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AL:ICE #3
AL:ICE Resurrection
Colonel Jake Thomas has a mess on his hands. The losses on Klinan have gutted an already short-staffed defense force, and his people are scrambling to prepare for a possible attack, directly on earth. Combined with the seemingly erratic behavior of Sara, his number one go to girl, he is struggling to keep up.
Now, with unexplained transmissions originating in Europe, and an Alien visitor with questionable motives, he is awash in new challenges on earth and in space. Can the activity in Europe be a sign of troubles to come, or is it an indication of allies waiting to be discovered?
Now, with unexplained transmissions originating in Europe, and an Alien visitor with questionable motives, he is awash in new challenges on earth and in space. Can the activity in Europe be a sign of troubles to come, or is it an indication of allies waiting to be discovered?
343 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 28, 2016
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September 11, 2017
Author didn't like his harem anymore so he is either killing them or getting rid of them for any reason he thinks can be swallowed. This caused the plot to be quite dumb.
January 20, 2024
Quite good!
January 10, 2017
Great third book in the series. The Earth is getting stronger and stronger. There is not a conclusive end, so hopefully there will be more books coming out in this series.
Looking forward to read more of AL:ice.
Looking forward to read more of AL:ice.
April 25, 2017
The entire Alice series is a wonderful exercise in political science and science fiction in a dystopian future. The book has great characters, great action and is well thought out and well written. I highly recommend it.
May 29, 2018
An enjoyable book, for adults.
May 14, 2018
Jake continues building alliances and increasing the size of both his forces and allies. Lots of action with both the NeHaw and Earth based foes. The most annoying thing in all of these stories is the romantic interaction, especially with the suddenly possessive Sara being a PITA. Overall this is a pretty good story.
September 19, 2016
Superb!
This is me of the best post apocalyptic series you will read. Unusual social situations morphed into believable situations. Three dimensional characters, a real good guy hero, realistic knowledge of military action and history. Definitely not dystopia. I enjoyed it.
This is me of the best post apocalyptic series you will read. Unusual social situations morphed into believable situations. Three dimensional characters, a real good guy hero, realistic knowledge of military action and history. Definitely not dystopia. I enjoyed it.
May 16, 2016
Insultingly Bad Writing and Execution
Book 3, "Resurrection," continues the poorly written and badly executed SciFi series "Alice." The lack of writing talent, basic writing skills, editing and proofreading is amazing.
The storyline concept had some potential merit: present day USMC Captain awakens from stasis experiment, about 150 years In the future, within an AI controlled military research facility. Earth's population, technology, militaries and governments were decimated by an alien race, as retribution for the salvaging of an alien ship. Multiple AI facilities exist and the main character begins to rebuild the planet.
Problem is the plot and narrative are terrible. The main character is genetically enhanced due to stasis filtered radiation, he is a polygamist, serial biological father, global military chieftain, President of the USA (last living registered voter-votes for self), King, computer wizard, engineer, and now a British Knight. The eBook at first was a little funny, since it was so terrible. But, after page after page of unmitigated odoriferous trash, it was just annoying. This is well beyond bad SciFi or even fantasy-it's insultingly delusional.
This book, along with the prior two of the series, clearly are worthless.
Book 3, "Resurrection," continues the poorly written and badly executed SciFi series "Alice." The lack of writing talent, basic writing skills, editing and proofreading is amazing.
The storyline concept had some potential merit: present day USMC Captain awakens from stasis experiment, about 150 years In the future, within an AI controlled military research facility. Earth's population, technology, militaries and governments were decimated by an alien race, as retribution for the salvaging of an alien ship. Multiple AI facilities exist and the main character begins to rebuild the planet.
Problem is the plot and narrative are terrible. The main character is genetically enhanced due to stasis filtered radiation, he is a polygamist, serial biological father, global military chieftain, President of the USA (last living registered voter-votes for self), King, computer wizard, engineer, and now a British Knight. The eBook at first was a little funny, since it was so terrible. But, after page after page of unmitigated odoriferous trash, it was just annoying. This is well beyond bad SciFi or even fantasy-it's insultingly delusional.
