Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)

by David Weber

Paperback, 1992

Status

Available

Call number

813

Series

Publication

Baen (1992), Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages

Description

Mutiny For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved - Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew on prehistoric Earth. Dahak has been helplessly waiting as the descendants of the loyal crew regressed while the mutineers maintained control of technology that kept them alive as the millennia passed. But now Dahak's sensors indicate that the enemy that devastated the Imperium so long ago has returned - and Earth is in their path. For the sake of the planet, Dahak must mobilize its defenses. And that it cannot do until the mutineers are put down. So Dahak has picked Colin Maclntyre to be its new captain. Now Maclntyre must mobilize humanity to destroy the mutineers once and for all or Earth will become a cinder in the path of galactic conquest.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member TadAD
I think the best way to describe this series is what you'd get if E. E. "Doc" Smith was writing in the 1990s.
LibraryThing member NakedSteve
This was a fun read, with a fascinating premise. The moon's an ancient space ship? Cool!

I've been a big fan of Weber's military space novels for a while now, and this one doesn't disappoint. It's from the early stages of Weber's career, and every once in a while you can see ideas and scenes that
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get developed more fully and smoothly in his later novels.

The book was very hard to put down at the end, which is probably a good sign.
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LibraryThing member FKarr
standard shoot-'em-up; still fun
LibraryThing member waldhaus1
An exciting telling of the origin of human life on Earth mixed in with the story of a vast imperial society that replaced Earth's moon with a starship. It is the story of a mutiny by the crew off that starship and the eventual entry of the starship by an astronaut.
It is the story of the attempt to
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put down a millennia old mutiny mixed with a love story.
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Language

Original publication date

1991-10

Physical description

320 p.; 6.7 inches

ISBN

0671720856 / 9780671720858
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