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In New York Times-bestselling science fiction epic Out of the Dark, Earth beat back an alien invasion. Now we've got to make sure they don't come back, in Into the Light.

The Shongairi conquered Earth. In mere minutes, half the human race died, and our cities lay in shattered ruins.

But the Shongairi didn’t expect the survivors’ tenacity. And, crucially, they didn’t know that Earth harbored two species of intelligent, tool-using bipeds. One of them was us. The other, long-lived and lethal, was hiding in the mountains of eastern Europe, the subject of fantasy and legend. When they emerged and made alliance with humankind, the invading aliens didn’t stand a chance.

Now Earth is once again ours. Aided by the advanced tech the aliens left behind, we’re rebuilding as fast as we can.

Meanwhile, a select few of our blood-drinking immortals are on their way to the Shongairi homeworld, having commandeered one of the alien starships...the planet-busting kind.

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David Weber is a science fiction phenomenon. His popular Honor Harrington and Honorverse novels―including Mission of Honor, At All Costs, and Torch of Freedom―are New York Times bestsellers and can't come out fast enough for his devoted readers. He is also the author of the Safehold series, including Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed and A Mighty Fortress. His other top-selling science fiction novels include Out of the Dark, the Dahak books and the Multiverse books, written with Linda Evans. He has also created an epic SF adventure series in collaboration with John Ringo, including We Few. His novels have regularly been Main Selections of the Science Fiction Book Club. Weber has a bachelor’s degree from Warren Wilson College, and attended graduate school in history at Appalachian State University. He lives in South Carolina.

CHRIS KENNEDY is a former school principal and naval aviator. His self-published novels include the Occupied Seattle military fiction duology, the Theogony and Codex Regius science fiction trilogies, and the War for Dominance fantasy trilogy.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor Science Fiction (December 28, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 736 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0765366924
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0765366924
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.29 x 1.48 x 8.33 inches

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A Webster Award winner and three-time Dragon Award finalist, Chris Kennedy is a Science Fiction/Fantasy author, speaker, and small-press publisher who has written over 30 books and published more than 200 others. Get his free book, “Shattered Crucible,” at his website, https://chriskennedypublishing.com.

Called “fantastic” and “a great speaker,” he has coached hundreds of beginning authors and budding novelists on how to self-publish their stories at a variety of conferences, conventions, and writing guild presentations. He is the author of the award-winning #1 bestseller, “Self-Publishing for Profit: How to Get Your Book Out of Your Head and Into the Stores.”

Chris lives in Coinjock, North Carolina, with his wife, and is the holder of a doctorate in educational leadership and master’s degrees in both business and public administration. Follow Chris on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ckpublishing/.

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Carl

Worth the wait? Yes indeed.

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2021

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It has been a long time since the first book in this series but unlike some other reviewers, I very much enjoyed this story. I reread the first book first and then jumped into the new one right afterwards. There were the usual technobabble passages but, I enjoyed the over all story very much, even though the choices of some of the characters disappointed me. I realized about 3/4 of the way through that there was no way the authors could finish the story in the space left so the cliffhanger ending did not come as a surprise. I just hope that the next one comes out before another 10 years goes by.

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Sharon

Disappointing/cliffhanger

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2021

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Waited for this to come out for 5 years, loved the first book in this series, but this was such a disappointment. Definitely not up to David Weber's usual standard. He has a tendency to overdo the high/future tech information but not usually to the extent here, nearly 60% of the book. The action part was more typical of his excellent character building and action scenes ... main character ends up in a major subversive explosion, critical condition ... and then nothing! End of book!

Truly despise cliffhanger endings and I will NOT be buying any more books in this series.

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Michael Whitt

Great sequel, can’t wait for next book, hope it comes quicker!

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2021

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Always been a big David Weber fan and loved “Out of the Dark” so was so happy when the preorder for “Into the Light” came out. It didn’t disappoint at all. Before I get into spoilers below, for those wanting my spoiler-free review I will just say it had many great twist and turns and takes on some big ideas. If you liked the first book you will enjoy the second for sure.

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The book takes off shortly after the events in the first book. Vlad is on his way to take the fight to the Puppies. Governor Howell is now President Howell and has enlisted David Dvorak to help pull the world together with the idea of creating a new World Government to help face off against future Hegemony attacks. They discover that the Hegemony had limited advancements greatly because of their risk adverse nature.

