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Summary: Loved Bright Messengers. Where is the Sequel????
Review: I read the book when it was first published back in 1996 and loved its Rama-like feel. Obviously by scanning other reader comments I am not the only one waiting for the sequel. WHERE THE @#$%^&* IS IT?????!!!!! Please hurry!!!!
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Summary: So what happened to Double Full Moon Light?
Review: Like many of your on line reviewers I'm a big fan of the Rama saga and enjoyed Gentry Lee's solo opus. And also like many, am really disappointed that the sequel - or at least the next installment has still not appeared. It would be interesting to see what the publishers have to say about this. Is is that Bright Messengers didn't sell well enough to bring out the sequel? Or has Lee gotten too busy with his other gig?
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Summary: Excellent continuation of the Rama series
Review: I am an avid fan of the Rama series and was suprised to find a new offering. The story has endless opportunities for more books. I have been waiting for the next installment for some time and hope that the reviews that this book has received will promt Mr. Lee to write the next.
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Summary: Great book but where's the continuation?
Review: I really did enjoy this book and several questions from the other Rama series have been answered to fill in the timeline. Unfortunately, more questions have either now been forced from us to ask for the next book NOW or we still have many unanswered questions from the previous Rama books. Please, Please don't tease us with saying that the next continuining book will be released (my hardcover edition says in late 1996) and then not deliver. I have even contacted many of the larger chain bookstores and they do list the second book as coming out in print but that it is currently out of print and they suggested a used book store. The used stores also looked up the book and they too said the same thing. WHERE IS THIS BOOK? I have yet to see it anywhere. That is about my ONLY real criticism of this book.
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Summary: As good as they get
Review: I have long been an avid "Rama" fan and in fact was somewhat disappointed by the sequels. I found this book in hardcover, in the "bargain pile" and thought, what the heck... If you read Arthur Clarke's forward, he mentions how difficult it was for him to accept a character that was so entirely good... Well I found myself wondering and contemplating throughout this book. It is not only good Sci-fi, it makes you think. I did not find it to push any one's religious philosophy -- it only pushed me to think about things. On top of that, there's hard Sci-Fi, fantasy, adventure, violence, and romance. What more could you ask for. And -- I too have been searching for the sequel -- maybe Mr. Lee is too busy with real spacecraft.
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Summary: I loved it but...
Review: where the hell is the sequel??
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Summary: A fresh look at the evolving humanity in the Rama Universe
Review: This time G. Lee takes again to the Rama Universe at a different time than before, but this time there is more humanism in the characters and the second part of the story is a constant rollercoaster of human feelings as the characters faces the ugliness and the beauty of the human soul. If you love serious sci-fic this story will fulfill your thirst with plenty of characgter development and still grab your attention with the surrounding sci-fic technology and story
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Summary: First half Excellent - Second half Sucks.
Review: I loved the first half of the book, the characters are interesting and you want to care about them. The adventures on Mars or should I say the short term adventures on Mars, was along the lines of RAMA. Then sadly to say, as the story progress it falls apart. I had the feeling I was reading the bible in a sci-fi content. Lee puts too much of his religious beliefs in the characters, thus destroying any connection you had with them. Lets hope book two is more adventure and less religion
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Summary: Sadly, it all falls apart at the end. . . .
Review: During the first half of the story, when everything is taking place on Mars, "Bright Messengers" is a wonderful tale. As the story reaches its midpoint, however, things begin to rapidly go downhill. . . .
In the second half of the book, the characters become implausible and the situations wholly unrealistic (or, more acurately, how the characters react TO the situations becomes unrealistic). Gentry Lee asks us to believe too much; I just couldn't swallow it.
The main characters accept being ripped from their former lives and essentially put in a prison with barely a wimper. It seems as though Lee just wanted the story to end. He rushes the plot and it comes down around his ears.
Agreeing with another reviewer here, "Bright Messengers" is very much like the "Rama" books Lee co-authored with Arthur C. Clarke: they're essentially "people" stories (i.e. not "action" or "suspense" stories). And, like those previous books, at times, it becomes tedious in the extreme ("Rendevous With Rama" was the only true masterpiece).
Overall, this is a decent book, considering how much sci-fi trash really is out there. Still, take a LONG break between the "Rama" books and this one; if you don't, you'll bore yourself to tears. We can only hope that the sequel will be better. . . .
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Summary: Beautiful!!
Review: I really enjoyed this one! It was like following a very intense, beautiful dream. BUT WHERE IS "DOUBLE FULL MOON NIGHT?!!!"
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