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The Apocalypse Troll (Mass Market Paperback)

by David Weber (Author)
4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Baen Books,U.S. (1 Jan 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0671578456
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671578459
  • Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.5 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 602,498 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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". . . the best work [Weber] has done . . . the rewards are ample . . . recommended. . . ". -- Starlog

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Richard Ashton was in his yacht in the middle of the Atlantic, all alone and loving it. Then came the UFOs, hurtling in from the Outer Black, loosing nuclear warheads that disabled every available piece of electronic equipment. And then a crippled alien lifeboat began homing in on his own boat.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps David Weber's best book, 5 Jun 2003
By Marshall Lord (Whitehaven, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Apocalypse Troll (Apocalypse) (Hardcover)
I am a huge fan of David Weber and have enjoyed just about everything he has published, particlarly his rewrite of the Hornblower series set at the end of the next millennium (the Honor Harrington books) and the "Mutineers Moon" trilogy (republished as "Ashes of Empire"). But "The Apocalypse Troll" is my personal favourite among all the books he has written to date.

It starts as a space opera. After centuries of war, humanity is in sight of victory against an implacable enemy, the "Kangas". A small force of human ships returning to base for a badly needed overhaul sights a Kanga battle squadron which has slipped past the blockade of their few remaining worlds and is accelerating hell for leather towards Earth.

The human ships give chase, confident at first that Home Fleet should be able to blow the enemy squadron to plasma with little difficulty - until they realise that the Kangas in their desperation are attempting a manouver which has never been tried before but if successful might enable them to wipe out the human race ...

Concentrates on action rather than character development, but Weber pays enough attention to the characters to make you care about them but not so much as to impede the pace of the story. On the way to the final desperate battle there are some good flashes of ironic humour - watch out for the near disaster at Moscow Zoo.

Part of the action takes place in a time and situation close to our own, to be precise in 2007 AD during a period of some international tension.

Bearing in mind that this was published in 1999, I suspect the US President in the book "Jared Armbruster" is based on John McCain rather than Dubya. (The inference is that Gore won in 2000 and "Armbruster" beat him in 2004.) Similarly the Russian President who has succeeded Yeltsin in the book is rather more of a reformer than Vladimir Putin, though he is even more circumscribed by events. However, the fact that the world in 2007 as predicted in the book does not quite match how things have turned out does not in any way affect the quality of the story.

This probably labels me as a hopeless romantic, but I found the very last scene at the end of the book to be one of the most touching and memorable moments in all of the hundreds of science fiction books I have read.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Five start potential, but...., 18 Mar 2002
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Weber can do and have done better than this. The book has believable characters (as always with Weber) and is generally well constructed with an interesting plotline (as always). BUT the end defies all logic and is generally unbelievable. Furthermore some large segments of the book are occupied by a theoretical discussion about time, space and dimensions, which is not relevant to the plot at all.
If these issues were handled better then the book has potential to a five start rating.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite as good as the Honor series., 24 Jul 2000
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Weber has a peference for female superheroes, the one in this book falling from hitech space age to good old contemporary earth.
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Another excellant hard sci-fi book from one of my favourite authors.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Above average for a Weber, a must for his fans
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