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Summary: cool intro book to series
Review: happened upon this and first 5 books in series .. it was a very pleasant surprise and find... good action.. neat concept and good action and stories .. great characters and character development.. i fully enjoyed this and first 5 books..i am now searching for other books in series.. hoping to find number 6 and on... anyone with info please contact me.. willing to trade or sell mine .. let me know..thanx..
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Summary: I cant believe there are not more of these books!!!
Review: I came online looking for more of these books, I am shocked and appalled that they do not exist! how upsetting! i am one of those people that hits a couple used book stores every 6 - 18 months and purchases 300$ worth of books (25% and i want 75% as chances) this was a chance book but darnit if it wasnt an awsome book!! I am so upset there isnt more of them!! in fact, i recomend this book to NOONE! DONT READ THIS BOOK!!!! you will just want to read the sequal! and guess what; turns out there IS NONE! I had to say that yes, the book was geared toward youth. but the author did do a very good job of expanding beyond that, with exellant and diversified characters and an apallingly interesting story line, i would buy the entire series if it existed!! Like i said, i am EXTREMELY upset i read the book because if leaves off perfect for a sequal, it was designed to have a sequal! and it doesnt have one! its extremely infuriating!! because it leaves off right in the middle of the story. leaves you with a hollow feeling, knowing you will never know what happens next.
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Summary: After 18 years, I still pick up this book
Review: I don't know what to say other than the fact that at sixteen, I wanted to be the heroine to the hero in this novel. It was so much more than a tie-in book to a children's tv show. The depth that this story went to in portraying the events going on in these alternate galaxies was truly unique and engrosing. I'm glad to know that there are used copies out there, so when my copy finally dies, I'll have the chance to replace it. An excellent book that shouldn't be dated by the time it was written or overlooked because of the 'childish' subject mater/tie in.
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Summary: Terrific, little-known adventure novel
Review: I have always had a soft spot for stories which could easily have been treated as "hack" assignments but which the author cared enough about to make worthwhile. "Thieves of Light" is one of my favorites.Michael Hudson is the pen name of Michael P. Kube-McDowell. "Photon" was a forgettable Lazer Tag ripoff of the 1980's. The toy company commissioned a TV show based on it, and this novel was intended to be a tie-in to the show. (There is a separate series of children's novels connected to the show written by Peter David under the pen name David Peters; don't read them, they're awful). Hudson took great liberties with the source material he was given, producing a much more intelligent and mature story than the show lent itself to. The premise is reminiscent of The Last Starfighter--the Photon game turns out to be an alien civilization's method of locating and training potential fighters for an interstellar war against a genuinely evil enemy. Percival is wonderful as the lonely wunderkind. It's difficult to write an intelligent child character properly, but it's wonderful when it is done right, whether it's L'Engle's Charles Wallace or the BBC's Tomorrow People or Twain's Huck Finn. Bhodi Li is the gifted but overeager teenager who has to learn the seriousness of war. I've always loved reptile characters, and as Lihon delivers lessons on Sun Tzu and the strategy of avoiding needless bloodshed, he lends a weighty, saurian dignity to the proceedings. The rapid-terraforming devices that the war is being fought over are a very cool piece of technology. This was intended to be the beginning of a series of books, and it's a pity that others were not completed-though my understanding is that Kube-McDowell was only under contract for this one book, so subsequent volumes might have wound up being of lower quality. Reminiscent of Heinlein's young adult books, this is a fun, intelligent adventure that I'd recommend to science fiction fans of any age.
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Summary: Terrific, little-known adventure novel
Review: I have always had a soft spot for stories which could easily have been treated as "hack" assignments but which the author cared enough about to make worthwhile. "Thieves of Light" is one of my favorites. Michael Hudson is the pen name of Michael P. Kube-McDowell. "Photon" was a forgettable Lazer Tag ripoff of the 1980's. The toy company commissioned a TV show based on it, and this novel was intended to be a tie-in to the show. (There is a separate series of children's novels connected to the show written by Peter David under the pen name David Peters; don't read them, they're awful). Hudson took great liberties with the source material he was given, producing a much more intelligent and mature story than the show lent itself to. The premise is reminiscent of The Last Starfighter--the Photon game turns out to be an alien civilization's method of locating and training potential fighters for an interstellar war against a genuinely evil enemy. Percival is wonderful as the lonely wunderkind. It's difficult to write an intelligent child character properly, but it's wonderful when it is done right, whether it's L'Engle's Charles Wallace or the BBC's Tomorrow People or Twain's Huck Finn. Bhodi Li is the gifted but overeager teenager who has to learn the seriousness of war. I've always loved reptile characters, and as Lihon delivers lessons on Sun Tzu and the strategy of avoiding needless bloodshed, he lends a weighty, saurian dignity to the proceedings. The rapid-terraforming devices that the war is being fought over are a very cool piece of technology. This was intended to be the beginning of a series of books, and it's a pity that others were not completed-though my understanding is that Kube-McDowell was only under contract for this one book, so subsequent volumes might have wound up being of lower quality. Reminiscent of Heinlein's young adult books, this is a fun, intelligent adventure that I'd recommend to science fiction fans of any age.
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Summary: Very Good
Review: This book was very good. It had/has a very good plot to it. What I also liked was how it didn't get to discriptive, it let u accually think about it.
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