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Alien Danger #3
Alien Victory
The conclusion to the great gay sci-fi epic.
In the concluding volume of the Alien Danger series the perils and dangers of the universe converge on the lovers, Mike from Earth, and Joe from Hrrrm an unlikely pair to have fallen in love. Together they struggle to build a world safe for gay people and keep the dangers and prejudices of the world at bay. All leading to the final titanic battle between prejudice and all that is good and kind.
400 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 28, 2015
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September 18, 2018
Amazing
What a hero! What a long, strange trip he’s been on! This has been a satisfying trilogy to read. I could go for even more adventures of Mike and his alien, Joe.
What a hero! What a long, strange trip he’s been on! This has been a satisfying trilogy to read. I could go for even more adventures of Mike and his alien, Joe.
July 14, 2015
4 Heart Review by Dan
Welcome back to the tale of Mike, a waiter from Chicago; and his husband Joe, an intergalactic cop from the Empire of the Hrrrm. This is the third book in the series, and I would highly recommend reading the first two before beginning this one, as the background story is important and not really contained in this book. Click here for my review of the first two books in the series.
For those of you who have read the first two books, you will remember that Mike was a waiter in an eclectic eatery in Chicago when he met Joe. It turned out that Joe was an intergalactic cop, on Earth hunting for a rogue scientist. In the first two books of the series, the two hunt down the scientist, Mike gets a communicator implanted in him which makes him almost have superpowers, they are captured by the government of the Hrrrm and retured to Hrrrm where they stand trial and are sentenced to prison.
In book three, the sentence is carried out. Mike, Joe and every other gay person in Hrrrm space are condemned to be stripped of their assets and sent off to a prison world. The prison world is a worthless piece of rock that has failed several times over the last 5,000 years to be successfully colonized.
With very little usable supplies, Mike, Joe and 100 other prisoners are dumped on the planet and told to get it ready for additional prisoners who will be arriving soon. Around Hrrrm space, the Religionist Party, who pushed through the rounding up and imprisonment of all LGBT citizens, begins to do just that by creating huge prison camps in preparation for shipping the undesirables to the prison planet. In some cases those imprisoned LGBT people are being massacred for fighting back. Their deaths are also being used as blackmail against Mike to ensure he cooperates.
Under Mike and Joe’s leadership, the new prison colony not only survives…it begins to flourish. What will happen when the Religionists push even harder for extermination of the LGBTs and of Mike in particular? Can his implant help him, and the colony, survive?
I enjoyed this latest book from Mark Zubro. For any of you not familiar with Mark, he spins real life issues into his tales. He takes modern day American politics and LGBT rights issues and puts them into an intergalactic venue, with sometimes a fairly thin veneer. There is little doubt of his social commentaries.
I would recommend this book as part of the series. It was a good wrap-up of the series, although I would have to say it was my least favorite of the three book series. It was well written, but I felt this one missed out on some character development of the background characters. They felt a little flat in this installment. Overall though I liked the book and the entire series. It is fairly hard sci-fi, with very little sex, but it works.
This book was provided free in exchange for a fair and honest review for Love Bytes. Go there to check out other reviews, author interviews, and all those awesome giveaways. Click below.
Welcome back to the tale of Mike, a waiter from Chicago; and his husband Joe, an intergalactic cop from the Empire of the Hrrrm. This is the third book in the series, and I would highly recommend reading the first two before beginning this one, as the background story is important and not really contained in this book. Click here for my review of the first two books in the series.
For those of you who have read the first two books, you will remember that Mike was a waiter in an eclectic eatery in Chicago when he met Joe. It turned out that Joe was an intergalactic cop, on Earth hunting for a rogue scientist. In the first two books of the series, the two hunt down the scientist, Mike gets a communicator implanted in him which makes him almost have superpowers, they are captured by the government of the Hrrrm and retured to Hrrrm where they stand trial and are sentenced to prison.
In book three, the sentence is carried out. Mike, Joe and every other gay person in Hrrrm space are condemned to be stripped of their assets and sent off to a prison world. The prison world is a worthless piece of rock that has failed several times over the last 5,000 years to be successfully colonized.
