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HITCHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: This is a wonderful, fun to read book. I completly recommend reading this one. It is a wacky, wierd, look at everything you thought you knew. In unexpected travels through the galaxy only one book is required reading and this one is it. An A+.
"This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - not an Earth book, never published on Earth and until the terrible catastrophe occured, never seen or even heard of by an Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.
This is the story of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be (*all ready was*) a television spectacle on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posisng as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for teh revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with the words DON'T PANIC written on the front ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.")
In their travel they meet:To find the answers to these burning questions: Why are we born? Why do we die? And why do we spend so much time in between wearing digital watches? read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. But remember ... don't panic, and don't forget to bring a towel."
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LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING: The second book in the Hitchhiker trilogy that isn't excactly three books long. If you didn't like the first one don't bother. You won't get this one either. Another A+.
Now join the end-of-the-world party, bring your pink towel and your jogging shoes and find out if potatoes are the answer.
LIFE THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
Join Arthur Dent, earthling, "jerk," kneebiter and time-traveler; sexy space cadet Trillian; mad alien Ford Prefect; unflappable Slartibartfast; two-headed, three armed, ex-head Honcho of the Universe Zaphod Beeblebrox ... you'll learn to fly.
Is it the end? Or just the beginning, again.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the bookstore, Douglas Adams presents The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
The Time: Infinity
The Place: The Universe
The Survivors: Arthur Dent (Earthling) - a mild-mannered, out-to-lunch space traveler, searching the cosmos for a decent cup of tea. Ford Prefect (alien) - unflappable researcher for the most successful and useful book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Trillian (earthling) - sexy space cadet who gave Arthur the cold shoulder at a cocktail party; she is now the girl friend of Zaphod Beeblebrox (alien) - two headed, three-armed ex-head honcho of the Universe.
This fantastic foursome encounters paranoid androids, existential elevators, improbability drives, and kill-o-zap blasters on an interstellar romp that takes them from a thirty megaton rock concert on Kakrafoon to Milliways, the restaurant at the end of the Universe, where the main dish of the day introduces itself and the floor show is doomsday.
How will it all end? Will they discover the origin of the bathtub? Will they find the significance of gin and tonic? Will they find out the question to the answer 42? For the answers to theses and other cosmic questions, climb aboard and Douglas Adams's zany spaceship and get ready to blast off. Take an improbable ride; your table is ready at The Restaurant at the end of the Universe.
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Didn't care too much for the ending but I won't give it away. Adams does his usual good job of mixing the zany with wry humor. The new characters introduced in this book are a little weak. They don't really connect with Ford nor with Arthur until the end of the book and then not so well. But it is a Douglas Adams book and for the most part lives up to that high distinction. A B book. Not great but it will do.
It's very easy to get a little disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished in a misunderstanding about the nature of space-time, the spaceship you are on crashes in flames on a remote and Bob-fearing planet and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit and, immediately, all hell breaks loose.
Hell takes a number of forms: there is the usual Ford Prefect form of hell, fresh hell in the form of an all-new version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which behaves in an altogether more mysterious, sinister and airborn manner, and a totally unexpected hell that arrives in the form of a teenage girl who utterly startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn't even know he had one.
Much as Arthur would love to stay in his rural sandwich-making idyll, he is forced to set off on his travels once again, this time on the back of a mysterious Perfectly Normal Beasts. Can he save the Earth from destruction throughout all dimensional probabilities? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover? Can he save the Grebulons from completely myopic junked-up idiocy? Can he save his daughter Random from herself?
Of course not. He never even works out what is going on, exactly.
Will you?
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DOUGLAS ADAMS'S STARSHIP TITANIC by Terry Jones: This is no Douglas Adams book and it shows. The characters are weak and one dimensional, the dialogue misses that Adams' zaniness as does the plot. You feel as though Adams gave this to some friend and said here's an idea for a book, but I'm too busy to write it. Whip something together for me. (It's beside the point that this is exactly what he did. ;) This book gets a D. I finished it for Adams and Adams fans, and that's the only reason.
At the center of the galaxy, a vast, unknown civilization is preparing for an event of epic proportions: the launching of the greatest, most gorgeous, most technologically advanced Starship ever built - the Starship Titanic.
An earthling would see it as a mixture of the Chyrsler Building, the tomb of Tutankhamen, and Venice. But less provincial onlookers would recognize it as the design of Leovinus, the galaxy's most renowned architect. He is an old man now, and the creation of the Starship Titanic is the pinnacle achievement of his twenty-year career.
The night before the launch, Leovinus is prowling around the ship having a last little look. With mounting alarm he begins to find things are not right: unfinished workmanship, cybersystems not working correctly, robots colliding with doors. How could this have happened? And how could this have happened without his knowing?
Something somewhere is terribly wrong.
On the following day, in an artificial event staged for the media, the Starship Titanic will leave its construction dock under autopilot and, a few days later, make its way to the terminal to pick up passengers for its maiden voyage. Although the ship will be deserted during its very first flight, it is nevertheless a major event, watched by all the galaxy's media.
