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Summary: Stunning!
Review: For sheer imagination, this book is without peer. The story is vast and compelling, spanning centuries and a myriad of ideas. No other book comes close in terms of the imaginative ideas, not even "Lord of the Rings" or "Dune". A.A. Attanasio's mixture of hard sci-fi and epic quest is also compleeing. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys good science fiction.
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Summary: Stunning!
Review: For sheer imagination, this book is without peer. The story is vast and compelling, spanning centuries and a myriad of ideas. No other book comes close in terms of the imaginative ideas, not even "Lord of the Rings" or "Dune". A.A. Attanasio's mixture of hard sci-fi and epic quest is also compleeing. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys good science fiction.
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Summary: Simply one of the Greatest Reads of All Time!
Review: I can take it from the book cover "as complex and spellbinding a bit of science-fiction storytelling as I've ever come across"!..SO TRUE..I'm reading this for the 5th or 6th time and the depth of the story, & the images the words create in my mind are simpy astounding!...How in the world can someone even think of all these things, let alone in write them all in one book. WHERE ARE THE OTHER NOVELS IN THE RADIX TETRAD!!!!
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Summary: A fantastic undertakin, I read the book while backpacking
Review: I just wanted to say that I though the storyof the last legend of earth is amongst the most compeeling I have ever read. After reading this book in Israel in 1995 I have spent three years trying to find another by him
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Summary: It sticks with you
Review: I read this about 8 years ago, but this is the kind of novel that makes you think for years. It is a long read, but you still wonder how he covers so much. The book covers a several thousand year time period millions of years after the end of the earth. I'd pick up another copy in a minute if I could find one. Anyone listening ?
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Summary: It sticks with you
Review: I read this about 8 years ago, but this is the kind of novel that makes you think for years. It is a long read, but you still wonder how he covers so much. The book covers a several thousand year time period millions of years after the end of the earth. I'd pick up another copy in a minute if I could find one. Anyone listening ?
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Summary: Good book, but...
Review: I really enjoyed this book. It reminded me a bit of Lord of Light but with believable science. This was, I believe, the fourth book of the Radix tetrad. Attanasio wanted to write a book based on each of the dimensions and time was the final one. What was interesting was his science, it's hard to make a novel about time travel and have it make sense on a technical level, but I found this novel quite plausible.He writes in a lyrical manner, almost mythical in nature. It was pleasing, but left little in the way of characterization. The book follows many stories (since it encompasses such a huge timeline) and that also left little room for character development. However, my biggest knock against the book was the last 100 pages. I felt the book climaxed too early and just kind of fizzled out in the end. Overall, though, a very solid outing. I strongly recommend the book and will be trying others by this author.
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Summary: The most overlooked sci-fi classic of our time!
Review: I've read this book over 5 times, and I still find something new everytime. Time travel, aliens, other realities, this novel has it all. Humanity is recreated from it's DNA and brought back to life along with EVERY other species that ever lived on Earth. I cannot say enough about this book! READ it! If you love sci-fi this one cannot be passed up! Attanasio's poetry helps move the story line along, and in some places, makes the novel. I'll leave you with this example from the start, where the being about to return humanity to life after billions of years, ponders her actions. "Plucked whole from the stride of oblivion, you spirals of ascension shall climb again into flesh- and your black silence shall unwind into light."
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Summary: This Book Would Make a Killer Movie
Review: It has everything, and the lyrical, fluid style of A. A. Attanasio (see also _Solis_) is a refreshing change from the overdone fantasy and shoot-em-ups that hide under the umbrella of SF. A wonderful book about the achingly distant future and a universe that has almost forgotten humanity ever existed.
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Summary: The best sci-fi book of the last decade
Review: It is difficult to describe how good this book is. The concept is mind-blowing, drawn from the fuzzy edges of quantum physics, yet the human characters are real and ordinary, trying to live their lives out caught up in a beautiful but unfair and cruel world in which they were never meant to live. As far as world creation goes, there is nothing like Chalco-Doror, not even in Attanasio's other works, but it is not the invention and the imaginative flair that is the best part of Last Legends, it is the quality of the writing. No-one in sci-fi (or beyond) writes like him. His style is brilliant and baroque, defined by a pure artistic force that overwhelms the reader, and forces you to be inside the book. Reading this book WILL make your life better! It should have won awards by the bucket-load- how this can be ignored while the likes of Orson Scott Card get recognised is beyond me...
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