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Eagle Against The Stars Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 2000

by Steve White (Author)
3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
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After forcing the United States to operate as its puppet government, the alien Lokaron's are about to receive a lesson in humility from the lowly humans. Original.
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    288 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Baen
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2000
  5. Dimensions
    4.19 x 0.7 x 6.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0671578464
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0671578466
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"Highly recommended . . . exciting extraterrestrial battle scenes served up with a measure of thought and science". -- Kliatt

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THE ALIENS PLAYED BY THE RULES. THEIR RULES.

When the Lokaron suddenly appeared in the skies of Earth, America was enjoying victory in the off-and-on war that had occupied most of the 20th century. That's why they chose America to occupy and use as their puppet in dominating the planet. We were already set up to do it, now we would do it for them.

Not that they were evil; they just insisted that we trade with them. By their rules, rules backed up by irresistible weapons. In terms of those rules, they would even play fair -- but in the long run, if they didn't own something, it would be because they didn't want it.

At first we tried to fight, but just as the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus and all the rest had learned, when the ones with the guns say "Let's trade!" they really mean "Trade or bleed". And so you trade -- even if you won't have a country -- or a planet -- left when the last round is played out.

But worms turn, and just as had the Europeans a century ago, the Lokaron were going to learn a lesson from their victims, a lesson that they weren't going to like one bit....

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baen; 1st Printing edition (January 1, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0671578464
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671578466
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 0.7 x 6.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

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Steve White was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1946 and served as a Naval Intelligence officer in the Mediterranean and in the Vietnam War Zone. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and an associate member of the Virginia Bar. In addition to the best-selling “Starfire” military science fiction series with David Weber, he has written several popular science fiction adventure novels for Baen. They include the trilogy comprising The Disinherited, Legacy and Debt of Ages, which combine fast-paced space opera with Arthurian mythology. He has also written the galaxy-spanning adventure Prince of Sunset, and its sequel Emperor of Dawn, the secret-history science fiction novel The Prometheus Project, the high fantasy novel Demon’s Gate, and the time travel adventure Blood of the Heroes. His most recent solo novels are Saint Antony’s Fire, an alternate-history fantasy set in Elizabethan times, and Wolf Among the Stars, a sequel to his earlier science fiction novel Eagle Against the Stars. Extremis, a new novel in the “Starfire” series, this time in collaboration with Chuck Gannon, was released in May 2011. Ghosts of Time, the fourth novel in the “Jason Thanou” series of time travel novels that began with Blood of the Heroes, is due for release this month, and a fifth novel, Soldiers Out of Time, is now in the pipeline. Steve lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is married and has three daughters, the youngest of whom he and his wife found and adopted in Russia… but that’s another story.

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Bill H.
3.0 out of 5 stars Good for young adults
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2013
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This novel did not have the deep character development that I enjoy in a good read. The plot was interesting and intriguing, but not really fleshed out. Still a good read and worth the price.
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jhk
4.0 out of 5 stars good book
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2013
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Nothing wrong with this book. I liked the entire series. This book was a fast read and an enjoyable one at that.
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Arthur W Jordin
5.0 out of 5 stars Alien Politics
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2010
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Eagle Against the Stars (2000) is a standalone SF novel. It is set several decades from now on Earth. Aliens have appeared and all man's technology cannot touch the Lokaron ships. Man is not alone in the universe nor is he superior to the aliens.

In this novel, Ben Roark is a former CIA operative. He lost his woman during an operation against the Lokaron. Now he is vegetating on Grand Cayman island.

Henry Havelock is an executive within the Company. He deals directly with Kinsella.

Colleen Kinsella is Director of the Company, reporting directly to the president. She is working on getting a position in the ruling Central Committee.

In this story, Havelock travels to Grand Cayman to offer Ben a job. Although Ben is not initially interested, Havelock mentions that it would target the Lokaron. Ben cannot refuse that offer and goes with Havelock to the airport.

As they are approaching the Company plane, four men attack them with automatic weapons. One of Havelock's guard is hit, but the other returns fire. Then a fuel truck is hit and bursts into flames.

Havelock uses a Lokaron laser weapon to take out the attackers. Then he kills a witness and they board the Company plane. Havelock is going back to Washington, but Ben will change planes in Miami and fly to Area 51 to be briefed on the operation.

Havelock meets with Kinsella and convinces her to continue the operation. Afterward, he returns to his rooms and appears to go to sleep. But later he sneaks out for another meeting.

Meanwhile, the Eaglemen underground is infiltrating the Company. The Lokaron have an human informer in their custody. And one group of aliens is planning a coup d'etat.

This tale follows the machinations of Havelock in promoting his own power. Then Ben meets someone who he thought was dead. He also meets a Lokaron and learns that the situation is not what he thought is was.

This story is action packed, but shallow. The alien situation is lifted from human history and fleshed out with xenological details. Yet the tale held my interest and cost me some sleep.

