Endgame

by Brad Linaweaver and Dafydd ab Hugh

Book Overview

They left behind everything that mattered to them-- friends, lovers, country-- to journey to the stars. Now Sergeant Flynn Taggart and Pfc. Arlene Sanders, USMC, have reached their destination... the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671525662
• ISBN13: 9780671525668
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Pocket Star
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

I Feel I Must Explain The Ending

Since, well, that seems to be the largest problem with the book everyone is having, heh. Yes, the book is great. Not argueing it is not wholly different than Doom 1, but it does a wonderful job of expanding upon the universe and making the bad guys far more than just "demons that want to eat your face!". Others have said everything I could hope to about the book, so instead shall get right to the chase OK, the ending.... endings I suppose First half, the computer sims of Fly and Arlene that end up stuck in the computer simulation of the memories of their battles. Them being there forever is the ending to it, here is how you should look at it. At that point in the story, after returning to Earth, the 'marine' in both the real Fly and Arlene was dead. There was no more war to fight, there was no more marine corps, there was no more people. They had to rebuild, not destroy. Think of it as Valhalla, the viking heaven where warriors went to fight an endless battle for all eternity. The warriors parts of them died and ended up in a valhalla of their own creation, the parts of them that could never stop fighting now never have to, fighting a war of their creation. Meanwhile, the living Fly and Arlene return to Earth, find the tower and the new human clones inside. What kind of ending is that? That is finally beating the aliens once and for all. Remember earlier that the aliens had evolved so much they became a part of human DNA, making them unkillable by the humans in the process, but also trapping them. Well, the humans beat that, new human clones of the humans of the past in the tower, who are free of the alien DNA and able to rebuild civilization fresh, while the aliens off on their planets hide in corners and fear death at every turn. It was a victory, the aliens used their final tactic, make the two species become one in order to intermingle the fates, can't stop the other without killing yourself. But because of Albert's love for Arlene, they won, they beat the aliens at their own game and preserved the human race until the aliens had left. I always have loved the books, I felt the endings were excellent, really good way to tie them together. Highly reccommended :)

A review and explanation of the ending.

This was a very good book. Risking sounding stupid, I have to say the ending blew my mind. So much happens in this book it would be very hard to review (unless you enjoy reading reviews all day). This series of books was one of the best I have ever read. I wish they were still in print. The ending was not as confusing as many people say it is. I will explain it in the next two paragraphs, so if you don't want the ending given away, read no further.Okay, in chapter 17 Fly and Arlene have their souls removed from their bodies and put into a computer program. The Newbies (or Resuscitators) thought Fly and Arlene's bodies were dead, so they gave the bodies to Fly's converts. The bodies then came back to life. The converts say they saw Fly and Arlene fighting demons in the computer program, but F+A have no memory of this. F+A come to the conclusion that since the soul machine was not designed for human souls, it made copies of Fly and Arlene's souls, which are now permanently trapped in the computer program. The reason the newbies were not on earth was because they evolved into something non-physical.Chapters 20-21 are the ending for the physical F+A. Chapters 22-23 are the ending for the F+A stuck in the computer program. I enjoyed the way the series ended(?).

This is way beyond DOOM! I love it!

I have read the entire series of these books at least six times through, and I still love them! Yeah, you can say that after the second book they had nothing to do with the original game, since the entire first three episodes were in Knee Deep in the Dead, and then DOOM II being in Hell on Earth. The two after that were completely original in story....well, okay as original as anything can get. I think they were really great, the characters seemed to me as old friends once I had been through all of them. Yes, even those wacky Klave, Sears and Roebuck. All in all, a great book, you should read them in order, though, or you'll lose the story. Goes to show you that you just may be able to teach that old dog some new tricks.

The Best

The books go way beyond the game and have so much detail it's amazing. They should make a movie of it and have Bruce Willis as Flynn Taggart.

Great books never put them down

The book Final doom was good. I have read the whole series and I loved them. Because I could not ever put them down, I always wanted to know what would happen next. What was around the next corner, what the new monster was. The Doom series was more than books, it felt like I was actually there. The authors made a great series out of a game that I liked to play. The last two were more adventure than action but good none-the-less. I just can't wait for the new book to come out. After Final Doom they can't end the series the way they did. They hav e made it big and very good. It's a gripping book that says "Read me". This is deffinately the best series of books I have ever read before in my life.