The second act is the pulling together of a new planetary union and the advancements that are being made at a quick pace improving upon the captured technology. We also learn a surprise about the Vampires that will certainly have a future impact.

The third act sees Earth reach out to one of the nearby planets that was also being eyed by the Hegemony as possible troublemakers. While humans try to be diplomatic in their approach, they quickly find that dealing with aliens even on their own terms can be a dangerous process.

The epilogue leaves us with a quick reunion and teases of things to come in the next book.

Great book. I just hope we get the sequel quicker than it took this one to come out, however it was worth the wait.

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Peter

First contact with a less advanced species

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2021

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I'll be frank this book is bogged down with technical details and world rebuilding, and sometimes way too much info.

But when I hit the first contact sections I knew I have to give this a 5 stars. A detailed first contact experience from perspective of both species is rare enough in action sci-fi novels, doubly so when humanity is on the more advanced side.

Looking forward to read the next book. I just hope the wait-period for next book would be much faster than the last

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John F Slack

Very mixed reaction to this book

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On one hand I want to give the book four stars. there is good action and I was turning pages eagerly to see what would happen next.
On the other hand, I want to give the book two stars.
Book one in the series set up Earth as unique:
a) by having two intelligent species. One is/was very populous while the Apex Predator (AP) was quite rare and
b) because humanities development speed seemed extremely rapid.
Book one ended with no explanation of the source of Earth's uniqueness. I could live with that since somethings would be clarified in book two
AND THEN BOOK TWO DIDN"T CLAIFY ANYTHING (or at least not much). Maybe the authors are depending upon the readers having far more patience than I exhibit. My view is that the reader is owed more of the back story than we are getting.
Sadly I will buy the next in the series because I like Weber as an author and am willing to trust a bit further.

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James McGinnis

Great Story

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2021

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David and Chris have written a great sequel to Out of the Dark. In first part of this book, the remaining residents of Earth finally band together and improve upon the captured technology inflicted upon them. They decide to make the decades long journey to the home worlds of the invaders to express their displeasure using captured dreadnaughts. The people left behind begin the process of building an interstellar alliance of allies. The second half of this book focuses on Earth's first voluntary interaction with an extrasolar civilization. I recommend this book.

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Weber concludes the book with a terribly hokey deus ex machina, and most of it is a boring technological spreadsheet plot. The writing is inconsistent – Weber creates technological continuity issues, specifically he does not live up to the implications of the technology he depicts. An example is combat between high-tech tanks versus 1940’s tanks, with the whole engagement being silly given that the high-tech force has very inexpensive low-yield KEW orbital bombardment weapons with so many multiple orbital platforms to deliver them from that delivery time delays are irrelevant. Weber well depicted such orbital KEW beng used in ground combat in his Honor Harrington series so he definitely knows better.

Mediocre Weber is still better than most published SF, and far superior to the low-priced dreck available on Amazon, but Out Of The Dark is disappointing for those drawn in by Weber’s name.

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The Sequel I Didn't Know I Needed...

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2021

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I don't like to write reviews that give any of the story away and I'm not going to do that now. However, what I will do is empathically state that this book is unbelievably good and well worth your time reading it. I never expected a sequel, never even considered it a possibility. But, now that I read it, I need more. A lot more...

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Marshall Lord

Sequel to "Out of the Dark"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2021

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When David Weber published his alien invasion novel "Out of the Dark" ten years ago, it appeared to be a standalone novel. But now in 2021 Weber and Chris Kennedy have brought out a sequel

MARMITE BOOK ALERT - Of course it's a marmite book, everything David Weber writes or contributes to is loved by some people and loathed by others but I suspect that may be even more true of this one than most.

HANGING ENDING ALERT - this is obviously intended as the second book of what will become a series.

Most of "Out of the Dark" was military hard SF describing an alien invasion in the near future. However, in the last four chapters the story appeared to shift genre and something very strange happens. With humanity facing extinction, an ancient and sinister foe which most modern people would have dismissed as a myth came out of the dark to confront the invaders.

