Baen, 1997, $7.99 ISBN: 0-671-87779-8, 629 pages, paperback
I got burned out with Weber’s Honor Harrington series around book 8 or so, when the ever-lengthening books became gab-fests instead of battles. But In Death Ground reassured me that Weber, with a big push by White, found his better mode again.
The “Bugs” are hammering the humans, taking planets and eating the ones they don’t enslave. Yum-yum. Classic Bug-Eyed Monsters.
The humans fight a desperate struggle to hold back the tide, and sure enough, by dint of smarts, smarter technology, and the smartest tactics, they find a way to slow, if not stalemate the multi-legged critters. Of course, that’s before the bugs learn to imitate the technology...
Great military sci-fi. Oddly enough, it reminds me of WWII Pacific operations.
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