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Robotech #15
Robotech: Death Dance
Marooned On A Doomed World!
Four months passed without a word from the Sentinels, and the members of the Expeditionary Mission to Tirol were beginning to fear the worst. This, even as they entered into truce negotiations with the being who might have been responsible for the destruction of the Sentinels' starship -- the Invid Regent himself.
Meanwhile, the survivors of the Farrago remained hopelessly stranded on Praxis, a planet in cataclysm, hastened to endtime by the dark designs of the Invid Regis. But deep within that world's transformed core were answers to the Sentinels' prayers; if they could only reach them before Praxis tore itself apart. For Rick and Lisa Hunter, Cabell, and the others, the moment had arrived for desperate actions...
And Time Was Running Out!
Four months passed without a word from the Sentinels, and the members of the Expeditionary Mission to Tirol were beginning to fear the worst. This, even as they entered into truce negotiations with the being who might have been responsible for the destruction of the Sentinels' starship -- the Invid Regent himself.
Meanwhile, the survivors of the Farrago remained hopelessly stranded on Praxis, a planet in cataclysm, hastened to endtime by the dark designs of the Invid Regis. But deep within that world's transformed core were answers to the Sentinels' prayers; if they could only reach them before Praxis tore itself apart. For Rick and Lisa Hunter, Cabell, and the others, the moment had arrived for desperate actions...
And Time Was Running Out!
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First published May 12, 1988
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September 21, 2017
The Sentinels’ Robotech War goes on!
This is the third prose novel in the five-book series of “The Sentinels”, part of the “Robotech” franchise.
WARS IN ALL FRONTS
The Expeditionary Mission is divided…
…while the Sentinels, the alien resistance group, joined forces with Admiral Rick Hunter and his people, where they had been successful on liberating Karbarra, and in that way, cutting the supply of mecha production of the Invid; when they went to liberate too Praxis…
…they suffered an insidious betrayal by General T.R. Edwards, from the Army of the Southern Cross contingent, and looking the means for taking control of the Expeditionary Mission, he made a deal with the devil, contacting the Invid Regent and informing him about the next objective of the Sentinels and plotting an ambush there, but…
…both opposing sides didn’t know that Praxis was already doomed…
…the Invid Regis has been exploiting Genesis Pits’ experiments, weakening the inner core structure of the planet, leaving it to its luck, taking with her, all the Praxis remaining population, and setting course to the mysterious Haydon IV, where she is preparing her own Invid forces to find the whereabouts of the Protoculture matrix.
The odd Farrago ship of the Sentinels is destroyed by the Invid Regent's forces sent to Praxis, killing hundreds of REF soldiers and alien Sentinel troops, but worse than that, leaving marooned for months to Admiral Rick Hunter and his close allies, in a world soon to be no more...
...and the only option to get the means of escaping of a certain death lies...
...in the hands of Burak, the Sentinel who only interest is his own world, and Tesla, a captured Invid scientist!
REF vs Army of the Southern Cross; Invid Regent vs Invid Regis; Sentinels vs Invid; and the war fronts go on!
MINMEI FALLING IN… HELL
Love life of Lynn Minmei has been a disaster…
…and it doesn’t look to take any break ahead.
Minmei’s childish behavior was playing with Rick Hunter’s feelings, until he realized that Lisa Hayes was the right choice for him (of course Lisa was the best choice! Geez, Rick took too much time to realize it!), and with their wedding accomplished, Minmei knew that it was about time to look for somebody else…
…Colonel Jonathan Wolff, who was delighted to be the new focus of interest by the Voice Who Won the First Robotech War, however, they couldn’t share much time together before he signed up for the Sentinels’ cause…
…and in that moment, Minmei’s love life fell in hell, since the insidious General T.R. Edwards played with her, messing her scenario with Wolff, for getting control of her, knowing that she can be a high valuable asset in his own wicked games to gain power over the Expeditionary Mission.