The prologue of the book takes place on the date humans would call 25th October 1415 as an alien survey team from a very pacifist race, which was part of a huge Galactic Hegemony arrived in earth orbit to study what they regard as earth's primitive cultures.

Shocked by the butchery they saw while observing from orbit the battle of Agincourt, they sent in a report designed to impress on the council of all the star-faring races in the galaxy how savage these "humans" are. (It was a pretty horrible battle, and I can recommend 1415: Henry V's Year of Glory for a good account of Agincourt in its historical context.)

Little did the pacifist survey team know that, in one of the many ironies in the book, their report would directly cause the violent deaths of billions of sentient beings.

The story continued "about 600" earth years later: e.g. in the near future. The galactic "Hegemony Council" does not often give permission for member races to conquer and settle colonies on worlds which have an indigenous intelligent species. However, concerned at the long-term risk which humans might pose, and on the basis that "a race as bloodthirsty as the humans deserves what happens to them" the council gives the galaxy's only other intelligent aggressive species, the Shongairi, permission to invade Earth and set up a colony here.

What happened next bears such a strong resemblance to the opening of Harry Turtledove's WORLDWAR books (link: Worldwar: in the Balance ) that some readers will be tempted to accuse Dave Weber of plagiarism. Like Fleetlord Avtar in Turtledove's books, the Shongairi commander arrives in Sol system expecting to find no opposition more dangerous than armoured knights with lances or longbowmen, only to discover that the planet had moved on much faster since the survey hundreds of years before than the aliens had expected.

OK, it's not a new idea, but an invasion by aliens against whom we could put up no effective resistance at all would not make for a particularly interesting book. And there are comparatively few reasons why any alien race advanced enough to be able to deploy the enormous resources required to send a planetary invasion fleet between the stars, would also be such blithering idiots as to send such a fleet to attack someone with the ability to even put up much of a fight, let alone actually win.

Since you have to ship every soldier and weapon, every ounce of fuel and every round of ammunition over several light-years, interstellar invasion could only be worth the effort if the people you are invading are totally outclassed.

A massive underestimate of how far the race being invaded might have advanced in the decades or centuries since their distant world was last surveyed, is one of the very few plausible reasons why a race clever enough to travel between the stars might be foolish enough to launch an interstellar invasion against someone they are not able to quickly and easily conquer.

What I am about to write is not a spoiler for "Into the Light" as I am assuming that anyone reading it will read "Out of the Dark" first. But it impossible to write anything meaningful about "Into the light" without including at least some serious spoilers for "Out of the Dark" , so if you are reading this, have not yet read "Out of the dark" and might ever possibly at some stage wish to do so, please STOP READING NOW.

At the start of "Into the Light" Earth is just beginning to recover after massive devastation from the kinetic bombardment (e.g. dropping rocks from orbit, which can be as devastating as nuclear strikes without the radioactivity) with which the aliens began their attack and from the fighting and disruption caused by the invasion attempt which followed.

The peoples of earth have captured all the capital ships of the Shongairi invasion fleet, the factory ships which the invaders had planned to use to set up a galactic standard economy on their new colony, and a lot of information. If the Shongairi were all the Terrans had to worry about, they would be well placed to strike back, or fortify the Sol system, or both, and ensure that the Shongairi had little chance of pulling off any further attempts to conquer Earth.

Unfortunately they also have to worry about the rest of the Hegemony.

We were told in the first book that it is likely to be at least a hundred years, more likely four hundred, before the Galactic Hegemony bother to send anyone to see what happened to Earth - they have FTL travel but only an order of magnitude or so faster than lightspeed, so getting out to our part of the spiral arm takes a LONG time. However, the Terrans suspect that when the Hegemony Council finally do discover what happened to the Shongairi invasion fleet, they're likely to go bananas and classify humanity as an existential threat to everything they stand for.

The Hegemony Council had handed us to the Shongairi who they (correctly) regard as vicious killers, because they thought the same of us and decided to use one threat to get rid of another. When they find out that this group of bloodthirsty barbarians had managed to advance faster than the galactics had thought possible, and that the Shongairi invasion actually failed, their reaction is almost inevitable. It will be summed up by the old saying, "This animal is very wicked: when it's attacked it defends itself."

