Shiva Option - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074347144X ISBN 13: 9780743471442

Publisher: Baen Books, 2003

Synopsis

Key Selling Points- David Weber is the science fiction phenomenon of the decade. His best-selling Honor Harrington novels top all the charts.- Weber's recent War of Honor was a hardcover general best seller on the New York Times (#8), New York Daily News (#7), Wall Street Journal (#10), Publishers Weekly (#7), and online and chain booksellers' lists. His previous Honor Harrington novel, Ashes of Victory, was also a smash hit national best seller.- The hardcover edition of The Shiva Option was on the New York Times best-seller list for three weeks, reaching #26, and currently has a sellthrough in the eightieth percentile. And now it's available in mass market.- Account Managers note! Weber's collaborations with White have consistently been competitive with his solo novels. In Death Ground, prequel to The Shiva Option, sold out its first printing almost immediately. Constant e-mails, letters, and phone calls to the Baen offices demanded this sequel.

About this title

Product Description:

In the long-awaited sequel to In Death Ground, the Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Gorm continue their galactic battle against the Arachnids--a carnivorous legion of insects that regard any competing sentient species as a food source. With billions of civilians already slaughtered and their armed forces ravaged beyond repair, the Grand Alliance may be force In the long-awaited sequel to In Death Ground, the Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Gorm continue their galactic battle against the Arachnids--a carnivorous legion of insects that regard any competing sentient species as a food source. With billions of civilians already slaughtered and their armed forces ravaged beyond repair, the Grand Alliance may be forced to their last resort--the devastating Shiva Option.

Review:

." . . this novel and its predecessors more than fill the bill in the military SF subgenre."

"Swift action and conflict mark this alien/human drama."

"Fans of space opera who have been eagerly awaiting this sequel to Weber and White's In Death Ground won't be disappointed, to put it mildly . . . all the verisimilitude of a technothriller . . . characterizations are strong and vivid . . . leaving the reader both exhilarated and enriched."

"Weber and White...[leave] the reader both exhilarated and enriched."

About this edition

• Publisher: Baen Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 074347144X
• ISBN 13: 9780743471442
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 768