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Put the Authors in the Court-Arena
Why would you do this to such a great series of books? This is an awful finish to some of the greatest sci-fi ever written. I blame Kevin J. for this one: all of his books are written on the fourth-grade level (I, fake Jedi, anyone?). What a waste of paper. You guys really dropped the ball on this one. I could have written a better Dune novel.

A Joke
If they were brave enough, Brian Herbert and his partner would publish Frank Herbert's original notes, and show what was theirs and what has his.

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Because I cannot believe that the ultimate enemy was the main character from their prequel, 20 years after his death.Really?
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I tried to read the two books.But after 100 pages of skimming the first one, I just read the synopses online and I was floored.I mean, beyond words.This is far worse than the travesties of both the Star Wars movies, and the Lord of the Rings movies.Just way beyond the pale.The story was a joke, and I won't even get into the writing.I would say these were extremely lightly based on the original notes/outlines.Just terrible.

Getting worse
Herbert (Brian) and Anderson and getting worse. Thanks to you I won't buy any more dune prequels and interquels.

The Dune saga started with Dune and ended with Chaperthouse Dune.

Great End to the Series
This book and series is much, much better than almost all the later Frank Herbert DUNE novels. It's a great conclusion to the story - exciting, intelligent and moving. The people who are only giving it one or two stars are out of their minds!

Badly written
I finished this book only because there was enough of a story to make me want to find out what happened. The writing is filled with old cliched phrases and is often repetitive. Poor writing aside, the story arc is interesting and fits within the original series. However, it is unfortunate that the storytelling skills of this team does not come close to comparing to Frank Herbert's masterpieces. ... Read more

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As the New Republic continues its struggle for survival, a scattered but powerful remnant of the shattered Empire seeks to destroy three precious children - among them Han and Leia's Jedi twins - who represent the next generation of Jedi Knights. ... Read more

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When Eagle's Claw, one of the most extreme militia groups in the United States, infiltrates the Device Assembly Facility at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site, FBI special agent Craig Kreident confronts a world-threatening situation. ... Read more

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Fast and gripping Science Fiction
The writers of Kevin Anderson and Doug Beason team up again with the characters, Agent Kreident and gal pal, Paige Mitchell.The character of Kreident continues to be a steady, serious FBI agent with a talent for hightech.The character of Paige is sharpened up a bit from the previous book"Virtual Destruction."She no longer has some of the previouschildish mannerism portrayed in VD.

The plot thickens and continues tokeep you reading through the whole book.The twist and turns entice you tobeg for more.This reviewer had to go and hunt down the other books in theseries with Agent Kreident after finishing the brillantly written, Fallout.

This is the best book I've read
Fallout is a great book with an interesting concept, so I think that everyone should read it who is interested in Sci-Fi novels.

It's an exciting book that will keep you reading all night.
There's not much to say about this book.Simply put, it is the best book I have ever read.For those people who enjoy these kinds of books, you will love this one.It kept me up reading all night.I couldn't get my mind off of it.I was always wondering what would happen.I really enjoyed this book.

Probably Anderson's worst
I generally enjoy Anderson's books in a lot the same way I enjoy action movies. Fun to read, but not much substance. Usually he has creative plots and ideas, even if the characters are somewhat lacking. Unfortunately, this books showed no creativity at all. It was boring, the plot was contrived, and the characters thinner than cardboard. He's written quite a lot of good stuff, but this isn't part of it. Read Ill Wind or Virtual Destruction instead.

Predictable and stereotypic.
It reads like an expensive action movie, but isn't. The plot is very predictable as soon as one understands that it uses stereotypes from movies. The science is completely wrong, and the people artificial. Even as a study in stereotyping and author fallacy, it is boring. ... Read more

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The finale to the Gamearth Trilogy.It’s all-out war between the players and characters in a role-playing game that has taken on a life of its own.The fighter Delrael, the sorcerer Bryl, as well as famed scientists Verne and Frankenstein, use every trick in the Book of Rules to keep the world of Gamearth intact while the outside group of players does everything possible to destroy it. ... Read more

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Good idea, bad implementation
This is a far cry from KA's best work.The first two books in this series (Gamearth and Gameplay) are downright bad.The third shows definite improvement in his writing ability, but overall, the series probably isn't worth your time, unless you're a complete D&D addict. ... Read more

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The culminating volume in The Saga of Seven Suns weaves together the myriad story lines in a spectacular grand finale. Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against one another. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale eight years in the making. The Saga of Seven Suns is one of the most colorful and spectacular science fiction epics of the past decade.

Acclaim for The Saga of Seven Suns:
“Anderson weaves action, romance, and science with a rousing plot reflecting the classic SF of Clarke and Herbert and the glossy cinematic influence of Lucas and Spielberg.” – Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Kevin Anderson has created a fully independent and richly conceived venue for his personal brand of space opera, a venue that nonetheless raises fruitful
resonances with Frank Herbert's classic Dune series.” – scifi.com
“Everything about Anderson’s latest is BIG – the war, the history, the aliens. These are elemental forces battling here, folks. Yet the characters are always
the heart of the story, and their defeats and triumphs give perspective to it all.” – Starlog
“A soaring epic . . . a space opera to rival the best the field has ever seen.” – Science Fiction Chronicle
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A workmanlike wrap up to the series
While lacking a bit of energy, this final volume a rather overly long series works in the sense of resolving all story lines while leaving the universe so created in such a manner to invite a re-visit at a later date.

The series tended to run out of drive around volume 5 beginning to smell a bit like the author / publisher were milking a hit which may have surprised them a bit. However the series is surely worth a read for the interesting place with engaging characters although toward the end the evil guys got laughably evil while the good guys would make a angel blush with shame.

I'd say the author got a little destruction happy at the end and, as I mentioned the good guys got stupid good. For example, one fellow who tried to kill off an entire species of human like beings and did manage to kill millions whilst engaged in an enormous destruction spree, gets captured and sent for rehab by the target species. Gimme a break.

Still, the book does the job of wrapping up the series even if a bit silly in places.