This book, along with the prior two of the series, clearly are worthless.
June 19, 2016
Even though Jake has more help now than he ever had, with the addition of new recruits, delegating the Alice compounds to trusted people and now the discovery of the English SAS forces, he still is under a tremendous amount of pressure. He feels like he had to run it all and be on top of everything. I guess that's what presidents do but I feel he should delegate more. Not to mention his women and kids. His love, Sara, told him she wants to be exclusive and he is afraid to hurt the two younger girls. Not to mention he has gotten used to their favors. Ha! This from a man who didn't want polygamy. But, I digress. He has bigger problems to contend with, such as a possible attack on Earth. With a captured alien in his possession he decides to take the war to their home world. This book is packed with excitement and was left with the possibility of another book!
August 13, 2016
Good book
After listening to the first two books I could not wait for the audio version to be available at my region so I had to get this once I noticed it's available. The story continued nicely where the last book left and build up to the end was well done. I can't wait where the next book will go.
After listening to the first two books I could not wait for the audio version to be available at my region so I had to get this once I noticed it's available. The story continued nicely where the last book left and build up to the end was well done. I can't wait where the next book will go.
May 24, 2016
A quick, light read, and a good continuation for the series. The continued personal drama was a nice backstop to the new level of politics for the main character as he continues to try to unite whats left of the world.
The ending of this book could make the next one a lot more challenging as it effectively ends the NeHaw has the opposition force.
The ending of this book could make the next one a lot more challenging as it effectively ends the NeHaw has the opposition force.
May 23, 2016
Ready for the next one.
Great follow up on the last book. It increased the casts of characters and sets the stage for the next book. Looking forward to it as well as the audio release of this book.
Great follow up on the last book. It increased the casts of characters and sets the stage for the next book. Looking forward to it as well as the audio release of this book.
June 10, 2016
Go Alice....Lamb rocks it again
You gotta love great space opera... Charles Lamb did it again his newest addition to the Alice stories. Great characters, fun story...it is a perfect fun summer beach read.
You gotta love great space opera... Charles Lamb did it again his newest addition to the Alice stories. Great characters, fun story...it is a perfect fun summer beach read.
May 5, 2016
Less awesome than the first two. And the drama with Sara was funny.
May 9, 2016
Excellent!
I had to remember the previous story since the title was familiar. Wow, an action packed thrill ride wanting me to be there. Thx
I had to remember the previous story since the title was familiar. Wow, an action packed thrill ride wanting me to be there. Thx
June 18, 2016
Enjoyable space romp
As I have said before I'm useless at writing reviews but I enjoyed the book and the previous two hurry up and write some more
As I have said before I'm useless at writing reviews but I enjoyed the book and the previous two hurry up and write some more
February 17, 2020
The book in the series best.
Thank you Charles Lamb for the best book in the series so far. Onwards towards the next exciting adventure to read!
Thank you Charles Lamb for the best book in the series so far. Onwards towards the next exciting adventure to read!
July 11, 2016
Fun read great pastime ... Where is the next on :-)
Enjoy the read ... it was fun the complexity of human condition improves each book the author writes
Looking forward books
Enjoy the read ... it was fun the complexity of human condition improves each book the author writes
Looking forward books
September 5, 2016
Nice book military Sci-fi I liked it I guess./
August 29, 2016
I enjoyed this it's a good progression of the series. The couple of instances of red shirt syndrome could have been better handled though IMOP.
October 15, 2016
Great series!
I have followed this series and the author is growing better every time. I like the characters, and enjoy the premise.
I have followed this series and the author is growing better every time. I like the characters, and enjoy the premise.
