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1987
2024
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Science fiction
14 chapters
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 Robotech II: The Sentinels*
#5 of 5
Robotech II: The Sentinels*   See series as if on a bookshelf
A sequel to the three robotech television series that were novelized.  The television version of these never got finished.

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

 Robotech
#17 of 21
Robotech   See series as if on a bookshelf
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.

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 © 1987, 1988 by HARMONY GOLD U.S.A., INC. and TATSUNOKO PRODUCTION CO., LTD.
FOR RICHARD BAEHR AND
THE STRAIGHT AND TRUE CREW AT
BENDER'S YARD
"At least I won't be pirating it this time," Jonathan Wolff told Lang as the retrofitted SDF-7 - class cruiser nosed into view.
May contain spoilers
He has returned to our world.
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Extract (may contain spoilers)
EDWARDS HAD A DOZEN OF HIS GHOST RIDERS with him when he entered the Regent's Home Hive; and, for good measure, three Scrim and three Crann, trailing the general's tightly knit formation like obedient mascots.

The Inorganics were dressed for the occasion in outlandish uniforms culled from the starship's wardrobe - REF dress cloaks draped over their massively broad shoulders, caps perched atop cyclopean-eyed torsos, battle ribbons dangling from underarm weapons clusters, breechcloths fashioned from United Earth Government flags around narrow, skeletal hips and armored loins.  Edwards and his men wore crisply tailored camouflage jumpsuits and jet-black helmets with tinted faceshields.  Each carried a gleaming Wolverine assault rifle, a sawtoothed survival knife, twin Badgers in hip holsters, ammo and battery packs, bandoliers of concussion grenades and antipersonnel canisters.  Edwards wore jackboots, skintight pants and a flare-shoulder vest of black leather, richly embroidered gloves, and a high-collared duotherm shirt.  His blond hair stood spiked away from his polished skullplate like a fright wig, the neural headband riding above his ears like some Incan headdress of royalty.  His good eye and cruel mouth were highlighted with purple- and rubicund-colored cosmetics.  He was carrying a riding crop and leading a Hellcat on a chrome leash.

The Regent had a band waiting.

The Home Hive complex was an agglomeration of mile-high hemispheres that covered hundreds of square miles.  From above it had reminded Edwards of a molecule model - an arrangement of domes and the arched conduits that linked them, an obscene polymer or everready ester.  The place was mind-boggling in both size and structure, and defied the senses at each turn; so much so that Edwards himself had been sorely tempted to make a beeline back to the dropship and force the Regent to come to him instead.  But once through the hive's permeable membrane he decided he had made the right choice.  No show of trepidation or apprehension; a surefooted balls-to-the-wall walk into the enemy's camp.  After all, hadn't he just saved the Regent's neck - sent Tesla Peryton-bound with his tail between his legs?  If he had a tail, Edwards thought.  God knew the renegade had looked satanic enough to possess one in that twenty-foot-high guise.  But even Tesla's ersatz-Humanness paled in comparison to this... this band the Regent assembled!  A conceit almost bizarre enough to rival the wedding ceremony he had staged for Wolff and the rest.  An orchestra composed of two dozen of the Regent's stripped-down soldiers beating on drums, shaking rattles and bells, and blowing into makeshift horns, ocarinas, and flutes.  Edwards immediately recognized that the Regent was attempting to copy, perhaps interpret, the welcome the SDF-3 had given his simulagent well over two years ago, and appreciated the chance to vent his bottled-up amazement in a long, roaring laugh.

 

Added: 19-Jul-2005
Last Updated: 04-Jul-2024

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 12-Jul-1988
Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
12-Jul-1988
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$2.95
Pages*:
215
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   30 Jun 2024 - 4 Jul 2024
Internal ID:
533
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-345-35305-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-345-35305-4
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
David Schleinkofer  - Cover Artist
A WORLD APART...

Optera!  Birthplace of the Flowers of Life and their agents of retribution, the Invid... nexus for an unfolding of events that had left the galaxy reshaped and redefined... and now the focal point of the Sentinels' long campaign to liverate the Quadrant from the Regent's tyranny.

Edwards is on his way to Optera, in flight from Tirol with his prisoner Lynn-Minmei and a handful of Invid Inorganics under his control.  So too are Bretai's Zentraedi - closing on the very world the Imperative bade them defoliate generations ago - and the renegade forces of Tesla, mutated beyond recognition by the fruits of the Flower.

The Sentinels themselves are not far behind.  However, they have Peryton to deal with first - a godforsaken planet cursed by fate and time itself.  But what awaits Rick, Lisa, and the Human Sentinels there is a mere primer for what is to come: the realization that they have journeyed across the galaxy...

TO WAGE WAR AGAINST EACH OTHER!
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First Edition: August 1988
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12-Jul-1988
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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