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Doom Star #5
Planet Wrecker
One by one, the moons and habitats of the Outer Planets have gone Neptune, Uranus and Saturn. After the cyborg assault against the Jupiter System, the reasons seem obvious. Those of the Inner Planets desperately scan the void for sign of a cyborg invasion fleet. Finally, one man discovers a blip. The blip becomes something asteroids hurtling toward Earth. The asteroids bristle with laser turrets and missiles, and their velocity and heading can only mean one thing. The rocky objects are meant to crash into Earth to annihilate the beleaguered Homo Sapiens and their Highborn tormenters. Into this grim situation arrives Marten Kluge, envoy from the Jovians and Force-Leader of a meteor-ship. He has elite patrol-boat pilots and his troop-pods are full of veteran space marines. Before this is through, he’s going to need them all. PLANET WRECKER is the story of genocidal cyborgs, arrogant Highborn and desperate men and women with their backs to the wall.
325 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 28, 2011
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Vaughn Heppner
145 books569 followersYou can visit Vaughn at www.vaughnheppner.com
I was born in Canada and remember as a small boy crawling in my snow-fort. I closed my eyes, and when I tried to open them, they were frozen shut. I didn't panic, but wiped away the ice crystals, unglued my eyes and kept on building my tunnel. Those were great days! I moved to Central California before seventh grade and couldn't believe I lived in a land where oranges grew on trees and you could pick grapes from the vine.
I used to wonder what I wanted to do with my life, what kind of work specifically. I was miserable not knowing and bordering on desperate. Then one day a friend gave me his typewriter. I began working on a novel. A different person told me it was much easier on a computer, so I bought one and began getting up at 4:30 A.M. each morning before work, writing for three hours. My eyes were unglued once again as the pang of misery left my gut. I knew exactly what I wanted to do: write. So now that's what I do, I write, and write, and write, and I love it.
I was born in Canada and remember as a small boy crawling in my snow-fort. I closed my eyes, and when I tried to open them, they were frozen shut. I didn't panic, but wiped away the ice crystals, unglued my eyes and kept on building my tunnel. Those were great days! I moved to Central California before seventh grade and couldn't believe I lived in a land where oranges grew on trees and you could pick grapes from the vine.
I used to wonder what I wanted to do with my life, what kind of work specifically. I was miserable not knowing and bordering on desperate. Then one day a friend gave me his typewriter. I began working on a novel. A different person told me it was much easier on a computer, so I bought one and began getting up at 4:30 A.M. each morning before work, writing for three hours. My eyes were unglued once again as the pang of misery left my gut. I knew exactly what I wanted to do: write. So now that's what I do, I write, and write, and write, and I love it.
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February 26, 2024
The waring factions of humanity (Social Unity, the Highborn, Free Earth Corps and the Free Jovians) must find a way to cooperate as the cyborgs launch and massive attack on the earth. Hundreds of asteroids have been powered and filled with cyborg weaponry and direct them on a collision course with the planet. Any one of them could become an Extinction Life Event in its own right if multiple impacts occur there will be nothing left. Can those who are free ever join forces with those people who believe they are superior and have the right to dominate the 'lesser groups'? Can the 'superior' beings trust that the lesser groups could impact the outcome of a battle? One things is certain however without a unified response the earth, the centre of the solar system is doomed.
This is an excellent space military novel with a great pace and exiting action scenes. One of the things that is original about this series is that it all takes place in the solar system. There are different groups /races but all without the need for FTL. I like the way that speed is generated by use of the gravitational pull of planets and moons as a kind of sling shot. The mix of weaponry from high powered faster than light lasers to slow moving missiles and torpedoes that need to fired to where you think the enemy will be by the time they arrive, makes coordinating a battle extremely challenging.
Looking forward to the next instalment as this series heads towards its conclusion.
This is an excellent space military novel with a great pace and exiting action scenes. One of the things that is original about this series is that it all takes place in the solar system. There are different groups /races but all without the need for FTL. I like the way that speed is generated by use of the gravitational pull of planets and moons as a kind of sling shot. The mix of weaponry from high powered faster than light lasers to slow moving missiles and torpedoes that need to fired to where you think the enemy will be by the time they arrive, makes coordinating a battle extremely challenging.
Looking forward to the next instalment as this series heads towards its conclusion.
April 8, 2020
Probably the best book in the series
Although the outcome is predictable, there’s enough plot twists to keep the story interesting. The author’s writing seems to improve more and has even managed to add some jokes.
Reading Star Fortress now and let’s find out if it gets better.
Although the outcome is predictable, there’s enough plot twists to keep the story interesting. The author’s writing seems to improve more and has even managed to add some jokes.
Reading Star Fortress now and let’s find out if it gets better.
August 10, 2017
The story was fairly good. Characters mostly stayed in character and it provided a change in thought for the highborn leadership as a seq way to book 6.
December 14, 2013
In the fifth novel in the Doom Star series, space marine and overall badass Marten Kluge is again risking his life for freedom. Only this time, author Vaughn Heppner has his emissary of good old American values squaring off even harder against his conscience. Kluge has a wife now whom he rescued from certain death at the hands of the nasty cyborgs. He's got a meteor ship this time and the tacit approval of the leftover Jovian empire. But as in all Heppner's stories, any organized government appears rotten from either too much self-importance or disastrous dependence on its own short-sighted rhetoric. As a result, Kluge gets it from all sides. He can't rely on Social Unity, which has devolved into under an uneasy dictatorship under Supreme Leader Hawthorne. Nor can he trust the Highborn, who squirm under the thumb of Cassius, the strongest and smartest of them and who got them to fight against their pre-men masters. Somehow all the sides form a temporary truce to try and obliterate the artificial meteor shower headed to smash Earth. This is near impossible as the cyborg meta mind has calculated every possible threat and come up with a way to disable it either through sheer power, number of military defenses or cunning. Heppner gives all his characters something to like, however. I don't know if it's that fighting spirit or just a taste of humanity. Whatever that little something is, his characters resonate with the reader. Some I hate but understand. Others like Kluge and his crew, I respect and wish beyond all measure to succeed. This fast-paced action novel will pummel your mind like no other in the series. But you will lose some favorite characters along the way.
January 1, 2015
Another page Turner....
This whole series of books has really sucked me in to this war of planetary scale. Mankind may or may not make it through to the end. Total extension for the human race is a possibility too grim to bear. Our hero, Marten, is still trying to figure out if he can trust anyone.
I've already downloaded the next adventure. I hope it is not the last.
This whole series of books has really sucked me in to this war of planetary scale. Mankind may or may not make it through to the end. Total extension for the human race is a possibility too grim to bear. Our hero, Marten, is still trying to figure out if he can trust anyone.
I've already downloaded the next adventure. I hope it is not the last.
March 2, 2016
Best in the series
To me this book is the most exciting work in the series. Kluge continues the fight against the cyborgs. This is shaping up for a grand finale. The plot really comes together in this volume.
To me this book is the most exciting work in the series. Kluge continues the fight against the cyborgs. This is shaping up for a grand finale. The plot really comes together in this volume.
August 18, 2011
Pops you into too much action from the bgening
August 31, 2012
The action is still pell-mell. A bit more skin in this one.
January 2, 2014
No review at this time due to this reader's broken wrist, arm & hand.
July 23, 2013
Great stories but the author seriously needs an editor. Spelling, grammar and punctuation errors plus poor sentence structure and repeat sentences fill the pages of these books.
August 20, 2014
An excellent book in an excellent series. I'm devouring these!
March 28, 2015
I won't be reading this because of how little I liked earlier books in this series.
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