This book is the first one in The Damned Trilogy. This may even inspire you to come up with a new Traveller setting. I think there are lots of ideas that can be mined for your Traveller setting here. The book is really good and the different races are well describes. Then the Weave find the Earth… This is just the start of the book.
A number of races think this is a bad idea and has formed what they call the Weave. The problem was that there was a big interstellar war going on… A race called the Amplitur wanted all other galactic races to join what they call the Amplitur Purpose. This is something that would normally happen in the race’s prehistory. Entdecken Sie Die getroffenen Trilogie & A Call To Arms von Alan Dean Foster Hardcover in der großen Auswahl bei eBay. The reason given for the aliens to be bad at warfare was that an advanced race would (normally) have to abandon all sorts of violence to become an advances race. They were like 0-points aliens from GURPS Aliens. Most aliens was quite poor at most things. The cover looked cool, but it turned out that the aliens in this book was quite poor warriors.
#Damned trilogy by alan dean foster series#
So maybe it was just that problem and it may not have been that poorly written.Īnyway, I decided to give his “The Damned” series a chance. What I still remember about it was that it didn’t really fit into the Star Wars canon very well. But it was a long time since I read that book. Some of us may remember Alan Dean Foster’s terrible Star Wars book The Splinter of the Minds Eye. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alan Dean Foster including rare images from the author's collection.Another interesting book with interesting aliens that I have recently read is A Call To Arms by Alan Dean Foster. Until an alien scholar uncovers a terrifying truth: Earthlings might not even be capable of being civilized-and a shadowy group of powerful humans is already poised to unleash war across the entire galaxy. With mankind's help, the Weave is finally on the verge of victory against the Amplitur. But if the Weave attempts to undo the effects, they may change the former warriors into something far, far worse. When the Amplitur unleash an elite cadre of fighters, it soon becomes clear that they have subjected their human prisoners to horrific genetic manipulation. Unfortunately for all, the Amplitur have the same idea-and mankind is caught in the middle.
When one of its scout ships lands on Earth, the Weave quickly realizes that humanity's almost innate ability to wreak havoc and death may hold the key to turning the tide in their fight. 19.99 12.99 Ebook Humans are caught up in an alien war in this epic from the 1 New York Timesbestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness. In fact, most regard violence as hideously barbaric, and even the thought of harming another sentient being is beyond imagining. Humans are caught up in an alien war in this epic from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness.įor millennia, the Weave, an alliance of species, have fought to resist the telepathic Amplitur, who strive to unite all self-aware life-forms in their great "Purpose." The Weave is slowly losing ground, but for both sides, warfare focuses more on outthinking and outmaneuvering your foe than destruction.
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