War Dogs
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"They came in peace, bearing gifts. The Gurus were a highly advanced species who brought amazingly useful and sophisticated technology to the human race. There was, of course, a catch. They warned of a far more malevolent life form, beings who have hounded the Gurus across the cosmos. The media have taken to calling them the Antagonists -- or Antags -- and they have already established a beachhead on Mars. For all they've done for us, the Gurus now need our help. Enter Master Sergeant Michael Venn, a veteran Skyrine who is dropped onto the Red Planet with his band of brothers on a mission to turn back the Antag tide. But the Skyrines will face impossible odds just to survive -- let alone make it home alive. "--
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War Dogs is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Greg Bear.
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Greg Bear wrote Eon, one of the great SF novels of the last thirty years. This isn't in that league, but it is a decent novel that has perhaps been done a disservice by its publishers. From the jacket and blurb, you would think it is a piece of bog standard military SF, a genre I have no interest in, but it turns out to be the kind of alien archaeology that is right up my street. A group of marines make a combat landing on Mars, it goes wrong, and they are left struggling to survive in the harsh Martian conditions, until they encounter a lone colonist with her own agenda. It's a good read, but very short and with an abrupt ending that is only forgivable if it turns out there's a second book on the way - but when this one is less than 300 pages of large type, I suspect the whole story could have been told in one volume. We'll have to see what Bear has planned.
