Columbus Day: Expeditionary
Force, Book 1 (2016) Craig Alanson
This book is a guilty pleasure. Joe Bishop is our hero. He is in main on leave from the Army when
first Hamster-like aliens named Ruhar come to Earth and start lighting-up all
of the power plants. Joe captures one
using an illegal ice cream truck decorated with Barney (the dinosaur). Then the lizard-like, Kristang, come to “save”
the humans from the Ruhar. Big
surprise! Turns out that the cute Ruhar
are actually the good guys and the blood-thirsty Kristang have become our slave
masters. We have no matching technology
of our own and we can eat Ruhar or Kristang food so how do we survive? Enter alien artificial intelligence invented
by the ancients. Joe gives it the cute
nick name of “Skippy”. Together with
Skippy, Joe escapes and rescues Earth.
Obviously, the start of a series.
I like the first person narration of Joe. The details are believable (except Skippy
which makes no sense except as a plot contrivance). Will I read book two? Yes – but I will feel a little guilty.
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