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SciFi books with xenophobic, conservative, hostile aliens
Post by clancy688   » Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:29 pm

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Hi there,

waiting for February 18th (LAMA), I've just finished another ones of DW's one-shots: The Excalibur Alternative.

And franky I find the setting tempting and thrilling. So... do any of you know other books in which humans stumble into a hostile galaxy, full of technological advanced but cultural stagnating aliens? And have to defend themselves against juggernaut? :)
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Re: SciFi books with xenophobic, conservative, hostile alien
Post by JohnS   » Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:49 pm

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clancy688 wrote:Hi there,

waiting for February 18th (LAMA), I've just finished another ones of DW's one-shots: The Excalibur Alternative.

And franky I find the setting tempting and thrilling. So... do any of you know other books in which humans stumble into a hostile galaxy, full of technological advanced but cultural stagnating aliens? And have to defend themselves against juggernaut? :)


Grand Central Arena by Ryk Spoor sets up, among a number of plot lines, that humanity, with one star system's worth of resources, is going to be actively at war with a very powerful xenophobic race (thousands of star systems) within a year. The second book has just been published (Spheres of Influence). I really like the series and am looking forward to further installments.

And yeah, Excalibur is great. But there's never been the slightest whisper from YKW (You Know Who) regarding a sequel. But what a story that would be!
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Re: SciFi books with xenophobic, conservative, hostile alien
Post by clancy688   » Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:29 pm

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JohnS wrote:And yeah, Excalibur is great. But there's never been the slightest whisper from YKW (You Know Who) regarding a sequel. But what a story that would be!


Sequel? Pah! I'd be far more interested in prequels!

#1 - Description of the Englishmen's and their allies capture of the ship and the following odyssee until they find a new home
#2 - The cultural and political highs and lows between their capture of the Guild ship and the awesome ass-kicking in the Solar System. I mean, come on, they started with 1000 souls and ONE starship to get billions of people, a multi-species empire, cross-species culture and two dozen homeworlds. You're telling me there've been no major bumps along the road?
#3 - Avalon empire spies observing earth's development, aiding here and there in the process (like, for example, preventing pressing the button, the big red one, which starts every nuclear missile at disposal)
#4 - Avalon empire covert ops teams organizing all those little would-be rebellions literally under the Federation's nose...

etc. etc. etc.

Lots of stuff for prequels and sequels indeed. BUT! Before he starts on any sequel or prequel, I'd like to have on for In Fury Born. :D
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Re: SciFi books with xenophobic, conservative, hostile alien
Post by Daryl   » Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:38 pm

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Far too many to list all. First series like this I read was Lensman by EE Doc Smith, which had an ever escalating number of enemies. Mind you in one book the hero and his offsiders need to recharge their ray guns so they land on an alien planet, take over the biggest power station and proceed to massacre all that objected, so the aliens may have had a point.
The Stars at War by RFC. Troy by John Ringo. Several by Poul Anderson.
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Re: SciFi books with xenophobic, conservative, hostile alien
Post by Lord Skimper   » Tue Nov 26, 2013 1:24 am

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Old mans war and the rest of John Scalzi's follow on books. It is exactly like your question asks. Full of hostile Alien species. I think there are 288 of them.
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Re: SciFi books with xenophobic, conservative, hostile alien
Post by Howard T. Map-addict   » Tue Nov 26, 2013 12:31 pm

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Clancy688,
all of those stories were published in the anthology
FOREIGN LEGIONS, edited by David Drake.
EA is the sequel to FL.

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clancy688 wrote:
JohnS wrote:And yeah, [DW's} Excalibur [Alternative] is great.


Sequel? Pah! I'd be far more interested in prequels!

#1 - Description of the Englishmen's and their allies capture of the ship and the following odyssee until they find a new home
#2 - The cultural and political highs and lows between their capture of the Guild ship and the awesome ass-kicking in the Solar System. I mean, come on, they started with 1000 souls and ONE starship to get billions of people, a multi-species empire, cross-species culture and two dozen homeworlds. You're telling me there've been no major bumps along the road?
#3 - Avalon empire spies observing earth's development, aiding here and there in the process (like, for example, preventing pressing the button, the big red one, which starts every nuclear missile at disposal)
#4 - Avalon empire covert ops teams organizing all those little would-be rebellions literally under the Federation's nose...

etc. etc. etc.

Lots of stuff for prequels and sequels indeed. BUT! Before he starts on any sequel or prequel, I'd like to have on for In Fury Born. :D
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Re: SciFi books with xenophobic, conservative, hostile alien
Post by Spacekiwi   » Tue Nov 26, 2013 3:42 pm

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Ive found extremis and the other starfire books pretty good.
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Re: SciFi books with xenophobic, conservative, hostile alien
Post by umbrarchist   » Tue Nov 26, 2013 3:58 pm

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The WorldWar series by Harry Turtledove is more interesting than Old Man's War but aliens invade Earth during World War II.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwar:_In_the_Balance
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Re: SciFi books with xenophobic, conservative, hostile alien
Post by clancy688   » Wed Nov 27, 2013 5:32 am

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Howard T. Map-addict wrote:Clancy688,
all of those stories were published in the anthology
FOREIGN LEGIONS, edited by David Drake.
EA is the sequel to FL.


Wut? Thanks for the hint.

And thanks for all other recommendations. :)
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Re: SciFi books with xenophobic, conservative, hostile alien
Post by Lord Skimper   » Sun Dec 01, 2013 8:07 pm

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