Question The Apocalypse Troll (Dom don't read this thread)

The Apocalypse Troll

by David Weber.

What a fantastic storyline to use.

time travel via space travel
alien created human based cyborg enemy.
and human protagonist with a symbiote that will kill anyone that gets her blood in them.
along with her new boytoy, that she winds up giving him a transfusion of her blood. ( he was dying anyway from combat injuries )

in original story, boytoy lives, gets rejuvinated and they get married, witless protection and live in peace.
in Whateleyverse story:
he survives but becomes female and the real fun can begin.

Why couldn't I read this. I really liked that book.

lol

I knew you would just by having that in the title.

and you said you needed to stop getting ideas so reading new threads could be a bad idea.

But I didn't read it, I just read the title, went down and asked.

Book available via Baen CD.

I want to say that it used to be in their Free library as well...

FuzzyBoots wrote: Book available via Baen CD.

I want to say that it used to be in their Free library as well...

yup, I have it from when it was in the free library.

I have 68 books from the Baen Free Library, only 4 of which are still in it.

The problem with the free library is that almost every book they've ever had that I wanted to read, I'd already bought. Fortunately most of them were from a used bookstore so I didn't go bankrupt.

Then you have done well.

We all know that the free library is intended to induce people into buying the books.

If you like Apocalypse Troll, you might what to try out In Fury Born a cybernetic super commando becomes an Avatar to the Greek Fury Tisiphone, gaining psi talents along the way in her quest for revenge against the pirates that killed her family, and there's a really cool AI warship as well.

That's another awesome book. Not sure if I like the first one more which focused almost solely on the action and main plot with hints about her past or the newer one that was twice as long and showed how her past created the main character.

And now for something completely different...

Have you tried the Dresden Files totally awesome series, I'd like to see Harry Dresden visit Whateley, maybe as a teacher in the Magickal Arts. Do you think the place would survive?

The place might survive, but it would definitely be less a few buildings.

Someone around here (I forget who) is writing a heavily Dresden-inspired fanfic. I vaguely recall another one from before the forum crash that involved Dresden himself coming to Whateley, although I never got around to reading it in it's entirety.

I was thinking about Whateley + Harry Dresden, when this scene jumped into my head and blew my mental fusebox.

'Tink and Toot-Toot sitting in tree...'

My mind goes to strange places and comes back with stranger ideas.

Never read the series but know a lot about it. I'll eventually get around to it.

Domoviye wrote: Never read the series but know a lot about it. I'll eventually get around to it.

Be warned the Dresden Files is literature crack at it's best. Jim Butcher's Codex Alera is just as good, somehow he took Pokemon and Roman legions and made it work.

Charles Stross The Laundry also gets big thumbs up. Eldritch horrors from beyond our spacetime meets the finest British bureaucracy with a hacker caught in the middle.

What other goods reads are out there?

Seanan McGuire - a bit lighter than Dresden, but the Cryptids are so much fun,

Astrodragon wrote: Seanan McGuire - a bit lighter than Dresden, but the Cryptids are so much fun,

I haven't actually read her Cryptid series, but the October Daye series (the Fair Folk in San Francisco) is amazing.

I can second the Laundry and Dresden Files as well.

The Kate Daniels series is amazing as well. Post-apocalyptic Atlanta, where magic and technology fluctuate in waves (First tech will work, and magic mostly won't, then the magic will hit and technology will stop working.) The vampires are more like blood-sucking zombies, the shapeshifters use complicated rules and hierarchies to avoid going insane, and Kate's specialties are killing things and mouthing off. (I do, however, recommend that you skip the first book and just start reading with the second book. That's how I did it, and it works much better)