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The Nellus Academy Incident
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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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- Chuck Miller
- 11-28-22
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.
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- Edward
- 09-07-21
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.
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- J. Ramirez
- 10-23-24
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.
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- Kindle Johnson
- 07-22-21
it was great story
it was great story. I fall in to start and character information and great .
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- ABar
- 05-02-23
A good Mechwarrior-RPG book
Sometimes, it’s good to remind ourselves that mechs are supposed to be rare, remarkable war machines that very few among the trillions living in the BT universe will ever see in person. This book is built on that idea, and it tells a solid RPG-instead-of-tabletop story.
For those thinking this is YA for your kiddos, it’s as violent as the later Hunger Games books. Roughly PG-13.
As to the narrator, this was a much better performance than Blood Will Tell.
Overall, a good audiobook if you calibrate your expectations.
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- Ed Morrissette
- 03-05-25
Probably the most brutal Battletech book I've read
If you want a unique story in the battletech universe that'll tug on your heart strings, this is it. Just be aware there's not much mech combat in this one.
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- Clifton Wright
- 11-07-21
My new favorite Battletech author
I loved this book so much. Excellent story, fantastic characters, and the Battletech setting is richly realized. So good.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-04-22
Fantastic story and a quite good reading!
Truly a marvelous story from the Battletech universe, and one that stands well on its own. highly recommended.
The one complaint I have, which I absolutely do not think detracts from the quality of the story itself, is that this recording has pauses between lines that drag on entirely too long at times. "Person A charges at the man with the gun!", three second pause, "The man with the gun was surprised by Person A's unexpected charge", three more seconds of pause, and so on. Such drawn-out pauses really killed the flow of the story, especially during suspenseful action scenes. I estimate that cutting the pauses down to smooth the story into at least a natural reading pace could remove over an hour of dead air.
That being said, I highly recommend this!
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- Killianwolf
- 09-20-21
great performance
Liaise Lee brought every character to life with the reading of this work. Outstanding job.
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- Hannah Alvarez
- 10-12-21
Solid story in any universe
No knowledge of BattleTech needed. This story could be set on contemporary Earth, or a fastest world; it would still be excellent.
That said, it's easily the most I've enjoyed a BattleTech story.
warning: no mechs even appear until the end, so if you think that your getting a shootemup stompy robot tale, you're not.
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