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Echo Three Tango
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Echo Three Tango, E3T, is dropped into a war zone on a new planet facing a savage foe capable of destroying all life forms. Surviving the forced retreat of their E3T corps, Bret and a small band of his Federation soldiers are stranded and left behind to create a new society.
The primitive culture on the planet evolves with the introduction of the Federation’s modern weapons, new societal norms, and beliefs. At first, the people look up to their E3T benefactors, but with time, find it a two-edged sword, as old ways are replaced by the new.
As Federation visitors start to arrive on the planet, new temptations arrive with them. Bret marries Beca, a beautiful local woman who answers the call of her people to help govern.
They agree Beca must live in the capital city as a ruler, but Bret and their children live apart in the country to shield them from danger. Over time, their separation leads to friction and jealousy for Bret.
About the
Dennis K. Hausker was born and raised in Michigan. Now retired, he and his wife love to travel. He is a prolific author, plays golf, and follows his Michigan State University Spartans. “I was aiming at an audience that likes battle sagas, but also I wanted to explore the aftermath.”
Echo Three Tango, E3T, is dropped into a war zone on a new planet facing a savage foe capable of destroying all life forms. Surviving the forced retreat of their E3T corps, Bret and a small band of his Federation soldiers are stranded and left behind to create a new society.
The primitive culture on the planet evolves with the introduction of the Federation’s modern weapons, new societal norms, and beliefs. At first, the people look up to their E3T benefactors, but with time, find it a two-edged sword, as old ways are replaced by the new.
As Federation visitors start to arrive on the planet, new temptations arrive with them. Bret marries Beca, a beautiful local woman who answers the call of her people to help govern.
They agree Beca must live in the capital city as a ruler, but Bret and their children live apart in the country to shield them from danger. Over time, their separation leads to friction and jealousy for Bret.
About the
Dennis K. Hausker was born and raised in Michigan. Now retired, he and his wife love to travel. He is a prolific author, plays golf, and follows his Michigan State University Spartans. “I was aiming at an audience that likes battle sagas, but also I wanted to explore the aftermath.”
197 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 24, 2018
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Dennis K. Hausker
5 books377 followersI, Dennis K. Hausker was born and raised in Michigan. Now both retired, my wife and I loved to travel. Prolific as an author, I follow my alma mater Michigan State University Spartans. Facing the challenges of this stage of life with friends and relatives dying around us, it puts into perspective our mortality and how fragile we are. My latest books have strived for even stronger female characters and the interplay in those relationships. Fast-paced tales are what I like, so that is what I write. Gripping tales with plenty of drama, and angst, I hope you enjoyed the stories.
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January 7, 2019
This author clearly has a lot to say and has chosen the medium of a planetary war in another solar system to express his ideas. We can read this battlefield story as allegory, wishful thinking or perhaps memoir or just as an exciting SF adventure.
I never really found out why people from 'our' side had landed on this jungly world, nor why they decided to engage in battle with the inhabitants. At first there isn't time because there's fighting going on, then the soldiers of E3T say they don't know much about it themselves, then they meet up with the original inhabitants of this planet. These human-like folks (closer to human than some of the visiting fighters) have been driven underground for generations by the tyrannical insectoid invaders which now rule the land. So the E3T are now cast in a new light.
As well as training for battle, the soldiers bring new cultural concepts to the cave dwellers, like women being able to make their own decisions and protect their families. The later part of the book dwells on this aspect but as much as I appreciated it, I felt the fire had gone from the adventure with the last desperate battle. I might have edited the later part. I'm rating the book four and a half stars, because apart from the violence the author managed to keep it a clean read, and he is clearly putting life lessons worth learning into the account. Anyone who enjoyed Ender's Game or The Forever War might want to take a look at Echo Three Tango. As with those books, we learn that sometimes the greatest battles are fought in the absence of war.
The author kindly made an e-ARC available. I chose to review. This is an unbiased review.
I never really found out why people from 'our' side had landed on this jungly world, nor why they decided to engage in battle with the inhabitants. At first there isn't time because there's fighting going on, then the soldiers of E3T say they don't know much about it themselves, then they meet up with the original inhabitants of this planet. These human-like folks (closer to human than some of the visiting fighters) have been driven underground for generations by the tyrannical insectoid invaders which now rule the land. So the E3T are now cast in a new light.
As well as training for battle, the soldiers bring new cultural concepts to the cave dwellers, like women being able to make their own decisions and protect their families. The later part of the book dwells on this aspect but as much as I appreciated it, I felt the fire had gone from the adventure with the last desperate battle. I might have edited the later part. I'm rating the book four and a half stars, because apart from the violence the author managed to keep it a clean read, and he is clearly putting life lessons worth learning into the account. Anyone who enjoyed Ender's Game or The Forever War might want to take a look at Echo Three Tango. As with those books, we learn that sometimes the greatest battles are fought in the absence of war.
The author kindly made an e-ARC available. I chose to review. This is an unbiased review.
May 15, 2019
If you liked Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein, you’ll love this book. An engaging read, I stayed up way too late reading because I couldn’t put it down.
Echo Three Tango is a literary tapestry with threads of sci-fi, war, romance, betrayal, rebuilding and the blending of cultures. The main characters are very real, endearingly likable and develop complexity as the story unfolds. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Note: I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway. I already had it on my TBR list, so when Goodreads notified me of the giveaway, I entered. I am delighted I won!
