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Bonjour les gens Je voudrai vous parler d'une série de livre qui renouvèle totalement le genre de l'alternative fiction: la série des Destroyermen. Attention, ces livres ne sont pas traduits (mais bon, j'arrive à les lire). L'auteur est très disponible sur son site et prend en compte les avis des lecteurs. Il a d'ailleurs une équipe qui l'aide à gérer la logistique, définir les priorités dans les productions, éviter les erreurs historiques.... (perso je m'occupe de la partie française + l'optimisation des ressources). Il y a 12 livres maintenant. au début c'est simple et c'est de plus en plus grand :vous avez rêvé d'une lutte entre la compagnie des indes orientales, des sauriens maniaques, des gentils lémuriens navigateurs, une version pervertie de l'empire espagnol avec une rleigie mélangée avec les sacrifices incas, des batailles dans tous les sens (terrestres, maritimes avec des armements qui passent du XVe au XVIII au XIX au XXe au fil des livres), des survivants de la légion tchèque, une afrique du sud peuplée par des descendants d'une première guerre mondiale alternative..... Plot du tout premier livre: The story begins during the Second Battle of the Java Sea. The USS Walker (DD-163) is a destroyer of the United States Asiatic Fleet, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy. The Walker was a part of the surviving ABDACOM fleet, consisting of the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Exeter, HMS Encounter, and the United States Navy destroyers Pope and Mahan, all of which were fleeing from Japanese naval forces. However, the Japanese forces closed range, and opened up on the small Allied fleet. The Exeter took a major hit, and ordered the remaining four destroyers to leave the crippled cruiser. The destroyers were systematically sunk, starting with the Encounter, followed by the Pope shortly thereafter just as happened in the real naval battle. The surviving destroyers, Walker and Mahan, then encountered the Japanese battlecruiser Amagi. Seeing no other option, Lieutenant Commander Reddy commanded the pair of destroyers to stage a torpedo attack, which sunk an accompanying destroyer, and badly damaged the battlecruiser, before the ships were enveloped in a freak squall, and transported to an alternate world, where humans never evolved, apparently because the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (specifically the Chicxulub asteroid impact) never occurred. There are two races. One, the Lemurians, evolved giant lemurs from Madagascar, who are peaceful farmers and fishermen, and live on huge oceangoing houseboats called Homes. Walker's captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, meets with the Lemurian leadership, and forms an alliance with them to fight the other race, the Grik, who are at war with the Lemurians. The Grik are possible descendants of the dinosaur genus Velociraptor. Walker and her sister ship, USS Mahan (DD-102), enter a squall and emerge on an alternate Earth where humans never evolved, but two intelligent races, the Lemurians and the Grik (a race of evolved "dinosaurs" from Africa), are at war. The Grik have a class system, in which the Uul are the soldiers, workers, etc., and the Hij are the leaders. The Lemurians are peaceful refugees from Madagascar that possibly evolved from lemurs. Reddy meets twice with the Lemurians' leadership. The Lemurians' king and his advisers tell him that others came to their world before him. Reddy and the crew of Walker side with the Lemurians.