A Very Fitting Ending
This book was great! I was engaged from beginning to end. If you are a Saga fan this is a must to read. If you are new to the series, check out the other installments first if you want the most out of this one. My only regret is that this was the last book of the series. ... Read more

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This first novel in a new trilogy finds 14-year-old cousins Gwen and Vic accidentally transported through a magical crystal door to the island Elantya. They are soon caught in a tempest of ancient magic and fierce battles all connected to ancient feuds and the cousins' own mysterious roots. ... Read more

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Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune, bringing a vast array of rich and complex characters into conflict to shape thedestiny of worlds....

As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides — and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of his House, it is a time of momentous choice: between friendship and duty, safety and destiny. But for the survival of House Atreides, there is just one choice — strive for greatness or be crushed.
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Don't even think about reading House Harkonnen without reading its predecessor Dune: House Atreides; anyone who does so risks sinking in the sands between Frank Herbert's original Dune and this prequel trilogy by Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin J. Anderson. The purist argument that had Frank Herbert wanted to go backwards he would have done so is, at least in part, negated by the sheer narrative verve, and by the fact that Anderson and Brian Herbert manage to pull some genuine surprises out of this long-running space-opera. House Harkonnen is a massive book, and there are places where it becomes plot heavy, but in following the story of Duke Leto Atreides and the conflicts with House Harkonnen, the authors succeed in spinning a gripping adventure while going off in some unexpected directions. Anderson, who has written many successful Star Wars novels, has noted his particular admiration for The Empire Strikes Back, and his desire to emulate that film's dark take on the genre. In House Harkonnen, the conflict encompasses the tragedy of nuclear war, marked by grief and horror, vengeance and torment, and all while the complex intrigues continue to unfold. As one character puts it:

Everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make--and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.

Ultimately this is the theme of a compelling game of consequences, choices, and responsibility, a study of Leto's growth into power and the price of politics and love. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk ... Read more

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Get deeper into an interesting universe.
In a review of a nonfiction book, a commenter praised the book and disparaged fiction as a whole, saying something like this: "To hell with fiction! With books like this, who needs it?"

I read nonfiction as well as fiction because I understand nonfiction has something to offer. What human author can compete with the logic of God? But if you stubbornly deny yourself the goodness of good fiction, you are masochistically ignorant. Fiction opens up portals to spectacular alternate realities that remain forever hidden without fiction.

I have read five Dune novels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, and so far they have done a good job of opening up one of those portals.

"House Harkonnen" is the second of the House Trilogy by Herbert and Anderson. The books describe events in the generation before the events of Frank Herbert's "Dune," and we get the origins of prominent characters from that Hugo Award winning classic. "House Harkonnen's" plotlines involve you with intrigues of noble houses in a galactic empire and with adventures of colorful characters like Duncan Idaho and Gurley Halleck. The authors hit you with violence and touch you with pathos. You ride giant sandworms across the desert of Dune, and you discover treasure in the ice floes of arctic Lankiveil.

The characters of the House books are not exotic like some characters in the chronologically preceding Legends of Dune trilogy. But the House Trilogy characters stand out and are quite likeable. It's easy to identify with the good guys and to hate the bad guys. Take Baron Harkonnen and his nephew Rabban. They are so doggone bad they are laughable. But they are serious characters--not comical--and they are convincing.

Be sure to read "House Atreides" before reading "House Harkonnen." Regarding the relationship between Baron Harkonnen and the Bene Gesserit sisterhood, one scene in "House Harkonnen" would not be nearly as pleasing as it was without my having read "House Atreides." Also, "House Harkonnen" has many strings left dangling. For closure you'll need to read "House Corrino."

The prose is contemporary and easy to read, nothing like Thomas Hardy. (Do we still have high school English teachers sadistically assigning "Return of the Native"?) It seemed to me that the House Trilogy has more paragraphs of descriptive detail than I found in Legends of Dune. The detail is not excessive, however, and I welcomed it.

If you can, read the hardback editions of these books. The maps are hard to read in the paperbacks.

Disappointing
I expected this book to tell the history of House Harkonnen; instead I got a collection of rather uninspired, boring short stories about the backgrounds of the key members of the Atreides household (and learned how "Beast" Rabban came by his nickname).

House Harkonnen
House Harkonnen is one of the best books in the series.It ranks up there with Dune Messiah and the Butlerian Jihad in it's page turner ability.Well worth whatever you may pay for it.An A-number-one in my book.

Great Tale Well Told, Epic Scale, Historically Full
To all who find fault with this book - bah, humbug!

I found the storylines engrossing, well-written, well paced, and fascinating. I am going to start on "House Corrino" after I write this quick review, mostly becaue of the excellent beginning in "House Atreides," and the superior follow-up in "House Harkonnen." The well thought out progress of converging characters and their plotlines, and the exciting climax of each thread added up to an inspired finish, and felt just right, leaving me eager to see how the next book would set up the original story in "Dune."

For all fans who are not critics, you will love this book. For all critics who may or may not be fans, well, when have you ever truly enjoyed anything?

Set aside your judgement and get this book - used ones are available on Amazon for $.01 cent! There is no better investment in our current economy.

Another Great Piece of the Puzzle
Don't let the title fool you: The driving force of this novel is not House Harkonnen but Duke Leto, House Atreides, and those loyal (and disloyal) to them. If you've gotten to this point, you've presumably read the six original Dune novels by Frank Herbert as well as the first House book. I have found a pattern from the third Dune novel through this one, where the books begin and end extremely strongly but have a tendency to drag a bit in the middle. They are all rather long novels (this one's 733 pages), and are very, very detailed, which is part of the appeal but can also slow the pace at times. It's worth the effort, though. I have been extremely satisfied with these prequel novels. The universe of Dune has been kept alive in brilliant fashion. If you liked Dune: House Atreides, I'm sure you'll like House Harkonen just as much. ... Read more

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Suppose you could switch bodies with another person? What exciting new experiences would you choose to explore? What forbidden desires would you indulge? Suppose someone stole your life–how far would you go to get it back?

From New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson comes a pure adrenaline thriller of hijacked identities, elusive motives, and deeply buried secrets–a disturbing, thought-provoking excursion into a sleek, hedonistic society where nothing is your own...not even your soul.

