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Heirs of Empire (Dahak Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: David Weber
Publisher: Baen
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 209303
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 544
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0671877070
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671877071
ASIN: 0671877070
Publication Date: March 1, 1996
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Restoring the empire that had been destroyed forty-five years earlier, Emperor Colin finds problems in the genocidal Achuutani and in his children Sean and Harriet, who have been marooned on a hostile planet.
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 An enjoyable read. September 1, 2007
Visitante (Earth)
The author shows creativity and the ability to produce a multi-volume tale worth enjoying. Read it from the beginning and anticipate the sequels.
 = Off Armageddon Reef February 22, 2007
W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Have you read Off Armageddon Reef (OAR)? This book is the start of a new series and came out in January 2007. Weber has chosen to take the trilogy of Mutineer's Moon, Armageddon Inheritance and Heirs of Empire (HE), and rewrite them into OAR and future efforts. Cynically, one might wonder if he is taking the easy route and recycling old laundry. The trilogy came out in the early 90s and seemed moderately successful. If I recall, they were paperbacks. But OAR is in hardcover and has appeared as a large print run. In the major bookstores, OAR has a strong presence at the entrances. It may be that in the intervening years since the trilogy, Weber has gotten more popular, especially with his Honor Harrington tomes. So now he has decided to reroll the dice. The original trilogy is still mostly in print. Rereleasing it in more copies might only have a moderate boost to sales. Perhaps then the rewrite into OAR.
Anyhow, the bulk of OAR maps strikingly into HE. Both concern a planet where humans have fallen to a medieval level of technology, forgetting that man ever existed elsewhere. There is a corrupt, bloodthirsty theocracy, wielding vast secular power.
A common backdrop is that out there in space is a terrible enemy, seeking to exterminate humans. OAR uses one android as the protagonist, while HE has 4 humans and a friendly alien. Both books have the hero/heroes introduce innovations, especially in weaponry, to friendly indigenous forces. The battle scenes in HE are on land, while in OAR, they are mostly at sea. If you have read the General series by Stirling and Drake, or Janissaries by Pournelle, then you'll like the narrative conflicts of HE. In depth, they do not quite match the battle descriptions of those other books. But still well done.
OAR does seem slightly better done than HE, in the detailed care that Weber takes to build out the plot. There is much more description of the OAR world and the multifarious characters, especially in the different countries. HE could also have done with a map of the planet. OAR is careful to furnish this to aid the reader, as well as a list of personas. HE doesn't really need the latter, since less space is devoted to building out these secondary characters.
Terrific finale - I WANT MORE! February 1, 2007
K. Sozaeva (Athens, GA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In the finale to the "Dahak" series by David Weber, Colin's first children grow up and enter the Fleet themselves. When their ship is sabotaged on their middy flight, they must make their way to an unknown planet, find a way home and - while they are at it - settle a religious conflict that they accidentally started. Meanwhile back home, Colin and Jiltanith - devastated by what they believe is the loss of their children - discover a plot to destroy their new home planet and overthrow them. Can they stop the destruction of their planet and discover who is plotting against them? Can their children let them know they are alive and find a way home?
This book definitely left me wanting more in this series. Weber is a master, there is no doubt.
almost as good as the 1st two but January 4, 2007
M. Jones (Barbados)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
this book is still great in it's own right but unlike the 1st two, it doesn't merit 5 stars it felt a bit rushed and that kept it from being great
 Fun if you can suspend enough disbelief June 19, 2006
Mike Reeves-McMillan (Auckland, New Zealand)
First, if you haven't read the previous two books in the trilogy, you probably need to or a lot of this one won't make much sense - you will wonder why there are apparently two people called Tamman, one of whom is dead (he's the father of the other one), for example.
Second, you need to be prepared to suspend a lot of disbelief. The villain is so good at recruiting cat's-paws that he doesn't need to re-use them but routinely kills them off when they have accomplished one mission for him - this happens over and over again. Yet, with all this recruiting, he never has his organization penetrated by a spy (there's only one successful attempt to do so, and he uses his inside knowledge to foil that one).
Third, if you have read much Weber you may get the impression that (unlike the villain) he is recycling. Brave young woman with an eye patch (Honor Harrington). Imperial heir(s) on planet at lower technological level use superior technological knowledge and military history to fight their way across many kilometres and take over the technological base, slaughtering thousands of natives while deeply respecting their native allies (the Prince Roger trilogy). Enormous spaceships explode killing thousands of crew in an instant (pretty much every Weber book).
And yet, it was fun and I enjoyed it, in a chewing-gum kind of way. Don't start reading Weber with this one, but if you are a fan, you will probably like it a lot.
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