Path of the Fury

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Summary: A Tale of Justice/Revenge
Review: Path of the Fury is the first independent novel by the author. In this novel, "pirates" are raiding Imperial planets; not very important planets, but still belonging to the Empire. After hitting two other planets, they make the mistake of raiding Mathison's World. One group massacres the occupants of a homestead and are looting when the owner comes home. Former-Captain Alicia DeVries of the Imperial Cadre kills every one of the raiding party, but not before they have inflicted some grievous wounds.

When the Imperial rescuers arrive, they fail to detect Alicia's body on three separate SAR overflights, but she is fully visible when a search team touches down at the homestead. The Imperials are confused, and not a little worried, by her survival and apparent invisibility. After the initial surgery to repair her wounds, Alicia is turned over to a Cadre medico, Tannis, an old friend and fellow survivor of Shallingsport.

When Alicia returns to consciousness, she finds herself possessed by an ancient Greek daimon, the Fury Tisiphone. After ruling out insanity as a possible answer, she comes to terms with the old and reduced spirit of revenge and begins planning how they will track down the people who ordered her family to be murdered. In the meantime, Alicia conspires to convince the medics of her madness.

When Alicia is brought to Soissons, the Sector Capital, for treatment, they see for the first time the alpha synth warship that would figure in their justice/revenge. Such ships have a crew of one, a neurally linked pilot who is part of a merge with the ship's AI. Tisiphone starts wandering around the planetary computer networks and making plans.

This novel begins with a fantastic premise, the existence of an ancient demonic spirit which has survived for thousands of years. The author doesn't explain this anomaly, but just makes it the basis of the plot. Once they have hijacked the alpha synth ship and Alicia's persona has been impressed on the newborn AI, the new Furies are created and are looking for justice/revenge.

By the way, this novel reads like a wish-fulfillment fantasy of a junior officer who has encountered some insufferable seniors. The writing, however, makes it all interesting, if not believable, and well worth a few hours of suspending disbelief.

Highly recommended for Weber fans and anyone else who enjoys future war SF with justice/revenge overtones.

Rating:
Summary: A Tale of Justice/Revenge
Review: Path of the Fury is the first independent novel by the author. In this novel, "pirates" are raiding Imperial planets; not very important planets, but still belonging to the Empire. After hitting two other planets, they make the mistake of raiding Mathison's World. One group massacres the occupants of a homestead and are looting when the owner comes home. Former-Captain Alicia DeVries of the Imperial Cadre kills every one of the raiding party, but not before they have inflicted some grievous wounds.

When the Imperial rescuers arrive, they fail to detect Alicia's body on three separate SAR overflights, but she is fully visible when a search team touches down at the homestead. The Imperials are confused, and not a little worried, by her survival and apparent invisibility. After the initial surgery to repair her wounds, Alicia is turned over to a Cadre medico, Tannis, an old friend and fellow survivor of Shallingsport.

When Alicia returns to consciousness, she finds herself possessed by an ancient Greek daimon, the Fury Tisiphone. After ruling out insanity as a possible answer, she comes to terms with the old and reduced spirit of revenge and begins planning how they will track down the people who ordered her family to be murdered. In the meantime, Alicia conspires to convince the medics of her madness.

When Alicia is brought to Soissons, the Sector Capital, for treatment, they see for the first time the alpha synth warship that would figure in their justice/revenge. Such ships have a crew of one, a neurally linked pilot who is part of a merge with the ship's AI. Tisiphone starts wandering around the planetary computer networks and making plans.

This novel begins with a fantastic premise, the existence of an ancient demonic spirit which has survived for thousands of years. The author doesn't explain this anomaly, but just makes it the basis of the plot. Once they have hijacked the alpha synth ship and Alicia's persona has been impressed on the newborn AI, the new Furies are created and are looking for justice/revenge.

By the way, this novel reads like a wish-fulfillment fantasy of a junior officer who has encountered some insufferable seniors. The writing, however, makes it all interesting, if not believable, and well worth a few hours of suspending disbelief.

Highly recommended for Weber fans and anyone else who enjoys future war SF with justice/revenge overtones.