Hopscotch

For a fee, Eduard Swan will swap bodies with people in distress–those facing surgeries, emotional crises, moments of unpleasantness or discomfort they can’t or would rather not deal with. Eduard will experience the suffering for them. It’s a lucrative business, and in a world in which no one is required to feel any pain, there is no end of clients. But someone doesn’t want to play by the rules. Someone doesn’t want to return his body. And, unfortunately for Eduard, that someone is one of the world’s most powerful men. Now Eduard has no choice but to steal back his life.

He has the perfect alibi–or so he thinks. For even in a world where you can hopscotch from body to body, you always leave a trail. And following that trail is a relentless dispenser of “justice” named Daragon, a childhood friend, now a zealous and ambitious agent of state security, who won’t let old friendships stand in the way of doing his duty.

When Eduard goes on the run, hounded at every turn by Daragon, his only hope is two other childhood friends: Garth, a tormented artist who gains success beyond his wildest dreams, only to discover the terrible price of fame; and Teresa, a spiritual seeker who risks losing her own body to a fanatical religious cult as she embarks on a harrowing quest to find her true identity.

Moving from underground hopscotch pleasure bars to the highest enclaves of power to a seamy underworld of illegal Phantoms, ancient minds who steal younger bodies in a quest for eternal life, Eduard and his friends seek the meaning of identity in a society in which appearances mean everything–and nothing–and where everything is relative...even murder.


From the Hardcover edition.Amazon.com Review
In Hopscotch, evolution has provided humankind with the ability to swap bodies. All this hopscotching creates a corrupt, decadent society where just about anything goes and immortality is just one more body swap away. Bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson follows four twentysomethings: Garth, a driven artist; Eduard, an unfocused roustabout; Teresa, a self-destructive seeker of spiritual solace; and Daragon, a driven G-man who alone is not blessed (or cursed) with the ability to hopscotch. The four make their way through a dizzying reality where only their close friendship can be taken at face value. Daragon's inability to hopscotch results in his knack for revealing the true person behind the face, no matter what the body, a skill that propels him to the top of the Bureau of Tracing and Locations--a many-tentacled organization dedicated to finding people in a world where looks are always deceiving. Daragon's meteoric rise brings his three friends under the omnipresent gaze of his mentor, the novel's antagonist Bureau chief Mordecai Orb--a looming nemesis whose influence eventually corrupts them all.

Anderson, the bestselling author of novels set in the Star Wars and X-File realms, as well as coauthor of Dune: House Corrino, ventures into new territory with this clever premise, which provides a multifaceted backdrop to his foursome's travails, though at times he wanders a little far afield, leaving behind two-dimensional characters whose simple motivations offer little for the reader to care about. --Jeremy Pugh ... Read more

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'Surrogates' Inspiration?
Kevin Anderson's book is obviously the inspiration for the graphic novel and movie, "Surrogates." This story follows four orphans who obtain employment selling their bodies to older, richer, and less healthy people.The people who purchase the bodies take over physically, as the two people involved switch brains, basically.However, not all is rosy and perfect in this world, as one of the orphans is accused of a murder that one of the 'body-renters' commits while using the orphan's body.

A well-paced and intriguing tale, and a must for anyone who enjoyed the movie "Surrogates."

It's your basic Kevin Anderson novel
At some point in the future humans learn how to swap bodies with one another, and very few people lack this ability.Sometimes, however, someone will swap with someone else who decides that they don't want to swap back.Against this backdrop, we find five friends who were raised together at an orphanage by monks, and we see how far they are willing to go for one another, blah, blah, blah, blah.The main core of three include an artist, a guy who swaps his body for money with people having surgery or other unpleasant ordeals, and a girl on a major quest to "find herself."The decription of the plot beyond that on the book jacket is inaccurate, by the way.
I enjoyed the book well enough, but I approached it specifically as a Kevin Anderson book: not particularly deep but engaging enough.He didn't explain the mechanics of swapping, and I can get over that, but there are so many other things he could have done with the whole concept of swapping bodies, both logistically and ethically.The characters were endearing enough, though they were essentially walking, talking sterotypes (broad strokes, broad strokes).But I was entertained, and for that I give it 3 stars.

Interesting Premise, Poor Execution
Author Kevin J. Anderson has a long-standing interest in issues of identity and body-image -- witness his "Resurrection Inc." from several years ago. In this book he postulates a "what if" involving the ability to move personalities from body to body.In a more thoughtful treatment this could have been a philosophical exploration of packaging vs. contents, of what makes us who we are (nature vs. nurture), or even an exploration of the differences between the sexes, or between the generations, or between races.

Instead what we get is a longwinded detective novel with "hopscotching" as a mere backdrop.There are a lot of major plot holes and untidy ends (such as any explanation of hopscotching itself) and when the author writes himself into a pickle he's not above creating new characters, new powers or new conditions to pull himself out.The story is not only sloppily-plotted, the writing is wooden, with stilted dialog andunconvincing characters.As other reviewers have noted, the passage of time is jerky and off-putting, and the book's 1950s morality is loudly anachronistic.

I hate to say it, but Anderson's involvement writing series novels for Star Wars, X-Files and Dune does not seem to have instilled good discipline.

Thought Provoking but.....
I greatly enjoyed the complexity of "What if we could swap bodies" in the book.However, parts of it were disjointed and lacked flow.Specifically, many of the smaller sub plots did not with the main story.

The timeline could have been developed better.All of the sudden the story would be a month (or year) ahead without describing what had transpired.

The people in the book often swap bodies.Sometimes it takes place as no big deal with no concern from anyone.Other times, it's an issue of not having legal contracts, etc. and the author doesn't clarify why it is sometimes so serious and of grave concern and other times it is no big deal - something you meet at the bar to accomplish.

I give the author's writing a 3 but the story a 5.Overall, a 4.

Hopscotch is 40 years old, but that's not necessarily bad.
Science Fiction in the 50's and 60s - like most other fiction in the US - was discrete about sex, to say the least. Thomas Bowdler would have found little to expurgate. And that's exactly what struck me the most about Hopscotch. Not its characters or plot (more about that later), but that it is so eminently a 1960s novel. Hopscotch could have extended and completed the work Heinlein tried to do (and failed to do, I think) with "I will fear no evil." But it didn't.

