The Damned Trilogy: A Call to Arms, The False Mirror, and The Spoils of War

Alan Dean Foster

May 2017 · Open Road Media

About this eBook

Humans are caught up in an alien war in this epic from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness.

For millennia, the Weave, an alliance of species, have fought to resist the telepathic Amplitur, who strive to unite all self-aware life-forms in their great “Purpose.” The Weave is slowly losing ground, but for both sides, warfare focuses more on outthinking and outmaneuvering your foe than destruction. In fact, most regard violence as hideously barbaric, and even the thought of harming another sentient being is beyond imagining.
 
Then they come to Earth . . .
 
A Call to Arms
When one of its scout ships lands on Earth, the Weave quickly realizes that humanity’s almost innate ability to wreak havoc and death may hold the key to turning the tide in their fight. Unfortunately for all, the Amplitur have the same idea—and mankind is caught in the middle.
 
The False Mirror
When the Amplitur unleash an elite cadre of fighters, it soon becomes clear that they have subjected their human prisoners to horrific genetic manipulation. But if the Weave attempts to undo the effects, they may change the former warriors into something far, far worse.
 
The Spoils of War
With mankind’s help, the Weave is finally on the verge of victory against the Amplitur. Until an alien scholar uncovers a terrifying truth: Earthlings might not even be capable of being civilized—and a shadowy group of powerful humans is already poised to unleash war across the entire galaxy.
 
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alan Dean Foster including rare images from the author’s collection.
 

Ratings and reviews

The description of this book grabbed me immediately with its fascinating premise, but sadly I discovered once I started reading it that the execution was lacking. There's a lot of redundant and extraneous detail in both dialog and plot elements, meanwhile other details that seem like they are important but get glossed over. Overall, the trilogy likely would have benefitted from one more pass by a good editor.

The first book, A Call To Arms, was an incredible introspection into human nature, and how our natural violence clashes with out perceptions of being civilized. The sequels neatly lost me because I didn't have as much of an emotional connection. Even so, fantastic reads.

Great like always!!

About the author

The New York Times–bestselling author of more than 110 books, Alan Dean Foster is one of the most prominent writers of modern science fiction and fantasy. Born in New York City in 1946, he studied filmmaking at UCLA, and first found success in 1968 when a horror magazine published one of his short stories. In 1972 he wrote his first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first in his Pip and Flinx series featuring the Humanx Commonwealth, a universe he has explored in more than twenty-five novels. Foster also created the Spellsinger series and has written dozens of bestselling film novelizations, as well as the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. An avid world traveler, he chronicles some of his own adventures in the wild in his memoir Predators I Have Known (2011). Foster lives with his family in Prescott, Arizona.