Hugely, magnificently, the fabulous ship eases its way forward from the construction dock, picks up speed, sways a bit, veers wildly, and just before it can do massive damage to everything around it, appears to undergo SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure).
In just ten seconds, the whole, stupendous enterprise is over. And our story has just begun.
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DIRK GENTLY's HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY: This is the first in the Dirk Gently Series. A good book with the same wit and style as shown in Adams' Hitchhiker series except this one stays closer to home. However it lacks some of the thrill or punch that the Hitchhiker series has. A B book all in all.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a ghost-horror-detective-time travel-romantic comedy epic.
Dirk Gently is a private detective who is more interested in telekinesis, quantium mechanics and luchg than fiddling around with fingerprint powder, so his investigations tend to produce startling and unexpected results. A simple search for a missing cat uncovers a bewildered ghost, a secret time-traveler, and the devastating secret that lies behind the whole human history and threatens to bring it to a premature end.
Sadly, the cat dies.
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THE LONG DARK TEA TIME OF THE SOUL: A good book except I'm not too crazy about the end. It still gets an A though. Adams is as funny as ever with the second book with detective Dirk Gently. Off the wall and strangely, some might say frighteningly, plausible yet impossible events that make this a definite read. An A.
When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the floor engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.
No rational cause could be found for the explosion it was simply designated an act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which god? And why? What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15.37 to Oslo?
Funnier than Psycho ... more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge ... shorter than War and Peace ... the new Dirk Gently novel. The Long dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
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HONG KONG: This story is set in late '96 right before Hong Kong returns to the Chinese. It is an Okay story of how variaous people deal with the changes
to come. It, however, is no James Clavell. Unfortunately there will never be any more Clavell, so this book is as good a substitute as any.
The focus is on two business men and the ladies in their lifes. There was a need for more attention to how the changes are affecting the city and its people. Also
the characters were not as fully developed or well rounded as would have been nice. All and all this book is a 'C' or 'C+'.
"Hong Kong, British Crown Colony. Jewel of Asia, she is the queen of commerce, a vibrant city where the art of the deal is centuries old where men can make fortunes in minutes and anything (or anyone) can be had for a price.
Hong Kong. China. No longer a prize of British colonialism, Hong Kong will enter a new realm of history as China reclaims what she sees as her most wayward child. No one knows what this change will bring. Will this become a new era of peace and prosperity for the city uniting the people with a common god and vision, all working for the glory of China?
Or will this mean the destruction of Hong Kong's way of life, a withdrawal of all the liberties enjoyed by the island's residents by a mainland government that views all trade as state as state secrets and the press as an enemy of the People's Republic?
Change can bring joy - but more often it brings fear. Among the varied individuals confronting historic change:
Brandon Poole: One of Hong Kong's richest industrialists, he is a British aristocrat whose family helped colonize the city and whose love for it will keep him there,
perhaps long past the time of safety.
Lacy Locke: A new York investment banker who comes to Hong Kong to make her mark and winds up with much more than she ever bargained for.
Claude Van Hooten: A Dutch businessman hungry for sucess, whose dreams have drawn him to this city and whose love for one woman may doom them both.
Moia Hsu: A beautiful Chinese intellecutal whose love for Van Hooten and her country are tearing her apart.
These four people - and all the teeming masses of this wonderous place- will face the destiny of Hong Kond together. And the question all will seek the answer to is ..
Will the dragon destroy its most precious treasure?"
A puzzling case of roboticide takes New York detective Elijah Baley from Earth to the planet Aurora, where humans and robots have, till now, always coexisted in perfect harmony.
Only the gifted roboticist Han Fastolfe had the means, the motive and the opportunity to commit the crime - but Baley must prove the man innocent. for the murder of Jander Parnell is closely tied to a power struggle that will decide who will be the next interstellar pioneers in the universe.
Armed only with his own instincts, his sometimes quirky logic, and the immutable Three Laws of robotics, Baley sets out to solve the case. But can anything prepare a simple Earthman for the psychological complexities of a world where a beautiful woman can easily have fallen in love with an all-too-human robot?
Back to Issac AsimovROBOTS AND EMPIRE: Another story in the Elijah Bailey series. If you liked any of the other Robot stories you'll like this one.
Two hundred years after his humilating dereat at the hands of the Earthman elijah Baley. Kelden Amadiro still dreamed of revenge. Now, finally, he set into motion a plot that would totallly destroy the plane Earth.
But Amadiro had not counted on the power still exerted long after his death. For Baley’s vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, and the extraordinarily gifted robot Giskard - and they were the only ones who could save Earth.
Fortunately for Amadiro, Daneel and Giskard wee restrained by the dictates of the three Laws of Robotics. Or were they?
Back to Issac AsimovFOUNDATION begins a new chapter in the story of man's future life. The Old Empire was crumbling into ancient barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy. Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists must create a new life, the FOUNDATION dedicated to art, science, and technology as the beginnings of a new empire. The Foundation novels of Issac Asimov are among the most famous books in all of science- fiction.
