While I was googling for images of the Reddit admin Chtorrr, I came across a Wikipedia article for "The War Against the Chtorr."
This totally-not-Alien book series started off planned as a trilogy, but it was so good and compelling that the author dragged it out much further.
Here are the highlights from the first book in the series:
Humanity has nearly been wiped out by a virus
"Narrator and protagonist Jim McCarthy and his friend/colleague/occasional s*x partner Ted Jackson are a young half-trained researchers attached to a squad of soldiers tasked with clearing the Colorado wilderness of nests of large and predatory "worms," one of the relatively better-known species of Chtorrans.
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Jim (protagonist) brings back alien eggs and some hatchlings from the Chtorr species
He goes back to Denver, now the US Capitol. I guess he wants to research the eggs and bugs there?
He gets recruited by a group called "Uncle Ida" who kill Chtorr and kill anyone who is against killing Chtorr
Jim shows off his dumb bugs to international dignitaries
A bug gets loose and kills lots of important people and wounds Jim
Jim goes to the hospital
He realizes that the Uncle Ira group plotted this to happen so further their anti-Chtorr agenda
I don't know why anyone would need to be an extremist like this when humanity is already on the brink of extinction after a virus and is under invasion by bug monsters from outer space.
Ted -- Jim's friend who he sometimes fricks -- joins the Telepath Corps
Jim fully joins the Uncle Ira group so he can continue to study and eliminate Chtorr nests
I can't wait till my next work break to read the rest!
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Oh boy! Wait till you get to the third book with the cult and kid-fricking!
(Gerrold is an imaginative writer, and also clearly working through some 1970s shit, particularly in book 3.)
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I think I can pace myself
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