Or more so... after the war. You see, many talented and creative young soldiers coming home were able to fabricate wonderful tales of science fiction drawing from their recent military experience as inspiration. Veteran soldiers turned major SciFi authors include both David Drake and Joe Haldemann.

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Johanson, who's not only a wormologist but a strange-thingologist, develops the following theory (we instantly know that he's right): There's an unknown species living in the depths of the ocean since the beginning of time. They are doing things because- Oh, look! An unrelated character is doing something unrelated! Shiny! DO NOT, I REPEAT,DO NOT TAKE THIS BOOK WITH YOU TO THE BEACH, AS YOU WILL COME TO REGRET IT LIKE I HAVE Film adaptations of military science fiction have also been a big hit at the box office. Both Aliens (the sequel) and Predator both fall within the scope of the genre. Not to mention James Cameron's Avatar which holds so many different cinematic records! More recently movies like Pacific Rim have done well thanks to military SciFi fans. The person representing the United States (the one I don't want to discuss), wants to kill all Yrr, and she knows how to do it. Somehow we're made to believe that killing a species who's determined to erase mankind and destroys half of the earth while doing so is a bad idea. On the other, much angrier sullied hand, you have obscene amounts of political, environmental and philosophical/religious pontification, aimed both directly at the reader and through the super-genius-beautiful-yet-one-dimensional cast of characters. Gah. I was so looking forward to a scientific thriller in translation that presented a multi-national cast and world view. The Swarm has this in spades, but also is incredibly one-sided in its vehement anti-US stance. The rest of the world is beautiful, intelligent, and rational. The US, however, is the source of all the world's woes, including inventing conspiracy theories?! I have lived for over 4 years in other countries, and it's dead easy to vilify the US. But the thing is all countries and their citizens have both bad and good virtues. No one is perfect, just like no country as a whole is pure evil. To portray the US as the latter is lazy characterization, an cheap shot and frankly just immature.Schade nur, dass das Buch erst jetzt verfilmt wird und ich hoffe, ZDF & Co. geben sich auch ordentlich Mühe. Da wir aber alle wissen, dass Filme nie an Bücher heranreichen, ist es wohl besser gewesen und sollte man nicht zu enthusiastisch sein. 😉 Many of them used their newfound success as authors to purvey their societal and political concerns. Especially David Drake. This chunky novel reminded me of Neal Stephenson's work because it explored hard science fiction concepts through an epic lense. This is not a character focused story but I did not need it to be. I loved the scope of the story which felt so exciting and imaginative. He manages to tread the fine line between too much information and superficiality very well. He makes accessible scientific information to a lay audience, which might be the most praiseworthy author's activity there is. I'd be grateful if he could write a book like this on every other subject as well. Offers reports on advances in the understanding and utilization of systems based on the principles of swarm intelligence

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Frank Doelger and Mark Huffam to Produce ‘The Swarm’ For European Pubcasters’ Pact The Alliance. Variety. Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments Tina Lund dies (This is the first in a serious of unrelated characters doing unrelated things with no impact on the main plot (I lied. It's not the first, but at one point I stopped counting). Sigur Johanson is a wormologist (He's actually a biologist at the university Trontheim and an expert for worms). Accidentally, there's a strange species of deep sea worms that eat a lot of stuff with complicated names. Things threaten to collapse on a continental level. Basically, the world as we know it will crumble under the impact of worms (so far so awesome). As a recruit of the future starts off through the roughest boot camp in the Universe and goes head on into the battle against the humans most fearsome enemy.LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. War with the Newts: a 1936 novel by Karel Čapek which chronicles humanity's unexpected encounter with a sentient aquatic species. Tanner Malone failed the Test, an exam the establishes how much on owes for his corporate-funded education. With his future basically buried under debt, Tanner's only option is to enlists into the navy in his home star system of Archangel. Schätzing’s book, first published in 2004 in Germany and Austria and which has sold in excess of 4.5m copies, has been praised for its scientific accuracy in depicting the geology and marine biology behind a fictitious series of global events found in the story to be caused by a hitherto unidentified entity living in the depths of the sea.