The Clone Elite

2514 A.D.: An unstoppable alien force is advancing on Earth, wiping out the Unified Authority?s colonies one by one. It?s up to Wayson Harris, an outlawed model of a clone, and his men to make a last stand on the planet of New Copenhagen, where they must win the battle and the war?or lose all.

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"The Clone Elite" is the fourth in the series from Ace scifi author Steven L. Kent. It's more of the same...but that's a good thing. The story of interstellar civil war expands to intergalactic invasion as a mysterious army of aliens takes the Milky Way by storm.

Kent further develops the conflicted cloned character of Wayson Harris in a heroic tale where the fate of humanity is held in balance. There are new enemies (both foreign and domestic) to kill and lots of new hardware to help do the job.

"The Clone Elite" weaves a compelling plot that explores more of clone culture. The introduction of a new extra-galactic alien threat and the inventive path that the characters use to defeat it, provides for a very entertaining read.

If you're a military scifi fan, this series is a must read. I already can't wait for the next three books!

This is a decent, readable book. Average but not up to the standards of the previous three. It strikes me as several good ideas thrown into a book with none of them fully developed as if the author was in a hurry or a bit disinterested.
In this book our hero Harris is leading a civilian life that, I guess, was not fulfilling. The military sent a - for some reason - formidable force to bring him back into the military, something that he accepted without much question. I think the author was trying to develop the 'killer' reputation our character has developed but that effort fell rather short in execution.
It seems the galaxy is being invaded by bad guys and they are invading at warp speed. They are an unstoppable juggernaut. So the authorities are scraping the bottom of every barrel to fight them. Our hero is sent off as part of a force to fight the enemy short of earth itself.
Several questions arise here. First, the transport system that sustained commerce...Read more

"The Clone Alliance", the third installment of Steven Kent's chronicles of a cloned space warrior who discovers he is different from all the other clones hit a speed bump for me. I've followed his Wayson Harris character ever since "The Clone Republic', and enjoyed the fresh look at military Science Fiction and the unique perspective that Kent brought to the genre. But "Clone Alliance" felt flat to me. The story was starting to get old, perhaps, and the science didn't make a lot of sense. By the time Harris made his final escape from certain destruction again, I was getting a little bored.

But the good news is that in Kent's "The Clone Elite", Harris is back, and with an attitude. This book has a great unexpected first sentence that grabs your attention, and then the following pages pull you into a contest for nothing less than the survival of all humanity, with Kent making it believable and suspenseful. This time, the science is intriguing, and for the first time,...Read more