Awakened from a two-thousand-year cryostatis, Malyene Andreivne struggles to come to terms with the changes in her home world, which include the previously unthinkable union race of half-human and half-Waister beings.
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In this sequel to McCarthy's Aggressor Six, the ruthless Colonel Malyene Andreivne awakens from suspended animation to discover that 2000 years have passed since the alien armada known as Waisters reduced her home star system, Sirius, to rubble. Although the creatures who have revived her seem truly strange, sporting chlorophyll-tinged "hair" and maintaining class divisions like those of insects, Andreivne learns that they are all various offshoots of Homo Sapiens, fellow members in the Suzerainty of Human Species, who have joined together against a new threat from the Waisters. Tough and acerbic, McCarthy's likable heroine must unite her fellow surviving sleepers with their distant human cousins before the Waisters arrive. Fraught with epic space battles, exotic aliens and a complex, confusing clash of politics, McCarthy's universe forms the background for truly operatic space theater. Although an armistice of sorts is eventually reached, fans need not despair: mention of a Blue Star disease portends another adventure.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Set in the same universe as Aggressor Six, this sequel finds human-alien hybrids copying the thinking of the aliens who destroyed the human colonies 2000 years ago. When the hybrids learn that these same aliens are returning, they revive ten humans from cryostatis to help. Malyene Andreivne must lead her fellow survivors and her two children through delicate negotiations to ensure their continued survival. McCarthy's tough heroine confronts the issue of cross-cultural communication. A thought-provoking novel for most sf collections.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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By omarbukka (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Fall of Sirius (Paperback)
Like other books by McCarthy, has some interesting ideas and plenty of action. The book has an epic scope and feel, and one does come to emphasize with the embattled protagonist. But not an excellent book. Adequate entertainment. I thought it was significantly better than Murder in the Solid State, and perhaps slightly worse than Bloom. Good enough so that you are willing to read more books by McCarthy. I have not read Aggressor 6.
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