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Gray Panthers #2
Gray Panthers: Earth's Revenge
The defenders of Earth, the Gray Panther Army saved the Earth from an invasion from the Libra Alliance on 6 January 2128. The jubilation was short lived as Earth's defenders found out there was a second deadlier fleet that would arrive at Earth in about two years. The Gray Panther Army consisting of ancient veterans, who have been enhanced through nanite technology to once again be young men and women, are forced to expand their ranks to include even the young. The Gray Panthers enlist the services of Matt Andrews and his team of crack flyers “Matt’s Marauders.” Their mission; to fly captured fighters deep in enemy space from a captured raider to buy Earth time as defenses are built up and the fleet increased in anticipation for the looming invasion.
- GenresScience Fiction
312 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 27, 2015
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About the author
David Guenther
16 books21 followers After growing up in the small town of Onalaska in Wisconsin I contracted a serious case of gypsy disease. For the next 21 years I traveled all over the world with the USAF. The experiences I garnered are the seeds for many of my stories. The experiences from the numerous deployments I had in the Air Force has given me enough fodder for stories for the rest of my life. Although I started writing military science fiction trying to emulate my favorite author John Ringo. I recently started writing horror and was a 2019 Dragon Awards finalist. In 2020 I'll be trying a new genre.
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September 20, 2015
This book is definitely an improvement over the first book by this author. The book is longer and the pace is better. It takes a more reasonable time to let events unfold (at least until the end). It still shows that the author is at the beginning of his learning curve but he has made much progress.
Dan and company is back although the book do not center as much as Dan himself as the previous book. Sure, he is still a main character but in this book a number of other characters are also allowed to take a leading role in the various events that unfold. The story is a pretty wild ride and sometimes stretches the bounds of realism, even for a science fiction book.
The Gray Panthers are desperately trying to build up sufficient forces to repel the coming invasion fleet. At the same time a mission is launched to acquire a substance needed to build advanced components for their effort. During the mission they get to interact with intergalactic bankers (!!!) and other parties. Here it does indeed go a bit wild and I would say that the behavior of these aliens are a wee bit weird as well as simplistic, even a bit childish. The latter being enforced by the sometimes somewhat silly names of things.
Back on Earth the humans are, not surprisingly, behaving as humans (especially the politicians as well as certain other organisations on the government payroll). Something which hampers the efforts in building up the defense forces. Dan is of course still a person that does not take any shit so these people are rather quickly realizing that they put their fot in the wrong place.
Then we come to the end and here is where I got a bit of a gripe with the book. We have this nice build up for a bit of alien clobbering but it kind of felt like the author ran out of steam. It starts of pretty okay but then suddenly the events of the “big fight” are simply reported to the reader in short sentences almost in the form of a Reuters news telegram.
Anyway, despite some shortcomings, as mentioned above, it was a fairly fun book to read and the story is far from finished. I hope the author plans to continue the series.
Dan and company is back although the book do not center as much as Dan himself as the previous book. Sure, he is still a main character but in this book a number of other characters are also allowed to take a leading role in the various events that unfold. The story is a pretty wild ride and sometimes stretches the bounds of realism, even for a science fiction book.
The Gray Panthers are desperately trying to build up sufficient forces to repel the coming invasion fleet. At the same time a mission is launched to acquire a substance needed to build advanced components for their effort. During the mission they get to interact with intergalactic bankers (!!!) and other parties. Here it does indeed go a bit wild and I would say that the behavior of these aliens are a wee bit weird as well as simplistic, even a bit childish. The latter being enforced by the sometimes somewhat silly names of things.
Back on Earth the humans are, not surprisingly, behaving as humans (especially the politicians as well as certain other organisations on the government payroll). Something which hampers the efforts in building up the defense forces. Dan is of course still a person that does not take any shit so these people are rather quickly realizing that they put their fot in the wrong place.
Then we come to the end and here is where I got a bit of a gripe with the book. We have this nice build up for a bit of alien clobbering but it kind of felt like the author ran out of steam. It starts of pretty okay but then suddenly the events of the “big fight” are simply reported to the reader in short sentences almost in the form of a Reuters news telegram.
Anyway, despite some shortcomings, as mentioned above, it was a fairly fun book to read and the story is far from finished. I hope the author plans to continue the series.
September 25, 2015
In some ways a very funny book. In others very prophetic.
I enjoyed this book having spent 29 years with the military.
People were believable and was always a surprise what came next.
Look forward to the next book.
I enjoyed this book having spent 29 years with the military.
People were believable and was always a surprise what came next.
Look forward to the next book.
September 19, 2015
Interesting and different
Two different human cultures but with the same theme. Survival. To the author continue writing. Your future looks very good.
