This isn't a new book.
It was published in 2001. Looking
at Dalmas birth date, he appears to be 89 years old. I find that interesting in that his first
book that I read was The Yngling that was serialized in Analog magazine in 1969. I guess as you age, you find other people
older than you still kicking around and you have hope that you will be doing
the same when you are that old.
Soldiers depicts an alien invasion of stupendous
proportions. Play close attention in
the first few pages to discover how the aliens got to our galaxy. It is referred to several times during the
story but it can be easily missed.
Dalmas takes a contrarian opinion when writing this
book. Most stories see the human race
as extremely competitive and very pugnacious.
Dalmas takes a different tact an depicts the human race as having
divested itself of negative, war like behavior. He doesn't state it but the implication of
multiple societies on different world provide havens for splinter groups who
fail to peacefully integrate into a world wide society. Gordon Dickson had his splinter group planets
too but they weren't quite as peaceful.
From my perspective this book really promotes the idea that
if we have unlimited frontiers we can bleed off the violence of the world. Let the Sunnis and the Shias each settle
their own planet and live their own way.
North Korea
on it's own planet sounds really good as they periodically are out of this
world anyway.
The book does a lot of searching for solutions to an
invasion after losing the innate fighting nature of human beings. The resolution is satisfying on many levels.
I recommend the book.
Web Site: http://www.johndalmas.com/
This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.
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