Their Master's War

by Mick Farren

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345345541
• ISBN13: 9780345345547
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

'NAM in Space! A cautionary tale of war and tragedy

The sequel to 'PROTECTORATE', though one would not realise this till the very end, this is an excellently told tale of the entire human race reduced to cannon fodder by a race of conquering aliens. A frightening, entertaining, cynical, but above all ENTERTAINING tale told thru the perspective of hapless infantry foot soldiers press-ganged into fighting a vast, meaningless war waged by superior alien races. One of my all-time favourites 'war is hell' or 'space war' stories. I am surprised and saddened that this book has not been made into a movie (or at least a computer RPG) yet. Too dark, perhaps?? Remember the 60's TV series 'Combat'? This is the space-going version of that. IMHO, one of the best 'Mankind as Conquered Species' stories ever written, ranks right up there with 'Men like Rats', 'The Tripod Trilogy' etc. Mick's alien conquerors are so sinister and effectively portrayed, makes the lizards of 'V' seem like escapees from a children's pett'in zoo! Anyone out there knows the email address of Mick? Tell me at cthulhufatagn@hotmail.com, have been wanting to compliment him personally for many years now. Mick is like a brandname:- his books never disappoints! WE WANT MORE MICK!! WE WANT MORE MICK!! WE WANT MORE MICK!! Visit Mick's webpage http://www.thanatosoft.freeserve.co.uk/

read it,lost it,and cant find it....driving me nuts

One of the best books I have ever owned,and I lost it....its been years since I lost it,and its a book I could read over and over.its that good,and a second book would really be nice....

Top 5 of the best SF book I've read.

This book survived a entire rotation through the University of Moscow. Took me a year to get it back. Everybody loved it. Dam good book. Made all my close friends read it...They all loved it too...real cool stuff...bio combat suits, interesting battles, and neat chars...only bad part was the length, because I could not get enough...Hey Mick, talk to Robert Jordan about length and sequels...

Really Excellent

Like Star Ship Troopers except with a plot, believable characters, realistic future combat and a lot of other great stuff. Imagine Starship Troopers as a 5 then this book is a 9. Why didn't they make a movie of this one? Really superb writing and everything. Plot is excellent.

My favorite SCIFI book of All time!!!

The most innovative SciFi book I have ever read!!! Totally facinating stuff. Love the idea of using humans to fight alein wars for them. Also has wonderful use of mind programming and space suits/war fatigues!! The suits are actually a living organism that lives off of our sweat and has the ability to heal wounds!!!! Wonderful war battles!! Can you tell that I love this book??