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Singularity: Star Carrier: Book Three
Written by Ian Douglas
Narrated by Nick Sullivan
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Humankind’s vast intergalactic power struggle and future war to bring down an insidious evil alien empire reaches an explosive, page-turning climax in Ian Douglas’s Singularity, the third book in his New York Times bestselling Star Carrier series. Blisteringly exciting military science fiction in the vein of the hit TV series “Battlestar Galactica,” Singularity pits determined space soldiers against a powerful race of creatures bent upon the total annihilation of a human race on the brink of technological transcendence. A notable descendant of such classic military sf novels as Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War and Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, Singularity will not disappoint author Douglas’s every-growing legion of fans as it conquers Jack Campbell, Rick Shelley, John Ringo, David Sherman and Dan Cragg loyalists as well.
Author
Ian Douglas
Ian Douglas is the author of the popular military SF series The Heritage Trilogy, The Legacy Trilogy, and The Inheritance Trilogy. A former naval corpsman, he lives in Pennsylvania.
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Reviews for Singularity
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Pedestrian space opera procedural. Conventional framing and characters.
Narrator handles the multiple character voices deftly. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Star Carrier: SingularityBook 3Author: Ian Douglas Publisher: Harper VoyagerPublishing Date: 2012Pgs: 389Dewey: PBK F DOUDisposition: Irving Public Library - South Campus - Irving, TX=======================================REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERSSummary:After 30 years of war, a losing war, factions in humanity are ready to sue for peace and accept whatever terms the alien Sh’daar Empire places upon Earth. Those factions are ready to allow the aliens to dictate what humanity can do technologically and socially. The military is not. Old nationalisms inside the military are prepared to fight...to the degree that a renegade admiral takes his battlegroup centered on the Star Carrier America into the void to strike behind enemy lines and attempt to draw the forces closing on Earth away. His plan works and the America battlegroup finds itself further from Earth than any Human has ever gone. ✓✓_________________________________________Genre:Science FictionHard Science FictionSpaceMilitariaFleet ActionsWhy this book:Things blow up...space battles...I’m there._________________________________________Least Favorite Character:Gerard is a paper admiral. No way he should’ve been promoted as much or as high as he was. He’s a purely political appointee. Though he is a classic in European navies. Look at the Pre-World War I Royal Navy for examples of political appointees masquerading as admirals. Gerard's going to get his ass kicked.Plot Holes/Out of Character:There is a hole in the story idea...well in the mechanics of their faster-than-light drive. The idea, one of the drawbacks of the system, is that while using the drive they could emerge anywhere within a given volume of space meaning that different ships would/could pop up at different times and not necessarily in the same orientation which they started in, in relation to each other. But every time, consistently, the main carrier, America, with all of the main characters on it, is always the first one to pop back into “normal” space. Now I understand why but it defeats the idea that they randomly pop back into space at the end of their flight time in FTL if America is always the first one to arrive. Hmm Moments:Damn, it's a ghost story. That's pretty cool.I did not see that coming. They telegraphed it, but I didn't see it. Meh / PFFT Moments:The political aspects of these books always drags the plot and the pace down.There is a tendency to repeat worldbuilding aspects like having Admiral Koenig and Lieutenant Gray have similar thoughts...exactly the same thoughts about a subject._________________________________________Pacing:The concepts, in the sense of what happens next, keep sucking me back into this book and turning the pages.Last Page Sound:Hmmm didn't expect that twist, especially with more books in the series. Good ending.=======================================
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This review will be for the complete first three book arc of this series. This novel reminded me a lot of the Jack Campbell Lost Fleet series as there was lots of space battles with ship to ship action. In this series, humans are fighting multiple alien species and not other human groups and for the most part are behind them technologically but the author makes up for this in the tenaciousness of the human fighting spirit. The author also does a pretty good job in fleshing out the multiple main characters and well as building a nice universe to tell the tale in.
I really enjoyed this who series and look forward to reading more in the followup series. 4 stars for a fun read. Recommended for any fan of space navy military sci-fi. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Light relief in what was to be the final in the 'Star Carrier' trilogy installment by military SF writer Ian Douglas (actually William H Keith). Douglas continues his tale of American exceptionalism and manifest destiny, as the North Americans show the appeasing European surrender monkeys and inscrutable Chinese a thing or two about taking the fight to the advanced alien races of unpronounceable names (Sh'daar' this time).
It is a good enough page turner, but the resolution a little on the convenient side. Perhaps a sign that his opus was wrapped up in a single trilogy, rather than the trilogy of same in it's space marines predecessor.
ETA - Not so fast, a fourth, fifth and sixth installment have now appeared! - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was the last book in the Star Carrier series. While story was full of tactics and space battles, the resolution to the central conflict of the book, man merging to be one with his technology, was a little bit unsatisfying.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Singularity picks up right where book two ended, and continues in an even faster pace of events. Perhaps a bit too fast. Where I found the first two books very enjoyable, realistic (characters, mechanisms, functions - in a sci fi universe) and captivating this third volume didn't really do well for me.Don't get me wrong, it is a nice quick read and enjoyable in its own right. It just feels, well, not up to the level set by the first two books. There are strange scenes that are almost hilarious in terms of how unrealistic some steps in the scenes are. I am sure this is a matter of personal taste, perhaps I looked forward too much to this book and had expected more evolution of characters and a more balanced choice of mechanisms.