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| Original Title: | Into the Storm |
| ISBN: | 0451462076 (ISBN13: 9780451462077) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Destroyermen #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Compton Crook Award Nominee (2009) |
Taylor Anderson
Hardcover | Pages: 400 pages Rating: 3.94 | 6036 Users | 450 Reviews
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| Title | : | Into the Storm (Destroyermen #1) |
| Author | : | Taylor Anderson |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | June 3rd 2008 by Roc Hardcover |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Alternate History. Fantasy. Fiction. War. Military Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker---a Great-War vintage "four-stacker" destroyer---finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, knows that he and his crew are in dire straits. In desperation, he heads Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover---and emerges somewhere else.Familiar landmarks appear, but the water teems with monstrous, vicious fish. And there appear to be dinosaurs grazing on the plains of Bali. Gradually Matt and his crew must accept the fact that they are in an alternate world---and they are not alone. Humans have not evolved, but two other species have. And they are at war.
With its steam power and weaponry, the Walker's very existence could alter the balance of power. And for Matt and his crew, who have the means to turn a primitive war into a genocidal Armageddon, one thing becomes clear: They must decide whose side they're on. Because whoever they choose to side with is the winner.
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Ratings: 3.94 From 6036 Users | 450 ReviewsEvaluate Epithetical Books Into the Storm (Destroyermen #1)
Well, that was....... easy to read. Probably around the 3.5 star mark.So what is it all about? Well, imagine if you will, 1940 something. The US navy has been in a pitched battle with the Japanese navy and had its collective ass spanked. Fleeing the Phillipines a fleet of US destroyers, including USS Wlaker and Mahan (apparently this is all historical truth) are engaged against the odds to protect the Exeter. The first 20% is basically a navel shit fight with the future looking grim for ourA World War II destroyer is sent back in time and joins lemur-people in a war against dinosaur-people.If that concept sounds awesome to you, then you should read this book. If that concept sounds silly to you, then I've just told you everything you need to know.Now, to be more precise, it's not entirely clear whether the USS Walker goes back in time or sidewise, but either way, the ship, on the run from a vastly superior Japanese fleet, winds up in an alternate timeline in which humans never
Matt Ready and the crew of the USS Walker are on the run from the Japanese when they find themselves transported into a strange new world that is eerily similar to the one they left behind. Although the stars and the land formations are the same, the people and cities are gone. Giant sea monsters swim in the seas and the islands are populated by great lumbering dinosaurs and smaller, faster, more deadly predators. It's truly as if they are on an alternate world where the dinosaurs never went
Hummm....for the first maybe quarter of this book I was interested and thought, "well if it stays like this it's a good solid 4". We open during the battle of the Java Sea an early navel battle of WWII and an unmitigated disaster for the allies. Our hero is the captain of an obsolete WWI era destroyer among the fleet trying to stem the Japanese advance....Wait...strike part of that. I said the battle was an "unmitigated" disaster. It did interrupt the Japanese invasion fleet so, it wasn't
2.0 stars. This was a disappointment for me as I was really hoping to like this one. One of the problems with a first book in an ongoing series is that sometimes the author spends too much time on the set up and I think that was the case here. In addition to a relatively slow plot I thought the characters were fairly uninteresting and I didn't really find myself caring much about what happened to them. Notwithstanding the above, I did like the underlying premise of the book and will probably
3.5 stars if it were possible.What a surprise this book was....and a good surprise at that. When I looked this book up on GR before deciding to read it, I looked no further than the list of main page genres. It had listed: sci-fi, time travel and war. I was sold right there. As this book started rolling along, and the time travel part happened....I was saying, "Oh no. Anything but that." From that point on, I kept expecting it to get hokey and lame, but it never entered those waters. It may have
This is the start of a popular series & it introduces a brand new world with some unique problems. The idea of being transported to another world isn't new, but a destroyer from early on in WWII added a lot as did the natives. I'm guessing (It isn't even mentioned as a possibility.) that the meteor which wiped out the dinosaurs didn't fall on this version of Earth, so there are a lot of more evolved dinosaurs around including an intelligent race. They're the bad guys & a race of
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