| # | Year | 1st Read | Title | Author(s) | My Rating | |
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| 1 | 1987 | 1987 | (0.1) Genesis (Free Sample)
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney |   | |
| ABANDONED ALIEN BATTLE 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 Rqbotech Defense Force.
They were entrusted with powers they didn't fully understand. Then the most feared 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! | |
| 2 | 1987 | 2023 | (1) Genesis
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| 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! | |
| 3 | 1987 | 2023 | (2) Battle Cry
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| EVEN MIRACLES HAVE THEIR DOWN SIDE...
Some called it miraculous when the Super Dimensional Fortress crash-landed on Earth: the alien spacecraft's arrival had put a sudden and to almost a decade of global war.
Yet, Henry J. Gloval, captain of the SDF-1, was a prectical man. When it came to asking himself how he had ended up in command of an alien space fortress carrying more than 50,000 civilians in its belly, he refused to let the question surface more than twice a day.
And yet there was the planet Saturn filling the viewport of the SDF-1 bridge, and there he was in the command chair.
BUT NOW THE ZENTRAEDI HAD COME TO CLAIM THE SHIP... | |
| 4 | 1987 | 2023 | (3) Homecoming
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| THEY DIDN'T ESCAPE THE KILLING GROUND
For over a year, the humans aboard the Super Dimensional Fortress fought and eluded a millions-strong armada of alien warships.
Now the SDF-1 would have to slug her way through the massed enemy fleet to return to blue-white Terra. Damaged, every crew-member and inhabitant exhausted, the ship still had one great battle left in her.
But villains come in human form as well as alien - and the evil of power-hungry men might be the most lethal threat of all.
In their greatest challenge yet, the crew of the SDF-1 face Zenteadi warriors and human betrayal, while the Cosmic scales tip and swing, writing an astonishing new chapter in the Robotech saga!
THEY JUST BROUGHT THE WAR BACK TO EARTH! | |
| 5 | 1987 | 2023 | (4) Battlehymn
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| A HIGHER LOYALTY
For three long months the Super Dimensional Fortress remained at its landing site in the Pacific, like an infant in a wading pool. And indeed her captain often felt as though he had been treated like a child.
For two years, Captain Gloval and his crew had been chased through the solar system by a race of giant alien warriors, only to be made to feel like unwanted relatives when they returned to planet Earth.
But Gloval was not a man who took things lying down.
In direct violation of Council dictates, he ordered the SDF-1 airbourne.
THE FATE OF THE EARTH WAS AT STAKE... | |
| 6 | 1987 | 2023 | (5) Force of Arms
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| 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! | |
| 7 | 1987 | 2023 | (6) Doomsday
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| THE ROBOTECH DEFENDERS
THOUGHT THE
WAR WAS BEHIND THEM!
A war without victors, that had brought two races to the brink of extinction. A war without spoils, save for the devastated Earth itself...
A new-age ark, the Super Dimensional Fortress had returned to its ravaged homeworld, and those who had lived through Armageddon began the painstaking process of reconstruction. But they herd the Zentraedi to help them, former enemies who shared a common goal - survival!
But all was not well in this bravest of worlds.... Unaccustomed to a life without warfare, many of the alien giants were reverting to their old ways. Now one had appeared who vowed to lead them back to their former glory - Khyron! - an alien culture's hero reborn to pick up where Dolza had left off!
BUT A GREATER THREAT AWAITED THEM! | |
| 8 | 1987 | 2023 | (7) Southern Cross
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| A NEW ALIEN MENACE HAS
COME TO RAVAGE EARTH -
Some twenty years before, the Robotech Masters sent their giant warrior-slaves, the Zentraedi, to plunder Earth of its Protoculture secrets. But heroic men and women repulsed the invasion in a war that almost destroyed the planet.
Now, at last, the Robotech Masters appear to finish the conquest the Zentraedi began. A battle-ravaged Earth must defend itself once more.
This is the moment when young Dana Sterling, half-human, half-Zentraedi commander of an elite Hovertank unit, steps squarely into the spotlight of interstellar history.
Once more, the huge war mecha clash and awesome powers are brought to bear as...
THE SECOND ROBOTECH WAR BEGINS! | |
| 9 | 1987 | 2023 | (8) Metal Fire
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| A DOWNED SHIP!
An alien fortress had crashlanded on Earth. But the most recent arrival from the galaxy's more sinister side had been brought down deliberately. Now it sat silently overlooking Monument City, as though daring someone to penetrate its dark mysteries.
And who better to test the mettle of that ship than Dana Sterling's 15th Squadron ATACs - after all, they had brought the thing down to begin with!
The mission read like a one-way ticket to doom; but for Dana it was a chance to get a glimpse of the glories of her ancestor race. And perhaps a chance to glimpse at the pilot of the red Bioroid who haunted her dreams - an alien called Zor, who was soon to emerge as
AN ALIEN SPY! | |
| 10 | 1987 | 2023 | (9) The Final Nightmare
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| FLOWER OF LIFE -
FLOWER OF DEATH!!
The Robotech Masters' war against Earth has become even more desperate: the Protoculture Matrix is now degenerating, transforming into the Flower of Life, which is sure to draw the savage, merciless Invid across the galaxy. But the heroic men and women of the Army of the Southern Cross mean to defend planet Earth to the bitter end.
At the same time Dana Sterling, half-alien commander of an elite Hovertank unit, is also waging a desperate personal war, to uncover the meaning of her strange Visions, and the secrets of her alien heritage.