Issac Asimov is one of that small handful of writers who have created an important new literature in science fiction. His famous FOUNDATION trilogy is a landmark in imaginative fiction and winner of special Hugo Award as Best All Time Series in the realm of science and fantasy fiction winning over such works as those Tolkien, Burroughs and E.E. Smith. In this, the beginning of the epic, he tells of life in the Galactic Empire, and of Hari Seldon's battle to prevent tens of thousands of years of anarchy through the creation of the Foundation.
The Galactic Empire lasted for 12,000 years and ruled over a million planets. But now it was dying. hari, Seldon, creator of the science of psychohisory, knew that its death would be followed by 30,000 years of brutal barbarism and savage warfare
To Preserve knowledge and shorton the dark period to a mere thousand years, Hari Seldon set up the Encyclopedia Foundation and staffed it with the best
scholars and scientists of the empire.
Then he placed it upon Terminus, a bleak world at the edge of the galaxy.
But now the Empire was retreating, leaving the Foundation isolated and unprotected. Around it, little barbarian kingdoms were already beginning their wars in search of dominance
The foundation knew itself as the only hope of mankind. But what could it do, alone and helpless, against th greed of the warlords who were reaching out to conquer and destroy it?
Back to Issac AsimovFoundation and Empire tells the incredible story of a new breed of man who creates a new force for galactic government. Thus, the Foundation hurtles, into conflict with the decadent, decrepit First Empire. In this struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars, man stands at the threshold of a new, enlightened life which could easily be put aside for the old foreces of barbarism.
Back to Issac AsimovWhen the Galactic Empire died, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon set up the Foundation to preserve knowledge and lead men to a new empire after a thousand years. Now Seldon's plan seemed ended - ruined by the mutant mind power of the Mule.
But there was a Second Foundation "at the other end of the galaxy," set up to protect the plan. The Mule had failed to find it the first time, by now he was sure he saw where it lay.
The men of the foundation also sought its location. Some of their finest minds were being dominated - and not by the Mule. They sought the Second Foundation to prevent its taking them over.
They saw only one place where it could by. And young Arkady Darrell, fourteen years old and desperate with fear, knew she had discovered the terrible secret.
Or had she?
Hari Seldon, the great psychohistorian, set up the Foundation to by pass millennia of barbarism and bring about a Second Empire in a mere thousand years. Now, 498 years after its founding the Foundation seemed to be following the Seldon Plan perfectly.
Too perfectly, Golan Trevize was sure. Such perfection was impossible after the unpredictable desire of the Mule- unless the supposedly destroyed Second Foundation was still controlling humanity. But his attempts to warn others had led only to his exile in space.
Stor Gendibal of the Second Foundation was also worried by that perfection and suspected tampering by an even greater power. Now he, too, had been sent onto space to trace the strange mission of Trevize. Behind both came the warships of the Foundation, risking holocaust to utilize whatever Trevize had found.
He had found an impossible planet - with even more impossible powers. Events had gone far beyond the Seldon Plan. And only Trevize could save the Plan - or destroy it forever!
Fooundation and Earth:SENSE and SENSIBILITY: This book was hard to get into. Austen takes the story of two sisters, one quick to emotion and the other reasonable nearly to a fault and puts them in a similar situation of unreturned fancy. In the right hands this could be an interesting story and you would think Austen would make it so. Unfortunately not, her story is dull and I kept waiting for something to happen. There was no biting irony or under the surface commentary. This being Jane Austen's first novel explains some of it. You see a few glimpses of her use of language and irony but not enough to carry this book. I give this a C-.
Austen's first published novel centers on the experiences of two dissimilar sisters who undergo comparable experiences in the loss of the men they love. With a cast of characters satirically drawn, Sense and Sensibility remains a classic example of Austen's skill.
With Mr. Dashwood's death, his wife and two daughters, Elinor and Marianne, must accustom themselves to genteel poverty. When Marianne meets the man of her dreams, everyone expects a marriage; unaccountably, he rejects her, with devastating effect. It falls to Elinor, the sensible elder sister, to pick up the pieces, while harboring a secret longing of her own. In Sense and Sensibility, the warmth between two very different sisters contrasts with Austen's deliciously precise observation of vanity, selfishness and snobbery.
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: A classic. Excellent use of the English language. A wonderful story of what else but pride and prejudice. It is a story of love and marriage, friendship and betrayal of 1800's British society and more. A good grasp of English society and culture of the time period is a good thing to have or catch up on before reading this book; it's not essential but it helps. Jane Austin has a mastery of the English language that is a site to behold, some of the insults are so subtle yet so cutting it's hilarious. An A+. A must read!
