Northworld Trilogy

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Summary: A good if incomlete story.
Review: Although this story starts off a little slowly, it is defiantly one of the better Science Fiction trilogies i have ever read. The average reader will not have a problem getting into the plot of this story as it is very easy to understand. Captain North was sent to survey a new planet and he and his crew both disappeared. Three more fleets of ships were sent to learn what happened to them and neither soul nor message returned. The forth time, the rulers of the galaxy sent a single man: Nils Hansen. The story starts out with Hansen as the leader of a Special Units team keeping his planet safe from some of the most violent and intelligent criminals in the galaxy. He doesn't stay there long however. The plot of this story is so original that you can't help but be drawn in by it. The characters are great and you really get to know Hansen and love to see him win. The battle parts are great and the weapons used are nothing short of awe inspiring. It gives a whole new definition to the word armor. The only bad thing i have to say about this book and the only thing that keeps it from receiving 5 stars is the fact that is is NOT complete by any stretch of the imagination. You are left wondering what happens next at the end of the book. Many of the sub plots are left the same way with the main characters just dropped someplace. It is very frustrating as you grow to like all of them in different ways through the course of the book. As a whole i would not hesitate to recommend this book to anyone who likes Sci-fi but i hope you have a good imagination because your gonna have to make up the endings yourself.

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Summary: Easy Read-Cross between Hard Sci-Fi with a dash of Fantasy
Review: I found this trilogy to be an easy read, although I disliked the authors tendency to do the infamous 'jump around' between chapters (building up a scene and then having the next chapter deal with a another character). I also found the description of the Matrix Worlds in the first book of the trilogy confusing and hard to follow. I never felt I was 'seeing' the worlds, and had trouble understanding what Hansen was seeing at times. Overall, not one of Drake's best books, but still, if you're a fan, not that bad.

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Summary: A vikings impression
Review: I'm from Iceland and know the myths that Drake bases this book on quite well and I must say he does a very good job. The story is well writin and manages to bring the feeling of the viking sagas into a great sci-fi book. Strongly recommand this book for all Drake fans

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Summary: A vikings impression
Review: I'm from Iceland and know the myths that Drake bases this book on quite well and I must say he does a very good job. The story is well writin and manages to bring the feeling of the viking sagas into a great sci-fi book. Strongly recommand this book for all Drake fans

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Summary: Very enjoyable read
Review: Northworld is one of my favorite books. I've owned my copy of it for about two years, and am now reading it for the fourth time. This book is complex at times, so you have to put some effort into keeping up with it. David Drake did a good job combining sci fi and nordic mythology. The combinations of futuristic technology with a feudal society in the Peace Rock sections is especially interesting. And in response to those who say the ending is predictable, yes it is. And I would have been disappointed with any other ending.

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Summary: poorly written, two dimentional characters
Review: Northworld trilogy is an attempt to base a science fiction book on rich norse mythology. This book fails on many levels. The combat scenes are muddy and unclear. The characters are two dimentional, and many of their actions is meaningless and is never pursued throughout the story. The female characters are all oversexed morons who are easily manipulated by the male characters through their sexual urges. Each book goes through repetitious scenes with repetitious metaphors, and is ended when the author is bored (the reader was bored from the beginning). I do not recommend this book.

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Summary: A Guilty Pleasure
Review: Northworld was a fun read. The characters were simple, direct, and easy to understand. Drake's short discussions of how he lifted the plotlines from Norse mythology added a lot of interest.

Rating:
Summary: A Guilty Pleasure
Review: Northworld was a fun read. The characters were simple, direct, and easy to understand. Drake's short discussions of how he lifted the plotlines from Norse mythology added a lot of interest.

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Summary: Beyond Sci-Fi
Review: Okay I will keep it short, although there have been criticisms of the ending, I don't agree with them, predictable yes but I don't see how that is automatically negative. But the true strong point of this work is how the author blends craft and wonderful ideas. I do like Simon R. Green and an earlier review had mentioned him as a better alternative, but Green does not have the craft or skill to his writing that Drake does. He has great ideas though. Basically what I am attempting to say is this, Northworld is a wonderfully written series that you can easily lose yourself in.

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Summary: myah...
Review: So so. By Drake's standards, not his best work. Certainly, the scope and complexity of what he was attempting was larger than anything else he has done. Having said that, I couldn't help but notice that after the third or fourth battle in the Open Lands, everything seemed repeated. And repeated. And repeated. The sex scenes seem rather superfluous, as well.

This isn't a bad book, but it shouldn't be ranked as high as some of the classics of the genre.