With very little usable supplies, Mike, Joe and 100 other prisoners are dumped on the planet and told to get it ready for additional prisoners who will be arriving soon. Around Hrrrm space, the Religionist Party, who pushed through the rounding up and imprisonment of all LGBT citizens, begins to do just that by creating huge prison camps in preparation for shipping the undesirables to the prison planet. In some cases those imprisoned LGBT people are being massacred for fighting back. Their deaths are also being used as blackmail against Mike to ensure he cooperates.
Under Mike and Joe’s leadership, the new prison colony not only survives…it begins to flourish. What will happen when the Religionists push even harder for extermination of the LGBTs and of Mike in particular? Can his implant help him, and the colony, survive?
I enjoyed this latest book from Mark Zubro. For any of you not familiar with Mark, he spins real life issues into his tales. He takes modern day American politics and LGBT rights issues and puts them into an intergalactic venue, with sometimes a fairly thin veneer. There is little doubt of his social commentaries.
I would recommend this book as part of the series. It was a good wrap-up of the series, although I would have to say it was my least favorite of the three book series. It was well written, but I felt this one missed out on some character development of the background characters. They felt a little flat in this installment. Overall though I liked the book and the entire series. It is fairly hard sci-fi, with very little sex, but it works.
This book was provided free in exchange for a fair and honest review for Love Bytes. Go there to check out other reviews, author interviews, and all those awesome giveaways. Click below.
September 27, 2015
The last of Zubro’s Alien trilogy, “Alien Victory” delivers an epic, but oddly flat, finale for the adventures of Mike the waiter and Joe the interplanetary cop. Their love endures, and their concern for others is a constant bass-note in the unreeling action. These men and their marriage is the hub around which the entire story turns.
The cliff-hanger from the previous book, “Alien Home,” opens directly into a prisoner transport ship that is taking Mike and Joe and a hundred other gay men to a failed colony planet on the edge of the galaxy: 6743-OA. The convulsive homophobia of the Hrrrm people, triggered by Mike and Joe’s relationship, has condemned all LGBT folk in the galaxy to exile – which, at least, is better than extermination. As LGBT people are collected from all over the galaxy and forced into internment camps, Mike and Joe and their band of warriors are supposed to create a viable colony to receive all the exiled gay folk of Hrrrm.
There’s interest in watching the boys set about their task on the bleak, but still beautiful, planet. I’d like to compare it to Andy Weir’s oddly engaging “The Martian,” but it wouldn’t be fair. First, there’s huge amounts of hi-tech Hrrrm equipment left over from the last colonizing attempt. Secondly, the wry comic voice of the earlier two Alien novels is lacking. There are attempts (repeated cultural references by Mike to Earth history that the Hrrrm guys don’t get) to bring levity to this story, but the underlying light tone of the first two books didn’t survive in the harsher setting.
Zubro is intent on pushing the story forward, and it’s in many ways an interesting story. We are introduced to a panoply of monosyllabic Hrrrm men: Karsh, Cak, Bir, Krim, Pav, Bex, Brux. Some of these guys, particularly the teenaged Krim and the old queen Brux, play significant roles and become real people. But in spite of this everything seems oddly perfunctory, including Mike and Joe’s constant “I love yous” to each other, and the occasional bout of “mad wild sex” that is only mentioned and never dwelt upon. Zubro offers us lots of details, but it seems to be a lot of “tell” and not “show.”
The ending is oddly hurried, and suffers from the same lack of emotional impact that I felt throughout the story. I don’t mean to be a grouch, but I simply didn’t connect with the characters in this book as I did in the previous two, and I can’t completely say why. I wasn’t bored. I liked the world-building. I love the premise and think this might have made a great movie (instead of yet another sci-fi movie about another straight guy marooned on a lonely planet).
Perhaps that’s the problem: “Alien Victory” reads like a script, not an epic about life and death in the outer reaches of the galaxy.
If you’ve read the first two books in this series, you have to read this one. But I confess to feeling a little let down, even in the face of triumph.
September 27, 2017
WOW..!! ALIEN Trilogy....I want a fourth, fifth and sixth book...!!
September 13, 2015
This was fantastic each book has been better
I highly recommend this to science fiction fans
I highly recommend this to science fiction fans
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