Antares Dawn

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Summary: Most scifi is dreadful...
Review: ...this isn't. McCollum has a knack of keeping the words out of the way of a good story. I put down most SciFi books in disgust after a few pages when they become too improbable or unintelligent or the quality of the writing is unbearable. But of all "regular" scifi I have enjoyed MacCollum's books the most, especially the Antares books. They are very easy to read, the science is almost always well worked out, and they are hard to put down. Don't expect super-deep character development, but the plots are fun and rattle along. The Antares books in particualar are the sort of books that you feel sad to finish. My favorite kind!

I just hope he sits down and writes a book the size of say, Lord of the Rings, so I can really get into one of these worlds for more than just a few days. Please please!

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Summary: I liked this book.
Review: An excellent read. I have re-read this book for the fifth time. I have also rumaged through every bookstore in southern Germany looking for Antares Passage. The plot is believable and the imagery is excellent. The book is good enough to make me WANT to know what happens next... END

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Summary: ANTARES VICTORY
Review: Antares Victory, the conclusion to the Antares Dawn/Antares Passage series was completed on July 4, 2002.

Michael McCollum
Sci Fi - Arizona

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Summary: Very Enjoyable
Review: I have found it hard to find good science fiction books. Ones that are more "hard science" than straight story telling, but still have an enjoyable story to tell. This is the second of McCollum's books I have read and they are both excellent. I found the concepts very interesting, and the story engrossing. In general, the book was very enjoyable to read. When I finished it, I couldn't stop myself from starting Antares Passage, despite the fact that it was 1:00am and I had to get up in the morning...

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Summary: Very Enjoyable
Review: I have found it hard to find good science fiction books. Ones that are more "hard science" than straight story telling, but still have an enjoyable story to tell. This is the second of McCollum's books I have read and they are both excellent. I found the concepts very interesting, and the story engrossing. In general, the book was very enjoyable to read. When I finished it, I couldn't stop myself from starting Antares Passage, despite the fact that it was 1:00am and I had to get up in the morning...

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Summary: Far future, Sci-fi, humans VS Aliens!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. This is straight science-fiction about the far future when humanity has colonized several star systems. There is some contact with an aggressive alien race. I enjoyed the fact that the book was more or less from the protagonists viewpoint and we did not get real insight into the Aliens. This made the aliens more... well... ALIEN!! The politics, the technology, the subplots were all believable, interesting, and enthralling. I couldn't put this book down!

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Summary: Far future, Sci-fi, humans VS Aliens!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. This is straight science-fiction about the far future when humanity has colonized several star systems. There is some contact with an aggressive alien race. I enjoyed the fact that the book was more or less from the protagonists viewpoint and we did not get real insight into the Aliens. This made the aliens more... well... ALIEN!! The politics, the technology, the subplots were all believable, interesting, and enthralling. I couldn't put this book down!

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Summary: Good read for a long summer night
Review: McCollum creates a believable world, with characters you care about. This is similar to the Hornblower series...but set in the future. Highly recommended for those who love the genre.

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Summary: Most scifi is dreadful...
Review: The Altans think being cut off from the rest of humanity was a bad thing,and it was.However, things could have been much worse for them. The current human condition could be veiwed in much the same way.Maybe we are lucky not to find other intellegent beings up to this point.

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Summary: Excellent Off-World Sci-Fi
Review: This isn't a review per se, just a kudo for the author: Michael McCollum does it again. I've read just about everything by this author and have determined that he's one of the very best sci-fi authors ever. I've read this book and its sequel three times now--about once every 6 months or so since finding them. This is the kind of story that stays with me and keeps drawing me back over and over--even tho I know what's gonna happen! The broad landscape of this story is absolutely entralling, the characters are well developed and really come alive, and the physics of wormhole travel even seems plausible. Please, please someone make a movie out of this story. It would translate MOST EXCELLENTLY to the big screen.