Hybrids Hardcover – April 12, 2011

after reading Whitley' nonfiction books over the years, (and after 20 years of UFO conferences I feel I can call him Whitley, though after i met him the first time in person, i called him 'Whjitley the Hunk' for a few years), i found myself in a buying frenzy on Amazon, and i was trying to see how many books i wanted that i could get from one seller and save a heap on postage. i found a couple of Whitley's novels there and got them too.in the morning i had buyers regret and that i may have squandered money in my wild fling. when the books arrived i put the fiction to the bottom of the pile , and only picked them up when i needed a break in Time Team reading. i found that i was very pleased with them.sometimes the big selling writers draw out stories and you have had it up to here with golden retrievers and death defying chased through abandoned factories. Whitley's novels are a bit shorter, a few days reading instead of a week, and no fuzzy writing-i didn't lose track of who the characters were.the sci fi elements were not too complicated, and not to much cliffhanging. plot related deaths were short and to the point, and not a lot of gratuitous gore. i was glad that i got the books and would buy his novels again

I love the book. But then again I love sci-fi future thing. I can't give it away, but I can say this is an awesome book with scary things. Romance. things trying to end humanity. until a few fought to the very end. it has a great ending. I say get it..you will love it.

Hybrids is most definitely not a "love story", as the book description states, it is a war story. Whitley mentions the couple in the story as having had sex one time in the distant past, and somehow it was memorable enough for them to have hidden feelings for each other that they couldn't explain. Then...that's it. End of story. Somehow we are supposed to imagine or pretend that there is some kind of invisible bond between them but it isn't explained or even hinted at, until the last chapter, and even then it is lame -- they were created for each other and that makes it "love". Whitley seems to confuse the difference between making love and having sex; between a one-night-stand and a having a relationship. Clearly Whitley does not have a clue what actual love is.Then there is the rest of the other story, the real story. This is a blood and guts fairytale with two superhuman cyborgs, who had sex one time with each other and therefore are "in love", thrown in to fight the vast number of other "evil" superhuman cyborgs who are also super-intelligent. The reason for the war is that the Hybrids need biological material. There is no plausible reason for why the Hybrids need to consume biological material in order to obtain it for themselves, since the Hybrids are cyborgs, but since they are also so highly intelligent, why haven't they figured out how to grow their own biological tissue in situ? Stupid humans could do it so why can't they? I know why, because it is supposed to be a horror story and horror stories are all about horror, not common logical sense.In the end, somehow the super-intelligent cyborgs are outsmarted and completely defeated by the inferior cyborgs. How'd they do that? Was it because they "loved" each other or was it "just because"? How is that supposed to be "good reading"?It isn't.

This is a great book. The plot is very interesting, and I am bummed that there are no plans set for a sequel. The Authors descriptive words kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I also love that the president has anger issues... probably my favorite part. Anyways, anyone looking to read a book packed with action, part of it romance, some sci-fi, a bunch of hilarious comments, some gruesome deaths, and a whole bunch of drama, read Hybrids.

So after reading this book, I started reading a book about ancient paganism, and one of the stories was when the pagans were sacrificing their children to Molech. They used drummers to drown out the screams of the babies being sacrificed, so the parents would not hear their children crying out.These aliens could be demons. what say you?

I didn't know what to expect from this author as this is my first read by Mr. Strieber. I can sum up my experience with one word, EXCITING. I know this is a work of fiction but you can't help but realize that the author peppers this book with bits of truth or what he, in his research, believes to be the truth about our human existence and where it is going. A gripping tale of a slice of humanity and it's eventual evolution and how that might threaten our human civilization.A worthwhile read that will have you spellbound, not being able to put the book down. I ran through this book in a few days time. If you enjoy scifi realities then you will enjoy this read.

Great book

Based on my interest in Whitley Streiber's work on unknowncountry.com web site and previous books on the visitors and abduction, I was expecting a very different book that would explain the cross-breeding of humans and the alien gray visitors that abuductees have described from their abductions. Instead, this is a pulp fiction story about a military experiment gone bad. Whitley is a very good writer for technical and nonfiction subjects, but his fiction just doesn't have enough character or story development to hold the reader. I couldn't get into this one at all. I kept feeling like I was reading a really bad pulp fiction paperback from an unknown author.