Sex is important. It divides the human race in two, and each half is somewhat alien to the other. Anderson left a dark veil obscuring this difference. There are a few obligatory sex scenes, but nothing that really delves into the difference between man and woman during them. Perhaps that was Anderson's intent, but it leaves a book that will provoke far less honest discussion than it otherwise would have.

It could be that in a world where you can swap your body with another, everyone is so used to it that they slip on others' bodies like clothes from a closet. I have a feeling it wouldn't be quite that simple. Every closet has clothes that don't fit anymore, and every body has reflexes that your mind accepts naturally. When danger is coming, do you jump left or right? Everyone has a primary preference, and these are often reenforced at an early age. What if your body jumps left when your mind subconsciouly expects a jump to the right? And how do you adjust to different weight distributions between the sexes? Sadly, most of the body adaptation area is missing from the book.

Probably the best parts of the book are Anderson's descriptions of Garth's art, and the reaction of those who see it. I couldn't picture the exhibits or pictures in my mind, but I could picture the reaction of those coming out of the exhibits. That's a perfectly valid tool in a novel.

Less perfect are the characters. They just don't jell. They do things, you say "uh-huh," and go on reading. Characters in most novels much face difficulties and react to them. If the characters are fully drawn, the reader will understand - or at least accept - these changes. Changes in Hopscotch do occur, but I never felt comfortable that they were not doing so via the hidden hand of an author trying to keep a story moving along.

Hopscotch is OK, but it never truely condenses into the fine granularity that makes a novel memorable. It's not a bad book for the beach or some other idle time, but it's not worth buying until the paperback comes out. You will like the story better if you approach it with lowered expectations. You will like it least if your expectations are higher. ... Read more

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The thrilling conclusion to Kevin Anderson and Rebecca Moesta's Crystal Door's trilogy finds cousins Gwen and Vic and their three friends forging the magical Ring of Might and defending all of the worlds beyond the crystal doors in their final battle with the dark sage, Azric. When their friend Sharif is called back home by his father, the Sultan, Gwen, Vic and their friends travel to the flying city of Irrakesh. When they return, they find that the Sultan is dying, with Sharif the next in line to be Sultan. Soon he will have to choose between duty and destiny, but before he can do so, Irrakesh is attacked and the city is taken hostage by dark wizards evil army. In their previous battles, they faced Azric by land and sea, now they take to the skies for the climactic showdown with the evil wizard and all of his dark forces. ... Read more

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Ok, I admit - I loved it
I have no shame in saying that I, an adult, loved this series.Wonderfully rich characters that I ended up caring very deeply for. There are a couple of character who are tragically predictable, but the story itself is a good read for anyone. When I finished this book (the third in the series), it left me wanting more.

Crystal Doors, #3
My son just LOVED reading all three books in this series.They were very exciting, kept his attention, and left him wanting more!I am thankful we were able to get the last two before Christmas.They were great gifts! ... Read more

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Bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson is best known for his epic science fiction novels such as Hidden Empire, Dune: House Atreides (with Brian Herbert), and Star Wars: Jedi Search. This collection of twenty-two tales and two essays displays the range of his imagination, from science fiction to fantasy to horror; from alien landscapes in the far future to cutting-edge technological developments that could happen tomorrow. The first five stories take readers to parallel universes next door, on expeditions for Alternitech. Other tales put a humorous twist on classic fantasy scenarios of kissing frogs and slaying dragons. Readers will see cloned mammoths, the dark side of early Hollywood, attorneys wrestling with the legalities of time paradoxes, and backpackers on an alien planet.

Kevin J. Anderson loves to write while hiking in the Rocky Mountains of his home state, Colorado. (20021201) ... Read more

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C'mas Joy
Hadda spend money for a big guy.
Said he wanted "Landscapes".
Therefor - - -
We both read it first - liked it lots.
Big guy liked it as well.
Merry C'mas.

superb speculative fiction collection
This speculative fiction collection contains twenty two short stories that run the gamut from fantasy to science fiction but all share in common, Kevin J. Anderson's ability to paint seemingly realistic backgrounds regardless of genre.The width of Mr. Anderson's talent is showcased by the differing landscapes that make up his tales (and two essays) of which fourteen are labeled sci fi; seven fantasy; and three "The Great Outdoors".Ten of the stories are from the 1990s while three first appeared in the latter half of the 1980s; the rest are from this decade.The contributions are all fun with some being collaborations with Benford, Beason and Moesta.Two interesting essays round out this strong anthology so that readers will want to rush out to obtain it. Frogs, werewolves or Santa star in alternate universes or our world which adds great fantasy to this is first-rate pert compilation.

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On a harsh prison planet, the warden and the staff are as much prisoners as the convicts, but a risky prison break might free them all. ... Read more

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A fascination with science and paleontology can lead to a sense of wonder . . . or something else entirely. ... Read more

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The third volume of Kevin J. Anderson's Terra Incognita trilogy brings brave explorers and mortal enemies across the world to clash at a mysterious lost continent. After long voyages, encountering hurricanes and sea monsters, Criston Vora from Tierra and Saan of Uraba race to Terravitae, the legendary promised land. Saan's quest is to find the Key to Creation, a weapon that may defeat Uraba's enemies, and Criston wants vengeance against the monstrous Leviathan that ruined his life long ago.

Back home, two opposing continents and religions clash for the remnants of a sacred city, unleashing their hatred in a war that could end both civilizations. Queen Anjine and Soldan-Shah Omra are driven by mutual hatred, heaping atrocity upon atrocity in an escalating conflict that only their gods can end.

And the secretive Saedrans manipulate both sides, with the ultimate goal of completing the Map of All Things, which will cause God's return. ... Read more

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A hard-edged horror tale.For a shady filmmaker in the early days of Hollywood, it seems like a great opportunity when a disgraced samurai offers to commit Seppuku before the cameras.But the cameras are rolling. ... Read more

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A Japanese Ghost Story in America
I'm a huge Kevin J. Anderson fan, a huge fan of Japanese, and a huge fan of silent films, so this story was right up my alley.