And of course, all along of all this…
…there is Minmei’s cousin, the dangerous and psychopatic Lynn Kyle who isn’t interested in sharing her cousin with anybody…
…and he followed her, in secret, to Tirol space.
In LOVE AND WAR,…
…sadly, everything goes.
This is the third prose novel in the five-book series of “The Sentinels”, part of the “Robotech” franchise.
WARS IN ALL FRONTS
The Expeditionary Mission is divided…
…while the Sentinels, the alien resistance group, joined forces with Admiral Rick Hunter and his people, where they had been successful on liberating Karbarra, and in that way, cutting the supply of mecha production of the Invid; when they went to liberate too Praxis…
…they suffered an insidious betrayal by General T.R. Edwards, from the Army of the Southern Cross contingent, and looking the means for taking control of the Expeditionary Mission, he made a deal with the devil, contacting the Invid Regent and informing him about the next objective of the Sentinels and plotting an ambush there, but…
…both opposing sides didn’t know that Praxis was already doomed…
…the Invid Regis has been exploiting Genesis Pits’ experiments, weakening the inner core structure of the planet, leaving it to its luck, taking with her, all the Praxis remaining population, and setting course to the mysterious Haydon IV, where she is preparing her own Invid forces to find the whereabouts of the Protoculture matrix.
The odd Farrago ship of the Sentinels is destroyed by the Invid Regent's forces sent to Praxis, killing hundreds of REF soldiers and alien Sentinel troops, but worse than that, leaving marooned for months to Admiral Rick Hunter and his close allies, in a world soon to be no more...
...and the only option to get the means of escaping of a certain death lies...
...in the hands of Burak, the Sentinel who only interest is his own world, and Tesla, a captured Invid scientist!
REF vs Army of the Southern Cross; Invid Regent vs Invid Regis; Sentinels vs Invid; and the war fronts go on!
MINMEI FALLING IN… HELL
Love life of Lynn Minmei has been a disaster…
…and it doesn’t look to take any break ahead.
Minmei’s childish behavior was playing with Rick Hunter’s feelings, until he realized that Lisa Hayes was the right choice for him (of course Lisa was the best choice! Geez, Rick took too much time to realize it!), and with their wedding accomplished, Minmei knew that it was about time to look for somebody else…
…Colonel Jonathan Wolff, who was delighted to be the new focus of interest by the Voice Who Won the First Robotech War, however, they couldn’t share much time together before he signed up for the Sentinels’ cause…
…and in that moment, Minmei’s love life fell in hell, since the insidious General T.R. Edwards played with her, messing her scenario with Wolff, for getting control of her, knowing that she can be a high valuable asset in his own wicked games to gain power over the Expeditionary Mission.
And of course, all along of all this…
…there is Minmei’s cousin, the dangerous and psychopatic Lynn Kyle who isn’t interested in sharing her cousin with anybody…
…and he followed her, in secret, to Tirol space.
In LOVE AND WAR,…
…sadly, everything goes.
November 7, 2017
Finally a book in this series that was halfway decent. I was getting a little tired of the back and forth mecha/Invid battles that looked better on an animated screen than in written form and like how we finally got some character development (still not the greatest but a vast improvement).
I'm actually looking forward to the next book in the series.
I'm actually looking forward to the next book in the series.
June 10, 2016
Not much detail added from the planned scripts, it appears. While it remains as ridiculous as the previous two books, there is at least some movement toward telling a more mature story.
January 9, 2022
We are far beyond the original Robotech TV series by this point so at least to me, with the exception of a few characters, everything was new. The science fiction and adventure takes front seat and I was always interested in finding out what's next. For the first time I liked the story enough to be looking forward to the next novel in the series.
November 23, 2021
Continuing my trip down memory lane with Death Dance, Book 3 of Robotech: The Sentinels. Yes, I gave this three stars. Yes, I enjoyed the heck out of it, but this is pulp science fiction, which just sometimes needs to be accepted and you move on.
