Resurrection unfortunately was as derivative as any other other science fiction story. The authors are hypocritical or perhaps unaware that the pedestrian sci-fi books and movies they ridicule as much less cerebral then Resurrection are the inspirational genesis of the entire Invasion series. Specifically, their ridicule of the movie Independence Day as a low brow impractical story, of superior aliens somehow being defeated by comparatively primitive human technology. The authors conclude that the idea of an unfathomably advanced alien collective system could be taken down by simple humans and their primitive technology is ridiculous. However, the authors shamelessly proceeded to blatantly appropriate the seminal plot vehicle from that very movie and introduced the idea of the “Canned Heat” malware virus into the Resurrection plot line. Also the ending is absurd, in that even after a world wide genocide the aliens and the central character part on what can only be described as congenial terms, friendly even! If you haven’t read Resurrection, please don’t it will just ruin the first six books for you, as it’s ending is as unsatisfying as it is unoriginal, for so many reasons i.e. the day the earth stood still, war of the worlds, independence day, contact and close encounters of the third kind. Also the aliens are described as upside down versions of the Heptobods in the novel and movie Arrival… so there’s that too!