The story is about two film makers at the beginning of the film industry who capture the ritual suicide of a Japanese man on film for nickelodeon viewers. Such a scene of carnage had never been captured on film and shown to the public before. In Japanese mythology, spirits of those who died in terrible circumstances can haunt a place until they are satisfied, and in rare cases the spirits of the living can do the same. Needless to say, there is a restless spirit who isn't happy.

I really liked the story. The writing was good, the plot tight, and ending very satisfying. If you like a good ghost story, you'll like this one.

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Samurai sooicide sacrifice screening shame slaughter.


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Everyone knows how Kal-El—Superman—was sent to Earth just before his planet exploded. But what led to such a disaster? Now, in The Last Days of Krypton, Kevin J. Anderson presents a sweeping tale of the pomp and grandeur, the intrigue and passion, and the politics and betrayals of a doomed world filled with brave heroes and cruel traitors.

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...even though we know the final story.
As many of you know I am a comic book fan and I love Smallville so to have a book that goes into the issues on Krypton prior to Kal-El is fascinating.
Mr. Anderson does a great job stitching together the fragmented history as it has been laid out in movies and in the comics. Krypton comes together in a clear and concise manner that exposes the weaknesses (culturally, politically, and environmental) that the planet had to endure.
The rise and fall of Zod...the Phantom Zone...Kandor...Brainiac...all story lines that have never been fully explained and here they all are in a nice story. The final vivid description of the end of Krypton was well worth the wait.
If you are a fan of the Superman series in any of its form I strongly recommend this book. It provides valuable background in a way you wouldn't expect...even though we know the final story.

The "Revenge of the Sith" of the Superman saga
(And yes, the title is intended as a compliment.)

"The Last Days of Krypton" is a solid (but slightly flawed) effort to bring together literally dozens of different versions of the origins of the first and greatest comic-adventure hero, Superman.

The author, Kevin J. Anderson, has also written several Star Wars Universe stories, and much in the tradition of the SW series, TLDOK is an attempt to go back and fill in the blanks of a story we thought we already knew.

Anderson goes out of his way -- WAY out of his way -- to accommodate almost every different version of the events on Krypton leading up to Kal-El's launch to Earth and the planet's explosion. He leans most heavily on the most widely-known version, the Richard Donner movie mythology, which features a white-haired Jor-El and a honey-haired Lara, in stark contrast to virtually all other versions since 1938 which have depicted both parents of Kal-El as young, rugged, beautiful and black-haired.

In addition to the visual description which models Jor-El on the Marlon Brando version (ridiculously miscast IMO but that's a discussion for another day), Anderson also models Jor-El's behavior on the Brando portrayal: as a pompous, self-absorbed, deliberate, ponderous, stiff and profound authority figure issuing booming manifestos while bowing before established authority.

That's actually not very much like the Jor-El portrayed for the vast majority of the history of the character: an energetic, hands-on, action-oriented, rugged-adventurer type willing to test out his theories himself and with little patience for bureucratic dithering.

That guy appears in TLDOK too, but his name isn't Jor-El; it's Zor-El, his younger brother, also a scientist and definitely a much more commanding and heroic figure. Ironically, Zor-El and wife Alura are both described by Anderson as having flowing black hair, rather curious for a couple who just possibly may produce a golden-haired blonde child at some point in the future.

So in a way Anderson incorporates both the "classic canonical" version of Jor-El and Lara (young, strong, black-haired, decisive and charismatic) with the Donner-movie version (white-haired, pompous and ponderous) into the storyline.

Anyway back to the book. The storyline is very good in establishing the back stories of Zod, Aethyr (Ursa) and Nam-Ek (Non) and making them interesting personalities rather than caricature bad guys. (The back story of Zod and Nam-Ek is actually rather poignant, and hints at some fundamental kindness in both characters, never glimpsed before.) Zod starts out as just a slightly officious bureaucrat, but we see him progress to a truly frightening despot willing to commit mass murder to enforce his rule.

We get to meet the parents of Jor-El, non-canonically named Yar-El and Charys (in the comics they were Jor-El I and Nimda), and while they don't get a lot of "screen time," they do play important parts in the plot. We see both with some fundamental character traits they will eventually hand down to their grandchildren.

Anderson delivers a lot of descriptive detail of the planet Krypton, largely dispensing with the Donner-movie sterilized-marble garage depictions for a planet full of geography, flora, fauna and color.

We see mountain ranges, swamp areas, pine-wooded forests, icy polar regions and fiery volcanic wastelands. The cities are also well-described, turning Argo City into, essentially, a Kryptonian San Francisco -- a gleaming ocean-coast city connected to the mainland by soaring suspension bridges.

Kryptonians themselves also acquire characters: instead of the foghorning mythical figures of the Donner movies, they become human beings with quirks, idiosyncracies, character flaws and foibles. (Although quite frankly I don't know if we needed the entire life story of Jor-El's personal chef.)

We also see how Kryptonian society is organized: apparently a caste-based patriarchal oligarchy based on primogeniture, with the ruling council basically naming its own successors. Krypton is depicted as a stagnant, over-ripe society -- technologically advanced to the point that economic prosperity was more or less a given, but overcome by a suffocating cultural inertia. One thing Krypton is most definitely NOT is any kind of an egalitarian democracy.

Some have criticized the attention Anderson devotes to Kryptonian political machinations, but just as in the Star Wars series, it was necessary to cover some of that ground to explain how the principals ended up where they did: Why was Jor-El both a respected member of the council, the most renowned scientist on Krypton, yet still ignored on the most crucial issue of all? How was Zod able to commit his crimes and how brutal were they, really?

Now we know.

Anderson does overreach himself by trying to accommodate virtually every different version of "canon," resulting in the El brothers constantly having to battle a nearly-comical series of potentially planet-destroying threats (several times drawing sardonic comments from some of the characters: "OK, what planet-destroying menace is it TODAYYY, Jor-El?").

As several other reviewers also mention, he also flogs the Kryptonian-name schtick far beyond the limits of reason. This reaches its zenith when Jor-El must find a way to battle a comet threatening to smash into Krypton. The comet of course is named after a legendary despot and tyrant in Krypton's history. The result is a groaningly-lame pun invoking the name of the arch-enemy of the adult Kal-El. (At least he didn't call it "The Fist of Lex" so I guess we should be grateful. But I kid.)

