![]() Since all civilized races are largely incapable of violence they are hoping to find a new planet where the people might provide some kind of help, even if only providing supplies. The story, of course, involves aliens who have been involved in a thousand year war stumbling across humans in their attempt to find allies against the mind controlling alien race at the heart of the enemy. I still have the 3 books in paperback but when I realized that the series was available on Audible I immediately bought it and spent a week listening. Maybe we were a danger, but maybe we were also the salvation of all of those "civilized" aliens. Books like Childhood's End and movies like The Day The Earth Stood Still were constantly referring to how uncivilized we were and how dangerous to any other intelligence we would be, so when I first came across this series I was struck how Alan Dean Foster had turned the whole notion of how warlike we were on its head. I grew at a time when books and movies were constantly centered on how inherently violent humans were and how we were not ready for any contact with what must be "civilized" alien races. This series has always been one of my favorites. 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. With mankind's help, the Weave is finally on the verge of victory against the Amplitur. But if the Weave attempts to undo the effects, they may change the former warriors into something far, far worse. When the Amplitur unleash an elite cadre of fighters, it soon becomes clear that they have subjected their human prisoners to horrific genetic manipulation. Unfortunately for all, the Amplitur have the same idea-and mankind is caught in the middle. 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. In fact, most regard violence as hideously barbaric, and even the thought of harming another sentient being is beyond imagining. įor 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. 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.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. ![]() ![]() 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.
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