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Am I the only one who read Alan Dean Foster's The Damned trilogy?

I've mentioned it a time or two on Dakka but it never seems to get any response.

Does it start with A Call to Arms?

Yes!

i remember reading the first two books, and generally enjoyed them. never really got around to picking up the 3rd

He brought the end to a very satisfying conclusion, at least for me.

This was my first exposure to 'humans as barbarians' fiction, and it was something I really enjoyed. The Valor series (Tanya Huff) is another good example of the genre, although hers is much more hardboiled military fiction.

 Jimsolo wrote:
He brought the end to a very satisfying conclusion, at least for me.

This was my first exposure to 'humans as barbarians' fiction, and it was something I really enjoyed. The Valor series (Tanya Huff) is another good example of the genre, although hers is much more hardboiled military fiction.

I've only read the first one, but will probably read the rest when I find the second one. I enjoyed the book, except for every chapter about Will Dulac (or whatever his name was). Hated that guy. It also had a serious case of Man Kzin Wars-itis, where the author wants to write about how awesome humans are at war but knows nothing about combat and writes around the battles. Still, I really enjoyed reading how the different aliens perceived humanity and each other.

If you like this type of Sci-Fi, have you read Harry Turtledove's World War tetrology? It's somewhat similar in that a not-too-barbarous alien race wants to conquer the earth, only to discover the horrors of WW2. It's very entertaining--so much so that I basically skipped past the gratuitous (although well-written for 80's-90's sci-fi) sex scenes to get to more of the good stuff.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:
He brought the end to a very satisfying conclusion, at least for me.

This was my first exposure to 'humans as barbarians' fiction, and it was something I really enjoyed. The Valor series (Tanya Huff) is another good example of the genre, although hers is much more hardboiled military fiction.

I've only read the first one, but will probably read the rest when I find the second one. I enjoyed the book, except for every chapter about Will Dulac (or whatever his name was). Hated that guy. It also had a serious case of Man Kzin Wars-itis, where the author wants to write about how awesome humans are at war but knows nothing about combat and writes around the battles. Still, I really enjoyed reading how the different aliens perceived humanity and each other.

If you like this type of Sci-Fi, have you read Harry Turtledove's World War tetrology? It's somewhat similar in that a not-too-barbarous alien race wants to conquer the earth, only to discover the horrors of WW2. It's very entertaining--so much so that I basically skipped past the gratuitous (although well-written for 80's-90's sci-fi) sex scenes to get to more of the good stuff.

Aliens thought we were still in the Dark Ages. Did not factor in how fast humans can advance technology.

Yeah, but they were also too squeamish to use nukes as much as they should have. And they had not developed weapons since their planet's unification.

Basically, they had Gulf War tech against WW2 tech, and the only way to hold back the nukes and poison gas was to make them too 'civilized' for it.

I still find it odd that the Aliens honestly thought it was a good to invade a world based on reconnaissance reports that where 800 years old. I know they are a conservative society but that's just mad.