Recommended for White fans and for anyone else who enjoys armed combat, political intrigue, and pragmatic warriors. Read and enjoy!

-Arthur W. Jordin
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Ralph Miranda
4.0 out of 5 stars nice writing.
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2013
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he is a wonderful writer who involves you in his world of sci-fi making you live in his world of the future.
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Hal
4.0 out of 5 stars Ok, but not great
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2013
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A good story, but not great SciFi. A continuation of his earlier book and it was quite well-done and readable.
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Alan Montgomery
2.0 out of 5 stars The problem when Libertarian Ideals meet fiction
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2000
I was upset when I read this book. The author's premise is interesting. The aliens show up at a time the Earth First! people have triumphed. What you are supposed to swallow is that the USA would become a distopia under a radical Green agenda and that all the entrepenuerial spirit of the USA would have been beaten out of us. In addition, ALL the power brokers of the time could be taken in by a fast talking con artist.
What I also found upsetting was that the pace was so SLOW. For an action book, this is a dud. The characters are good, but the plot is just so bizarre that it makes the book hard to take. You have a situation where the author is pushing a political agenda at the cost of good storytelling.
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Packrat
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2013
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I have read other Steve White books and the "In Death Ground" with Weber was one of the best military SF I have read.

This book is awful. I could not get past the first 20 pages.
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Kindlllll Cuztomar
4.0 out of 5 stars simplified first contact politics
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2008
Today I read Eagle Against the Stars, by Steve White. I picked it up at Uncle Hugo's in MN, because it was next to the Sector General books by James White, and looked interesting. (Whoever wrote the back cover for this one was really good at what he does.) I liked it for what it was- a first contact story, with unexplored- or inexpertly explored- depths. The ending in particular seem well-thought-out and deep.

In the main plot points of the book, the intricacies of who was betraying whom- although less confusing than a Stephenson plot and less Byzantine than a Stross plot- felt like a repetitive nightmare. There was some "telling" instead of "showing" in key areas of the book, especially in regards to how the aliens were different from humanity and from each other. The alternate social and economic structures of the aliens were pretty cool, if not as clearly explained as they might have been. I'd have liked a chart, personally. The whole alternate economic structure thing reminds me of Heinlein's work, although White's is a lot more diluted than the hardcore poking that RAH did at the then-current social conventions.
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Finity's end
3.0 out of 5 stars Pas très politiquement correct et une mise en bouche , qui ouvre sur un cycle ...
Reviewed in France on June 6, 2013
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Dans ce premier tome , c'est le thème du contact qui est traité tout à fait dans le détail de manière excessivement agréable et soignée du point de vue strictement science-fictionnel ...
Des étrangers à la technologie supérieure et dans le cadre d'un rapport de force certain , abordent la terre et démarrent avec elle , un programme d'échanges culturels et commerciaux .

Ce texte est une satire ( à peine modérée , hum ) des idées « démocrates « et si c'est assez franc comme donne , cela passe évidemment plus ou moins , personnellement je trouve que ça change un peu ... sourires ..

Enfin c'est un peu plus franc et paradoxalement moins hardcor , que du Henlein quand même ?
En fait cela reste léger , au maximum ça gratte un peu , on n'est pas pour autant dans la caricature lourde , véhémente et franchement obsessionnelle .
Cela dit pour ce qui est de mon point de vue strictement personnel , cela permet au lecteur francophone de rompre avec l'onanisme gauchisant de beaucoup des publications françaises .
Hum pardon , oups : .....

Sinon dans ce texte les States sont le centre du monde , ça aussi ce peut déplaire , au pays de Tartuffe , mais nos aliens veulent une superpuissance , et c'était avant l'avènement d'un monde multipolaire , donc voilà , euh ! c'est tout ? : voui voui ......

A , par le fait que ce n'est pas vraiment la Pravda , c'est un roman assez bien étayé sur le thème du contact .
Je reproche pourtant à ce texte d'être trop dense et d'aller trop vite pour ce que son format modeste réclame et même autorise , si on veut mettre le paquet , il ne faut pas hésiter à noircir un peu plus de pages ....

Un roman de guerre , mais économique principalement , et des échanges sous la pression des armes.
La diplomatie de la canonnière en gros et pour résumer .
C'est assez pertinent de ce point de vue , on peut sans doute penser à l'histoire du Japon Meiji , mais aussi à celle de la Chine ( guerre de l'opium ) un peu moins , mais indéniablement et néanmoins , aussi ....

4E de couverture ,
When the Lokaron discovered Earth, they picked America to use as their puppet in dominating the planet. They weren't evil; they just insisted, backed up by irresistible weapons, that we trade with them. They played fair -- by their rules -- but if they didn't own something, it would mean they didn't want it. At first we tried to fight, but when the ones with the guns say "Let's trade!" it means "Trade or bleed, " even if you eventually aren't going to have a country -- or a planet -- left. But worms turn, and like the Europeans a century ago, the Lokaron were going to learn a hard lesson from their victims....
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