/lit/ - Literature

I wanted a casual braindead novel to read on vacation. I really liked Dietz's Galactic Bounty so I decided to try Legion of the Damned

It gets points over many other trashy sci-fis because Dietz never forgets to include actual action scenes (so many writers labor to set up potentially awesome scenes, but then fade to black when stuff starts happening). But there's a few problems.

Viewpoint characters change every chapter. Attention diverts from the ruthless genocidal alien invasion to skirmishes with some tribal cat people for some reason.

The military seems to be mostly female. The human empire's head admiral and head general are both female. The colonel who's in charge of the military on the planet being invaded by aliens is female (she also strangles a 6'4" 350 pound alien to death at one point). Why do military sci-fi books do this? It takes me right out.

The author keeps describing characters shidding and fardding, and also being strapped to metal tables naked for torture (four different times so far).

Not Recommended.