Genesis

Book Details

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Author(s):

Jack McKinney

First Pub:

1987

Genre(s):

Novelization; Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

2023

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 2

Prologue

22 chapters

Internal ID:

667

Series:

Battle Cry

Robotech*

#1 of 21

Robotech*

A series of novels from the US anime Robotech loosly taken from the Japanese anime Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross and Mospeada.

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1) Genesis
2) Battle Cry
3) Homecoming
4) Battlehymn
5) Force of Arms
6) Doomsday
7) Southern Cross
8) Metal Fire
9) The Final Nightmare
10) Invid Invasion
11) Metamorphosis
12) Symphony of Light
13) The Devil's Hand
14) Dark Powers
15) Death Dance
16) World Killers
17) Rubicon
18) The End of the Circle
19) The Zentraedi Rebellion
20) The Masters' Gambit
21) Before the Invid Storm

Copyright:

Dedication:

TO CARL MACEK,
WHO PULLED IT ALL TOGETHER

First Sentence:

I've brought death and suffering in such magnitude, Zor thought.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

And the only good thing about unknowns was that they allowed marginal room for hope.

Comments:

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Added: 18-Jul-2005

Last Updated: 28-May-2023

01-Mar-1987

Del Rey

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Mar-1987

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.95

Pages*:

201

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 20 May 2023 - 27 May 2023

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1668

Publisher:

Del Rey

ISBN:

0-345-34133-3

ISBN-13:

978-0-345-34133-4

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

David Schleinkofer - Cover Artist

ABANDONDED ALIEN FORTRESS

It saved humanity from itself, but there was a price: hot on its trail came the most merciless enemy of all!

The Global Civil War was about to make Humankind extinct, when the stupendous Super Dimensional Fortress dispatched to Earth by a dying alien genius changed all that forever, and altered the history of the universe.

Humanity's only hope lay in a corps of untried, resolute young men and women: the Robotech Defense Force.

They were entrusted with powers they didn't fully understand. Then the most deared conquerors in the universe attacked, determined to destroy them for no reason they could comprehend.

The war began as...

A UNIVERSE HUNG IN THE BALANCE!

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Edition: March 1987

01-Mar-1987
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback

Author(s)

Jack McKinney

Notes:

A pseudonym used by Brian Daley and James Luceno.

From "About the Author" in The Devil's Hand:

Jack McKinney has been a psychiatric aide, fusion-rock gultarist and session man, worldwide wilderness guide, and "consultant" to the U.S. Military in Southeast Asia (although they had to draft him for that).

His numerous other works of mainstream and science fiction - novels, radio and television scripts - have been written under various pseudonyms.

He currently resides in Ubud, on the Indonesian island of Bali.

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