In my review of the previous book in the series, I mentioned how I noticed errors and such that I didn’t when I was a teenager. Well, this book continues that tract. I don’t know who was editing these books, but Lordy! For instance, this book includes the final days of the Sentinels on Praxis, and then the next stop on their liberation campaign is Geruda. Well, it was Geruda in the last boos, but here it got changed to Garuda. No idea.
Anyway, I have the Robotech Art 3 book that concerns the development of The Sentinels television show. The first 10 episodes have fairly detailed synopses, and those episodes make up the first book of this series. Book 2 is where Jack McKinney had to start to fill in a lot of the information that had not been developed yet, and with Death Dance, you can see him really starting to churn the story into his own. While we will never know what the final product would have looked like, I have to say I like McKinney’s path much better. It is wildly entertaining, if a bit derivative, but the work he does to flesh out Praxis, with all of it’s almost Jurassic Park level of creature horror, just raises what reads as a pedestrian liberation of the week television show into something pretty unique. And Geruda/Garuda, with what is basically it’s LSD laden atmosphere is just a pretty interesting construct.
The one problem I keep returning to is the loss of Lisa Hayes Hunter as a strong central character. She is the leader, but we keep losing her to focus on Rick Hunter. I think that is a deficiency of the original source material. Rick just really needs smacked a lot, and Lisa is such a great character. Anyway, onto World Killers, which takes us to Haydon IV, which is another McKinney sci-fi fever dream.
In my review of the previous book in the series, I mentioned how I noticed errors and such that I didn’t when I was a teenager. Well, this book continues that tract. I don’t know who was editing these books, but Lordy! For instance, this book includes the final days of the Sentinels on Praxis, and then the next stop on their liberation campaign is Geruda. Well, it was Geruda in the last boos, but here it got changed to Garuda. No idea.
Anyway, I have the Robotech Art 3 book that concerns the development of The Sentinels television show. The first 10 episodes have fairly detailed synopses, and those episodes make up the first book of this series. Book 2 is where Jack McKinney had to start to fill in a lot of the information that had not been developed yet, and with Death Dance, you can see him really starting to churn the story into his own. While we will never know what the final product would have looked like, I have to say I like McKinney’s path much better. It is wildly entertaining, if a bit derivative, but the work he does to flesh out Praxis, with all of it’s almost Jurassic Park level of creature horror, just raises what reads as a pedestrian liberation of the week television show into something pretty unique. And Geruda/Garuda, with what is basically it’s LSD laden atmosphere is just a pretty interesting construct.
The one problem I keep returning to is the loss of Lisa Hayes Hunter as a strong central character. She is the leader, but we keep losing her to focus on Rick Hunter. I think that is a deficiency of the original source material. Rick just really needs smacked a lot, and Lisa is such a great character. Anyway, onto World Killers, which takes us to Haydon IV, which is another McKinney sci-fi fever dream.
December 3, 2023
Just enough twists and turns to keep me engaged... Enjoying the nostalgic romp of my favorite anime from the 80s. Having it play out in book form is amazing!
September 27, 2025
Again the RDF part is more interesting than the sentinels part.
March 29, 2011
Great series of books for kids that enjoy or are interested in science fiction. I read these books in middle school (I'm now in my 30s) and loved each one. The stories are fun, engaging and relatively fast paced. I'd be tempted to reread them now just for old time's sake if I didn't have so many new books on my to-read list.
I knocked it down a peg because, in retrospect, there are some aspects that are a bit too cheesy. I'm sure when my kids are old enough, they'll get thier own copies.
I knocked it down a peg because, in retrospect, there are some aspects that are a bit too cheesy. I'm sure when my kids are old enough, they'll get thier own copies.
February 6, 2019
Mostly moving pieces around the board.
June 2, 2013
I really liked this book to bad its the shortest one in the series.
January 8, 2015
Nice build-up
This one was a setup novel it seemed. While major points were made, one could tell it was to setup the next book.
This one was a setup novel it seemed. While major points were made, one could tell it was to setup the next book.
May 12, 2015
Great SiFi series. Giant battlesuits battling outer space monsters, what more can you ask for. Very recommended
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