Starfist: Kingdom's Fury

by Dan Cragg and David Sherman

A few good Marines beat the fierce, fanatical aliens once before. But that was a skirmish-not a full-scale invasion. The truth is out. No longer are the Skinks just a horrible secret haunting the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345443721
• ISBN13: 9780345443724
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Fun, Great Read!

This entire series is fun to read. The character developement and plot twists are fascinating in the extreme. Just when you think it can't get better it does! The entire Starfist series is a 'have to' read.

BRAVO - Best yet of the STARFIST series

KINGDOM'S FURY(2002) is the eighth book from the STARFIST series of 25th Century Military SciFi stories, about a company of Space Marines, who are sent to various planets to quell uprisings, or battle aliens. This book, is basically a continuation of Book 7, in which the Marines of the 34th FIST have been sent to a backwater world dominated by religious sects, to repulse and invasion by the merciless aliens known as the "Skinks". The Skink technology is roughly equivalent to Human 25th Century tech, although some of it is way ahead, and some of it is behind. Amazingly, this book is a standout in the series... there is interesting dialog or action on every page, and the subplots are quite detailed and interesting. The first few books in the series were quite good, but suffered from some obvious and serious (yet easily correctable) faults. Indeed, it was somewhat frustrating reading the first STARFIST books, because I knew they could have been much better... and some of the middle books from the series were actually below par - books 3 and 6 especially so. However - KINGDOM'S FURY avoids all the faults and stupid mistakes, and "knocks it out of the park". I'm happy to give this book a rare 5 star rating. BRAVO.

Eat plasma, Lizard-Boy!

It's the 25th Century, Humanity has settled dozens of worlds. The most dangerous species in explored space is other humans. The Confederation Marines are the descendents of the US and Royal Marines of our time. They keep order among the worlds humans have colonized. Life is good. The Religious Wars of the 21st Century resulted in Kingdom. Essentially, it is a reservation, where all the Religious Fundamentalists of all Religions have been "persuaded" to move. It's a pesthole of constant religious war, but at least all the nutcases are in one asylum. The Confederation watches to make sure they can't escape from the planet. And then come the Skinks - a bunch of xenocidal humaniform lizards who think that killing humans is great fun - and the survivors make good slaves. The Marines show up, and the Skink Commander decides that he not only wants to defeat the Marines, he wants to humiliate and intimidate them. Trouble is, somebody forgot to tell him something - you can defeat Marines. It's difficult, but possible. You can humiliate Marines. Difficult but possible. But INTIMIDATE them? - that is a leetle bit closer to impossible...This is a book of sweeping realistic vistas, from the Infantry "Line Animal" Grunt slogging in the mud, to Space Battle between 10 KM Starcruisers, to the internecine political wrangling on Capitol Hill. The characters are three dimensional and highly believable.Enjoy...and go back and get the rest of the series. It's worth it.

Best one yet

Wow! I've read all the books so far in this series, and this one is the best one yet. I can't wait for the next books. That was a wonderful twist at the end (which I'm not going to say anything more about or it will be ruined)! Totally unexpected. The whole book was well written and the different parts were very well integrated.

Another Masterpiece

This is another masterpiece from David Sherman and Dan Cragg.I woln't give anything away but the day it came I read the whole thing. If youv'e read the others you know you have to buy this one.