Warstrider Battlemind Warstrider Series Book Six eBook Ian Douglas
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The Web, a vast machine intelligence of unbelievable power, is steadily consuming the galaxy, indifferent to any species that stands in its way. Fighting the Web brings together an alliance between disparate societies and alien civilizations to stand against it in battle. And overcoming the Web means discovering where it came from and what goals drive its single-minded advance, and learning what the future holds for intelligent life in the universe. The Warstrider series draws to a close with this final epic struggle for the fate of the galaxy.
The sixth and final book in Ian Douglas's classic Warstrider military sci-fi series, originally published in 1996. The whole Warstrider series is being re-issued by War Planet Press.
Warstrider Battlemind Warstrider Series Book Six eBook Ian Douglas
Oh nooooo…time travel. I really hate when they bring in time travel on books or movies. In most cases it is just a shoddy writer who cannot tie the story together without braking a few rules. Even if it is a good writer it almost always ends up with paradoxes and other story destroying elements. Ian Douglas is not a shoddy writer but, for me, the time travel did nothing positive for this book anyway.In general the book felt a bit different from the previous books. It starts off nicely enough by throwing the reader straight into a warstrider battle on the Web’s home turf. However, then the book changes somewhat and dives into a lot of talk and discussions about intelligence (especially collective) , biological evolution, artificial minds and so on. It is all very well written as usual but it does change the nature and, in particular, the pace of the book quite a lot.
The artificial “Mastermind” that evolved during the last parts of the previous book also plays a fairly important role in this book. In particular when the Web decided to go on the offensive. Unfortunately, towards the end of the book there are two primary story elements that I am not to happy with. One is time travel which I have already expressed my views on and the other is the arrogant Hegemony’s desire to reintegrate the Confederation into the Hegemony, by force if required. The human race is fighting for its survival and some idiots continue to fight among themselves? That kind of story always annoys me.
This is the final book in the Warstrider series and I must say that I was underwhelmed with the ending. There are really no ending at all. Just a glimpse of some glorious future thanks to this bloody time travel nonsense. I definitely had higher hopes for this final chapter in the series.
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Warstrider Battlemind Warstrider Series Book Six eBook Ian Douglas Reviews
The previous books worked, but this, one not so much. It took WAYYYYY to long to develop. I lost interest in finishing the series about 130 pages into the mantra... So bad, I didn't finish. Not happy with this one.
Good book. Kept the pace of the series alive. Written in Ian Douglas' signature style with his strange worldview. I gave it 5 stars because I appreciate a well-written book.
This series is straining my brain pan capacity to the limit. Without familiarity of quantum physics, the writing is very convincing and a very VERY long way from WARSTRIDER 1. Still entertaining, action packed, and engaging.
A very thought provoking wrap up. A well paced yarn with great characters, pain staking character development, plenty of action, and very detailed tech. The detailed description of technology found in this and most of Mr. Douglas' other work is much more voluminous than I like and a tremendous amount of time is spent in retelling past series events (fortunately I'm a skilled skipper) but well worth the read. IMHO, Mr. Douglas is a superb story teller who never disappoints.
Keith really should have wrapped this series up sooner. He's lost the building of the characters and really, the introduction of the two children don't add to the story -should have left them out and continued with the main characters - he sort of lost the role the longer this series run. First 3-4 books were good, then it started dropping off. You finish the series only because you want to put it to bed/rest/end it - at least in that way - he beats "Graveyard Ship" - which just get's stupid. but that's another review.
William H. Keith, writing under the name of Ian Douglas, has always managed to deliver an exciting, enjoyable story. The Warstrider series is actually a blast from the past, originally published in 1993, but republished in e-book format in 2014, having originally gone out of print.
Fans will recognize some of the same iconic Douglas tropes, namely the confused but earnest young hero swept up in a war he had nothing to do with, a hopeless love affair, and an epic finale based on an emergent singularity of artificial intelligence and organic minds. What fun! Definitely recommended.
Well, I did it. I finished the series...sort of. Actually, at approximately the 45% point, I started skimming this book rather than reading it thoroughly. It was there that it began devoting whole chapters to science lessons, summaries of previous (books') events, and heaping ladels full of technobabble. If you like books that provide you with classroom science lectures and explain in nausiating detail how virtually every piece of technology works, then this book might be for you.
As a series, I went into it thinking that it would mainly be about a military unit, soldiers who serve as warstriders. It is not. Wartstrider missions/action MIGHT make up about 5% of the series. The series departs from that quickly and very rarely returns to it. By the time I finished skimming through the last 55% of this book, I didn't even care about any of the characters or how the story ended.
Oh nooooo…time travel. I really hate when they bring in time travel on books or movies. In most cases it is just a shoddy writer who cannot tie the story together without braking a few rules. Even if it is a good writer it almost always ends up with paradoxes and other story destroying elements. Ian Douglas is not a shoddy writer but, for me, the time travel did nothing positive for this book anyway.
In general the book felt a bit different from the previous books. It starts off nicely enough by throwing the reader straight into a warstrider battle on the Web’s home turf. However, then the book changes somewhat and dives into a lot of talk and discussions about intelligence (especially collective) , biological evolution, artificial minds and so on. It is all very well written as usual but it does change the nature and, in particular, the pace of the book quite a lot.
The artificial “Mastermind” that evolved during the last parts of the previous book also plays a fairly important role in this book. In particular when the Web decided to go on the offensive. Unfortunately, towards the end of the book there are two primary story elements that I am not to happy with. One is time travel which I have already expressed my views on and the other is the arrogant Hegemony’s desire to reintegrate the Confederation into the Hegemony, by force if required. The human race is fighting for its survival and some idiots continue to fight among themselves? That kind of story always annoys me.
This is the final book in the Warstrider series and I must say that I was underwhelmed with the ending. There are really no ending at all. Just a glimpse of some glorious future thanks to this bloody time travel nonsense. I definitely had higher hopes for this final chapter in the series.
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