4.5 stars. The Dahak trilogy, which includes Mutineers' Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance and Heirs of Empire is superb military space opera. I believe it belongs on the "must read" list of all fans of the genre. One thing I found that set this apart from typical "military" based science fiction is the development of the main characters and the focus on their relationships and how much they respect and care for each other. I especially liked the growth of the relationship between Colin McIntyre (...

Some folks think of epic space opera and say, why? Others day, "Hey, maybe the Moon is actually a massive abandoned space battleship and the human race was founded by its mutinous crew tens of thousands of years ago" and say, why not?An omnibus of Weber's earliest solo series (Mutineer's Moon in 1991, followed by The Armageddon Inheritance in 1994 and Heirs of Empire in 1996), the tale is a bit more roughly-hewn than his later works. MM, the earliest, is the most straightforward, establishing th...

David Weber is the James Patterson of SF. I remember when he was great. I remember when he was good. But when he wrote that a satellite “floated in geosynchronous orbit near Tierra Del Fuego,” I stopped reading the already boring plot and cardboard characters. Someone such as Weber should know it is impossible to place a satellite in geosynchronous orbit except around the equator. Serving the southern tip of South America would take either a highly inclined orbit or a network of multiple low orb...

Empire from the Ashes is an omnibus containing all three books in the Dahak series. The first book in the series quickly introduces us to the rather preposterous premise that Earth’s moon is actually a gigantic spaceship, disguised like a moon. This spaceship is controlled by a sentient and likeable computer, Dahak, but he no longer has a crew for reasons explained at the beginning of the book. One of the main characters, Colin, is a normal 21st century human with no idea that there’s intelligen...

This is actually three books: Mutineer's Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance, and Heirs of Empire.If you take a pinch of "space", add a teaspoon of "opera", then throw in a dash of heroic humans, and another dash of vile villains (don't forget the long dead empire with super technology), put in the fusion reactor at 30 million degrees for 30 minutes, you end up with Space Opera on a grand scale. You know the routine - massive alien armada is sweeping through the galaxy, destroying any species that

I really enjoyed this monster of a book (almost 17000 Kindle locations!) The only thing that stopped me from giving it 5* was Weber's love of political intrigue (one of the reasons why I stopped reading his Honor series). While politics cannot be ignored in the greater scheme of the book, it did get a bit much.As always, Weber's battle scenarios are well written - whether the fighting is in high tech space ships or in medieval swordfights. I really loved Dahak.Apart from the politics, the only t...

Should have been a duology.First two books in the trilogy were solid 4 stars, but the third brings it down. First two books are solid sci-fi adventure, following an over-arcing plot of rediscovery and alien menace. Third book is patch on, mix of political spy-stuff and alternate universe black-powder warfare, connected by characters to the first two books but not related to the original plot. Basic premise of the black-powder plot section broke my suspension of disbelief and I never got past tha...

Oh my this book seems so much longer than it actually is, wow. It's still good though :).

similar bits to some of his other series show up here. good action story.

for those who are frequent readers of Weber's other books, you might notice a few things here. The three books comprise certain storylines that recure later on. Book 2 has lots of the large spaceship battles that were to become a trademark of later honorverse novels, while book 3 could be considered 'the first draft of the entire Safehold series, without the funny names or the useless padding of thousands of characters that exist for 5 pages and no more. but let's start with the first book. What...

Little lazy here so I'll just say what others probably haven't, my pet peeves about this trilogy.First, the protagonist is an military idiot as can be seen early on when he is abducted by a spaceship and instead of listening to the explanation being given he decides not to be passive listener so he interupts with stupid questions and proclamations like I don't believe this, impossible!... while facing the impossible.The action is great, romance lacking as expected from a sci-fi author and unfort...

One of my top picks in Sci-fi.I have just had the pleasure of re-reading this great sci-fi trilogy for the fourth time. As you can see that this is my top favorite sci-fi pick and I get this urge every few years to renew my acquaintance with these distinctive friends of mine. This is the perfect blend of ancient aliens, hollow moon, conspiracy theories all rolled into a absolutely great story. There's danger, military maneuvers, spacecraft, some romance, terrible sacrifices and people you will c...

Very good space opera trilogy by one of my favorite sci-fi authors. The writing is technically good, with one glaring exception. The many POV switches and jumps in time are jarring, because there is nothing to indicate the switch. This definitely interrupts the flow of reading, at least for me.Some Christians may be offended by the premise that human presence on earth started 51,000 years ago when a starship crew mutinied and were forced into exile on our planet. Evolution on another planet is a...

Wow.....just wowI cant tell you how many times I have re-read this story and each and every time I do I try to turn the page one more time. From the feeling of the sheer amount of time that this story encompasses, to the battles that had me scrolling faster and faster (in this electronic version) to the sheer amount of emotions you go through in the book as you turn (or scroll) the pages. This is the type of story I aspire to someday write myself.

Excellent seriesI had not heard of this series before receiving it as a birthday gift. The three novel combo kindle edition takes you through the whole story arc from start to finish. All three novels are quite good and I recommend this series for fans of classic works by Murray Leinster and H. Beam Piper as they capture the same spirit of adventure without being to predictable.

Book one and two are great. Book three feels like an unnecessary epilogue, THE WHOLE BOOK. I recommend skipping it. The science feels a bit off. Maybe leaning more to magic the clarketech. Not a criticism just something I noted. I have read books with more fantastical and powerful science so I am not sure of my own sentiment.

Love this story!David Weber has written so many amazing novels but this trilogy is my favorite. Many, if not all,of his stories show man at his best (or worst). This trilogy is one I wish were expanded, showing us of mankind resulting across the old Imperium. And I would live a novel of the rescue of Brashiel's people from their computer overlords!

One of Weber's best!! Great characters and the moon is a sentient starship! Long live the Empire!Weber as usual created characters, even sentient computer ones, that you want to know and wraps them in a wonderment.

The only book I have read more than onceA great tale with cool science. I reread this collection about every 5 years. It has great action, well developed characters, and great plot. All you can ask for. I think it would be a great movie.

Absolutely riveting readSpace opera at its best! Well filled out characters with a sound plots and plenty of excitement. This is the fourth of fifth time I have bought and read the series.

This series of novels is one that I can pick up, open at random, and start reading at any time. This was perhaps the third or fourth time I've read them straight through, and they remain space opera in the grand tradition.

Every few years I go through the same cycle of remembering "this one cool space opera I once read with an AI character" and try and try to remember author or title. Having just finally tracked it down, this is my note to self. It's this one. 😁

Not sure who the narrator for the audio book was, but he was the worst one I've ever listened to. I'm sure that tainted my rating.

Meh. Am I getting too picky? I don't know. Just felt a bit daft. Gave up.

This series makes you want there to be more. Much more.Within the same piece of timeline.I have a sinking feeling there isn't any.

I love the way that David Weber took an idea out of the third book and made it into a whole new series.

Loved this series. It ended too soon!

Classic Weber

Couldn't put it downSimilar to his safehold series, thoroughly enjoyable. The rebirth of a dead empire and an interesting twist on the origins of the human race.

This is a great book I have reread at least six times