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War Machines
Battle androids from a long forgotten war are reawakened by ancient gods to take up arms alongside the scattered remnants of a human resistance as diabolical alien invaders ravage Earth. Combat Unit Thirty-Three is brought online by the divine power of Crom Cruach, and emerges from an underground burial site to discover a world torn apart by war. Armed with dual rail guns, rapid repair drones, and fueled by the god's energy, the android hurls himself into the fray. Risten is a dirt marine, one of the hardened veterans striving to keep up the fight against the invaders. Risten has grown accustomed to being perpetually outnumbered and outgunned, so when she is taken as a prisoner of war, she learns from the enemy even as she struggles to survive. The Vorda, as the aliens call themselves, have come to use their slaves and great harvesting machines to pillage the planet of its natural resources while the warrior elite of their society treat the world as their own playground of bloodshed and debauchery. Can the rag tag soldiers of humanity and the god-forged war machines overcome the sleek weaponry and arcane magic of the hideous enemy?
574 pages, Paperback
Published December 3, 2019
About the author
Sean-Michael Argo
69 books44 followersSean-Michael Argo is an author and independent film producer from the backwood swamps of Arkansas. He writes the kinds of books he likes to read and makes the kinds of movies he likes to watch, so his expanding body of work is a testament to his love of gritty urban fantasy, epic tales of swords & sorcery, horror movies, and the post-apocalyptic wasteland. His films are available on Amazon and presented by Dark Roast Releasing. He spends his time traveling the country for work, making art, and raising his son.
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May 31, 2022
As is usual with Argo, a fantastic concept ruined by a complete lack of editing or proofreading.
The old gods have risen, taking over the bodies of abandoned combat androids to defend humanity from an alien race strikingly similar to Predators. They hunt for challenge and sport; they could have conquered or exterminated us long ago, but their strange code of honor and the thrill of the hunt keeps us going. The story focuses on two characters, a risen combat android and a woman captured by the aliens and forced to fight in their gladiatorial arena.
First off with the book's major error. The book makes it out to be a big mystery if our protagonist, a recently arisen combat android awakening after a century of abandonment, is actually possessed by something or infected with a virus to make it malfunction and think it has a separate entity into it. This would be a good mystery, if the answer WASN'T GIVEN AWAY ON THE BACK COVER BLURB. This makes me wonder why the book stretched out a mystery we already knew the answer to for over 100 pages.
Second, this book is far too long. The print version has no page numbers but it could easily have been 100 or so pages shorter and lost nothing. Argo self-publishing so much is admirable but he really needs someone else to go over his work after the fact to fix it.
I like the concept, and Argo is good at visceral combat, but this doesn't quite hit the mark.
The old gods have risen, taking over the bodies of abandoned combat androids to defend humanity from an alien race strikingly similar to Predators. They hunt for challenge and sport; they could have conquered or exterminated us long ago, but their strange code of honor and the thrill of the hunt keeps us going. The story focuses on two characters, a risen combat android and a woman captured by the aliens and forced to fight in their gladiatorial arena.
First off with the book's major error. The book makes it out to be a big mystery if our protagonist, a recently arisen combat android awakening after a century of abandonment, is actually possessed by something or infected with a virus to make it malfunction and think it has a separate entity into it. This would be a good mystery, if the answer WASN'T GIVEN AWAY ON THE BACK COVER BLURB. This makes me wonder why the book stretched out a mystery we already knew the answer to for over 100 pages.
Second, this book is far too long. The print version has no page numbers but it could easily have been 100 or so pages shorter and lost nothing. Argo self-publishing so much is admirable but he really needs someone else to go over his work after the fact to fix it.
I like the concept, and Argo is good at visceral combat, but this doesn't quite hit the mark.
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