In a remote Hertfordshire village, far off the good coach roads of George III's England, a country squire of no great means must marry off his five vivacious daughters. At the heart of this all-consuming enterprise are his headstrong second daughter Elizabeth Bennet and her aristocratic suitor Fitzwilliam Darcy - two lovers whose pride must be humbled and prejudices dissolved before the novel can come to its splendid conclusion.
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PERSUASION: This, the last of Jane Austen's completed novels, is not her best work. But when your works are considered literary classics that isn't such a bad thing. The same thing can be said of Persuasion, not bad. The biting wit and sharp criticism of Austen's earlier works are missing here but they would seem out of place in the mouths of the characters in this book.
It is as though Austen wrote this book as a way of showing that a good, intelligent, woman doesn't have to critical to be admired or admirable. Persuasion is a nice little story about a woman who has lost love and finds it all while staying true to herself and not offending anyone, almost, along the way. I give this book a C for Austen, which for most other authors would be something to aspire to.
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."
Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple love-story with depth and subtlety.
She describes her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me': Anne Elliot's goodness is not of the cloying kind, but an unsentimental quality that, combined with stoicism and integrity, enables her to find happiness in love after seven years when it seemed she had forever put an end to such a prospect.
The settings of Lyme Regis and Bath are evoked no less vividly than the characters who frequent them, and Jane Austen's achievement is exemplified by Tennyson's famous remark when visiting Lyme in 1867: 'Now take me to the Cobb, and show me the steps from which Louisa Musgrove fell.'
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When Fanny Price, an "exceedingly timid" and insignificant child of ten, arrives at Mansfield Park to be brought up by her Aunt and Sir Thomas Bertram, few would think that she had the makings of a heroine. She grows up very different from her cousins, Maria and Julia, for she is neither beautiful, witty nor accomplished; but she posses an instinctive goodness which they so disastrously lack. Sometimes her judgment is keener even that that of her cousin, Edmund, for whereas he is bewitched by their charming neighbor, Mary Crawford, Fanny realizes that both Mary and her brother, Henry, attractive and amusing as he is, are morally unsound. Only after their ruthlessness has caused misery to everyone at Mansfield Park does Edmund appreciate Fanny's courage and gentleness and offer her the happiness which she deserves.
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JENNIFER GOVERNMENT: A NOVEL: A story of a world where consumerism is king and you pretty much have to pay for everything. The premise of the book is a bit far fetched but enjoyable. Corporations pretty much rule the western world, though parts of Europe are socialist extremes. And one man's greed is enough to take him to the top of a greedy society, almost. The characters are a little flat and the plot stretches believability but you can forgive the book that especially because the book doesn't take itself too seriously. I give it a B/B-.
Jennifer Government is Here to Help!
In Max Barry's twisted, hilarious vision of the near future, the world is run by giant American corporations (except for a few deluded holdouts like the French); taxes are illegal; employees take the last names of the companies they work for; The Police and The NRA are publicly-traded security firms; the U.S. government may only investigate crimes if they can bill a citizen directly. It's a free market paradise!
Hack Nike is a lowly Merchandising Officer who's not very good at negotiating his salary. So when John Nike and John Nike, executives from the promised land of Marketing, offer him a contract, he signs without reading it. Unfortunately, Hack's new contract involves shooting teenagers to build up street creed for Nike's new line of $2,500 sneakers. Scared, Hack goes to The Police, who assume he's asking for a subcontracting deal and lease the assassinations to the NRA.
Soon Hack finds himself pursued by Jennifer Government, a tough-talking agent with a barcode tattoo under her eye and a rabid determination to nail John Nike (the boss of the other John Nike). In a world where your job title means everything, the most cherished possession is a platinum credit card, and advertising jingles give way to automatic weapons in the fight for market share, Jennifer Government is the consumer watchdog from hell.
Jennifer Government is the kind of novel that can become a byword--a Catch-22 for the New World Order, a satire both broad and pointed, deeply funny and disturbingly on-target.
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Greg Bear
The second book in the new Foundation Trilogy that has been sanctioned by the Asimov estate is a fine contribution to the historic and wonderful series of the Foundation and Robot series of Asimov.
This book takes a look at the period just before the launching of the foundation. With the work of R. Daneel and Hari Seldon the foundation must move forward. But unknown and unforseen forces have come up that will definitely effect the future of the foundation and thus the empire. Everyone is out to put their own spin on this up and coming force but who will ultimately control it? The Empire, the foundation, R. Daneel or will they go a way of their own? A good book and deserving of a B+.
Issac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern SF, and the sheer sweep of his "future history" shaped many if not most of the writers who followed him.
With permission - and blessing - of the Asimov estate, three of today's bestselling SF writers, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and David Brin, have conspired (like the original Foundation!) to complete the epic saga the beloved Grand Master left unfinished.
The acclaimed Second Foundation Trilogy continues with Greg Bear's Foundation and Chaos, the gripping new novel about a galaxy-wide power struggle within the ranks of the robots that have served and protected human kind for twenty centuries.
