Force of Arms

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

25 chapters

Internal ID:

671

Series:

Battlehymn
Doomsday

Robotech*

#5 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:

FOR BONNIE RADER,
AND HER WORK ON THIS PROJECT

First Sentence:

In the 1990s, a Global Civil War swept across the planet Earth; few wanted this war, but no one seemed to be able to avert it.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Where are you?

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Added: 18-Jul-2005

Last Updated: 17-Jul-2023

Quotes

But he has the attitude, set in concrete, that virtue is measured by one's disaffection from the power structure under which one lives. Such a person builds a fortress of self-serving piety, resisting authority of any kind at every turn whether for good or ill.

Force of Arms
Jack McKinney

01-May-1987

Del Rey

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-May-1987

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.95

Pages*:

205

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 2 Jul 2023 - 4 Jul 2023

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

amazon.com

Internal ID:

23185

Publisher:

Del Rey

ISBN:

0-345-34138-4

ISBN-13:

978-0-345-34138-9

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

David Schleinkofer - Cover Artist

APOCALYPSE!

The alien armada had hunted the mighty Super Dimensional Fortress across the trackless void of space, repeatedly sending colossal fighting mecha against desperate human soldiers and refugees.

But the giant invaders, who tried for so long to capture the SDF-1 intact, now wish only to destroy it - along with the human race and its homeworld, and those aliens who defected to the Terran side.

Supreme Commander Dolza mobilizes every Zentraedi warrior, massing millions of warships around the helpless Earth for the climactic battle of the Robotech War.

FOR NOW THE ALIENS,
LIKE HUMANITY, MUST WIN,
OR BE OBLITERATED!

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Edition: May 1987

Includes chapter one of Doomsday (book 6)

01-May-1987
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback

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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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