January 21, 2018
NOTE ABOUT ONLINE BOOK REVIEWS: I read an article about how online book reviews are inflated because people are unwilling to share negative reviews. Since that time I have been more willing to share my negative reviews but I bring this up because on my way to posting this review I saw that this book currently has a 4.22 rating which is crazy given how bad the first 1/3rd of this book is and that the rest of this book is only acceptable. This book should be a 3.0 at best. Now for the review:
I can’t understand this author. He isn’t true to the world he created in the first book and I can’t figure out if that is because he believes women are inferior or because he latches on to story lines without bothering to think about how they conflict with the world he’s created. In book two he takes his strongest female character and turns into a damsel in distress. To do this he has a group that is massively over matched and knows it, kidnap her anyway. Here, in book three, he has another woman sneak off to make first contact with a Chinese warlord. This is a woman who grew up in a world where rape and pillage, not to mention murder and slavery, are the norm. She has only been in the “civilized” part of the world for a couple of years and during that time she seen virtually every interaction with the outside world go wrong. And yet she takes the trust she’s been given to steal a plane and fly herself and a marine fire team into the heart of a Chinese warlord’s camp without discussing her plan with anyone.
The whole story, from book one, hinges on the abilities of AIs the author has created. These AIs evaluate everyone in the new human civilization they are helping to bring about on an ongoing basis but somehow they miss one of seven head honchos planning her own trip to China and recruiting a marine fire team to go with her???? Granted the author has his character go out of her way to avoid AI scrutiny but she is clearly too stupid to do that successfully. And this isn’t even the worse case of the author simply deciding the AIs failed to do something that clearly they would have done in the world he created. In book two the AIs ignored the negotiations between humans and 5 alien races even though they were doing all the translating just so he could spring a surprise on the reader later. Here the author essentially has an AI go crazy and start keeping secrets from her “sisters” and risk death pulling a stupid stunt- a stunt that was completely unnecessary since it was all about her being moved into a spaceship, something she just could have asked to be done. But then the author blew that whole “move to a spaceship” out of proportion as a way of showing conflict between the AIs. The simple truth of the world he created is that the author did not establish any rights in the AIs to veto each other actions so if “three” wants to move to a spaceship they’d have no right to stop her. And these are AIs- they think several million times faster than humans but they mull this decision for months. Imagine a cave man spending 5 billion years arguing with seven other cavemen about his plan to move from one cave to another because the caveman might be eaten on the way. That is what the author would have us believe his AIs did.
Since the AIs all identify as female, I’m still stuck with the dilemma of whether the author’s incredibly stupid story lines come from a conviction that women really aren’t intelligent or because he just latches on to stupid story lines without thought and his female characters are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. These story lines are soooooo bad I’m thinking it is probably both.
After spending the first half of the book on stupid crap intended to show the manly superiority of his main, the author does eventually return to telling the story of the rebuilding and defending of earth which is told fairly well. The final resolution to this book is convenient, if accurate to what is known about failing empires.
Bottom line: not as bad a book 2 but still not really worth the time. I’m only continuing on the next book because I like military science fiction and I can get it for free from my library.
I can’t understand this author. He isn’t true to the world he created in the first book and I can’t figure out if that is because he believes women are inferior or because he latches on to story lines without bothering to think about how they conflict with the world he’s created. In book two he takes his strongest female character and turns into a damsel in distress. To do this he has a group that is massively over matched and knows it, kidnap her anyway. Here, in book three, he has another woman sneak off to make first contact with a Chinese warlord. This is a woman who grew up in a world where rape and pillage, not to mention murder and slavery, are the norm. She has only been in the “civilized” part of the world for a couple of years and during that time she seen virtually every interaction with the outside world go wrong. And yet she takes the trust she’s been given to steal a plane and fly herself and a marine fire team into the heart of a Chinese warlord’s camp without discussing her plan with anyone.
