Planetary Assault

by B.V. Larson

Sometimes defending those you love means risking everything and attempting the most dangerous task in the universe—making a planetary assault against a heavily entrenched enemy. It's grim and always ugly. But as long as men refuse to bow their heads to conquerors, they will take the fight to the enemy or die trying.

Three masters of military science fiction have come together to tell harrowing tales of high-tech mayhem. In BV Larson's "Army of One" the Macros of the Star Force series invade from the skies, forcing a nanotized assassin into a deadly decision. David VanDyke's "First Conquest" tells of a bitter battle as EarthFleet smashes into an alien star system in a desperate first strike to save humanity. Vaughn Heppner's Space Marines of the Doom Star series race to the Oort Cloud in "Cyborgs!" For them, the hour of desperation has arrived.

Planetary Assault drips of glorious victories and grim defeats as humanity forces its way into the galaxy through sheer fighting ability. Despite their opponents, mankind will not be denied.

Genres: Science Fiction

319 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 20, 2013

About the author

Brian Larson is an American science fiction and fantasy author

Reviews

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

The 4 stars is for B V Laron's short story about a character on his Star Force series that I'm a fanatic about.

I couldn't get into the other stories. I had a hard time following along with the tech, the characters, the pacing...

[Laurence · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Cyborgs story was the least effective for me, but short and not offensively bad. The First Conquest was simple but there was enough plot and well written space combat and ground combat that it was able to stand alone. BV Larson's Army of One was also pretty basic but there is enough there to keep it readable.

Funnily enough I realised after reading most of this book that I'd actually abandoned books from all three of these authors. BV Larson's Lost Colonies series I thought was great but I hadn't found anything else of his that I liked, and the other two I ditched their most popular book (on goodreads) early on.

[Sebo · Rating 4 out of 5]

soap opera. pulp. quick read

[David VanDyke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Author's review. Of course I think it's great, particularly my long novella/short novel First Conquest, a Plague Wars tie-in that launches a new series called Stellar Conquest.

Book 2 of Stellar Conquest, Desolator, will be coming out in June 2013.

Three military science fiction tales. Each ties in to one of the authors' series.

[Tim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Might be some people's cup of tea but not mine. I had some issues with the structure, content, etc.

Word of advice to the authors - lay off the thesaurus. For this genre, it is a detractor from the action.