The Military Form Eons ago a war was fought to the death between the parasitic and ferocious Vang and a gifted but doomed race As a last resort these gentle beings were forced to use the Starhammer to smash the Vang
Eons ago, a war was fought to the death between the parasitic and ferocious Vang and a gifted but doomed race As a last resort, these gentle beings were forced to use the Starhammer to smash the Vang spacefleets and homeworld, leaving only a handful of survivors For a billion years a silvery shape drifted through space More than three thousand years after humanity firstEons ago, a war was fought to the death between the parasitic and ferocious Vang and a gifted but doomed race As a last resort, these gentle beings were forced to use the Starhammer to smash the Vang spacefleets and homeworld, leaving only a handful of survivors For a billion years a silvery shape drifted through space More than three thousand years after humanity first went to the stars, an asteroid miner named Seed of Hope was illegally prospecting for radioactives in the Forbidden Areas of the saskatch star system There it chanced across an alluring silvery object which looked like it would fetch a good price in the market for alien antiques It was an encounter most of the crew would never remember.
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The Military Form Christopher Rowley
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Christopher Rowley
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The Military Form Christopher Rowley
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Christopher Rowley is a prolific writer of both science fiction and fantasy novels He was born in 1948 in Lynn, Massachusetts to an American mother and an English father Educated for the most part at Brentwood School, Essex, England, he became a London based journalist in the 1970s In 1977 he moved to New York City and began work on The War For Eternity, his first science fiction novel He currently lives in upstate New York.
288 Replys to “The Military Form”
The better of the two books I've read in this trilogy. More hard-edged violent and pretty gruesome Sci-Fi. Here we get to meet the race that the star hammer in the previous book was designed to deal with. A relentless parasitic alien species that will rapidly destroy man's empire and any other they can reach. The Vang are a quality antagonist and I had great fun reading about their efforts to reassert themselves from a single long-dormant seed while humanity does its best to eliminate them. Like [...]
This book is the second in "The Vang" series. The Vang is an aggressive militaristic species that was supposed to have been exterminated by a race, now long dead. This story starts some thousands of years after the last Vang sighting. They are almost considered a myth by this time and so an illegal prospector is unprepared for what he finds on an old derelict in a remote asteroid belt. The Vang is a race of "Omni-Parasite" capable of taking over any human host. Naturally he (the illegal prospect [...]
The middle book of a very loose trilogy (Starhammer, The Vang: The Military Form, The Vang: The Battlemaster), and also the best of the three. Crazy alien infestation runs wild from a single mistake. Intense, quick read.
the book is good and I like the writer style. From all the reviews I read I was expecting more horror and battles but the first half of the book is just introduction to the characters, not less interesting of course. I find the way he portrays the Vang just beautiful, it made me feel empathetic toward "it".Edit: 27/07/2017. Just watched Oats Studios - Volume 1 - Zygote and thought of this book. The creature reminds of the Military Form.
Seriously, the alien invasion book to end all alien invasion books. It is awesome. I rec it to everyone who likes SF.
Holds the distinction of being the only book to induce nausea as I was reading it. To parse these words is to undergo a form of PTSD, I'm certain. Afterwards, I slept with the light on. That's not a joke. That happened.I really just wanted to flag this with a content warning; it's super difficult to find a copy (at least in Australia) has a few, but it's otherwise out of print; I needed to hunt through countless second-hand bookstores. Regardless, I'm sure other people share my fetish for pulpy [...]
Imaginative and horrifying!Love this series! Right there on the same shelf as Saberhagen's "Berzerkers".
This weird, pulpy little book is the kind of sci-fi "action-horror in space" that was popular in movies in the '80s but not so much in prose. Several thousand years in the future, asteroid miners discover an ancient alien probe containing one of the Vang, a race of deadly parasites capable of reshaping their hosts into various monstrous, tentacled, clawed forms to better spread the contagion. After most of the crew are killed, the invasion spreads to a nearby frontier planet (possibly modeled on [...]
Read this in my teens, and found it both terrifying and gripping. Reread it recently, and it's still amazing. If you liked the film "Alien", try this book. The sequel (The Vang: The Battlemaster) is also good, but I didn't find it as scary as this one.
Hard to believe I read this pulpy and extremely violent book as a child. I enjoyed it again a second time, but was shocked as I reread it that I had been allowed to read this book at all; I need to provide better oversight to my kids for sure.
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A BRILLIANT, GRIPPING BOOK, FIND OTHER STUFF BY THIS AUTHOR!!!
Затея интригующая: тварь из The Thing подминает планету. Если прорваться через ненужную первую треть, то затянет своей отвратительностью. Но в целом написано плохо, а перевод вообще ниже плинтуса.
gratuitous violence
Pretty scary and brutal. A great scifi novel. Reminds me of Aliens and the things.
A surprisingly fun bit of science fiction. The middle book in a trilogy, I find out 20 years later!
1991 grade C+series book S2Note = Too Violent