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Pandora's Legions (2002)

par Christopher Anvil

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After peacefully and complacently expanding for centuries, the Centran Empire comes face to face with their first major obstacle, the stubborn and warlike inhabitants of Earth, and decides to use Earth warriors to pacify difficult planets throughout the galaxy, but they soon discover a new problem-the humans could end up running the Central Empire itself.… (plus d'informations)
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Pandora’s Legions is a mix of short stories and a serialized novel broken apart and combined into a single chronological book. This actually worked quite well as far as coherency goes; the book was consistent and relatively seamless. I probably wouldn’t have realized it wasn’t originally published that way had I not already known otherwise. For the most part, the stories are told from the perspective of two different characters – one human and one alien. I think the larger bulk was told from the perspective of the member of the alien species, the Centrans. The Centrans dominate the galaxy, exploring new worlds, conquering them, and then apparently assimilating them into their own culture. In the first story the Centrans encounter Earth and the humans are unlike anything they’ve ever encountered.

This book was by turns funny and dry, but it leaned more heavily on the dry side in my opinion. The stories were written between the mid 50’s through early 70’s and it showed its age. The thing that kept sticking out to me, as I read the e-book on my Kindle, was the excessive amount of paper in the stories. We have paper informational printouts, paper communications, paper announcements, and paper reports. We have stacks upon stacks upon stacks of paper reports. They’re leaning against the walls, toppling over, covering desks, and at times it seemed like they were being referred to on every page of the book. We get to read snippets of these reports, which are often written in an intentionally dry and pedantic manner or, less often, in an intentionally convoluted manner. I sometimes had as much trouble getting through the sections about the reports as the characters had getting through the reports themselves.

But the book did have several funny moments, and I liked the main characters. There were times when I became quite caught up in the stories -- mainly the ones that had fewer reports in them! Some stories focused more on action taking place on one of the planets, while other stories focused more on the Centrans and their attempts to understand and decide what to do about the humans. The former were far more interesting to me. ( )
  YouKneeK | Nov 17, 2014 |
The sections are fairly separate from each other; I'd read them in order, but don't try to relate them to each other too much.

Still, I quite enjoyed the invasion of earth from alien perspective and the resulting interactions. It's a bit far-fetched, and I disagree with the analysis of what would happen, but it's a good light read. ( )
  david.hilton | Jan 15, 2009 |
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After peacefully and complacently expanding for centuries, the Centran Empire comes face to face with their first major obstacle, the stubborn and warlike inhabitants of Earth, and decides to use Earth warriors to pacify difficult planets throughout the galaxy, but they soon discover a new problem-the humans could end up running the Central Empire itself.

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