And the author keeps treating money as a resource instead of a currency. Weapon technology is super advanced, but everything else sucks just because. The government is evil unless being evil would help something, then its incompentent. Overpopulation is rampant but everything is somehow understaffed. Just hydrocars, hydrotrains and fusion plants. Earth is covered by smog, even though there are no pollution sources.
The author seems to have literally just arbitarily made every facet of the setting negative. Which only serves to spotlight how absurd the setting is.
Instead a third of the book is devoted to a recap of the setting and filling out the details. But the Lankies have their own agenda.and in war, the enemy doesn't usually wait until you are prepared.Īs Andrew is once again plunged into the chaos and violence of war with an unyielding species, he is forced to confront the toll this endless conflict is taking on them all, and the high price of survival.at any cost. Andrew and his wife, Halley, both now burdened with command responsibilities and in charge of more lives than just their own, are once again in humanity's vanguard as they prepare for this new phase in the war. And for the remaining extrasolar colonies, the threat of a Lanky attack is ever present.Įarth's game changer? New advanced ships and weapons, designed to hunt and kill Lankies and place humanity's militaries on equal footing with their formidable foes. On Mars, the grinding duty of flushing out the 20-meter-tall alien invaders from their burrows underground is wearing down troops and equipment at an alarming rate. Humankind may have won the battle, but a new threat looms larger than ever before.Įarth's armed forces have stopped the Lanky advance and chased their ships out of the solar system, but for CDC officer Andrew Grayson, the war feels anything but won.
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