The Lantern of God

by John Dalmas

Two planets clash as humans seek to overpower the droids on a nearby continent where the human-gene-based androids will fight to the death with their own strength and the aid of sea serpents

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction

407 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Published May 1, 1989

About the author

John Dalmas—pseudonym for John Robert Jones—wrote many books based on military and governmental themes throughout his career. He grew up in Minnesota and Michigan and resided in Spokane, Washington. He was a parachute infantryman in WWII and was discharged in 1946 without ever being put seriously in harm's way. He has worked as a longshoreman, merchant seaman, logger, construction worker, and smokejumper. He attended Michigan State University, majoring in forestry, but also took creative writing.

Reviews

[Jay Hendricks · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good fun book. This is almost a prequel to The Regiment series (Tswa series) and has many things in common. In fact in the back of that series, there is a time line which includes things from this book they are so tied together.

This book, while having many similarities to the other series, is quite different in it's own right as well. Gone from it is the high technology (gunpowder is some of the highest stuff they've got) and much of the T'sel is gone too only to show up in brief snippets of things done by Sages and such, almost much more of a religion than in the other series.

Still.... I enjoyed it.

[Elaine · Rating 2 out of 5]

A good premise that gets bogged down in the details about half-way through. The action at the beginning and the end are interesting enough, although the book is populated with flat characters so I really didn't end up caring about the fate of any of them.