Forum:Destroyermen

I just read the book Into the Storm by Taylor Anderson. It's the first book of a series about a few WWII ships ripped from their world and sent into a parallel Earth where the K/T extinction event never happen. The Velociraptors evolved into a sentient species called the Grik and became the dominant species of Africa. Lemurs evolved into an intelligent species in Madagascar, protected by their isolation. The Grik invaded Madagascar eventually and the Lemurians had to flee. They lived on huge ships for ages and eventually settled Indonesia. Much later the Grik learned shipbuilding from an earlier human ship which had slipped between universes, and are preparing to attack the Lemurians. The "main" ship which came through from WWII, an obsolescent USN destroyer commissioned in 1919, is helping the Lemurians prepare to meet that attack in exchange for a home port and source of supplies.

It's the setup for a series that's up to seven books at this time. I intend to read them all eventually, but it's not a huge priority. One thing that annoyed me about the first book was that it was divided into just a few very long chapters that each could easily have been broken up into several shorter chapters apiece. So it's the kind of book that I'd have to read on vacation or over the holidays or something; the format requires that it be read in a few large sittings rather than broken up into bite sized chunks that can be easily picked off one at a time over the course of a busy day. But I liked the first book and I like the story it promises to lead to. It all sort of reminds me of a cross between Birmo's Axis of Time trilogy (which you may recall I enjoyed tremendously) and that "Clan of the Claw" shared universe anthology that HT contributed to last year.

Just wondering if anyone else had read it. It seems like the sort of thing that would appeal to those who share our common interests. Turtle Fan (talk) 04:29, September 26, 2012 (UTC)