Rating:
Summary: A Tale of Justice/Revenge
Review: Path of the Fury is the first independent novel by the author. In this novel, "pirates" are raiding Imperial planets; not very important planets, but still belonging to the Empire. After hitting two other planets, they make the mistake of raiding Mathison's World. One group massacres the occupants of a homestead and are looting when the owner comes home. Former-Captain Alicia DeVries of the Imperial Cadre kills every one of the raiding party, but not before they have inflicted some grievous wounds.

When the Imperial rescuers arrive, they fail to detect Alicia's body on three separate SAR overflights, but she is fully visible when a search team touches down at the homestead. The Imperials are confused, and not a little worried, by her survival and apparent invisibility. After the initial surgery to repair her wounds, Alicia is turned over to a Cadre medico, Tannis, an old friend and fellow survivor of Shallingsport.

When Alicia returns to consciousness, she finds herself possessed by an ancient Greek daimon, the Fury Tisiphone. After ruling out insanity as a possible answer, she comes to terms with the old and reduced spirit of revenge and begins planning how they will track down the people who ordered her family to be murdered. In the meantime, Alicia conspires to convince the medics of her madness.

When Alicia is brought to Soissons, the Sector Capital, for treatment, they see for the first time the alpha synth warship that would figure in their justice/revenge. Such ships have a crew of one, a neurally linked pilot who is part of a merge with the ship's AI. Tisiphone starts wandering around the planetary computer networks and making plans.

This novel begins with a fantastic premise, the existence of an ancient demonic spirit which has survived for thousands of years. The author doesn't explain this anomaly, but just makes it the basis of the plot. Once they have hijacked the alpha synth ship and Alicia's persona has been impressed on the newborn AI, the new Furies are created and are looking for justice/revenge.

By the way, this novel reads like a wish-fulfillment fantasy of a junior officer who has encountered some insufferable seniors. The writing, however, makes it all interesting, if not believable, and well worth a few hours of suspending disbelief.

Highly recommended for Weber fans and anyone else who enjoys future war SF with justice/revenge overtones.

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Summary: Superior action adventure with great humour and pathos
Review: The novel starts slow, but picks up speed like a cruise missile with afterburners.
A very engaging main character who is supported by some strong alter-egos. Unfortunately the secondary characters are thinly drawn and the background is not well fleshed-out. This is a good book for young adults, as there is no sex, and the violence is somewhat clinical. The references to the Greek furies was nicely done.

All that said, I truly enjoyed reading it, and found it a most enjoyable diversion. More would be nice.

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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: This book is great. It was the first of his books I read, and I loved it so much, I began reading his others. I definately recommend this book, and all of this others, to everyone who loves SF as much as I do.

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Summary: Quick and clean holiday fun for sf-action fans
Review: This book is hardly a classic, but it provided one and a half days of quick and clean entertainment during my holidays. The ending is a tad weak but the story's well constructed and tight. I liked the character(s) and would like to read more books with them.

As I said: Fun, action-packed and furious.

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Summary: An emotoional roller coaster of a read.
Review: This book not only has great adventure but also takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster. You feel the pain and fury of the main character. If you have a heart it will bring tears to your eyes

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Summary: Two's company and three's a crowd?
Review: This book opens fast and furiously and never lets go. The premise is definitely unique: a former commando, a long-forgotten Greek goddess, and a technologically-advanced computer inhabit the body of the aforesaid commando. Three's definitely a crowd when each consciousness wants to go her own way.

David Weber certainly maintains a high standard of writing, characterization, and plot in this novel. Just watch out for those three-tier conversations!!

The ending is open enough that a sequel is possible.

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Summary: too awesome
Review: this book rocks. anyone who is normal now has a chance to sympathize with the schizos. Alley is awesome, and drop commandos in general rule. this is an idea that i've never seen before, and i hope there is a sequel.

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Summary: Absolutely thrilling story, excellantly written!!
Review: This book was easily one of the best sci-fi books i have read. The plot was fantastic and the charecters were amazingly written and developed. Very highly recommended!!!