Um romance onde a Terra é conquistada por um grupo de alienígenas. Os alienígenas de nível mais alto que dirigem o show inteiro são sapos azuis. Nós, humanos, lutamos ao lado de espécies de lagartos e centauros.
Um dos personagens principais é um americano classificado como Jemidar Major. A história não é jovem adulta. O tom é grave e brutal.
Quando o céu caiu (1995) de William Barton?
A partir de Goodreads:
In the 22nd century, Earth has been subdued by a cybernetic master race, humans are slaves, collaborators, or, like Athol Morrison, mercenaries. For 20 years he has been conquering in the name of the master race. Now, upon his return to Earth he must make a decision: die betraying his masters or live betraying his dream.
A capa apresenta as espécies de lagartos:
Encontrado com a consulta do Google livro "jemadar major" que retornou a seguinte revisão:
Jemadar-major Athol Morrison takes up with his high-school girlfriend, in the shanty-town remnants of Chapel Hill, NC. She turns out to be involved with a half-assed Resistance cell. Athy turns them in, but manages to save her from execution (or worse). Athy's really a pretty decent fellow, for a slave-army mass-murderer. What choice does he have? The Resistance play-actors were about to be picked up, anyway. There are plenty of other mercenaries ready to take up his work, if he loses the taste for it. And rebellious worlds are exterminated, if they become too troublesome. He's a moral person, making difficult but reasonable choices with the hand he's dealt.
Eu fui primeiro livro "jemidar major" mas isso não produziu nada relevante; então, pesquisando no Google Wiki jemidar (como eu não sabia o que era um Jemidar) me deu a Página de Jemadar na Wikipedia; Modifiquei minha consulta de acordo.
Earth has been taken over by the Master Race, a galaxy-spanning empire of artificial intelligences, and the best of Earth’s survivors are recruited into the aliens' army. Athol Morrison has served for 20 years, and heads back to Earth for a brief vacation. There, he runs into old friends, and finds it easy to give into his old feelings with his childhood girlfriend, Alexandra (Alix) Moreno.
E o capítulo um menciona o sapo azul como raça de mestre.
Shells came whistling down, ruddy, garish explosions lighting up the hillside, making the ground vibrate under my boots. Shrapnel from a nearby hit came buzzing through the air, making little ticking sounds as it bounced off my armor. There were about a million of them waiting out there, the flower of their warlike nation, armed to the teeth, as dangerous as anything this world had ever produced.
And, of course, the full muster of a standard Spahi company is 256 effectives, officers, noncoms, and troopers together. You had to feel sorry for the poor bastards. The invasion had been going on for almost a week now, and they knew what was coming.
Maybe it was a little like this when they came to Earth. A little bit, not much. We fought harder, so much harder that six hundred thousand and more Kkhruhhuft mercenaries lay dead on Earth before it was over. Of course, they killed eight billion of us in return...
Somewhere up there, beyond this tawny and dust-filled sky, an armed warship of the Master Race floated in orbit, bearing its cargo of software and little blue poppits, the beings who’d conquered us all. Old stories always imagine alien monsters, invaders from beyond the sky. Mighty beings, larger than men, fanged monstrosities.
It’s what we thought the Kkhruhhuft were when they came. Only later, when we were already humiliated, did we discover they were no more than servants, slaves really, of the… intelligences who called themselves the Master Race. Not the poppits, little blue things the size of frogs, frogs with the behavior patterns of ants. Not them at all.
Somewhere. Somewhere far back in time, the little blue frogs built anthill cities, hives that grew more complex and more complex still. Hives without mentality that evolved machines, machines that made more machines, machines that learned, slowly, ever so slowly, how to think.
You have to wonder just when, and why, the mechanical servants of those nonsentient little blue frogs decided to call themselves the Master Race. A master race that would then go out and conquer the universe.
Encontrado com a consulta do Google "novela" terra conquistou sapos alienígenas que revelou isso identificação da história postar: Qual é o nome deste romance de ficção científica com um soldado do sexo masculino e um companheiro de lagarto lésbico?
A série de terras conquistadas
São três livros, mas é realmente uma boa leitura. Envolve conceitos interessantes que não li com frequência, especialmente o segundo