Resistance

Stargate #5

by Bill McCay

With the Stargate smashed and buried, Egyptologist Daniel Jackson, commando Jack O'Neil, and the survivors of Abydos are trapped on a seemingly peaceful planet, but the catlike inhabitants could prove dangerous

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Media Tie In, Military Fiction

296 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1999

About the author

Under a variety of pseudonyms as well as his own name, Bill McCay is the author of more than seventy books, including such series as the Race Against Time, The Three Investigators, Young Indiana Jones, and Tom Clancy's Net Force. He has also worked with Stan Lee on Riftworld, a science fiction comedy-adventure set in the comics business. McCay has also written five novels based on the film Stargate. His fantasy short fiction has appeared in several anthologies and his Star Trek novel Chains of Command (cowritten with E. L. Flood) spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

See also William McCay

Reviews

[Scott · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good series, disappointing 'end'. Interesting setup with potential to explore the origins of Ra's race and the stargates but that potential dissolves in the tactics of battle with an ultimately uninteresting enemy. This series had its moments but it spent too much time teasing cool stuff to come and never delivering the goods.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 1 out of 5]

Hoped this one would be interesting and whatnot, silly me for trying.

It had potential at first and the catlike aliens stuff were good, but it lost me with the interactions and the fact that Jack O'Neil is nowhere to be found for like half the book.

So pretty much, I personally since the movie and after all the books and comics I went through I don't give an alien's cat's ass about any character that's been created since then until now besides Daniel ( which all of 5 books ruined in my opinion) and Jack. So when you don't even include the one of two reasons I'm reading in half the pages of the whole book I'ma get a bit disappointed.

The end sucked too.

Oh well.. I'm happy it's over because this one too, was a chore to read midway through.

[Daniel · Rating 2 out of 5]

The end of this book sounds like it was trying to hint at another book but obvious Bill McCay didn't get picked up for a sixth book and I can see why. This is better than the previous one and that's by a few feet, nowhere near a mile. The Setim show up and they're around for a scant handful of pages. They talk to Ushabti's Gift and it spits out a circuit. That's it. That's the Setim's involvement in the story.

The hoodats show up and we get some information about them. We learn about where they fit into the structure of Ra's race. But the antagonists were paper, not even cardboard, they had no substance or character. They existed solely as an enemy to face. Just bodies to die and aliens to cause conflict. I couldn't say how long in universe the book was. Was it days? Weeks? Two months? It was just a big old firefight.

This teased up with learning more about Ra's race and maybe we would have in subsequent books but ultimately it fell flat. No wonder books four and five were a little harder to find. Stop at book three, your imagination is a better ending.

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a great ending for this series that continued the characters from the movie, but not a bad one either. Some situations that you might have liked to have a firm resolution, just had a hinted one (such as Daniel and his wife). Over all, I enjoyed the series.

[Anisah Mutia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stargate: Resistance is the 5th and final book by McCay in the series, a spin-off of the first movie (season?) of Stargate: SG-1. The book described the Abydan's moving to the new planet, but of course, Murphy's Law play part and everything went FUBAR.

(+): Love the maturity of the characters (Daniel-Sha'uri, I'm talking about you). The description of when the alien's commander slowly descend into madness is fascinating to read. Also, it's entertaining to read how human being perceived by alien... yes ok we're weird HA. The plot and pacing are amazing too, moderate enough.

(-): THE ENDING. Man, I hate it. Why did you make the ending like 'that'? I was getting excited to an amazing ending, and it went like that? Also, why did I have to wait 260+ pages for O'Neil-Jackson interaction?

Overall: I love Stargate Series so much so of course I love this book. Recommended (but you need to at least read the 1st-4th books or familiar with the series).

[Lexxi Kitty · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting conclusion for the series. It was neat to see/read a series based on the movie universe (as in, in the movie that big baddie, the alien, was the "last of his kind", then he exploded; the series picked up after the end of the movie with the series believing this big bad alien; Daniel Jackson and the people of Abydos try to rebuild/restructure themselves after the elimination of the evil overlord; then other parts of the head alien's empire - mostly human critters, tried to take over the whole empire - civil war, destruction, some set number of refugees flee to Earth; as opposed to the tv series, and the books based off of that series - wherein the big evil alien dude had lied, there were in fact other aliens of his kind - and the people of Abydos, for the most part, have no real role in the tv series, beyond the first couple of episodes (I mean, they did have to retrieve Daniel Jackson, and he had remained on Abydos so . . .).

Well. I got distracted there. This specific book starts off almost literally where the last one ended. The alien cat creatures have fled, one or two (well, one), the humans have barricaded themselves, a request for help has been sent by humans to earth; meanwhile the cat people regroup. They, it turns out, were the servants, the hand made uplifted servants of other now departed aliens of the same type that were in the Stargate movie (it's been literally decades since I saw the movie, I forget if they ever called that alien a specific species name in the film). And they assume the people they ran into were also servants of the aliens. So they react the same way they would any other time they have run into servant races. By attacking and trying to take over.

So. War. Destruction. Invasion. End of series.

It's been a month and 8 days since I read the book. And without leaving myself any notes. So . . . I'm happy I had this much I could mention. Though, I can't really call this a review or anything like that.

[Ariel Vargas · Rating 4 out of 5]

For me this is the true sequel to the Stargate movie. The best