Anderson also overuses Earth-based metaphors and current axioms, as several have commented. Although it certainly is tough to avoid them completely without having the book come out completely dry and lifeless.

OK, despite all this nit-picking, I did like the book, very much. It did work in a pivotal figure from later Superman lore (Brainiac, the bottle city of Kandor) in an episode quite obviously inspired by 9/11 which did much to humanize the Kryptonians.

It successfully (for the most part) juggles all the conflicting versions of Kryptonian canon and still puts them together in a story that makes sense.

It's a good read for anyone interested in the Superman saga and a solid sci-fi-fantasy story.

Krypton's Last Days
I recently read Enemies and Allies and then found this being offered on one of the online book clubs. I enjoyed this novel, but I wouldn't say it entirely fit into the Superman canon. Maybe having watched Smallville or even the movies has ruined my view of the Superman universe, but I know of at least one character that is missing in the novel, a certain cousin of Kal-El. Overall though, I thought this novel explained a lot to what happened to Krypton in its last days.

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Don't Mess With Earth
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Snake in a Diamond!Kal-El's Father's Tales
Despite the mixed reviews, I thought Kevin J. Anderson did a good job portraying life on Krypton.I have often wondered, if Krypton were so much more advanced than Earth, why didn't they explore new worlds?Why when the planet exploded, there were no Kryptonians around except those that barely escaped?Anderson answers these and more in a thick book about the rise and fall of Krypton.

Krypton is like Rome was in its waning days of the Empire.Fat from its long, proud history, there is little creativity amongst the people.There are a few who stand out but their potential is squashed.The civilization on Krypton is old, decadent and very conservative.

Jor-El, his brother Zor-El and Jor-El's wife, Lara, are the triangle that keeps the story flowing.Zod, who wants Jor-El's technology for himself, is playing like he is following Council's orders to suppress all "dangerous" tech.The Council represents Krypton's ruling class and they're not about to repeat history and let their planet again go to war or fight the alien threat that may come from space, or from their own backyard.Keep the status quo very status'd and very 'quo'd.

It's a story about taking chances, about doing what you think is right and about fighting back against suppression.It's also about learning and taking advantage of what you could know (Jor-El's adventure with an alien who lands on Krypton and tells him marvels is such an event).

Overall, I was happy with the book.A bit over-long in going over Zod's megalomanic plans.The Braniac scene where Kandor gets sucked out of the planet and what's left is a black scar on the surface and how Zod takes advantage is great.You just want to strangle the old Council for being so backward and stupid.And you want to kick people for letting Zod take control.

Clearly the book takes a lot of its material of crystal technology from the original Superman film -- there are many allusions to it throughout the novel.Recommended for the Superman fan.

Super-Disappointing Fiction!
I found the book sitting on a forgotten shelf in the library and thought, how bad could it possibly be, after Kevin J. Anderson destroyed Dune, destroying Krypton won't be all that different. How wrong I was! Spoilers below, read at your own risk.

The concept the this book started off well. I was actually tempted and fascinated to see what life on Krypton was like in its last days. I was actually surprised that while Kevin tried to establish a civilization, he forgot the most important aspect, religion. He talked about past warlords, but did not mentioned any Gods of Krypton. Was there no religion other than worshipping their sun Rao?

The emerald green lava that was displaced from the core, was never really explained, it was intended to be established as the green meteor rock that we see on Earth as Kryptonite. The convenience of Brainiac stealing Kandor working itself into the story, just didn't really add the punch it needed. Neither did the visit by the blue traveler alien Donodon, his origins were not mentioned, nor his conveniently salvaged computer banks that held the location for Mars and Earth. Wow, the blue planet seen from an alien computer, would you send your son to this world in a last desperate attempt?

The story actually started mutating to civil war amongst the Kryptonians and their fight against General Zod, after Kandor got stolen, he took the opportunity to seize power and destroy his opposition. Even his aides Aethyr, possibly Ursa from the movie, and Nam-Ek, possibly Non from the Superman movies were hopeless. I'm sure General Zod was more powerful than sitting around gathering political power and getting his aides to do his dirty work for him!

The love between Jor-El and Lara, which should have transcended all love stories, was touch and go. As the novel progressed, I actually never felt anything, not even a spark between them, maybe it's his version of Kryptonian romance, I really don't know! Lara's pregnancy didn't even feel real, it was like, marriage, hey I'm pregnant, a period of civil war, and then out pops Kal-El after all the chaos! At the same time, I was appalled that Superman lore got twisted such that the Phantom Zone used to imprison Zod and his minions, get this, got thrown down a lava shaft and caused a singularity which caused the planet's destruction. Ah yes, and don't get me started on the pesky comet!

Kevin enjoys picking ideas from various sources, be it TV series, movies or comics and then stitching them together like an American quilt, except, you can see how bad the stitching is when he tries to create variations on the quilt that don't quite seem to fit together or make sense! If you have read enough of Kevin's novels and series, you will understand his need to establish names and ranks and bombastic terms for them. Throw in all those hyphenated names he created, Or-om, No-Ton, were they really necessary? These things in conjunction with superlatives that were frivolously thrown about all over the story to add some kind of color to the novel just made it all the more a nightmare to read. Also, his story telling methods are descriptively linear, they don't really allow readers to think for themselves to put things together. He leads readers by the nose through the entire story, hardly the stuff of sci-fi legend.

I will NOT recommend this book to casual readers or even readers of Superman lore, you might consider it blasphemy! I'd rather readers turn to the Superman comics to enjoy the creative stories told there, rather than waste any of your precious time on this trashy novel.

And before you actually go poking holes in my review of this novel, answer this: Kevin J Anderson has written so many sci-fi novels, if all of them were so great that fans and critics claim them to be, why has none of them been offered to be turned into movies, much less TV series? Even for the sake of argument that it does become a movie, will it actually make money, or will it be one of those straight to DVD movies that end up in the $1.99 discount bin at Blockbusters? ... Read more

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Fourteen-year-old cousins Gwen and Vic are still celebrating their victory in the battle with the merlons when they learn that Vic's father has finally made it through the crystal doors to the magical island of Elantya.However, their victory is short-lived when they and their friends are kidnapped by their underwater enemies and taken beneath the sea they soon learn of a scheme that could bring Elantya to ruins.Can they escape in time to save the island from destruction?

