Deathtrap

Deathtrap

Craig Alanson

First published 2019Original language EN

8.08.0 / 10
Score out of 1062 ratingsConfidence 30%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
257
Pages
about 4.5 h
Reading time

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About the book

"The human soldiers stranded on the planet Paradise have been recruited into an Alien Legion, to do the dirty jobs that the high-tech species won't do. Their first mission is to kick the enemy off a backwater planet no one cares about. It's a simple assignment, except everyone has a hidden agenda, and the planet could become a deathtrap" -- Page [4] of cover.

Reading order · Expeditionary Force

Full order & progress →
Score per volume11 volumes on a timeline, 2016 to 2026 · Best-rated volume: Columbus Day
  1. Columbus Day
    Columbus Day2016 · 348 ratingsStart here
    8.08.0 / 10
  2. SpecOps
    SpecOps2016 · Not ranked yet
    –Not ranked yet
  3. Paradise
    Paradise2016 · 233 ratings
    7.97.9 / 10
  4. Trouble on Paradise
    Trouble on Paradise2017 · 127 ratings
    7.87.8 / 10
  5. Black Ops
    Black Ops2017 · 211 ratings
    7.87.8 / 10
  6. Zero Hour
    Zero Hour2017 · 192 ratings
    7.97.9 / 10
  7. Mavericks
    Mavericks2018 · 170 ratings
    7.97.9 / 10
  8. Renegades
    Renegades2018 · 165 ratings
    7.97.9 / 10
  9. Deathtrap
    Deathtrap2019 · 62 ratingsThis book
    8.08.0 / 10
  10. Freefall
    Freefall2020 · 48 ratings · Not ranked yet
    –Not ranked yet
  11. Ground State
    Ground State2026 · 41 ratings
    8.08.0 / 10

Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.4 across 62 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 30% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 8.0 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Hardcover8.462 100%

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It has 257 pages — shorter than 84% of the ranked books in Science fiction.

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