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Summary: Trash?
Review: As a big Weis/Hickman fan I had great expectations to their new series. I did not even finish this book. Too many, less interesting characters, for my taste. The plot,as far as I read, was kind of cool though.
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Summary: A Must
Review: For anyone who has ever been completely enchanted by their first fantasy novel, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman can bring that feeling back over and over again. I've read all of their works out so far and this ranks among the most original I've ever read. The characters are well rounded, the plot is involved and the writing is fast paced. A fantastic read.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I am a rather new fan of M.W and T.H, seeing as I viewed the Dragonlance as an extreme dissapointment, however, I was rather impressed by the skill and infinite emotion they placed in this book. This book is an inviting mixture of fantasy and science fiction, somethign that is terrible underrated these days, and involves spaceships and synthetic minds, temples and legends come true. It is a mind-boggling exeperience that really sets the wheels of thought into motion. I would recommend this book to any fan of science fiction and fantasy, and, to any fan of M.W and T.H, this is by far the best I have read by them.
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Summary: Slow start. Great ending.
Review: It took me a quarter of the book before I got into it. The body of the book was average, but the ending more than made up for it. A Margaret Weis book with a happy ending? Out of the 18 books of hers I've read, this book probably has the happiest ending. Actually it may have been too happy. It doesn't leave you hanging for the next book of the series like most of her books do.
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Summary: Slow start. Great ending.
Review: It took me a quarter of the book before I got into it. The body of the book was average, but the ending more than made up for it. A Margaret Weis book with a happy ending? Out of the 18 books of hers I've read, this book probably has the happiest ending. Actually it may have been too happy. It doesn't leave you hanging for the next book of the series like most of her books do.
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Summary: a near miss
Review: this book had good characters, but I dont like the whole "lets restore our once great universe to what it once was, and use magic flagrantly when we just can't supply the hard science" motif
Rating:
Summary: a near miss
Review: this book had good characters, but I dont like the whole "lets restore our once great universe to what it once was, and use magic flagrantly when we just can't supply the hard science" motif
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Summary: A grand tale of power, betrayal, and ancient legends
Review: This book opens up a new universe in the fantasy/sci-fi genre. It begins a series that seeks to combine the best tenets of science and technology with the absolute power of sorcery and magic. It paints a picture of a dynamic universe, a universe that is not filled with the same "stuff" as we would like to believe. The story begins with one of the main protagonists of the story, a strong woman character of the Omnet. This book tells of her life as she sought to correct mistakes told in the first chapters of the book. In enters the second of the two protagonists, Jeremy Griffiths. A replacement astronaut for the first FTL space voyage that humanity has sent to the stars. They were hopeful to just collect "bacterial samples". Obviously they took a bigger bite than they intended since plutonium isn't radioactive in one of the areas they passed through. You will have a grand time as Griffiths is faced with the command of the mission and his ascendance to something more than he bargained for. Because at the end, their voyage will lead to the Mantel of Kendis-dai, a long ago legendary artifact of the greatest Empire in the galaxy, an empire headed by a human Emperor with 3 absolutely powerful artifacts. The Mantle to give wisdom and knowledge, the Nightsword to shape the universe to the user's will, and the Starshield to create peace throughout the galaxy. These sound like mere artifacts, but this is the new galaxy we are talking about. And in the new galaxy, where magic and technology exist side by side and layer on layer, legends are real.
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Summary: Pretty good for a new universe.
Review: This book was pretty good. I say pretty good because I think they could've made the plot a trilogy, which would've made it better. When I got to the end I was like, "Gee, that was short." Still, the physics are believable, the characters well developed, and the universe superb. Readers can sympathize with Griffiths and his crew easily. I did. I also liked the (brief) reapearance of Fizban or Zifnab or whoever he is. A nice touch, which you'll understand if you're a devoted fan of Weis/Hickman. I reccomend it, but not as avidly as others by the same authors.
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Summary: Pretty good for a new universe.
Review: This book was pretty good. I say pretty good because I think they could've made the plot a trilogy, which would've made it better. When I got to the end I was like, "Gee, that was short." Still, the physics are believable, the characters well developed, and the universe superb. Readers can sympathize with Griffiths and his crew easily. I did. I also liked the (brief) reapearance of Fizban or Zifnab or whoever he is. A nice touch, which you'll understand if you're a devoted fan of Weis/Hickman. I reccomend it, but not as avidly as others by the same authors.
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