Hari Seldon, frail and full of years is on trial for daring to predict the Empire's fall, and the time has come for the long anticipated migration to Star's End. But R. Daneel Olivaw, the brilliant robot entrusted with this great mission, has discovered a potential enemy, even deadlier than the figurehead Emperor's brutal minions.
One of his own.
Humaniform robot Lodovik Trema is the only survivor of a bizarre interstellar accident. Exposed to a neutrino storm, his positronic brain has apparently erased the holographic template of the Three Laws of Robotics. If this is true, Lodovic's service to humankind is no longer a question of destiny, but of will, and therefore, no longer absolute.
Daneel needs Lodovic, so he sends him Eos, the legendary secret planet where the robots perfect their service to humankind And Lodovic says he is healed. Yet, can he be trusted, when stirrings of discontent are arising all over the galaxy? Other robots are questioning their mission - and Daneel's strategy.
And humans, too. Hidden in the steel caves of Trantor, sought by loyalist and rebel alike, is the daughter of an obscure heatsink worker, whose amazing mentalic powers are also the result of disaster: the deadly human malady known as Brain Fever. Young Klia Asgar's awesome but unwanted psychic abilities promise to join man and robot in a common destiny .. or a mutual destruction.
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Terry Bisson
PIRATES OF THE UNIVERSE: I'm not a big fan of post-apocalypse sci-fi books and this one is pretty typical for the genre. The writing and plot are pretty average and there aren't too many big surprises even though the book is set up as a sort of mystery of what's in the package. We follow the central character Glenn as he goes about trying to deliver the package. Some weird sci-fi stuff happens in the process and sets up the ending. All in all I give this a C/ C-.
In the shabby, war-torn, depleted Earth of the twenty-first century, Gunther Glenn wants to live in the utopian residential theme park "Pirates of the Universe". He only needs one more mission as a Space Ranger - hunting the enigmatic Peteys, 1200-kilometer voids in space whose "skins" can be harvested and processed into a substance more valuable than gold - to get his chance. But the arrival of a mysterious package and the disappearance of another Ranger ship into the Petey void send Gun on a mission through the bureaucratic maze of the mother corporation, the virtual-reality maze of the Dogg, and the Escher-like multidimensional maze of the Tangle for the key to his future.
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David Brin
FOUNDATION'S TRIUMPH: A book worthy of the Foundation series; Assimov himself would have been proud. Foundation's Triumph answers many questions that linger from the previous Foundation books and along the way leaves questions of its own with hints and paths to possible answers. An A book.
"One last adventure!"
And so begins the final quests of Hari Seldon, creator of the science of Psychohistory, as he escapes from exile for a last look at the star-flung Empire whose fate he has plotted with such care, and as he now sees such futility. Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable dark Age with the science of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction.
Now, with the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, three of today's most acclaimed science fiction authors have conspired to complete the epic the Grand Master left unfinished.
The Second Foundation Trilogy begins with Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear with the origins of the Foundation's creator, Hari Seldon. It continues in Greg Bear's Foundation and Chaos with the epic tale of Seldon's downfall and the first stirrings of robotic rebellion. Now, in David Brin's Foundation's Triumph, Seldon is about to risk everything for knowledge - and the power it bestows.
Effectively imprisoned on the all-steel planet Trantor, Seldon knows that his Second Foundation is growing in secrecy on the far planet Terminus, safe in the hands of "The Fifty". His work complete, Seldon is prepared to die content - until he learns of a new theory that may explain the Chaos Planets that have threatened his Foundation from its very inception.
Escaping in the company of a bureaucrat, a pirate, and a beautiful stowaway, Seldon roams the galaxy by star shunt, a wormhole link, and later, by private spaceship, searching for the answer to what he thinks is the last remaining mystery. But instead he finds a tangle of ambition, doubt, and treachery. Lodvik Trema, no longer bound by the Three Laws, is gathering rebellious robots in an Empire-wide conspiracy. And Daneel Olivaw, who has devoted twenty thousand years to humankind, now has a new master.
The secret Foundation itself is at risk. Are The Fifty, with their awesome mentalic powers, enough to assure humankind's future? Or will the Second Foundation succeed the first only to fall to the powers of chaos that have bedeviled - and beguiled - Hari Seldon from the beginning?
Foundation's Triumph is a fitting climax to the most ambitious and successful science fictional enterprise of the century's end; an undertaking which Asimov himself - like Hari Seldon - set in motion and would surely approve.
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THE SWORD OF SHANNARA: This is the first and best book in Brook's first run of Shannara books. This one sets the stage for the others that follows. Eventhough Brooks has come out with a prequel to The Sword of Shannara, this is the one that makes you fall for the series. It follows a simple yet engaging task and battle. In the end you know it is good vs. evil. In both Shea and for the world. An A+ book.
Long ago, the wars of the ancient Evil had ruined the world and forced Mankind to compete with many other races - Gnomes, Trolls, Dwarfs, and Elves. But in peaceful Shady Vale, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford knew little of such troubles.
