Women are never insulted explicitly, but the characterization is still pretty consistent and unfortunate.
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Empire Star Force Series B V Larson Books Reviews
This is the sixth book in B.V. Larson's Starforce series. In order to fully understand what's going on in this story, you MUST start from book one in the series, called Swarm Star Force Series #1.
Book one is about some advance, half-benign fleet of alien machines that suddenly and mysteriously arrived from outer space one night. They were basically a fleet of robotic ships looking for humans (or any other sentient being) to pilot them.
Each was the size of a football field, black in color, totally silent, and had a hundred-foot long black hose-like appendage extending from its undercarriage. The ships used this hose-like extension like a massive grappling hook to burst through windows and roof-tops and pluck terrified people from inside. Many people died on that first night of activity, before some people started to figure out that the ships were not deliberately trying to kill people, but only searching for suitable command personnel.
They carried people aboard to test them to see if they were suitable for this task. When someone failed the test his or her mangled body would be unceremoniously dumped through a door in the ship's undercarriage.
The main guy in the story, and in the whole series, a college professor of computer science named Kyle Riggs, suffered the loss of his entire family on that first night as one ship hovered over his house and systematically kidnapped and tested every member of his family. By the time the huge black arm got hold of him and carried him aloft, the intense fear he felt had gradually turned to outrageous anger towards these seemingly ruthless aliens.
Ironically, this anger and outrage was what helped him to pass the various tests inside the ship and allowed him to be designated as the ship's pilot. Afterward he learns that the ship and everything inside is constructed from an intelligent liquid metal called nanites. As a result, he called the ship "Ninite-ship, or Nano-ship" and he learnt how to use the nanites to create new things for himself such as super strong body armor.
Eventually, in succeeding books, Riggs, and other new nano-ship pilots, aided by this new alien technology, increasingly became an extremely powerful military force on earth. More powerful than The United States, Russian, or Chinese military. They formed an organization called "Starforce" that reported only to an Australian guy named Crow who seemed to be the first person on earth to become a nano-pilot, (even though the story wasn't clear on this point). Crow appointed himself general of the now human-controlled fleet of alien ships, and he designated Kyle Riggs as colonel and chief military officer.
They were the most powerful army in the world, envied by The Pentagon and the likes...until a more hostile group of machines (The Macros) made themselves known. And that's the point where the war began The war between biological beings, our Nano-ship allies, and the metallic machines intent on our extinction. Starforce now became the only real deterrent to the Macros. The only real force equipped to fight an alien army of machines.
In every succeeding narrative Klye Riggs learnt more and more about the "Nanos" and the "Macros". After the Macros had invaded the earth, Starforce figured out how to use the nano-ships to beat them back, and to eventually chase them away, to way back out into outer space where they came from. But still, the Macros kept returning on an average of about once a year.
The nano-ships could go anywhere and do almost anything. Once after using the ships to chase the macros to outer space, Riggs found out that there was a ring system, a sort of stargate, through which both the Nanos and the Macros could easily travel to distant places in the universe. Starforce, led by Riggs used this knowledge to go to our nearest star-system neighborhoods where they found biotic allies and set up defensive shields against the Macros.
The other alien specie are realistically, and totally different from us. Nothing like aliens in antiseptic star trek, or of battlestar galactica. Some look like goats, some like worms, and yet other who are actually huge intelligent lobsters that smell delicious when they get burn. Riggs, Starforce commander, wisely restricts them from being on Starfoce's dinner menu. "we came here to be their allies against the ruthless machines, not to eat them", he often rebukes hungry marines who start to get ideas.
In book five Riggs, and Starforce, use captured Macro robots and technology to build a battlestation near the entrance to one of the rings. Book six is mainly about how they used the battlestation to repel more Macro attacks.
There are lots of ship-to-ship space battles which only B.V. Larson can bring out in sharp detail it seems. This book is pure action that puts the reader in the command chair on the bridge of a huge warrior class spaceship. At the end, the commander chooses to get out of his very cushy easy chair to join his "Riggs Pigs" marines in close quarters combat on the battlestation, after it was invaded by the lobster "people" whom, up until now, have refused to be a part of an alliance of biotic specie which was organized by Starforce.
Amid the horror of war, there is drama between Riggs, his girlfriend, and one of Riggs's top female officers. The story on a whole, has a realistic feel to it, as if it all could be happening right now, or that it might probably happen at some time in the future. The characters in the whole series are fully fleshed out and seem real.
I have thoroughly enjoyed the series so far, and definitely don't want it to end anytime soon. It seems like the author could keep building on the story forever, and I certainly hope that he does so. I eagerly look forward to its continuation in book seven. I wonder what will be the name of the next title. "Revenge" perhaps?
Colonel Riggs and Sandra are back along with the brilliant sometimes dangerous robot Marvin. Sandra the microbiological/nanite hopped up girlfriend and bodyguard of Colonel Riggs has managed to keep him alive, mostly. Now living in the Eden System and running out of humans, Riggs battles the Macros with the help of the Centaur race, the Worms and even the Crustaceans. But Earth now under the rule of Emperor Crow, an egomaniacal, brutal leader and supreme commander of Imperial Fleet are against him as well. Riggs and his rag tag crew of humans and Centaurs manage to out wit, out last and out play the evil machine race and the Empire but the cost in lives is staggering. Subjecting himself to a series of microbiological upgrades in order to withstand the crushing pressure on a gas giant Jupiter type planet in the Eden System, Riggs makes contact with the superior race known as the Blues who live there. Gaseous airgel beings arrogant, powerful and rude the Blues created the Macros; could Colonel Riggs form an alliance with the Blues to stop the Macros from destroying the entire Eden System and can Riggs and Sandra stay alive? A must read; no shortage of action and intrigue.
After reading all of the books on this series I have to say , not bad..
It must be difficult to write a plot or series of plots that continue for 10 books. This author does a fine job though. Not all of the books captured my interest but enough did for me to say the series is worth reading. I would even like to see more in this universe , perhaps a story written much further into its future. It does have its share of editing issues , but what book nowadays doesn't. The plots for the most part don't get to bogged down. The technical imagination is worth exploring. Character development could be better and does improve with some of the latter titles. I would recommend these for a reader who wants to continue in a world that goes on.....
This series is excellent the whole way through. Whenever you think a rhythm has been established, it evolves into a new situation with clever implications. The writing is fast paced but not simplistic. The plots are sometimes cliche, but they shift around so fast that they aren't predictable or boring. It's not deep philosophy or dense reading, but it is extremely creative and have a consistent treatment of the futuristic technologies.
Caveats
(1) Books 1-9 are excellent and end at a logical stopping point. Books 10-12 are pale imitations that can be skipped without missing anything. I didn't hate the last 3, but they are disappointing after the brilliance of the first 9. The first 9 are better left unblemished with an anticlimactic sequel trilogy.
(2) There is some mild implicit sexism. It doesn't get in the way of the good parts of the books, but it is there. Every female character is described in terms of her attractiveness when first introduced. All women are either objects of desire, incompetent under pressure, or schemers. The men, by contrast, are portrayed with much more variety in personality and role. Women are never insulted explicitly, but the characterization is still pretty consistent and unfortunate.
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