Echo Three Tango is a literary tapestry with threads of sci-fi, war, romance, betrayal, rebuilding and the blending of cultures. The main characters are very real, endearingly likable and develop complexity as the story unfolds. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Note: I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway. I already had it on my TBR list, so when Goodreads notified me of the giveaway, I entered. I am delighted I won!
December 28, 2018
This is a military-type science fiction novel. Brady Black is a member of the Echo Three Tango military unit, part of a multi-species invasion force under the direction of some sort of federation. They begin in the middle of a massive battle against an army of giant bug-like creatures. They are losing. Their fleet begins to evacuate the invasion force. Volunteers from the E3T unit guard the evacuating troops until the window for leaving the planet closes. They are left behind.
Most of the story is concerned with how they try to survive after their fleet leaves. At first, there appear to be about a hundred of them left, and they break up into small groups to try to live off the land. Brady and a group consisting of two women and two aliens head for a group of mountains, where they discover a group of indigenous humanoids, apparently the planet’s native population. The giant bugs are an invading alien species, much like themselves.
The humanoids (they call themselves Akara) are a primitive people with sort of stone-age weapons living in caves because their weapons are virtually useless against the giant bugs (they call them Urghur). Brady and his team propose teaching them modern fighting techniques to fight the Urghur.
Across the planet, the other small groups of soldiers also engage with the Akara, and eventually, they all get together to try to defeat the Urghur. There are some obstacles when they discover that the Urghur apparently have something like a hive mind, so that whatever one group of them knows, the whole population knows, and when they detect the presence of new, young Urghur, which indicates to them that there is a queen somewhere on the planet laying eggs to replenish the Urghur population.
There is a lot of discussion during the period when the troops are training the Akara about the evils of war, about how Brady and his people should not be regarded as gods or heroes, about the pros and cons of using female soldiers, and about the pros and cons of marriage in the middle of a serious military emergency. Most of these themes are repeated a little too often, and the story suffers somewhat because of that.
The story continues beyond the conclusion of the war to how the planet is to be managed after the eventual defeat of the Urghur. In fact, it seems to continue a little too long on that path as well.
Most of the story is concerned with how they try to survive after their fleet leaves. At first, there appear to be about a hundred of them left, and they break up into small groups to try to live off the land. Brady and a group consisting of two women and two aliens head for a group of mountains, where they discover a group of indigenous humanoids, apparently the planet’s native population. The giant bugs are an invading alien species, much like themselves.
The humanoids (they call themselves Akara) are a primitive people with sort of stone-age weapons living in caves because their weapons are virtually useless against the giant bugs (they call them Urghur). Brady and his team propose teaching them modern fighting techniques to fight the Urghur.
Across the planet, the other small groups of soldiers also engage with the Akara, and eventually, they all get together to try to defeat the Urghur. There are some obstacles when they discover that the Urghur apparently have something like a hive mind, so that whatever one group of them knows, the whole population knows, and when they detect the presence of new, young Urghur, which indicates to them that there is a queen somewhere on the planet laying eggs to replenish the Urghur population.
There is a lot of discussion during the period when the troops are training the Akara about the evils of war, about how Brady and his people should not be regarded as gods or heroes, about the pros and cons of using female soldiers, and about the pros and cons of marriage in the middle of a serious military emergency. Most of these themes are repeated a little too often, and the story suffers somewhat because of that.
The story continues beyond the conclusion of the war to how the planet is to be managed after the eventual defeat of the Urghur. In fact, it seems to continue a little too long on that path as well.
November 18, 2018
Echo Three Tango is a sci-fi set on another planet in a distant future. Our hero is dropped on a planet that has become a war zone infested with ferocious insect aliens. In some ways this is a common trope However this was a very meaty tale that took the trope and made something living, breathing, believable, and the extreme opposite of what many think of. This is a story of survival, civilization building, and the advance of a primitive society into something eligible to join the Federation within one generation. Nothing is glossed over that I was able to catch.
It took me a long time to be able to read this all the way through. Like any book I pick up I wanted to be able to do proper justice to this and life kept getting in the way. Even though it took me a long time to have the time to sink my teeth in I found something extremely important to me. I was able to drop in where I had left off and not be lost. Many fail in this. He did not. With everything that was going on it would have been very easy. Very well handled. I want to see this as a movie.
It took me a long time to be able to read this all the way through. Like any book I pick up I wanted to be able to do proper justice to this and life kept getting in the way. Even though it took me a long time to have the time to sink my teeth in I found something extremely important to me. I was able to drop in where I had left off and not be lost. Many fail in this. He did not. With everything that was going on it would have been very easy. Very well handled. I want to see this as a movie.
June 14, 2019
I tend to enjoy science fiction but this book was a bit clunky. Particularly the dialogue. The book has some creative ideas and characters but overall they aren't executed smoothly or completely. It's a good casual read that won't make you stay up all night to see what happens next.
I received a copy from a Goodreads giveaway. Thank you!
I received a copy from a Goodreads giveaway. Thank you!
May 23, 2019
tHIS IS A VERY WELL WRITTEN FUTURISTIC STORY. IT IS ONE OF THOSEE BOOKS THAT YOU DON'T REALLY WANT TO PUT DOWN
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