The Hegemony will realise that they're now faced with a race warlike enough to give the Shongairi a serious fight, which has the capacity to move ahead fast by their standards, has good reason both to loathe the Hegemony and to regard the Hegemony as already at war with them, and worst of all, doesn't think like them.

The Terrans who look through the captured databases conclude that it's unlikely that the Hegemony Council will do the right thing, apologise and offer compensation for what they did to Earth. It is far more likely that they're going to panic, forget all their noble principles and use the fact that they outnumber us by many thousands to one to come after the Terrans and try to crush us by sheer weight of numbers before we can seek revenge for the harm they have already done to us.

So the leaders of those who had defeated the Shongairi set out to unite the planet, to use the century or four before the aliens come back in far greater numbers to build MUCH more powerful defences and, if possible, find allies against them. This book tells the story of the first forty years of that task.

OK. Let's address the aspect of these two books which will cause many people who like hard SF and military SF - e.g. most of the people who will pick up a David Weber book - the most difficulty. How on earth can Weber and Kennedy expect that kind of reader to take seriously the idea that vampires not only exist, but could defeat an alien invasion by means which on the face of it appear supernatural.

There have been other "Vampires in Space" science fiction novels which attempted to provide at least a hint of a scientific explanation of how vampires might be real, of which far and away the best are Robert Frezza's comedy SF novel Mclendon's Syndrome and its' sequel, "The VMR Theory." But the capabilities of people with Mclendon's syndrome in those novels were far less extreme and apparently supernatural than those of the vampires in "Out of the Dark" and "Into the light." Plus Frezza's books were comedies so his vampires in space did not seek to be taken seriously.

"Into the Light" provides the first hint of how the Vampires' extraordinary abilities could exist in a universe where scientific knowledge also exists and technology (usually) works.

To say much more than this would be a spoiler but let me finish this review with words with which every science fiction reader should be familiar, Arthur C Clarke's law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

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Robert

Nice follow up to first book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2021

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I quite liked Out of the Dark, and while I understood why people disliked the ending, I've always felt the author was writing this book for himself and I have no problem with that, Weber has certainly earned the right to indulge himself a little!

This book is clearly meant to set the stage for bigger events to come, and it does this quite well. Story arcs for major characters are fleshed out nicely and Weber creates an interesting take on how humanity might move beyond nation states for governance.

It was the last portion of the story that I felt was a touch unrealistic. Weber wets our appetite for cool new tech in earlier chapters but rarely uses it until almost the very end of the story. Instead of building up its use to give more impact on the story, the action scenes when we get them are, well, a bit underwhelming. It all feels a bit rushed and not up to the standard of Webers usual combat scenes.

Overall I enjoyed it and I will certainly pick up the next book in the series to see where Weber takes us next!

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Simon

Great sequel taking the story in a new direction

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2021

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Delighted to see that the alien invasion novel "Out of the Dark", published over ten years ago as a standalone novel has a sequel which looks like this is turning into a sequel. It reminds me of his Safehold series although it has 2 main areas in the story arc unlike Safehold which has multiple areas in the story arc – this does not detract from the strength of the unfolding tale.
DELIGHTED!!!!! TO SEE ON THE DAVID WEBER WEBSITE THE NEXT SAFEHOLD BOOK IS SCHEDULED TO BE WRITTEN – HOPEFULLY PUBLISHED IN 2021

Agree very much with a previous reviewer’s comment “MARMITE BOOK ALERT - Of course, it's a marmite book, everything David Weber writes or contributes to is loved by some people and loathed by others but I suspect that may be even more true of this one than most.”

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Deepak

Slowly comes up to the boil

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2021

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It helps to read book one (Out of the Dark) of the series first as this story strongly carries on from the finish of that. I wasn't a fan of book one and the start of this book seemed slow. Things pick up a third of the way into the book. As with so many Weber novels, there's a mixture of politics and action. This one has more politics than action. As with other books there is also back story and character filling. Overall a fair book but not amongst Weber's best. The end of this book leaves plenty of scope for further story telling.

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This is even better than Book 1

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2021

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Its David Weber, not really much more to say except that I am very much looking forward to Book 3. Its Sci Fi at its best with a twist of Fantasy (but its not really......read it and see lol).
I have read all the Honor Harrington series and am a huge fan of the Safehold series. I don.t think David Weber is capable of writing a bad book.
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