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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8832103" data-attributes="member: 508">I started and finished The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu this week while on a business trip.&nbsp; It involves a race of aliens who crash-landed on Earth 65 million years ago (thereby killing off the dinosaurs - their living ship was the asteroid that caused their destruction) and have survived Earth's poisonous (to them) atmosphere by living inside the local life forms.&nbsp; Fortunately, the race of aliens - the Genjix - are immortal, able to leave a dying or dead host body and leap into another one nearby.&nbsp; But once inside a living host, there's no way to separate them short of the host's death.Fast forward to present day, and the Genjix have splintered into two factions, as the core Genjix are manipulating humanity to their own benefit, trying to find a way to get back to their home planet, while a splinter-group, the Prophus, seek to find a way home that doesn't necessarily involve the destruction of the humans as a by-product.&nbsp; Tao from the book's title is one of these Prophus, whose most current human host was a James Bond type who unfortunately died in a combat mission.&nbsp; Tao, ejected from his host body and in a desperate search for a new host before the Earth's atmosphere kills him, ends up in the body of an overweight office shlub named Roen Tan.&nbsp; And now Roen finds himself in the middle of a desperate war the bulk of humanity has no idea is being waged all around them.I'm now about a third of the way through the sequel, The Deaths of Tao.&nbsp; Those are the only two I picked up at the library book sale, but apparently there's a third one, The Rebirths of Tao, that I might have to go hunt down after I finish book two.Johnathan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richards, post: 8832103, member: 508"] I started and finished [i]The Lives of Tao[/i] by Wesley Chu this week while on a business trip. It involves a race of aliens who crash-landed on Earth 65 million years ago (thereby killing off the dinosaurs - their living ship was the asteroid that caused their destruction) and have survived Earth's poisonous (to them) atmosphere by living [i]inside[/i] the local life forms. Fortunately, the race of aliens - the Genjix - are immortal, able to leave a dying or dead host body and leap into another one nearby. But once inside a living host, there's no way to separate them short of the host's death. Fast forward to present day, and the Genjix have splintered into two factions, as the core Genjix are manipulating humanity to their own benefit, trying to find a way to get back to their home planet, while a splinter-group, the Prophus, seek to find a way home that doesn't necessarily involve the destruction of the humans as a by-product. Tao from the book's title is one of these Prophus, whose most current human host was a James Bond type who unfortunately died in a combat mission. Tao, ejected from his host body and in a desperate search for a new host before the Earth's atmosphere kills him, ends up in the body of an overweight office shlub named Roen Tan. And now Roen finds himself in the middle of a desperate war the bulk of humanity has no idea is being waged all around them. I'm now about a third of the way through the sequel, [i]The Deaths of Tao[/i]. Those are the only two I picked up at the library book sale, but apparently there's a third one, [i]The Rebirths of Tao[/i], that I might have to go hunt down after I finish book two. Johnathan [/QUOTE]

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