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We All Died at Breakaway Station: 1 (Venture SF Books) Paperback – 11 April 1985

by Richard C. Meredith (Author)
SCIENCE FICTION-
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  1. Print length
    256 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Legend
  4. Publication date
    11 April 1985
  5. ISBN-10
    0099388804
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0099388807
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Legend
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 11 April 1985
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ New
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099388804
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099388807
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 144 g

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  • iain russell
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Sci Fi Classic
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2013
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    Discovered this and many other gems such as Starwolf and COBRA in the Venture series of sci fi novels back in the 1980s. We all Died at Breakaway Station is a terrific story of human ingenuity , courage and sacrifice against overwhelming odds.
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  • Death from above
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well Worth a read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 October 2014
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    Brillliant Military SF clever plot by a very underated author so pleased to see as a kindle publication I hope the rest of this authors works follow
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  • Goochoid
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2016
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    Brilliant read.
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  • Kensho Fago
    5.0 out of 5 stars Classic SF
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2006
    Format: Paperback
    I approach "classic" SF with trepidation, because it is often like watching some old re-run on UK Gold: instead of being entertained one is more embarrassed by how unkind the intervening years have been.
    This is Venture Press reissuing classics, and this one is Number One, and rightly so. First published in 1969 with the war against aliens an echo of the Vietnam War, the pathos and selfless heroism in this story verges on overwhelming.
    The battle-dead are revived in various hideous fashion [and often in unremitting pain] to make a stand at a forsaken outpost while Earth fleet prepares a strong counterattack. That the title says it all in no way detracts from the inevitable outcome of the tale.
    I have a copy of this. I reread it regularly, and wouldn't lend it to my best friend.
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  • Big Haina
    5.0 out of 5 stars Zustand wie beschrieben, Lieferzeit top.
    Reviewed in Germany on 18 August 2019
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    Zustand wie beschrieben, Lieferzeit top. Keine Beanstandungen.
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  • Syl
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great condition. Great read YMMV
    Reviewed in the United States on 15 April 2024
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    Great story. Book came in excellent condition
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  • BlueLancer
    5.0 out of 5 stars The very best in Milltary Sci-Fi
    Reviewed in the United States on 19 May 2014
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    I first read this when I was 15 ... I've just turned 60 and I still re-read this book at least once a year. I also served 21 years in the military and find this to be the most intense piece of military science fiction that I've ever read. I managed to keep ahold of my original paperback from back in 1969, and have picked up three more copies to ensure that I have a readable copy until the day that I die ... and then pass at least one copy along to my children. I really wish they'd put this on Kindle so that I wouldn't have to keep thumbing through my tattered paperback. If you like military science fiction and want to read the best of the genre, you need to have a copy of this book.
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  • Nathan T. Farnham
    4.0 out of 5 stars We all died at Breakaway Station a great book in great condition.... what more could you ask for!
    Reviewed in the United States on 18 October 2010
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    I was told about this book by my uncle when he came to visit us over the summer. He said it had pretty good writing, quite a bit of sex, blood and guts, and an alien species that would make the Predators look like pansies. What more could a 17 year old ask for? So I tried finding a copy at the local bookstores but it was out of publication. So I tried Amazon, and I found it! So I ordered it, but I came to realize the book was being shipped from the UK by boat. So I wasn't expecting that it would take a few weeks for it to get here. Throughout that entire time I kept thinking, "what if the wait isn't worth the book?" or "what if I wasted my money?". Well when it arrived and I pulled back the cover to the small paperback, I instantly realized that I hadn't wasted my money. The plot was great, simply put. Absolom Bracer has died before, and he will die again. But not before he, and his half dead crew of the battlecruisers Iwo Jima, the Pharsalus and the hospital ship the Rudolph Cragstone protect Breakaway Station from the Jillie onslaught. Most of the characters in the book have either been injured to the point where they need mechanical body parts and other prostheses or they needed to be brought back to life. I won't give anymore of the plot away because honestly I would do injustice to such a great book. The characters are remarkable in the way that they brought out pity from within me but at the same time respect. The characters were believable, the plot will easily attract any science fiction lover. Someone had told me that the melodramatic writing holds it back from being a true masterpiece. I felt that its melodrama didn't subtract any of the satisfaction that I had gained from reading this. The only con that I have about this outstanding book is that the ending was abrupt, it had a battle scene at the end but it was to short and if the author had spent a little more time with it the ending could have been perfect, but that is only my opinion. Also a suggestion that I have would be to include a ground battle with the Jillies, that would have been something. I also feel that this book should be made into a movie and it should gain the publicity that it so rightfully deserves, unlike some novels today that include sappy vampires and really unconvincing werewolves. But that is on an entire different topic that I won't disclose within this review, it would just tarnish it.
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  • vcx
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buying this book again.
    Reviewed in the United States on 9 December 2013
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    I keep loaning this book out. It is the #1 best sci-fi thriller. The reader is drawn into a galaxy at war and the Humans are on the ropes. Years before much of the human battle fleet was lost. Ever since then the Jillie race has pushed to exterminate humankind.
    Breakaway Station is a interstellar communication link with the inner worlds. The humans have sent a reconnaissance fleet to map Jillie industrial centers. That mission is is doubt. The inner world have been constructing a Armada to take the fight to the Jillie homeworlds but they need the intel. Enter the three ships battered crewed with walking wounded to Breakaway's Orbit. Here they learn the relief ships never arrived. They are ordered to help defend the station.
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