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my daughter couldn't put it down!
I ordered this book for my daughter, who is into the whole Crystal Doors series.She honestly read it through and couldn't put the book down.She loved it and wanted me to order her the next (future) book in the series.I wish she could get as interested in the literature classics as she has been in this series.We have a whole bookshelf of classics in our library that she isn't interested in reading.

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Cousins Gwen and Vic Pierce, the protagonists from Crystal Doors #1: Island Realm (Crystal Doors), are back in this exciting follow-up, along with some of the other great characters we came to know and love in the first book:Uncle Cap, Ali el Sharif, Tiaret, Lyssandra, and even the wonderful djinni, Piri.

The magic of the world of Elantya is also back, along with the Citadel, Sharif's magic carpet, Tiaret's warrior skills, Lyssandra's telepathic and interpreting abilities, and the natural curiosity of Gwen and Vic.Unfortunately, that also means that the bad guys from the first book, most noticeably the merlons and their king, Barak, have also returned.

Uncle Cap (Gwen's uncle and Vic's father) has made it through the crystal doors and finally arrived on Elantya.But even before a happy reunion can happen, the merlons kidnap Gwen and Vic, none too happy about the last skirmish that took place.This time, their plans are even greater:they're hoping for total destruction of the Elantyan world and, quite possibly, the crystal doors themselves.

The twins will have to use all of their knowledge and wits to keep this from happening.Thankfully, they also have their close friends to rely on, as well as some new allies.It's not going to be an easy feat, but somehow they must defeat King Barak, Orpheon, and Azric's immortals.

The climax of OCEAN REALM is a fantasy-lover's dream, with action-packed scenes that will have you flipping pages as quickly as you can.Readers of the first two books in the series will be eagerly anticipating the third, Crystal Doors #3: Sky Realm (Crystal Doors), set to be released in June 2008.

Reviewed by:Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
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A novel based on the Emmy Award-winning television series created by Chris Carter.

When a disease-ravaged body is found in the smoldering ruins of the federally funded DyMar genetic research lab, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully fear that a deadly, man-made plague is on the loose.As the FBI agents investigating the "X-Files" -- cases the bureau has deemed unsolvable -- Mulder and Scully pursue the truth wherever it leads, even into the labyrinthine corridors of the FBI... and beyond.

Racing to contain the lethal virus before it can spread, Mulder and Scully make a chilling discovery.Before his death, Dr. David Kennessy, a hotshot cancer researcher at DyMar, had been experimenting with a promising but highly dangerous technology: microscopic bio-machines that can cure any disease, heal any wound.In theory, this research could be a miracle cure, perhaps even a doorway to immortality.It was also the only way Dr. Kennessy could save his leukemia-stricken son.

But when a second corpse turns up, savagely mutilated from within, it's anything but theoretical. Could machines created to cure have learned to kill? Scrambling for answers, Mulder and Scully are opposed at every step by faceless enemies with all the resources of the government -- even perhaps of their own agency -- at their command. Enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the secret of immortality falls in the right hands -- their hands.

As sinister forces close in, Scully fights to save the life of an innocent boy while Mulder comes face to face with a crazed and desperate man. A man whose slightest touch brings agonizing death -- and perhaps a resurrection more horrible still. ... Read more

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Great X-Files Story!
This is what I expect when I want to read about the X-Files.

Mulder and Scully were their usual dry yet witty selves but never lost track of their investigation or what their overall goals were.Mulder had his usual minor paranoia and over active imagination, Scully had her logical and medical approach to everything that happened and together they mixed very well.

The story was entertaining, not too long and the supporting characters were well written.The disease they were fighting was interesting and the backstory was one we had heard before.A group of people researching a cure to cancer finds something that could be used for great good or great evil and we're all in danger if it gets unleashed upon the world.

It's worth your time and money to pick this one up if you're a fan of the X-Files.

Not bad, but derivative and poorly written in spots
In Antibodies, Mulder and Scully are investigating a strange death at a burnt out cancer research facility. A man who it was thought had died in the fire is actually alive because he injected himself with nanomachines which were created in the lab. But the version he injected himself with is unstable and has made him infectious to anyone he touches. The man is searching for a young boy and the boy's dog who has the stable version of the cure in his bloodstream.

Antibodies is an ok X Files story. As with Ground Zero, the characters of Mulder and Scully are not represented very well. The plot hinges on nanotechnology which has been used as a plot device everywhere from Star Trek the Next Generation to Mystery Science Theater 3000. I generally find Anderson to be a good writer but Antibodies is forced at places. There are too many metaphors and similes used throughout and besides the sheer number of them, some of them are truly awful. I got some enjoyment out of Antibodies but it's not the most original or well written book.

Awesome Summer Read
Wow! I really like science fiction shows and if you like them too then I would greatly recommend this book. Antibodies is a sci-fi book filled with action, adventure, and excitement. This book is one of the best books I have ever read.

Once you start reading you can't stop. Yes, it is that good. Mulder and Scully are on the case again. Recently the Dymar lab for cancer research has burned down to the ground by animal rights group that seems to not have existed. When the rubble was cleared, all but one of the researchers' bodies was found. What were they really researching in Dymar? Is the government trying to cover it up? Read this awesome book!

Boy, I miss Mulder *sniff*
I can't even remember where I acquired this ABRIDGED auidobook but I just re-discovered it hidden way down in the bowels of the storage compartment in my vehicle while I was searching for a missing glove (which is, alas, still missing). It rates about a four for me for keeping me entertained while on my long drive to work. My drifty mind wandered only a few times.

