American Death Orbit

Doomsday Warrior #14

by Ryder Stacy

Ted Rockson, the Doomsday Warrior, takes an old satellite-killer spaceplane into orbit to discover why the nuclear space missiles left after Russia's annihilation of America are being reactivated and aimed at the Earth's major population centers

Genres: Post Apocalyptic

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1988

About the author

A pseudonym for Ryder Syvertsen

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Doomsday Warrior series was a post-apocalyptic men's adventure series that ran for nineteen volumes from 1984 - 1991. The first four books were collaborations between Jan Stacy and Ryder Syvertsen (hence the pseudonym), and the other fifteen were written by Syverstsen alone. The series begins a hundred years or so in the future, after Russia has defeated the US and now occupies it. Ted Rockson is the leader of a secret loose resistance consortium. This fourteenth volume doesn't pay much attention to the previous continuity. It does follow the formulaic pattern which ruled the series, however. I wonder if it was drafted by a sub-contracted writer with a drug habit or something... Ted learns that old missile platforms in orbit are showing signs of life. He decides to go up and see why. He meets a band of sexy vampire women in a diner and then finds a working space shuttle that's been sitting there buried under the desert waiting for him for over a century, but it works just fine. Ted blasts off to meet French people who have survived for a century by eating metal after they were blasted up there a century ago to build another Eiffel Tower in orbit. They cleverly wear trash bags as space suits and re-purpose tv sets and aquariums as space helmets. Then the real bad guys appear, Nazis. You just can't trust those space Nazis with nuclear weapons. We learn that Killov is still alive, even though no one ever doubted it except maybe Ted. After some sex and violence, Ted and the French ram the weapons station with the Eiffel Tower, the evil commie Killov parachutes to safety in Egypt, and we're ready for volume fifteen... It's a very patriotic series, typical for the Zebra men's adventure line in the '80s, with non-stop action, cartoon plots, and very conservative political views. It was a fun series if you didn't expect too much, and this was beyond doubt one of the sillier of the group.

[Clay Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This post apocalypic, Red Dawn like story will not be confused with literature but is a good adventure yarn. The cover needs improvement.

[Spiff · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is getting a bit ridiculous. I don't mean space nazis. I don't mean space French living on metal for 100 years. I don't even mean rock time traveling back to 1989. I can let all that go as "ok, that makes sense in world". I mean rock repeatedly, over and over and over, leaving it up to chance that killov is dead. This is the man who does everything right. Who makes sure things are done right. Yet over and over he says "well that probably killed him. I win!". It's entirely out of character, makes no sense at all given everything we know about rock, and it's killing me every time it happens. Is this what I have to look forward to in every dang book now?

About to start book 15 and I'm not sure I can handle yet another "oh killov is probably dead let's go home" only for him to live and find the 15th strongest most deadly weapon the world has ever known.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Average apocalyptic adventure story. Russian has taken over America after WWIII. Recommended