After you fail to conquer the Earth - John Ringo's The Tuloriad

I enjoyed The Tuloriad on a number of levels. It was a sympathetic exodus and rebuilding story... about the man-eating alien invaders. Which in no way minimized or forgave the fact that they, you know, used to eat people.

The Posleen/Legacy of the Aldenata series starts with man-eating alien centaurs who are well-nigh unstoppable roaming the Earth and eating people. The Posleen, as they are called, have very little mercy or empathy or culture of their own. How could beings like that have a society let alone reach the stars? In the later books, culmnating in The Tuloriad, Ringo and Kratman go back and look at the earlier books and say, basically, no they couldn't, that's not natural. Something changed them and made them that way.

This leads to the central question of the Tuloriad: Who did it to them, why, and can the Posleen change themselves again, this time into something better?

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