The story reminds me very much of something Dean Koontz could've cooked up (I love the way the Koontz writes even when he gets over-the-top silly and meanders off into pages and pages of mind numbing description). This book is fast paced (this author apparently doesn't share Koontz's proclivity for longwindyness) and tells a story of a boy and his dog infected with a cancer, gun-shot wound, burnt to a crisp curing, form of nano-technology. Don't ask. My pea brain can't comprehend it. Anyway, one of the scientists who worked on this technology is also infected with these nano-critters. But he went and infected himself with the bad kind (duh!) and instead of fixing whatever ails him they make him break out with big tumorous lesions and whomever he touches dies of plague-like symptoms. Why? Ya got me. Plague-man is desperately searching for the boy and his dog because he believes their blood will cure him (boy, dog and their mom are hiding). Along the way he touches a few people and grossness occurs. Scully, Mulder and The Smoking Man make a few appearances but this story doesn't bring them to life in any exceptional way and it lacked Mulder's morbid sense of humor (the book would've rated much higher if these characters came alive a bit more). Overall it was interesting, a little icky and very sad at times reminding me of a classic X-Files episode without the Mulderisms.

Entertaining
The subject matter here more appropriately should reside in the realm of science fiction, but here we are, taking a technology that will someday help billions of people, and complicating it with conspiracies and paronoia. But what else would a person expect, as this is THE X FILES and a lot of rationality is out the door anyway: give the audience what they want, mind-numbing entertainment. Regardless of this, the novel here is nevertheless well worth reading as it introduces the new science of nanotechnology to many people who have never heard of it before. The story is actually very well done in spite of it's sensationalism and exaggerations, with Mulder and Scully investigating the explosive destruction of a cancer research lab under mysterious circumstances. The plot developes superbly from there and is quite good to the end. However, if you desire to learn more about nanotechnology and what it can mean to you personally, read THE FIRST IMMORTAL by James Halperin, this is informed and well-thought-out science fiction, probably eventually to become science-fact in the decades to come. ... Read more

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Conclusión de la Saga de Dune
Este libro escrito por Brian Herbert y Kevin J. Anderson, es el 8vo libro de la serie de Dune iniciada por Frank Herbert. Los libros escritos por Frank Herbert son una saga de ciencia ficción que nos traslada al planeta Dune y la lucha por la especia, se leen de la siguiente manera:
Forman una misma historia
- Dune
- El Mesias de Dune
- Los Hijos de Dune
3000 años despues:
- Dios Emperador de Dune
1000 años despues:
- Herejes de Dune
- Casa Capitular Dune
Cuando Frank Herbert fallecio, dejo la historia incompleta, dice Brian Herbert, que su padre habia dejado anotaciones de la conclusión de su saga y que con estas anotaciones se hicieron los 2 siguientes libros:
- Cazadores de Dune
- Gusanos de Arena de Dune
Como opinión, lei este libro en ingles y recien lo voy a leer en castellano, me gusto, aunque hay cosas que no creo haya escrito Frank Herbert, ya que si lo hubiera hecho, su introducción apareceria mucho antes en sus libros. Hay otras que si, se nota que fueron ideas del escritor original, ya que coinciden con premisas que se vieron en sus libros. En conclusión, recomiendo para todo aquel que haya leido la saga completa de Frank Herbert, leer estos 2 libros. ... Read more

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The culminating volume in Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns weaves together the myriad storylines into a spectacular grand finale.


Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other.Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making.The Saga of Seven Suns is one of the most colorful and spectacular science fiction epics of the last decade. ... Read more

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Interesting, though flawed
I decided to read this book even though I had not read the rest of the series.I'm already in several long series and just couldn't picture wading all the way through another.Anderson gives such a long "what's gone before" section that I don't think it's a problem.I never really felt lost.

It took a few chapters to get into the book enough to care about the story, but once I did, I felt the story kept moving pretty well.The basic story and many of the characters are pretty interesting.The book works as a page turner.

On the other hand, there are too many "how could they be so stupid" events in the story.The villains of the story are one dimensional and, frankly, a tad stupid, but the heroes make up for it by missing opportunity after opportunity to fix problems.The story just doesn't ring true of human nature--especially given the kind of people many of the characters in the story are.That problem resulted in too many convenient plot devices to fix problems.

If you can take a "check your brains at the door and enjoy the ride" attitude to the book, you'll probably enjoy it.Otherwise, it's kind of like watching a movie like "Armageddon"

One picky nit: it's a bad idea to name the chief villain in the story Winsenslaus.I just couldn't helping thinking "Good King W" every time I heard his name.Made it hard to take him seriously.

The attention span of nematodes
This series of seven books contains at least three time the same stories as the author after cutting the storie line into 6 minutes long description of events felt he had to provide the background of previous episode (in case the reader got lost).
In that this serie probably deserve a entry as a new kind of space opera
: the soap space opera, the only thing missing are the ads every 15 minutes (wait until a TV channel produces it...)
In other words this serie was written for people with the attention span of nematodes...

Storie-wise too few good ideas and of course god lurking at one cormer just in case a galaxy was not enough.

best to avoid and save few bucks

Satisfying Conclusion to Decent Epic
This book started with book six's cliffhanger, which was a decent way to just jump right into the action.

I like the incorporation of all the elements and plot threads and thought that was fairly well done.

Some of the characters started to become a little flat/cliche-ish towards the end, Chairman Basil in particular but even still i thought that was handled okay.

Overall, I was satisfied with the book, it had a realism to it that made me feel like I was part of the story.

Everything wrapped up neatly with a nice little bow but at the same time it more or less felt 'right' which is the only thing that matters.

Thanks for the hard work KJA, I enjoyed the series and will look for some of your other books.

Conclusion...
A very good conclusion to this seven book series. I have the series in softcover but could not wait for April so I had to buy this one in hardcover.

Great end to a good series
I have read this series from the very first book and I couldn't wait to get my hands on the final one.The final one lived up to my expectations and was brilliant.I've always felt that this series reminded me of Starcraft (with the Ildirians being the Protoss and the Klikiss being the Zerg) and that feeling wasn't dispelled in the last book.

You really find yourself hating Chairman Wenceslas and hoping that someone anyone would just put him out of everyone's misery (a little like old Bob Mugabe down in Zimbabwe).

The only criticism that I have of the book is that the last thirty pages seemed to be a space filler and these were the pages that took the longest for me to finish. ... Read more