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Summary: Best book in the trilogy
Review: A very good book, one of my all time favorites. Although, I somewhat disagree with Fosters recurrent theme of humanity's violent tendencies (presented a bit simplistic or naive in a way) it didn't keep me from enjoying this book. It is a great start to the series, and by far the best of the trilogy. There is also a little twist in the first contact theory. Humans carry some advantages that aren't often represented in most scifi stories. I also enjoyed the switching between POVs during the initial encounters, judgments that are made about each side.
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Summary: A great book that I couldn't put down until the end!
Review: A very good book, one of my all time favorites. Although, I somewhat disagree with Fosters recurrent theme of humanity's violent tendencies it didn't keep me from enjoying this book. It is a great start to the series, and by far the best of the trilogy.
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Summary: W O W !!! T O T A L L Y E X C E L L E N T !!!
Review: An excellent series by Foster wherein he explores Humanity's penchant for violence. Earth is discovered by a race of beings involved in an inter-galactic war. This race, once thought to be one of the most violent, finds that Humans are not only more violent, but also extremely capable of waging war. The surprise at the end of the third volume will knock you out of your seat.
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Summary: The real terminator
Review: An excellent series by Foster wherein he explores Humanity's penchant for violence. Earth is discovered by a race of beings involved in an inter-galactic war. This race, once thought to be one of the most violent, finds that Humans are not only more violent, but also extremely capable of waging war. The surprise at the end of the third volume will knock you out of your seat.
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Summary: Greatest sci-fi book out there
Review: I must have read this book six times and I never tire of it, Alan dean Foster's best book by far and I still haven't read a book by him that I did not like. His way of showing humanity from alien point of view is great and the design of the culters of these aliens and mental make-up is wonderfull.
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Summary: Greatest sci-fi book out there
Review: I must have read this book six times and I never tire of it, Alan dean Foster's best book by far and I still haven't read a book by him that I did not like. His way of showing humanity from alien point of view is great and the design of the culters of these aliens and mental make-up is wonderfull.
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Summary: W O W !!! T O T A L L Y E X C E L L E N T !!!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this story the plot, the varied and interesting characters were well done, I think I enjoyed reading the Alien view on what humans truely were, to all the pacifists out there, my apologies, but I tend to agree that humans are bloodthirsty and violent as individuals and as a group, our history proves that. The Alien point of view is enlightening maybe we should embrace our violent nature, and stop being in denial, but then again who would want to live in a utopia type setting, sounds boring!!!
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Summary: Good despite its flaws
Review: I'll be honest. Some of the ideas in this book are silly, such as Earth being tectonically active alone among thousands of inhabited planets, like one reviewer already pointed out. Never mind how the aliens are completely ignorant of tectonics despite all of their other wonderful science.
The main reason I like the book is because it panders to biased view of humanity as princes among carbon-based lifeforms. I like the vision of humans being the strongest, fastest and most vicious species in the stars, and Foster did a good job of portraying the shock of the other races at this.
I see more and more flaws in the plot as the years go by, but I gave it four stars because it's kept me thinking about the subject for such a long time.
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Summary: Good despite its flaws
Review: I'll be honest. Some of the ideas in this book are silly, such as Earth being tectonically active alone among thousands of inhabited planets, like one reviewer already pointed out. Never mind how the aliens are completely ignorant of tectonics despite all of their other wonderful science.
The main reason I like the book is because it panders to biased view of humanity as princes among carbon-based lifeforms. I like the vision of humans being the strongest, fastest and most vicious species in the stars, and Foster did a good job of portraying the shock of the other races at this.
I see more and more flaws in the plot as the years go by, but I gave it four stars because it's kept me thinking about the subject for such a long time.
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Summary: Excellent twist on a 'first contact' story
Review: I'm truly surprised someone hasn't made a movie on this story. It's got everything an epic adventure needs.
It was a page turner from beginning to end. Suffice it to say that by the end of the novel, neither the Weave, the Amplitur, nor the Earth, will ever be quite the same again.
I'm off to pick up the second volume to see what happens next. I must say I loved the heavies, the Amplitur. Surrender to them is a fate worse than death as you'll find out in the novel. I think they were definately used as a model for future villain races in Star Trek and Bab5.
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