About the book: 1995 / Mercenaries in protective armor under the skies of alien planets tell jokes and incidents from their combat past... Giant crabs in a fog-shrouded forest whisper in female voices ... The "Desert Lord", looking like a giant praying mantis, crawls out of his sandy hole... The smell of blood, sweat and gunpowder, the deathly glow of laser beams - everything a lover of real military science fiction needs is in this novel. "On the Way to Paradise", Dave Wolverton's first novel, published in 1989, instantly attracted the attention of both readers and critics. Science fiction writer Orson Scott Card said of Dave Wolverton's first book: "This is one of the deepest and most powerful science fiction novels in the history of the genre."».