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Publication Date: April 1, 2008 | Series: Jason Wander
At twenty-five, General Jason Wander has fought and won man's only alien conflict. Now, after long years in space, he's coming home...but to what? Earth's desperate nations, impoverished by war damage and military spending, are slashing defense budgets. There's just one problem with this new worldwide policy-the first alien invasion was merely Plan A.


Suddenly, the real assault begins: Earth is attacked by a vast armada of city-sized warships. To block their invasion, mankind has only one surviving craft and a single guerrilla strike force...a suicide squad led by Jason Wander.

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Robert Buettner is a former Military Intelligence Officer, National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology and has published in the field of Natural Resources Law. He lives in Georgia. His website is: www.RobertBuettner.com.

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit (April 1, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0316019135
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316019132
  • Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.9 x 6.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
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Robert Buettner
Robert Buettner's best-selling debut novel, Orphanage, 2004 Quill Award nominee for Best SF/Fantasy/Horror novel, was called the Post-9/11 generation's Starship Troopers and has been adapted for film by Olatunde Osunsanmi (The Fourth Kind) for Davis Entertainment (Predator, I Robot, Eragon). Orphanage and other books in Robert's Jason Wander series have been translated into Chinese, Czech, French, Russian, and Spanish. Robert was a 2005 Quill nominee for Best New Writer.

In March, 2011 Baen books released Overkill, his sixth novel, and in July, 2011 his seventh, Undercurrents. A long-time Heinlein Society member, he wrote the Afterword for Baen's recent re-issue of Heinlein's Green Hills of Earth/Menace From Earth short story collection. His own first original short story will appear in the forthcoming anthology, Armored, edited by John Joseph Adams.

Robert is a former U.S. Army intelligence officer and National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology. As attorney of record in more than three thousand cases, he practiced in the U.S. federal courts, before courts and administrative tribunals in no fewer than thirteen states, and in five foreign countries. Six, if you count Louisiana.

He lives in Georgia with his family and more bicycles than a grownup needs.

Home Page: http://www.robertbuettner.com

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80 of 82 people found the following review helpful
Back to War December 19, 2005
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Back to war. After we left our hero Jason Wander at the end of Orphanage, we believed that we were free from the slugs. Wander was one of the few who doubted it. It took him over two years to return to earth and the earth was in sad shape. The destruction that had been so devastating before he left, was now even worse. After almost 2 years of near nuclear winter, vegetation and animals were struggling to survive the climate change and it would be years before the atmospheric dust cleared itself up.

Wander has a new Military mission to convince the media and the population that the threat is over and that money should be spent on rebuilding the world, not military spending. The problem is, he is not sure he believes it. Like many veterans, he struggles with guilt: why did he survive and so many others did not? Why did he bury his love and his friends so far from home? Then his worst fears are confirmed: there is an attack that takes out earth's only military spaceport. He must once again do the impossible, and lead a small band of determined men and women back to space for a last-ditch effort to save earth from a fleet of 121 ships larger than any we have, and 1 ship the size of a city.

Read it and see if Wander can pull off a miracle a second time, or will humanity lose all hope.
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35 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Solid sf military adventure September 22, 2005
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Jason Wander, having survived the Slug War in Orphanage and risen, to a frightening degree (especially to himself) simply by surviving, to the rank of general and commanding officer of the Ganymede Expeditionary Force, is relieved when a new ship arrives to take him and his seven hundred surviving soldiers home to Earth. Although he has spent the months between the defeat of the Slugs and the arrival of the Excalibur taking every relevant correspondence course that he can, including a lot of military history, he knows he's not remotely qualified to be a general, but harbors strong hopes that he's at least worked his way up to lieutenant.

