If you’re looking for an action-packed alien invasion yarn
with likable protagonists and plenty of despicable villains, both alien and
human, you won’t go wrong with LEVEL 7: DANGER CLOSE, a novelette by
award-winning action/adventure author Nathan E. Meyer. This serves as a
companion piece to Meyer’s forthcoming Level 7 novel THE JUDAS PROTOCOL. Both
are based on a science fiction/horror game published by Privateer Press, the
company that does the Iron Kingdoms game.
The Level 7 universe centers around a sinister pact between the U.S. government and a race of aliens known as the Ghin who have been on Earth secretly for decades. In DANGER CLOSE, another race of aliens hostile to the Ghin arrives and attacks a New Mexico town close to an abandoned Ghin base. Most of the story involves the grunts sent to battle these new aliens, as good military SF should.
And this is very good military SF indeed. Great action scenes abound, but Meyer doesn’t neglect the characters, either, although at this length there’s a limit to how much he can explore them. It’s all very entertaining and inventive, and I’m looking forward to reading the full-length novel based in this setting. Recommended.
The Level 7 universe centers around a sinister pact between the U.S. government and a race of aliens known as the Ghin who have been on Earth secretly for decades. In DANGER CLOSE, another race of aliens hostile to the Ghin arrives and attacks a New Mexico town close to an abandoned Ghin base. Most of the story involves the grunts sent to battle these new aliens, as good military SF should.
And this is very good military SF indeed. Great action scenes abound, but Meyer doesn’t neglect the characters, either, although at this length there’s a limit to how much he can explore them. It’s all very entertaining and inventive, and I’m looking forward to reading the full-length novel based in this setting. Recommended.
1 comment:
Sounded good until the word "horror" came up. That's where it lost me.
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