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To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark Book 3) 1/16/24
Post by GregD   » Mon Dec 25, 2023 7:39 pm

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Are there snippets anywhere?
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Re: To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark Book 3) 1/16/24
Post by phillies   » Mon Dec 25, 2023 8:43 pm

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GregD wrote:Are there snippets anywhere?


Tor does not do this.
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Re: To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark Book 3) 1/16/24
Post by GregD   » Tue Dec 26, 2023 2:45 pm

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phillies wrote:
GregD wrote:Are there snippets anywhere?


Tor does not do this.


The Mad Wizard Weber has been known in the past to post snippets of these books.

For example:
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Re: To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark Book 3) 1/16/24
Post by Robert_A_Woodward   » Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:54 am

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GregD wrote:Are there snippets anywhere?


Apple's iBooks store has a sample (13 pages). Amazon's Kindle store (as of Dec 26, 2023) does not (yet).
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Re: To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark Book 3) 1/16/24
Post by GregD   » Fri Dec 29, 2023 2:25 pm

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Robert_A_Woodward wrote:
GregD wrote:Are there snippets anywhere?


Apple's iBooks store has a sample (13 pages). Amazon's Kindle store (as of Dec 26, 2023) does not (yet).


So they are pure nanotech
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Re: To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark Book 3) 1/16/24
Post by George J. Smith   » Sun Dec 31, 2023 5:54 pm

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The blutb on the apple site

Publisher Description
In a universe teeming with predators, humanity needs friends. And fast.


We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet.


We took the technology they left behind, and rapidly built ourselves into a starfaring civilization. Because we haven't got a moment to lose. Because it's clear that there are even more powerful, more hostile aliens out there, and Earth needs allies.


But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ... wasn't an official one. That, indeed, its commander may have been acting as an unwitting cats-paw for the Founders, the ancient alliance of very old, very evil aliens who run the Hegemony that dominates our galaxy, and who hold the Shongairi, as they hold most non-Founder species, in not-so-benign contempt.


Indeed, it may turn out to be possible to turn the Shongairi into our allies against the Hegemony. There's just the small matter of the Shongairi honor code, which makes bushido look like a child's game. We might be able to make them our friends -- if we can crush their planetary defenses in the greatest battle we, or they, have ever seen.
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Re: To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark Book 3) 1/16/24
Post by Joat42   » Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:19 pm

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GregD wrote:Spoiler removed!


Please don't spoil the book and if you do, mark your post clearly that it contains spoilers.

We usually keep spoilers for new books in dedicated threads marked as such.

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Re: To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark Book 3) 1/16/24
Post by Robert_A_Woodward   » Tue Jan 02, 2024 2:05 am

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Joat42 wrote:
GregD wrote:Spoiler removed!


Please don't spoil the book and if you do, mark your post clearly that it contains spoilers.

We usually keep spoilers for new books in dedicated threads marked as such.


Why would the blurb on the Apple books store (Amazon's Kindle store has the same one) be a spoiler?
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Beowulf was bad.
(first sentence of Chapter VI of _Space Viking_ by H. Beam Piper)
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Re: To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark Book 3) 1/16/24
Post by Joat42   » Tue Jan 02, 2024 9:29 am

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Joat42 wrote:
GregD wrote:Spoiler removed!

Please don't spoil the book and if you do, mark your post clearly that it contains spoilers.

We usually keep spoilers for new books in dedicated threads marked as such.
Robert_A_Woodward wrote:Why would the blurb on the Apple books store (Amazon's Kindle store has the same one) be a spoiler?

Because even badly written blurbs can contain spoilers which is why some people avoid them.

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Re: To Challenge Heaven (Out of the Dark Book 3) 1/16/24
Post by Tregonsee   » Tue Jan 16, 2024 10:50 am

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Dropped on Kindle yesterday evening. Ruined a good night's sleep. :D
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