The whole story, from book one, hinges on the abilities of AIs the author has created. These AIs evaluate everyone in the new human civilization they are helping to bring about on an ongoing basis but somehow they miss one of seven head honchos planning her own trip to China and recruiting a marine fire team to go with her???? Granted the author has his character go out of her way to avoid AI scrutiny but she is clearly too stupid to do that successfully. And this isn’t even the worse case of the author simply deciding the AIs failed to do something that clearly they would have done in the world he created. In book two the AIs ignored the negotiations between humans and 5 alien races even though they were doing all the translating just so he could spring a surprise on the reader later. Here the author essentially has an AI go crazy and start keeping secrets from her “sisters” and risk death pulling a stupid stunt- a stunt that was completely unnecessary since it was all about her being moved into a spaceship, something she just could have asked to be done. But then the author blew that whole “move to a spaceship” out of proportion as a way of showing conflict between the AIs. The simple truth of the world he created is that the author did not establish any rights in the AIs to veto each other actions so if “three” wants to move to a spaceship they’d have no right to stop her. And these are AIs- they think several million times faster than humans but they mull this decision for months. Imagine a cave man spending 5 billion years arguing with seven other cavemen about his plan to move from one cave to another because the caveman might be eaten on the way. That is what the author would have us believe his AIs did.
Since the AIs all identify as female, I’m still stuck with the dilemma of whether the author’s incredibly stupid story lines come from a conviction that women really aren’t intelligent or because he just latches on to stupid story lines without thought and his female characters are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. These story lines are soooooo bad I’m thinking it is probably both.
After spending the first half of the book on stupid crap intended to show the manly superiority of his main, the author does eventually return to telling the story of the rebuilding and defending of earth which is told fairly well. The final resolution to this book is convenient, if accurate to what is known about failing empires.
Bottom line: not as bad a book 2 but still not really worth the time. I’m only continuing on the next book because I like military science fiction and I can get it for free from my library.
November 25, 2021
I got the flue and had 2 weeks bedrest, so started this Audio Book series... and it was simply Wow! Excellent! Well worth the time and read/listen, highly enjoyable and this whole series would make an excellent TV series similar to the Expanse series, but much much better! Love this series!
This AL:ICE series reminds me of Mark Wayne McGinnis style story telling, and my only complaint is that both Mark Wayne McGinnis and Chales W. Lamb need to tripple their story telling output :)
The premise of the AL:ICE facilities is not far fetched, as I worked in the Marine Corps and served in the R&D compliance & oversight all over the U.S., and the authenticity to protocol and military structure was highly enjoyable, as stories based in reality with the "What If" leaps of imagination is appealing to the best characters of humanity, which is well worth the time and money to simply let the "movie" unfold in your mind as you listen!
This AL:ICE series reminds me of Mark Wayne McGinnis style story telling, and my only complaint is that both Mark Wayne McGinnis and Chales W. Lamb need to tripple their story telling output :)
The premise of the AL:ICE facilities is not far fetched, as I worked in the Marine Corps and served in the R&D compliance & oversight all over the U.S., and the authenticity to protocol and military structure was highly enjoyable, as stories based in reality with the "What If" leaps of imagination is appealing to the best characters of humanity, which is well worth the time and money to simply let the "movie" unfold in your mind as you listen!
June 11, 2017
This is an enjoyable and fun Sci-Fi series with, but I did have a few problems with this book there are too many sub-plots and the story switches backwards and forwards between different characters and plots far too frequently. One chapter can move through dozens of characters and locations; Space, Earth, Russia, China, Australia, LA, London, half-a-dozen different ALICEs, HeBak, Jake, Sandy, Sara, Kathy, Linda etc etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
There is no flow to the story and although it might just be my own failing, I found it hard work reading this book. This did improve in the latter part of the book but by then I was losing interest.
It would have helped had their been a main story linking the sub-plots together but this book is really a group of mini stories loosely grouped together.
There is no flow to the story and although it might just be my own failing, I found it hard work reading this book. This did improve in the latter part of the book but by then I was losing interest.
It would have helped had their been a main story linking the sub-plots together but this book is really a group of mini stories loosely grouped together.
December 1, 2019
Resurrection Doesn't Disappoint
While artificial life facilities continue to learn and evolve, distinctive personalities emerge. One such AL, artificial life, distinctly different from artificial intelligence, manipulate her ALICE sisters and human commanders to allow herself to be resurrected as a space bearing intelligence. Now, Kola, an intelligent being not only commands but inhabits the largest space aircraft carrier in the Earth fleet. Essentially an old sole, a newborn space craft she is free flying and sometimes reckless until she realizes recklessness could result in her own death, permanently, she settles into her role with a human commander and take on an alien invading fleet.