Humans lock in mortal combat with the Masters' clone hordes in a clash of tremendous war machines. Zor Prime, reincarnation of the discoverer of Protoculture, struggles to regain his lost memories and unlock his tormented past. As the apocalyptic war comes to the final, decisive battle, Dana Sterling realizes to her horror that..
EVEN VICTORY SPELLS
UTTER DISASTER!! | |
| 11 | 1987 | 2024 | (10) Invid Invasion
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| A DESPERATE
COUNTERINVASION...
The Invid Regis had succeeded where the Zentraedi and their Robotech Masters had failed. She had driven her warrior horde across the far reaches of space to lay claim to the galaxy's last supply of the Rower of Life and its all-precious offspring, Protoculture.
Earth was conquered, occupied; and it was up to the space-weary veterans of the Expeditionary Force to retake the planet - a world most of them had never seen. Only no one had foreseen the disastrous defeat that would greet the first wave, or the miserable welcome in store for its few and sorry heroes.
But Lieutenant Scott Bernard had survived both, and it was now his mission, as well as his personal pledge, to reach and destroy the lnvid hive dubbed Reflex Point. He would soon have a ragtag band of freedom fighters at his side, but before them were thousands of miles of travel through hostile territory on...
THE LONG ROAD AHEAD! | |
| 12 | 1987 | 2024 | (11) Metamorphosis
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| UNLIKELY HEROES
The Shapings of the Protoculture had never thrown together a less conventional band of champions: A downed pilot who is a stranger on his own homeworld. A former biker hellion who hides her compassion inside a leather-tough exterior. A young Forager obsessed with the vanishing heritage of Humanity's lore.
With them ride a soulful, hulking deserter... a lethal Robotech warrior whose art is all gentleness... an irrepressible adolescent convinced that the world owes her a Great Romance... and a cloned enemy Simulagent who can't quite recall who she is.
And somewhere ahead lies Reflex Point, nerve center and stronghold of the lnvid conquerors.
This motley group is Earth's last hope... and it doesn't look like a force to be reckoned with.
BUT DON'T COAT THEM OUT JUST YET | |
| 13 | 1987 | | (12) Symphony of Light
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| THE DECISIVE BATTLE
It had been along hard road for Scott Bernard and his ragtag band of Robotech irregulars; but the Invid stronghold known as Reflex Point was finally close at hand, and preparations were under way for a full-scale assault.
But the Invid Regis was not about to surrender so easily the world she had come halfway across the galaxy to claim - especially now that her experiments in racial transmutation were nearing their conclusion.
And no one, Human or Invid, thought to ask whether Protoculture might have something to say in these matters. But indeed it did; and the final encounter of the Robotech Wars would be more mystifying than anyone had imagined.
AND EARTH WAS THE PRIZE! | |
| 14 | 1987 | | (13) The Devil's Hand
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT...
It was 2020. Six years had passed since the destruction of the Super Dimentional Fortresses 1 and 2, that final tragedy of the First Robotech War. But Earth was on the mend now, and from the wreakage of those ships the Robotech Defense Force had succeeded in fashioning a new battle fortress - the SDF-3. Its mission: to cross the galaxy and make peace with Tirol's Robotech Masters.
It sounded straightforward enough; but unknown to Admirala Rick and Lisa Hunter and their crew of thousands, the Robotech Masters were already on their way to Earth!
Nevertheless Tirol would have a greeting in store for the Expeditionary Mission: an incendiary salute from the warlord whose hordes had conquered half the galactic Quadrant - the Invid Regent! Threatened with a swift and violent end, and suddenly torn by internal struggles for power, the RDF would find itself thrust into...
A SAVAGE WAR FOR SURVIVAL! | |
| 15 | 1988 | | (14) Dark Powers
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| DESPERATE ALLIANCE!
The Robotech Expeditionary Force had been stranded on the far side of the galaxy as the result of damage to their Super Dimensional Fortress during the battle with the Invid hordes. Their chances for survival were slim.
Suddenly, a starship unlike anything that had ever flown before appeared - manned by an incredible assortment of beings who meant to challenge the might of the Invid Regent himself!
REF volunteers signed aboard, with their mighty war mecha in tow, for a campaign that would either mean the total destruction of the freedom fighters or liberty for the planets of -
THE SENTINELS | |
| 16 | 1988 | | (15) Death Dance
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| MAROONED ON A DOOMED WORLD!
Four months passed without a word from the Sentinels, and the members of the Expeditionary Mission to Tirol were beginning to fear the worst. This, even as they entered into truce negotiations with the being who might have been responsible for the destruction of the Sentinels' starship - the Invid Regent himself.
Meanwhile, the survivors of the Farrago remained hopelessly stranded on Praxis, a planet in cataclysm, hastened to endtime by the dark designs of the Invid Regis. But deep within that world's transferred core were answers to the Sentinels' prayers; if they could only reach them before Praxis tore itself apart. For Rick and Lisa Hunter, Cabell, and the others, the moment had arrived for desperate actions...
AND TIME WAS RUNNING OUT! | |
| 17 | 1988 | | (16) World Killers
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| 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! | |
| 18 | 1987 | | (17) Rubicon
Cover Blurb | Jack McKinney | | |
| 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! | |
| 19 | 1990 | | (18) The End of the Circle | Jack McKinney | | |
| 20 | 1994 | | (19) The Zentraedi Rebellion | Jack McKinney | | |
| 21 | 1995 | | (20) The Masters' Gambit | Jack McKinney | | |
| 22 | 1996 | | (21) Before the Invid Storm | Jack McKinney | | |