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Summary: An Awesome Start!
Review: I have been reading Science Fiction for more than 20 years and not many books have the fast start and enduring stamina that this book does! I could not put this book down. I picked it and Evergence II: The Dying Light at random. Boy, was I surprised. I am eagerly awaiting the third book and I am now looking into other titles written by these master story tellers.
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Summary: My new favorite series
Review: I too, was instantly hooked on this series. The story moves at a great pace and keeps you on the edge of your seat. There were many nights I lost hours of sleep because I could not possibly put the story down. The characters are very complex and believable personalities set in a fantastic universe. The depth of the various factions that play with and against each other is vast. The setting that Dix and Williams have created is so rich that even upon completing the trilogy, I am left wanting to know more about their universe and those within it. The characters are vivid and easy to love. The science of their world is distributed evenly throughout the story so that you understand the mechanics without it getting in the way of the story. The action is non-stop and addictive and the plot takes turns that you simply don't see coming and yet leaves you feeling as if you should have, right up to the ending. I personally loved this series including the ending and placed it among my all time favorites. I hope to see many more from these very talented writers. I think everyone should email the Sci-Fi channel and ask to see this in a sci-fi channel series!
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Summary: My new favorite series
Review: I too, was instantly hooked on this series. The story moves at a great pace and keeps you on the edge of your seat. There were many nights I lost hours of sleep because I could not possibly put the story down. The characters are very complex and believable personalities set in a fantastic universe. The depth of the various factions that play with and against each other is vast. The setting that Dix and Williams have created is so rich that even upon completing the trilogy, I am left wanting to know more about their universe and those within it. The characters are vivid and easy to love. The science of their world is distributed evenly throughout the story so that you understand the mechanics without it getting in the way of the story. The action is non-stop and addictive and the plot takes turns that you simply don't see coming and yet leaves you feeling as if you should have, right up to the ending. I personally loved this series including the ending and placed it among my all time favorites. I hope to see many more from these very talented writers. I think everyone should email the Sci-Fi channel and ask to see this in a sci-fi channel series!
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Summary: An imaginative Action/Adventure
Review: Set in the far future when humanity has fragmented into innumerable different species who fill the galaxy. This novel has the imagination and complexity of, "A Fire Upon the Deep" by Vernor Vinge, with the action of a David Drake novel. This is the first in a series I'm really looking forward to reading. This is good Science Fiction.
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Summary: Builds on you - thoroughly enjoyable.
Review: Straight off - the first book of this series reminded me an awful lot of a revamped version of Blakes 7, a classic british science fiction show. I loved that show, so this review may be a little biased.Morgan Roche is a strong, competent, highly intelligent 'intelligence' officer for the Commonwealth. She has been ordered to transport a brand spanking new generation of AI to headquarters via a highly circutitious route that should 'throw off anyone chasing'. Needless to say, they catch up anyway. Thrown in with an old, sneaky trader, a young mutilated ESPer, a gentically engineered supwerwarrior from the distant past and a smart talking briefcase, Morgan has to escape from the prison planet she just happened to crashland on, and continue her mission. That all sounds very pat, and it is the basic framework for the story. But its a lot more interesting thatn that, with a lot of plot twists, and a genuinely interesting universe thats guaranteed to keep your attention. Keep in mind that this is the first book in a series, probably a trilogy, and there are some questions raised that will be answered in later books.
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Summary: Builds on you - thoroughly enjoyable.
Review: Straight off - the first book of this series reminded me an awful lot of a revamped version of Blakes 7, a classic british science fiction show. I loved that show, so this review may be a little biased. Morgan Roche is a strong, competent, highly intelligent 'intelligence' officer for the Commonwealth. She has been ordered to transport a brand spanking new generation of AI to headquarters via a highly circutitious route that should 'throw off anyone chasing'. Needless to say, they catch up anyway. Thrown in with an old, sneaky trader, a young mutilated ESPer, a gentically engineered supwerwarrior from the distant past and a smart talking briefcase, Morgan has to escape from the prison planet she just happened to crashland on, and continue her mission. That all sounds very pat, and it is the basic framework for the story. But its a lot more interesting thatn that, with a lot of plot twists, and a genuinely interesting universe thats guaranteed to keep your attention. Keep in mind that this is the first book in a series, probably a trilogy, and there are some questions raised that will be answered in later books.
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Summary: Classic Space Opera with modern trimmings
Review: This book was a fun romp. Despite the "modern" trammings of an independant AI and a genetically enhanced character, it is basically an old fasioned Space Opera. The book starts out like gang-busters drags just a little in the middle, then gets you back on your toes with plot twists at the end. This is not the kind of SF that will change your view of the universe, but it is better than any thing on TV and makes a great stress reducing escape.
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Summary: Evergence-The Prodigal Sun
Review: This was the first science fiction book i read. I'm hooked. I can't wait for the next in the series to come out. First of all someone wrote about that this book would be hard to understand for a kid,I understood it and I am 15. Maybe i liked it so much because it was the first SF novel i read, but i think it is a great book. Morgan Roche is a commander for the CommonWealth of Empires. Her mission is to transport the Artifial Intelligence box known as "Box" to her superiors. She meets up with an unknow soldier, Adoni Cane. On the way her transport ship "Midnight" is ambushed by the Dato Bloc, an empire that has just succeeded the COE. Her only hope is to excape to the prison planet "Sciacca's world." Sean Williams and Shane Dix did a good job creating their own little world in this novel. I look forward to reading the rest in this series as they come out. Five Stars
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Summary: and so it begins...
Review: This was where it all began. I was hooked right from the start and I never looked back. After reading this one I went straight on to the second and third books, and loved the entire series. But this was the one that set the mood for the following saga. I had forgotten how good sci fi could be. And it wasn't just a boy's own adventure either. The central character is a female and a damn strong female too. I couldn't help thinking as I read this how good the story would be made into a movie and having read the following 2 books in the series I have to say the whole thing should be turned into a trilogy of films! This could be the next Star Wars! Maybe this type of reaing isn't for everyone but if you do like sci fi space opera as much as I do then I recommend these books. Utterly satisfying from beginning to end.
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Summary: Out of the frying pan
Review: Two aussie up and coming authors write a sci-fi story with Indianna Jones like rolling action. Ideas and depth of culture and science I found most enjoyable. The book was full to the brim of twists, betrayals and action. Two males writing from a female perspective, I found this intriguing, being a male I can't say whether they pulled it off or not with any authority. Although this is the first of a trilogy it easily stands alone as a work with a begining and a definate outcome, which I find refreshing.
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