Two different human cultures but with the same theme. Survival. To the author continue writing. Your future looks very good.
October 20, 2015
Great military science fiction
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and can't wait for the next volume. The story is well written and has great characters and great action!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and can't wait for the next volume. The story is well written and has great characters and great action!
December 27, 2017
Fast action..no wasted words, very hard to put down.
Really liked the premise and the continuing growth of the story. Many on earth still do not believe there is danger from the stars and the one group that can and will fight are many times having blind sides by there own.
For a first series the author has done very well. My only criticism would be the leaps in the story that I need to make in order to figure out how we just went from A to C without a B. Something that happens to an author when they have thought through the story lines so many times they assume they either wrote something or the leap they make makes sense to them. This could be easily fixed by having a few beta readers not familiar with the book run through the book first.
With all that said, I really like the Series and look have already down loaded DIXIE.
Really liked the premise and the continuing growth of the story. Many on earth still do not believe there is danger from the stars and the one group that can and will fight are many times having blind sides by there own.
For a first series the author has done very well. My only criticism would be the leaps in the story that I need to make in order to figure out how we just went from A to C without a B. Something that happens to an author when they have thought through the story lines so many times they assume they either wrote something or the leap they make makes sense to them. This could be easily fixed by having a few beta readers not familiar with the book run through the book first.
With all that said, I really like the Series and look have already down loaded DIXIE.
January 30, 2017
This book was better than the first in the series. I would actually recommend skipping the first. The writing is still simplistic and stilted. the characters still lack depth and are more archetypes than fleshed out people that you care about. Thankfully most of the misogyny is gone and the description of events is more detailed.
A few things really grated though, the use of the full name of the space ships, constantly. In a communication from one ship in a fleet to another in the second fleet it is completely unnecessary to say, "Arizona Space Ship Nike" Nike will suffice, or ASS Nike. If you don't want to call all your ships ASS, then Don't it is your book! make them from somewhere else. it got incredibly annoying. The second thing, was power. The batteries for their laser guns were "solar powered and would recharge in 5 to 8 minutes. but could blast a 3 foot wide 100 foot long channel in rock. If you are going to write Science fiction then do some basic science. Third, they mention leaving the galaxy for the second time ever but they have only gone 120 light years. Solar system is the word you wanted.
The reader mispronounced quite a few words that he should really not have. Like the name of the crater on the moon, and letters of Marque.
I won't be reading the rest of this series. it did get better but not nearly enough, and I honestly don't care about any of the characters enough to read further.
A few things really grated though, the use of the full name of the space ships, constantly. In a communication from one ship in a fleet to another in the second fleet it is completely unnecessary to say, "Arizona Space Ship Nike" Nike will suffice, or ASS Nike. If you don't want to call all your ships ASS, then Don't it is your book! make them from somewhere else. it got incredibly annoying. The second thing, was power. The batteries for their laser guns were "solar powered and would recharge in 5 to 8 minutes. but could blast a 3 foot wide 100 foot long channel in rock. If you are going to write Science fiction then do some basic science. Third, they mention leaving the galaxy for the second time ever but they have only gone 120 light years. Solar system is the word you wanted.
The reader mispronounced quite a few words that he should really not have. Like the name of the crater on the moon, and letters of Marque.
I won't be reading the rest of this series. it did get better but not nearly enough, and I honestly don't care about any of the characters enough to read further.
October 12, 2015
2.5 stars. I like the premise, and I like the interactions of some of the characters, but this book seems to have been rushed and could use some additional editing - grammar and punctuation are out he window and several times the dialogue reversed who was speaking (e.g., the person with a helmet on advising the one with no helmet on that they could safely take their helmet off). Also, need to tone down the omniscient/omnipresent status of the AI. Having said all that, I'm still interested in seeing where the next book will take us.
July 15, 2016
Great follow up
I have enjoyed reading this book, it sees earth looking at building a strong defence to the expected attack. But also looking to find allies, one is not was expected, a colony of humans that was taken in the 1800s. But what looks like a victory could turn out to be a loss of these people.
I have enjoyed reading this book, it sees earth looking at building a strong defence to the expected attack. But also looking to find allies, one is not was expected, a colony of humans that was taken in the 1800s. But what looks like a victory could turn out to be a loss of these people.
October 31, 2015
Great !!!!
A great book and a great story. I can't wait to read number one and number three. Good job sir!!!! Thank you !!!
A great book and a great story. I can't wait to read number one and number three. Good job sir!!!! Thank you !!!
September 26, 2017
Great story
As an older reader, it's great to see a book about older people getting 're-Youthed' and being able to do the things they did when they were younger.
As an older reader, it's great to see a book about older people getting 're-Youthed' and being able to do the things they did when they were younger.
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