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EARTH'S ONLY HOPE WAS THE COBRASThe colony worlds Adirondack and Silvern fell to the Troft forces almost without a struggle. Outnumbered and on the defensive, Earth made a desperate decision. It would attack the aliens not from space, but on the ground—with forces the Trofts did not even suspect.Thus were created the Cobras, a guerilla force whose weapons were surgically implanted, invisible to the unsuspecting eye, yet undeniably deadly. But power brings temptation, and not all the Cobras could be trusted to fight for Earth alone. Jonny Moreau would learn the uses—and abuses—of his special abilities and what it truly meant to be a Cobra.At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Cobra, by Timothy Zahn- Published on: 2015-05-12
- Released on: 2015-05-12
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A Serviceable, If Rough, Science-Fiction Story from Zahn By Viking ZX Honestly, Cobra is not Zahn's best work. In fact, it's one of his earlier works, and it shows. Compared to his later novels, a lot of the elements are there, the pieces, but they just don't quite slide together as well as they would ten years later. For that, Cobra feels a bit dated compared to his other works, almost enough to feel slightly out of place.That said, it never crosses any barriers into poor or bad, and stays fairly average throughout, so for a free read and as a teaser of Zahn's work to come, it isn't bad. Basically, if you're thinking of starting to read Zahn, consider that Cobra is one of his earlier books. What he writes gets better from here on out, and the trappings that you see here that aren't quite so utilized—for instance, in Cobra he bounces between being able to subtlety misdirect and not being able to—grow in capability in his later books.Cobra also isn't what most would expect. Cobra is not a war story. Only two-fifths of the book covers the main characters experiences as a covert agent in the war, and half of that is training. The rest of the book is about coming home from the war, dealing with the effects of trying to be an ordinary person again, and where it goes from there. While it's not written at a level that will make your jaw drop, it's certainly functional enough to present a basic story.Again, it's early Zahn, so it's basically the beginning. His work gets better from here, and there are better places to start if you're willing to buy his other books. Cobra feels ... simple, I think, is a good word for it. It's a nonstandard supersoldier story, that much is certain, but it's rough around the edges, still experimental in how it handles itself, like a prototype of what's to come.Still, its an entertaining enough read if you have some spare time, and at the price, hard to beat.Also, whether it's as a result of the conversion to e-book or if the original printing had it, there are a few small typos, like most books, including one misusedword about halfway through the volume (a case that honestly looks like a case of 90s-era spellcheck picking the wrong replacement word). So there is that.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Sci-Fi In The Classic Style By Dirt Road Cowboy I enjoyed the book. It was well written Science Fiction that kept a good pace. Several unexpected twists kept me reading and looking forward to reading more.I like books that actually have a conclusion, not waiting for the next book in the series to find out what happens. This book had an end, but could also continue in a series.I would definitely read more from this author!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Another Military Sci Fi in the 'okay' department By GPS I thought this story was decent. I always liked Timothy Zahn for his Admiral Thrawn Trilogy in 'Star Wars' and had read one or two other things by him in the past, so I thought I'd give this early work of his a try. I did like it.'Cobra' follows the career of a Sci Fi spec ops soldier through all of his trials and tribulations, from his commissioning clear through his ascension to governor-hood of a human satellite colony. Each section is written as a short-story vignette with relatively little narrative cross-talk between the different sections, except that the same soldier has proceeded to a new point in his life. The characters are appropriately written and the plots in each section are logical. I thought well of the story overall and have not decided yet whether I read the follow-on stories.Overall, this work is a poor-man's version of Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" or Haldeman's "The Forever War." I would say heavily inspired, if not cribbed from these other works, with some version of the technology from "The Stars My Destination" thrown in for good measure. As such, there really isn't much to this story that I would call truly original. Executed well, but not original.One of the few huge conceptual gripes I had was that the Cobras, which are Zahn's version of a cybernetically enhanced guerrilla infantry, are not quite appropriately trained or outfitted. First, the Cobra program shows relatively little in the way of conditioning and training for selecting good soldiers... the first washout occurs after the government has already spent the money to build the soldier, which is kind of stupid. Any real life government knows that you wash out inept SEAL candidates before you spend the money making them technically proficient. Second, the Cobras are commissioned and not improved over time. In real life, SEALs receive state-of-the-art, first-pick technological enhancements constantly. This is because the enemy will eventually learn the SEAL's bag of tricks and the SEALs are always looking to get ahead in the game. The book makes a big deal about a Cobra soldier getting taken by the enemy for capability analysis early on, but doesn't seem to follow through with the obvious Human response to that eventuality by constantly updating the Cobras. This kind of soldier would not ultimately leave the war with the same technology he started out carrying. I get that the Cobras live the whole war behind enemy lines, but later Cobras would have a different weapon load-out and capability specs than the earlier soldiers. Moreover, the humans would rotate duty, pulling earlier soldiers back to update them before redeploying them. Far worse, Cobras commissioned half a lifetime later, toward the end of the book, would presumably have completely different capabilities from their forerunners. Betting on a WWI biplane in WWII is suicide and the militaries of the human race know this.My other major gripe was with the Troft aliens. Any starfaring alien race humans meet out in the universe will be separated from us in development by thousands to hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of years. Compare us to ourselves just 2000 years ago. An interstellar war against such an enemy will not look anything like World War II. Military science fiction books quite frequently assume that an alien that we might be at war with is necessarily the same level of technology as us, which is probably not a terrific assumption. A far older race will have seen and survived threats we have not encountered yet and will be able to respond to those things.I feel strongly that if either of these logical complaints had been answered, the story told would have been pretty different.These complaints aside, it's not a bad piece of writing, just not an amazing standout either.
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