The Damned Trilogy

A Call to Arms, The False Mirror, and The Spoils of War

By: Alan Dean Foster

Narrated by: Mikael Naramore

Humans are caught up in an alien war in this epic from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Trek Into Darkness.

For millennia, the Weave, an alliance of species, have fought to resist the telepathic Amplitur, who strive to unite all self-aware life-forms in their great "Purpose." The Weave is slowly losing ground, but for both sides, warfare focuses more on outthinking and outmaneuvering your foe than destruction. In fact, most regard violence as hideously barbaric, and even the thought of harming another sentient being is beyond imagining.

Then they come to Earth . . .

A Call to Arms
When one of its scout ships lands on Earth, the Weave quickly realizes that humanity's almost innate ability to wreak havoc and death may hold the key to turning the tide in their fight. Unfortunately for all, the Amplitur have the same idea—and mankind is caught in the middle.

The False Mirror
When the Amplitur unleash an elite cadre of fighters, it soon becomes clear that they have subjected their human prisoners to horrific genetic manipulation. But if the Weave attempts to undo the effects, they may change the former warriors into something far, far worse.

The Spoils of War
With mankind's help, the Weave is finally on the verge of victory against the Amplitur. Until an alien scholar uncovers a terrifying truth: Earthlings might not even be capable of being civilized—and a shadowy group of powerful humans is already poised to unleash war across the entire galaxy.

©1991, 1992, 1993 Alan Dean Foster (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Very good Trilogy

I read these books when I was younger and they made me start reading more books. Now I am addicted to reading This story was amazing and made me ask so many question. Such as how would people actually act.
As for the narrator he did a great job and makes you want to keep listening. The story was amazing and I enjoyed how it transferred from one book to another. I have recommend this book many times.

Revisiting after 30 years…

The narrator is excellent, and that was a pleasant surprise.

I read this series as it was being published when I was a kid. It stuck in my memory as an enjoyable read, so I figured I’d give the audible version a try.

There was one flaw that I remembered and I wanted to review it now that I’m older.

I will say that I still cannot stand the main character. I feel nothing but contempt for him. Part of that is possibly poor writing…but I’m also aware that there are actually people in the real world who behave in this manner.

So, I can’t just toss that character away as poor writing.

That said, it makes the book less enjoyable to get through. It’s like being forced to spend your leisure time with a democrat who has shotgunned the Kool-aid. He can’t back up his beliefs with logic or reason. He seems to justify them with emotion and he refuses to change his mind, no matter the evidence that is presented. It makes me wonder if the main character was originally written to be a woman and the publisher requested the author switch the sex to male.

You will find yourself hoping he is killed off. Eventually, you’ll want to increase speed to get through his portions.

Other than that, the overall story and other characters are still enjoyable.

best narrator on audible

Mikael Narramore is hands down the best narrator on Audible. Any fiction(scifi/ fantasy/etc) book he touches becomes a solid gold audiobook.

What a great STORY!

Foster delivers another great tale - depth, interesting characters, twists, surprises, emotional involvement...I love this and it kept me engaged to the point that I was sorry when it ended.

This guy rocks.

The Original HFY Novel

This is the book that really got me thinking outside the box on sci-fi. You can tell that he read a thesaurus like the popes reads a Bible, but look on the bright side: it'll expand your vocabulary if nothing else. I wish there were more space operas like this, unafraid to deviate from the 'humans get conquered by superior aliens' trope. I was sick of it 30 years ago and I'm just as sick of it today.