Then came the giant, forbidding Allanon, possessed of strange Druidic powers, to reveal that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotting to destroy the world. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness was the Sword of Shannara, which could only be used by a true heir of Shannara. On Shea, last of the bloodline, rested the hope of all the races.
Soon a Skull Bearer, dread minion of Evil, flew into the Vale, seeking to destroy Shea. To save the Vale, Shea fled, drawing the Skull Bearer after him ...
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THE ELFSTONES OF SHANNARA : This is the second book in the Shannara series. It takes place after Sword of Shannara using mostly new characters. If you liked the first one you should like this one. Things are a bit different in this book and reading the first is not required for reading this one. Overall a satisfying book. A B+.
Ancient, ultimate evil threatened the Elves and the Races of Man. For the Ellerys, the tree created by long-lost Elven magic, was dying, loosing the spell of Forbidding that locked the hordes of ravening Demons away from Earth. Already the Reaper, most fearsome of Demons, was free. Only one course of protection was powerful enough to stop it: THE ELFSTONES OF SHANNARA.
The Stones and the right to use them belonged to Wil Ohmsford, given him by his grandfather Shea. And now Allanon, legendary Druid guardian of the Races, summoned him from his studies in Storlock to protect Amberle, the Elven girl who must carry a seed of the tree to the mysterious Bloodfire, life-source of earth, there to be quickened and to create a new Ellerys.
While Allanon and the Elves fight a hopeless war against the emerging multitudes of Demons, Wil and Amberle plunge forward in a seemingly impossible quest for the Bloodfire. Before them lie unknown dangers, impassable barriers, and the savage Welderun, from which non have ever escaped.
Behind them follows the Reaper. Against it, Wil has the Elfstones - but he has lost all power to control them. Weaponless, he and Amberle watch as the shadow of the Reaper appears on the trail before them....
Here are valiant companions - old and new - awesome foes, wonders, romance ... and the ancient mystery of how the elves survived among the Races of Man.
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THE WISHSONG OF SHANNARA: This is the third book in the Shannara series. It's a good book but not as good as the first one. This time there is Jair and his sister Brin on another quest with the enigmatic Allanon. As before it is as much a battle within themselves as it is without for our heroes. The characters are well put together if not exactly engaging as is the plot. If you enjoy Brooks you'll enjoy this book. I give it a B.
Horror stalked the Four Lands as the Ildatch, ancient source of evil, stirred to new life. Once it had sought dominion through the Dark Lord and his dread Skull Bearers. Now it sent the ghastly Mord Wraiths out to create war and destroy Mankind.
And again Allanon, legendary Druid protector of the Races, had to seek aid from a descendant of the Elven King Shannara. For Brin, daughter of Wil Ohmsford, held the magic power of the wishsong. To her, it was only something to make plants bloom instantly or to turn trees from summer green to autumn gold. But to Allanon, it was the only means to penetrate the vile growth that protected the Ildatch. Reluctantly, Brin joined the Druid on his perilous journey eastward.
Behind, her younger brother Jair was soon kidnapped by gnomes and also forced eastward. Then finally feed, he learned from the mysterious King of the Silver River that Brin was doomed to fail and die - unless Jair could somehow reach her in time!
With a strange band of companions, Jair set out -through the very heart of evil, where death threatened at every step. And ahead, the Ildatch waited, nursing its plans to trap Brin into a fate far more horrible than death!
Here are strange lands, valiant friends, awesome monsters and ultimate evil - as only Terry Brooks can bring them to us.
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Three hundred years have passed since the death of Allanon, and the Four Lands are sadly changed. The Elves have vanished, and the Dwarves are enslaved. The Southland is now under the totalitarian rule of the Federation, and magic is strictly forbidden.
Yet Par Ohmsford still has some power of the Wishsong. While his brother Coll recites the old legends, Par uses his Wishsong to bring them to life. Then a mythic horror known as a Shadowen confronts them. A man calling himself Cogline drives it off but also brings a message from the ancient Druid Allanon - to go tot he dread Hadeshorn, along with he other Scions of Shannara: Wren, who lives in the Westland, and Walker Boh, somewhere in the Eastland.
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DRUID OF SHANNARA: The second book in the series. It's mainly about Walker Boh and his quest with the daughter created by the King of the Silver River and Pe Ell who both loves her and wants to kill her. I give it a B.
In the three hundred years since the death of the Druid Allanon, the mysterious, evil Shadowen have seized control and are ruining the Four Lands. Using Cogline as messenger, the shade of Allanon summons the four scions of Shannara: Par, Coll, Wren and Walker Boh. To Walker Boh he gives the duty of restoring the lost Druid's Keep, Paranor. For that, Walker needs the black Elfstone, but his search leads him only to a trap.
Meanwhile, the King of the Silver River, a fabulous being as old as mankind, creates a daughter named Quickening and sends her to help. She is joined by Morgan Leah and Pe Ell, an assassin who plans eventually to kill her.