After a journey home that proves he doesn't have the political skills and officer training to be a general in the presence of other senior officers who know what they're doing, he's appalled to discover that he's going to remain a general anyway, because the government needs a war hero as a pr tool. And as the general who defeated the Slugs and saved Earth, he's it. There's no one else who can fill that role. It's especially difficult for Jason because he believes that current US government policy is wrong; the new administration is spending funds on economic and infrastructure reconstruction that Jason, not convinced that the Slugs won't be back, believes need to be spent on building a better defense. His dilemma gets worse once he's made a few tours in his unwanted new capacity: while he's more convinced than ever that every penny needs to be spent on defense, it's also clear to him that, after the years of pounding by the Slugs, every penny also needs to be spent on reconstruction. The government is engaged in the thankless and probably impossible task of trying to divide the available resources to do both at least adequately.

It simplifies things, in a quite unwelcome way, when the Slugs do attack again, this time from a spaceship carrying the bulk of their invasion force. Jason is at least confronted with a problem he understands somewhat better, even if dealing with that problem involves lying, cheating, stealing, and disobeying orders. And of course, persuading some of his surviving friends and subordinates from the Ganymede expedition to do the same.

This book is in many ways in the tradition of Starship Troopers and The Forever War, but Heinlein and Haldeman were each in their different ways angry when they wrote their books celebrating the infantry. I think Buettner is mostly having fun here (and certainly the reader is), while still celebrating the common foot soldier and trying not to oversimplify and cast Jason's human obstacles to defending Earth as villains, or even necessarily completely wrong.

Very enjoyable.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Diverting and Engaging September 1, 2005
By J. Nolt
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For a while there, I was afraid Buettner was going to throw his protagonist into the guilt-trap of many serial military novels (you know who you are)-- the endless pages of despair and self-recrimination about choices and sacrifices made in previous installments, ever escalating until it seems like I'm reading page after page of nothing but woe-is-me and it's-all-my-fault. Look for phrases like "the price may be more than he can bear" or "no one could have known the price of victory" in marketing blurbs and be warned!

But in this novel Buettner dodges the Sarlacc Pit of Guilt nicely, maintains a sense of humor through the entire novel, even in the direst of circumstances (where it's most needed). The action is a little underdescribed, but the main character is very likable and the technology interesting and believable (to this layman).

There's a real sense of emotion running through the book, very well balanced between tragedy, comedy, and victory, and I found myself engrossed and really pulling for the heroes.

I like both this book and the previous novel ("Orphanage") a lot, and will definitely pick up more of this author's work.
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Book Review - Orphanage Series by Robert Buettner

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Robert Buettner

By the author's own admission Orphanage is a conscious homage to Robert A. Read more
Published 2 months ago by The Alternative
Heinlein tribute
Less action and more aftermath of the first novel, this does get dow to action again at the end, but not enough or early enough to get that extra star. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Brad
fantastic far-reaching military sf
"Orphanage" is an amazing series. It's told in a bare-bones style that really turns the pages. The characters aren't deeply drawn, but you REALLY start to identify with them. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Book Fiend
A very quick read
Jason Wander is back in another semi-explosive military in space book. It was fine, a very fast read and you don't have worry about taxing your brain trying to wrap it around an... Read more
Published on February 9, 2010 by R. Stcharles
good space operas
not the quality of CS Forester or Heinlein, but fun easy reads
i'll buy the series
Published on January 27, 2010 by Michael Bergagnini
Entertaining Military SF (3.5 stars)
Following on from the equally entertaining Orphanage, here we have humanity celebrating the defeat of the alien 'slugs' but assuming that the threat is over. Read more
Published on June 19, 2009 by N. Brett
delightful, fun and interesting
I very much enjoyed all three of the Orphan books. Jason and his friends are full bodied interesting heartfelt characters, (even the minor ones who are gone fast, linger in my... Read more
Published on March 26, 2009 by Herbert
Different Plot. Different Location. Different Mission. Same Jason...
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After eradicating the slug force on Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, Jason Wander returns to an earth on the brink of economic collapse. Read more
Published on March 22, 2009 by J. Stoner
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Published on February 2, 2009 by Deborah
The Slug Interregnum
Orphan's Destiny (2005) is the second military SF novel in the Orphanage series, following Orphanage. Read more
Published on January 15, 2009 by Arthur W. Jordin
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