BattleTech

The Nellus Academy Incident

De: Jennifer Brozek

Narrado por: Liisa Lee

The warriors of tomorrow...

The battlefields of the 31st century are commanded by the BattleMech, 12-meter-tall, 100-ton bipedal engines of destruction. Fought by MechWarriors, commanded by neo-feudal officers, owned by national governments and band of mercenaries, these ’Mechs make every other ground combat vehicle obsolete. This is the warfare of fusion-powered giants. This is BattleTech.

Thrust into battle today...

Allegra Greene is no stranger to the military; her father is a general, after all. But when she enters the Nellus Military Academy, she find far more than she expected. She finds a group of friends that will keep her going, challenging training, and instructors that push her to the edge and beyond. Unfortunately, that's not all she finds, and soon the endemic politics and warfare of the Inner Sphere reach the Nellus Academy. Soon, Allegra and her friends are in a life-or-death struggle to survive!

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Great change of pace

This book is very good at showing a side of the universe that you might not see very often in the form of military schools, And the students that they create to be the next generation of leaders and warriors. It is also a fun break of a large scale warfare to a bunch of kids trying to survive a situation with only the knowledge they learned from their time in school and the fact that it will now turn to experience.

Hopefully a sign of more to come in Battletech lore

While my tech rat brain is always thirsty for novelized depictions of BattleMechs where I can get them, this story is a great contribution to the canon of the wide universe of big stompy robits despite minimal Mech-scale story beats.

While some capital G gamers may feel a reflexive impulse to scoff at this next comment, I have had to consciously shrug off the fairly dated characterizations of male and female characters in the majority of Battletech novels I’ve read so far. It’s nothing awful, but at some point I’ve heard enough from brick-jawed six and a half foot paragons of manly military principle who bear the righteous burden of the swaths of people who just can’t help but follow Brickjaw’s unwavering charisma into the next battle. This story is told from an angle that most authors wouldn’t bother with in the context of the grand spectacle available to be mined from this universe’s lore, and it’s well worth your time.

The creators of Battletech managed to pull of an exercise in soft world building that makes fiction like this possible. If this is the kind of writing in store in future book releases, fans are in for a great ride.

Not what I thought.

I was expecting a YA type novel that I could listen to with my daughter. It was a much more adult oriented book than I expected, which was a pleasant surprise. If you are a fan of the mythology of Battletech, this would be for you. All in all an enjoyable listen.

Hang on it's worth it.

this is my first Battle tech book which seems weird cuz I've been playing the game forever at first I was annoyed that a book about battle tech had so few Mechs in it, but the story and the characters won me over it is well worth the read.

My new favorite Battletech author

I loved this book so much. Excellent story, fantastic characters, and the Battletech setting is richly realized. So good.