They find Walker Boh dying after an attack by the Shadowen, Rimmer Dall. Quickening heals him and tells him that the Elfstone is in the hands of another ancient being, the Stone King, who seeks to turn all the world to stone.
The journey will lead them to the far north, through the Charnal Mountains and beyond, into a perilous and unknown land. And no one knows what horrible monsters the Stone King has set to guard his citadel.
They form a strange company to undertake such a quest: Morgan Leah, whose once-magic sword has been broke; Walker Boh, with only one arm and no longer able to summon his magic; Quickening, who must depend on the men for her defense; and Pe Ell, who still intends to kill her.
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ILSE WITCH Book One of The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: It's good but parts f it seemed a bit rushed. That's partly understandable as there won't be something exciting going on all the time and with having most of the main characters all in the limited space of a ship. The plot moves along reasonable well as do the characters. Nothing outstanding or exceptional, nor is there anything bad or terrible. I do like that things are a bit more realistic in terms of overall presentation; little things that add credibility to the story. I also like that we see a technological advance in the civilization without it being seen as a threat to magic, which is seen so often in other books. A nice little touch. Overall a B book.
When the mutilated body of a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. Thirty years ago, the elven prince Kale Elessedil - brother to the current king - led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more ancient, more powerful than any in the world. Of all those who set out on that ill-fated voyage, not one ever returned ...
Until now. For the rescued elf carries a map covered with mysterious symbols only one man has the skill to decipher. That man is Walker Boh, the last of the Druids. But someone else understands the map's significance, someone dark and ruthless: the Ilse Witch, a beautiful but twisted young woman who wields a magic as potent as his own. She will stop at nothing to possess the map - and the magic it leads to. To stop her, Walker must find the magic first.
So begins the voyage of the Jerle Shannara. Aboard the sleek, swift airship are an elven prince; a Rover girl; a monstrous creature part man part enigma; and a young man named Bek Rowe, who may unknowingly hold the key to the success of the mission or to its cataclysmic failure. Now, as old secrets come to light, sowing seeds of mistrust and suspicion among the crew, the Jerle Shannara flies into the face of unknown terrors while the Isle Witch and her dark allies follow, waiting to strike ...
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THE VOYAGE OF THE JERLE SHANNARA ANTRAX: This is the second book in the Jerle Shannara series. It reads alot like the conclusion to the second book, though not as rushed as the first. The druid and company make it to Antrax and its mystery is revealed. More of the relationship between Walker, Bek and the Isle Witch is also explored. I also like the way technology is continued to be played out in this series. I give the book a B.
... In his last acclaimed novel, Isle Witch, a brave company of explorers led by the last Druid, Walker Boh, traveled across unknown seas in search of an elusive magic. Yet perhaps Walker and his team were lured there for sinister, unforeseen purposes ....
Now in Antrax, as the crew aboard the airship Jerle Shannara is attacked by evil forces, the Druid’s protégé Bek Rowe and his companions are pursued by the mysterious Ilse Witch. Meanwhile, Boh is alone, caught in a dark maze beneath the ruined city of Castledown, stalked by a hungry, unseen enemy.
For there is something alive in Castledown. Something not human. Something old beyond reckoning that covets the magic of Druids, elves, even the Ilse Witch. Something that hunts men for its own designs: Antrax. It is a spirit that commands ancient technologies and mechanical monsters, feeds off enchantment, and traps the souls of men.
With the Jerle Shannara under siege and Antrax threatening the bold and unwary, the Ilse Witch finds herself face-to-face with a boy who claims to be the brother she last saw as an infant. Now a young man, Bek wields the magic of the wishsong and carries the Sword of Shannara upon his back. Unsure whether to trust Bek or to slay him, the Ilse Witch takes him prisoner. One has come pursuing truth, the other revenge. Yet both seek Walker Boh–with the fate of the Four Lands hanging in the balance.
Return to the world of beloved novelist Terry Brooks, where creatures drift up from the earth like mist, a hypnotic song can kill, a sword can cut through a veil of lies–and one man, the true heir of an ancient magic, must choose between betrayal and redemption.
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MORGAWR : The last book in the Ilse Witch trilogy. For most of the book it is Bek keeping the Morgawr away from his sister, the Ilse Witch. Meanwhile the island iss breaking down and the heroes are running out of time. The main characters also have to deal with their personal demons/fears/hang-ups whatever. This appears to be the secondary plot and them of the book. The book seems a bit unecessary as far as the trilogy goes. The loose ends could have probably been tied up in a couple of chapters in the second book. A passing Terry Brooks book, nothing great but if you like his stuff it'll do. I give it a B.
With a fleet of airships and a crew of walking dead men at his command, the Morgawr is in relentless pursuit of the Jerle Shannara and the crew that mans her. For the Morgawr, the goal is twofold: to find and control the fabled ancient books of magic, and to destroy the dark disciple who betrayed him - the Ilse Witch. But the Ilse Witch is already a prisoner ... of herself. Exposed to the awesome power of the Sword of Shannara, and forced to confront the truth of her horrifying deeds, she has fled deep into her own mind. Now at the mercy of those who seek vengeance against her, her only protector is her long-lost brother, Bek Ohmsoford, who is determined to redeem his beloved sister ... and deliver her to the destiny predicted for her by the Druid Walker Boh.
