Legion of the Damned Legion of the Damned Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) William C Dietz Donald Corren Audible Studios Books
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In the future, the terminally ill can prolong life by surrendering their consciousness to a cybernetic life form that is then recruited into the notorious Legion of the Damned, an elite fighting unit charged with protecting humanity.
Legion of the Damned Legion of the Damned Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) William C Dietz Donald Corren Audible Studios Books
I don't write a lot of book reviews, I have no pretentions of being an author or a critic but I wanted to put something out there. I almost put this book down at first. The beginning has the same over the top cynical feel that Travis Taylors One Day on Mars does, a book that I read and detest. In the beginning this book makes you feel like the people you care about can never get a break and that it is going to just be a long, depressing deathfest with the slimballs getting a free ride and all the decent characters messed over time and time again. Wrong. It is like real life. In time of peace the slimy politicians and beancounting micromanagers in uniform rule over all. When the bullets start to fly there is a change in society. This is like that. Not everyone lives, but not everyone dies either. I'd buy it again and I plan to continue the series to see how it goes, a number of twists surprised me and I've been reading SF and Military SF for a lot of years.Product details
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Legion of the Damned Legion of the Damned Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) William C Dietz Donald Corren Audible Studios Books Reviews
A good read. Wouldn't call it a classic, but not far off. The characters are believable, though some of the development is rushed.
I really enjoyed the Legion "prequels" starting with Andromeda's Fall, so I figured I'd give the original series a chance.
So bad.
First of all, facts from the prequels are different in this series, like the length of the day on the main Legion planet.
But, after the point of view character changed 3 times in 2 pages, I said "enough is enough" and put the book down.
Go read his later stuff, like Andromeda's Fall, and leave this dreck alone.
This book kept me captive the whole way through it. I wanted more in depth battles and character build up from the book and I hope the next one will have it. There were many battles I would have liked to have been longer as well. This is the 4th book that I have read from Mr. Dietz and I am looking forward to reading more books in this series. He is a great writer!!
I actually started out by reading the Andromeda series first before purchasing all 9 of the Legion of the Damned books, I bought both the kindle version and the audiobook versions, they are that good! Reading them wasn't enough, I had to hear them too.
Fun read. People engage in violence because of instiutional rewards, a factor that is common for both primitive man and civilized, and the aliens. England and Scotland maintained continuous war fare for 300 years, in the boarder area, for mutual benefit. The warfare gave Endland a body of experienced soldiers. The cyborg technology changes the personality of the user. Usually for the better. There are different and conflicting rewards to the individuals generating major changes in even criminals.
Very innovative in teh design of the characters, and a great exploration of far reaching new possibilities. I loved how some characters were woven across lives with each other. The only point I struggled with was perhaps trying to get into so many character types through the book. I felt like it was almost two or three stories melded together. Still, overall it was very entertaining and a great read.
I'm quite pleased that I finally got around to sampling the wares of William C. Dietz, a writer with an impressive number of science fiction novels under his belt already. Legion of the Damned is a well-paced, absorbing novel of futuristic military science fiction based on a premise I find fascinating. A couple of centuries into the future, murderers and their ilk are still being executed, but they are given a second chance - of sorts - to evade the permanent clutches of the Grim Reaper. Those who choose the option of resuscitation are, if approved, reborn in the form of cyborgs - basically, these are gigantic robots of death consisting of a human head inside an artificial and quite deadly body. (For the record, other humans, such as the terminally ill, also have the chance to opt in to the cyborg program.) The cyborgs serve under the command of the Legionnaires, a military force founded on the twentieth-century French Foreign Legion. While they serve in the military of imperial Earth, the Legion is their country (just as their motto says). By the time of the events described herein, the Legion has finally been granted a home of their own, exercising a form of self-autonomy on Algeron, near the outer rim of the Empire's control. Of course, there are many human Legionnaires, but the cyborgs pack most of the punch. Training is so rigorous that many fall along the way, and some even hope for a second death in order to finally fall into oblivion.
There is great trouble in the Empire. The Hudathans, a militaristic alien race, have begun decimating imperial planets on the outer rim and are obviously working their way toward Earth itself. The Admiral of the Imperial Navy is an opportunistic and power-hungry individual who supports a retreat of the Imperial Navy, ostensibly to prepare an overwhelming attack against the Hudathans when they move farther into the empire's region of space; in actuality, her desires are fuelled largely by a determination to make a hero out of herself and to finally rob the Legion of its might and power. Many on the home world (especially those with an economic interest in the planets that stand to be abandoned) argue that Earth's forces should engage the enemy now, while they are still in the outer rim. To the misfortune of everyone concerned, the Emperor is basically insane - as mad as Nero and possibly even more decadent. At least Nero didn't have seven advisors hard-coded into this brain as a child and left to fight amongst themselves inside his mind.
Obviously, a major space battle between Earth's Imperial Navy and the Hudathan fleet is to be expected as this novel wends its way to a conclusion. However, a war between the Imperial Navy and the Legionnaires on Algeron, a localized imperial civil war, looms even closer on the horizon, for the Legion is quite unwilling to give up its home base and allow its forces to be dispersed. Basically, a lot of action is to be found in these pages, and Dietz excels at describing the militaristic aspects of his plot. There are a number of sub-stories incorporated into this fictional fabric involving the formation of a cabal to oppose the Emperor on Earth, an inter-species love story (that never completely clicks, in my opinion), legalistic power-plays among the alien Hudathans themselves in preparation for cosmic war, and a coming together of two cyborgs who "met" in a most unusual fashion in their prior human lives. The ultimate conclusion seems to come a little too quickly and easily, but all in all this is a thoroughly enjoyable novel that all fans of military science fiction should quite enjoy reading.
I don't write a lot of book reviews, I have no pretentions of being an author or a critic but I wanted to put something out there. I almost put this book down at first. The beginning has the same over the top cynical feel that Travis Taylors One Day on Mars does, a book that I read and detest. In the beginning this book makes you feel like the people you care about can never get a break and that it is going to just be a long, depressing deathfest with the slimballs getting a free ride and all the decent characters messed over time and time again. Wrong. It is like real life. In time of peace the slimy politicians and beancounting micromanagers in uniform rule over all. When the bullets start to fly there is a change in society. This is like that. Not everyone lives, but not everyone dies either. I'd buy it again and I plan to continue the series to see how it goes, a number of twists surprised me and I've been reading SF and Military SF for a lot of years.
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