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Cargando... The Regiment (1987)por John Dalmas
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was a 4 star read in a lot of ways. The first half was excellent military SF. The political/conspiracy thread got stronger & made for a good second half, but there was also a thread of mysticism that ran through it that I didn't care for, although it did help support the philosophical thread to some extent. Overall, the philosophical thread was the main one. We're introduced to it early on in a simplistic format & then it's touched on through out the book. It breaks life into major groups & then assigns motivations to them. It was interesting, although it's a far stretch. Still, that's what SF is about - exploring the far stretches. Dalmas certainly got a lot of the trivia of the military right. As I read about the jumps, I thought he must have done it. He has. He jumped in WWII & later was a smoke jumper. I'm not sure which is more dangerous. I won't be reading it again, but I'm glad I read it once. I'm going to look for the second book in this series, too. It might just be excellent, although no real reviews are on GR. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The planet Tyss is so poor that is has only one exportable resource: its fighting men. Each year three regiments are sent forth into the galaxy. Hiring their services is very expensive, but well worth it, for the Tyss secret training makes their soldiers into mystic warriors, irresistible in battle. And when they offered to train soldiers, from off their planet, the Confederation of Worlds jumped at the chance, using their personnel selection technology to pick the greatest potential warriors out of their planets-wide database of psych profiles. What they didn't know was that the new warriors were soon going to be necessary for the Confederations' very survival--because an invading force from another part of the galaxy is approaching with superior firepower and more advanced technology, and only the secret training of Tyss can give even a slight hope of stopping the invaders. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A rebellion takes place on a planet where some important mining is done by slaves, essentially. The slaves are physically superior to their intellectually “superior” masters, but they have some help and training, as well as weapons, and soon it turns into a real battle. So, a different race of warriors from another planet is hired as mercenaries to come in and fight them for the human masters. The protagonist, a journalist, joins the mercenaries to get their stories, and becomes one of them, essentially, living and training with them, even going out on missions with them. He discovers and finally understands their cultural philosophy regarding “play” and war, etc, and that changes everything.
I won’t say more because I don’t want to give away the plot or the critical ending, but it’s a good, action packed book with a lot of tension and emotion, intrigue and politics. And the aforementioned philosophical thoughts and ideas. Almost a five star book, but I’m giving it four stars due to the problematic and moderately disappointing ending. Nonetheless, definitely recommended and I intend to read the other books in the series. ( )