While artificial life facilities continue to learn and evolve, distinctive personalities emerge. One such AL, artificial life, distinctly different from artificial intelligence, manipulate her ALICE sisters and human commanders to allow herself to be resurrected as a space bearing intelligence. Now, Kola, an intelligent being not only commands but inhabits the largest space aircraft carrier in the Earth fleet. Essentially an old sole, a newborn space craft she is free flying and sometimes reckless until she realizes recklessness could result in her own death, permanently, she settles into her role with a human commander and take on an alien invading fleet.
June 5, 2020
Still good even years later
Still re reading the series.This book had less direct action than the previous ones but more world building. Perhaps should be called rebuilding. Jake and his people are recovering more of the worlds assets And making earth a formidable force. Many of Jake's problems with his love life track with real world problems which makes the series feel more real. Hopefully the ladies get their head screwed on straight soon so that Jake can work on more important problems like protecting earth and humanity. Off to read the next. I hear the author is revisiting this series and giving us another book in the very near future so I must hurry.
Still re reading the series.This book had less direct action than the previous ones but more world building. Perhaps should be called rebuilding. Jake and his people are recovering more of the worlds assets And making earth a formidable force. Many of Jake's problems with his love life track with real world problems which makes the series feel more real. Hopefully the ladies get their head screwed on straight soon so that Jake can work on more important problems like protecting earth and humanity. Off to read the next. I hear the author is revisiting this series and giving us another book in the very near future so I must hurry.
May 1, 2021
I liked the first two books in this series well enough. They were nice, light post-apoc with an interesting premise. The writing, grammar, and punctuation were suspect, but I can ignore almost anything in pursuit of an interesting story.
However, in this novel, the author really started sliding into the "too many characters" trap. They started writing sequences of paragraphs from many different points of view, and it was infuriating. It's my opinion that a story can survive at most two points of view, because it's almost impossible to make each point of view equally interesting. Inevitably the reader starts wanting to skip the "fluff" points of view to get to the "good ones", and the novel suffers greatly as a result. That's what killed this novel for me; I didn't give a rats ass about most of the points of view.
However, in this novel, the author really started sliding into the "too many characters" trap. They started writing sequences of paragraphs from many different points of view, and it was infuriating. It's my opinion that a story can survive at most two points of view, because it's almost impossible to make each point of view equally interesting. Inevitably the reader starts wanting to skip the "fluff" points of view to get to the "good ones", and the novel suffers greatly as a result. That's what killed this novel for me; I didn't give a rats ass about most of the points of view.
August 5, 2020
Less Sci-Fi, More Romance
Oddly enough, I remain interested in the storyline and try to skim through the romance parts which just do not add anything constructive to the story. In fact, I find it odd that in a world view where females outnumber males that society remains so male dominated. While most of the women in this series are highly skilled, even to the extent they exceed some of the men, they remain mostly second class characters in these books.
Oddly enough, I remain interested in the storyline and try to skim through the romance parts which just do not add anything constructive to the story. In fact, I find it odd that in a world view where females outnumber males that society remains so male dominated. While most of the women in this series are highly skilled, even to the extent they exceed some of the men, they remain mostly second class characters in these books.
July 2, 2018
Entertaining!
I have enjoyed all of the books in this series. It combines the technological advances found in most space operas with the rebuilding of the earth after an apocalyptic event. Since I like both genres, this is right up my alley! It is definitely worth a look.
I have enjoyed all of the books in this series. It combines the technological advances found in most space operas with the rebuilding of the earth after an apocalyptic event. Since I like both genres, this is right up my alley! It is definitely worth a look.
September 4, 2020
Sorry, couldn't finish
I'm sorry, I liked the story but once Sandy started to try to be sneaky it turned me off from the story. I put the book down and tried to go back to the story a couple times but just couldn't get back into it.
I'm sorry, I liked the story but once Sandy started to try to be sneaky it turned me off from the story. I put the book down and tried to go back to the story a couple times but just couldn't get back into it.
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