CLD (Collective Landing Detachment)

by Victor Milán

Assigned to overtake a planet that resists the Universal Will of the Stellar Collective, the deathbird kamikaze fighters of the Collective Landing Detachment begins what may be the most terrible... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380777347
• ISBN13: 9780380777341
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Harsh and Nasty, but a great read!

I first read this book years ago when it first came out. I have re read it about 6 times since. I keep checking to see if a new one in this series has ever come out. Im wondering why Mr Milan has never written the next one. Please do so!

Makes David Drake seem jolly by comparison

This is probably the darkest, most brutal novel I've ever read. It's the story of a futuristic penal unit used as canon fodder by a brutal totalitarian regime, and then left for dead on a hostile alien world after the invasion of it goes wrong. It's extremely grim and depressing, but the story is very good, and Milan does a good job of bringing the characters to life. Highly reccomended.

Vivid & Grisly

This isn't a happy ending, enjoyable sort of book - far from it. But after reading a lot of military SciFi, this story sticks tenaciously in my mind, whereas many others quickly fade, and to me, that by itself makes it a noteworthy accomplishment. If you aren't squeamish, and can enjoy a gritty, grisly story about an group of criminals force-drafted into a vicious, bottom-of-the-barrel military outfit, who are abandoned during a botched invasion on a hostile planet, look for this one; otherwise stay away. Personally, I wish the author had written more stories about the CLD.

Military SF with an *extremely* hard edge

This is one of the grimmest pieces of Science Fiction I have ever read. I found it to be well written and funny (in an extremely brutal and nasty way). I would recommend it to anyone that enjoys military SF.