World Killers

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Author(s):

Jack McKinney

First Pub:

1988

Genre(s):

Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

2024

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Subject(s):

Science fiction

Chapters:

28 chapters

Internal ID:

682

Series:

Death Dance
Rubicon

Robotech II: The Sentinels*

#4 of 5

Robotech II: The Sentinels*

A sequel to the three robotech television series that were novelized. The television version of these never got finished.

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1) The Devil's Hand
2) Dark Powers
3) Death Dance
4) World Killers
5) Rubicon

Robotech

#16 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 WENDE SILVER
PART HAYDONITE, PART SPHERISIAN
MOSTLY PRAXIAN,
AND ALL NEW YORKER -
WITH LOVE

First Sentence:

"Everybody stay sharp!

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

In his command ship, he vowed, I will rule the invid!

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Added: 19-Jul-2005

Last Updated: 24-Jun-2024

12-Jun-1988

Del Rey

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

12-Jun-1988

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.95

Pages*:

263

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 16 Jun 2024 - 23 Jun 2024

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

amazon.com

Internal ID:

532

Publisher:

Del Rey

ISBN:

0-345-35304-8

ISBN-13:

978-0-345-35304-7

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

David Schleinkofer - Cover Artist

GO TO GUNS!

The bearlike Karbarrans and the swashbuckling amazons from Praxis, the feral natives of Garuda and the Human Robotech heroes - these oddly met champions banded together with other races, from other planets, to form the Sentinels.

Yet what fighting force could hope to dislodge the Invid hordes from Haydon IV, ethereal world of superscience and hidden emotional conflict; or Spheris, crystalline globe of living minerals and murderous resonances?

The Sentinels launch their attack nevertheless; they've come too far to surrender to tyranny. But the treachery of a megalomaniac Human general and a mutating Invid P.O.W. make the war seem hopeless.

The Sentinels battle on, though, because for them it's...

VICTORY OR DEATH!

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Notes and Comments:

First Edition: July 1988

Includes chapter one of Rubicon (book5)

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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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