The Final Battle
By William C Dietz
Another sequel, this book is part 2 of the Legion of the Damned series, another trashy sci-fi book but they are fun, the first chapter of this novel features a returning character from the last novel masturbating to the shitty life the P.O.Ws of a failed wannabe conquering race live on the ruined nuclear wasteland of her former home world, but the book isn’t just about sex although it happens a lot. I honestly wonder if writing bad sex is important to Sci-Fi writers and that may be why we haven’t heard of lesser known writers like Asimov and Shelley, not enough poorly written sex in I, Robot and Frankenstein but I digress, lots of sex in this book.
It’s actually about a futuristic version of the French Foreign Legion now filled with humans from across the galaxy, a handful of aliens and a bucket load of cyborgs with the brains of criminals and their victims given another chance at life. The P.O.W aliens (The hudarthans, that maybe be incorrectly spelt but the book isn’t in reach) have risen up again and want revenge but since the last war they aren’t just fighting humans they are fighting all the sentient beings in the Confederacy, which is currently under the presidency of an alien from a planet with much lower gravity.
The Legion is requested to save the galaxy once more but the President has some qualms, it would look bad if he sends a mostly human army to war when no other race is really sacrificing themselves in such numbers, but the other races suck, one is giant dunesque worms, one is currently in hibernation for a couple more years and another hasn’t even got a word for weapon they are so chill, so he decides to hire psychic and Telekinetic plankton which are actually super helpful.
The good guys win and things are good, this book was fun and not overly predictable but it felt kind of short. I’d give it 7/10