by Pamela O-Neill & Kim Morgan
1987 New Infinities
Earth 2035 is invaded by giant bug-like creatures from outer space. Cris Holman's family is slaughtered, and he finds himself evacuated to a military base where he volunteers to put his brain in a cyborg body to fight the invasion.
The first of three parts, and plotted as such, with Chris barely engaging in a skirmish before the end. The cyborgs are described only as wearing armor, and that they can be mistaken as human except they talk out of speakers. They can move at superhuman speed and shoot lasers and microwave rays.
The cyborg-making process seems resource intensive considering the microwaves are all that get the job done. Would seem more effective to use those on jeeps or shoulder mounted human troops. Normally I wouldn't take my RPG based cyborg vs alien fiction that seriously, but the book is written more seriously than it needed to be.
This is one of those books that has prose that stuck in my craw for the first few pages, but then I got used to it. Literate in places, but way too slow. Not padded, just took it's sweet time and was more serious than the premise deserved.
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