Koban eBook Stephen W Bennett
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Book 1 of 7 in a series. (REDUCED AS A SORT OF LOSS LEADER INTO THE SERIES ;-)
We colonized seven hundred planets. Humankind enjoyed the benefits of expansion room and the end of wars. We even disbanded our military.
Then the Krall found us.
The Krall have used thousands of years of combat to select the genes of the strongest and fastest warriors. They are a species determined to dominate the entire galaxy, through destruction and annihilation of every opponent.
Koban is an uninhabited high gravity planet with impossibly fast savage animals, which employ organic superconducting nerves. This deadly world is where the Krall tested humans for war capability. We are useful only if we can fight well. If not, they will destroy us swiftly, as they have others. They already have slave races, and we are poor tasting meat animals. The Krall will use us, if worthy, to seek physical perfection using the attrition of war, one planet at a time.
Growing weary of human physical weakness, the ruthless Krall are on the verge of a decision to eliminate our race quickly. A ship containing bio-scientists is captured for combat testing on Koban. The urgent choice for Captain Mirikami and the scientists is simple Prove we can produce better, smarter fighters, or humanity is doomed to rapid extermination, rather than the slow eradication the Krall prefer.
However, the Krall are only part of the problem. We have to survive Koban’s gravity and superfast animals. The huge tiger-like rippers with skin contact telepathy are predators too fast even for armed Krall to face. The Human genetic solution If you can't beat them as you are, become like a ripper.
The Krall will learn another species can bypass natural selection.
(Book 1 was edited and proofread again, by an expert, July 2013.)
Koban The Mark of Koban, Book 2 of the series, was published February 12, 2013.
Koban eBook Stephen W Bennett
I really enjoyed this book since there were many fresh ideas that complemented some of the more repetitive sci-fi concepts employed. Mr. Bennett takes a harder, in-depth stance on the science in his book that may be a turn off to some, but I rather enjoyed the inclusion. I was a bit concerned that the book would be dry and bland from the somewhat tedious prologue, but once he gets to the actual story, things rapidly pick up. A lot of what is introduced in the prologue is either repeated later in the narrative, or could probably be reworked into the narrative in different ways to make it more engaging and seem less like a dull history lesson from the future.The pacing of the book is a bit unusual, it does not really build up to a single climax but maintains a rather high level of action with less energetic interludes that were interesting and helped build the world and characters. The chapter structure could use a little work also since some of them just suddenly ended in a way that felt a little jarring. As I got more used to his style, I didn't mind it as much since the story completely held my interest.
Proofreading could use a little work, but coming from an indie author with a low price of admission, I would only take off half a star at most. No typos were in evidence, but missing words and awkward sentences caused minor problems in flow. This is also a rather long book so you will get a lot of reading for what you do pay, some trilogies are not much longer than this debut novel.
I truly hope that the next book in this series comes out quickly, but if Mr. Bennett is making book 2 anywhere as long as book 1, it could take a while.
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Koban eBook Stephen W Bennett Reviews
"If our species spent twenty-five thousand years traveling in space and had exposure to alien civilizations, I’d expect us to have left our war-like-ways long behind."
Said by the military man stilll fighting jihadis a half millenium from now.
I have a pretty good imagination, but I'm still failing to build a strong enough suspension of disbelief to actually enjoy this book.
The pacing is extremely slow, and character interaction is unbelievable and generally very irritating. The state of Humanity is absurd; the author's tone oddly alternates between feminist and sexist.
I am not convinced that women are more peaceful than men, or that men are inherently better at modern/future warfare.
I have had this book on my to-read list for a while but I have not gotten around to read it. I recently saw that some of my friends on Goodread gave it high marks so I finally decided to give it a go. That was a good choice.
Humanity has been exploring the galaxy in relative piece for hundreds of years. Their only problems have been the usual poor choices of the human race which has led them to make yet another poor choice which leaves them defenceless to the new threath although most of the humans do not yet know about the nightmare that is coming their way. This book is about the few people who are about to, firsthand, experience that nightmare.
The book starts of a wee bit slow but it is quite well written and, although it is perhaps advancing at a somewhat leisurly pace it was still catching my interrest during the entire journey.
Nedless to say the humans concerned are in a for quite a surprise. The aliens are worse than their worst nightmares and, even worse, they soon learn that the very survival of the human race might actually rest in their hands. Not that it matters right now since survival is on position one, two, three etc. on their pritority list. Luckily, well they are the heroes after all, their survival is intimately tied into whether or not the human race will be exterminated or not.
The aliens are an interresting bunch. The book is nicely balanced between the human struggle and the aliens trying to fullfill their desires of following the “Grand Path”. The aliens are hugely adept at killing, by brute force, due to their millenia long selective breeding of warriors. Yet they may have forgotten that strengh alone is not sufficient. It soon turns out that they are children in some aspects of tactical thinking as well as in other matters. Matters where the humans excel.
The wast majority of the book centers around the survival of the human party that was captured. During the course of events a number of characters, of course, takes on the leadership (hero) role. There are a number of characters that are behaving like the usual political [censored] that they are as well of course. I am happy to write that the latter set of despicable people are really put aside reasonably quickly and do not really play a major role in the book.
In short this is a book about ascending heroes and humans first encounter with (nasty) aliens. It is very much a, quite long, stage setter for things to come and there are indeed a lot of promise as far as “things to come” goes. I am going to cheat a bit here and reveal that I have already read book two in the series and the next one is at least as good.
I really enjoyed this book since there were many fresh ideas that complemented some of the more repetitive sci-fi concepts employed. Mr. Bennett takes a harder, in-depth stance on the science in his book that may be a turn off to some, but I rather enjoyed the inclusion. I was a bit concerned that the book would be dry and bland from the somewhat tedious prologue, but once he gets to the actual story, things rapidly pick up. A lot of what is introduced in the prologue is either repeated later in the narrative, or could probably be reworked into the narrative in different ways to make it more engaging and seem less like a dull history lesson from the future.
The pacing of the book is a bit unusual, it does not really build up to a single climax but maintains a rather high level of action with less energetic interludes that were interesting and helped build the world and characters. The chapter structure could use a little work also since some of them just suddenly ended in a way that felt a little jarring. As I got more used to his style, I didn't mind it as much since the story completely held my interest.
Proofreading could use a little work, but coming from an indie author with a low price of admission, I would only take off half a star at most. No typos were in evidence, but missing words and awkward sentences caused minor problems in flow. This is also a rather long book so you will get a lot of reading for what you do pay, some trilogies are not much longer than this debut novel.
I truly hope that the next book in this series comes out quickly, but if Mr. Bennett is making book 2 anywhere as long as book 1, it could take a while.
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