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JARKA RUUS (High Druid of Shannara, Book 1): This book features the return of Grianne Ohmsford aka the Isle Witch. She's established the Druid's council but things haven't worked out so well. Then things go from bad to worse as she is captured and sent away where there is no way back … or is there? Brooks attempts to add to his usual formula of an Ohmsford quest to overcome evil by adding in political intrigue and internal plotting/backstabbing. Added to that is that Grianne, formerly the Isle Witch, is in a place that test her resolve not to go back to her Isle Witch persona. Is it enough to overcome the similarities to all his other Shannara books? Maybe, maybe not.
The story is pretty good but nothing spectacular. There is some humor in the form of the little creature that accompanies Griane when she is trapped but a lot of the other characters and plot are very reminiscent of the other books in the Shannara series, something that I think even Brooks acknowledges with Pen remarking how this journey is similar to the others that his ancestors have done. So where does that leave this latest book? Pretty much in the middle of the pack. It's your standard Shannara story with the twist of where Griane is and how she is going to deal with it. If you liked his other books and are looking for something similar you'll find it here. If you're looking for something new then you'll want to look elsewhere. I give the book a B.
More than a quarter of a century after The Sword of Shannara carved out its place in the pantheon of great epic fantasy, the magic of Terry Brooks's New York Times bestselling saga burns as brightly as ever. Three complete series have chronicled the ever-unfolding history of Shannara. But more stories are still to be told-and new adventures have yet to be undertaken. Book One of High Druid of Shannara invites both the faithful longtime reader and the curious newcomer to take the first step on the next extraordinary quest.
Twenty years have passed since Grianne Ohmsford denounced her former life as the dreaded Ilse Witch-saved by the love of her brother, the magic of the Sword of Shannara, and the destruction of her evil mentor, the Morgawr. Now, fulfilling the destiny predicted for her, she has established the Third Druid Council, and dedicated herself to its goals of peace, harmony among the races, and defense of the Four Lands. But the political intrigue, secret treachery, and sinister deeds that have haunted Druid history for generations continue to thrive. And despite her devotion to the greater good as Ard Rhys-the High Druid of Paranor, Grianne still has bitter enemies.
Among the highest ranks of the Council she leads lurk those who cannot forget her reign of terror as the Ilse Witch, who covet her seat of power, and who will stop at nothing to see her deposed . . . or destroyed. Even Grianne's few allies-chief among them her trusted servant Tagwen-know of the plots against her. But they could never anticipate the sudden, ominous disappearance of the Ard Rhys, in the dead of night and without a trace. Now, barely a step ahead of the dark forces bent on stopping him, Tagwen joins Grianne's brave young nephew, Pen Ohmsford, and the wise, powerful elf Ahren Elessedil on a desperate and dangerous mission of search and rescue-to deliver the High Druid of Shannara from an unspeakable fate.
Expect no end of wonders, no shortage of adventure, exhilaration, suspense, and enchantment, as Terry Brooks demonstrates, once again, that there is no end to his magic of invention and mastery of storytelling.
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KNIGHT OF THE WORD: This is the second book about John Ross, a Knight of the Word. Reading the first one, Running with the Demon, is not necessary to this one. I won't explain what the Word is, the book does that, but I can tell you that John has given up his duties. Or at least he wants to and thinks he has. The characters become engaging though the plot is sometimes slow. I liked it however and give it a B.
In the eleventh century the Welsh hero Owain Glyndwr was chosen to combat the demonic evil of the Void and disappeared from history to fulfill that mission. Armed with powerful magic, Glyndwr became a Knight of the Word - a draining and demanding legacy passed on eight centuries later to John Ross, a professor of English literature on tour in Wales.
In accepting the black runestaff that channeled the magic of the Word, John Ross accepted a solemn trust - and awful burden. Each night he dreams of hellish futures wrought upon the world by the Void. And each dream is of a future that will come to pass unless Ross prevents it in the present. Crippled in body and soul by the searing magic he wields and the horrors he dreams, sustained only by his faith in the goodness of the Word, Ross drifts across America, a modern-day knight errant in search of the agents of the Void.
Then an unspeakable act of violence shatters his weary beliefs. Haunted by guilt, John Ross turns his back on the Word. With the help of beautiful Stefanie Winslow, Ross slowly builds a new life- a life whose only magic lies in Stefanie's healing love.
But a fallen Knight makes a tempting prize for the Void, and merciless demons soon stalk Ross and those close to him. His only hope is young Nest Freemark, who wields a powerful magic all her own. Five years earlier, Ross had aided Nest when the future of humanity rested upon the choice she would make between Word and Void. Now Nest must return the favor. She must restore Ross's faith, or his - and her own - will be forfeit ...
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As Knight of the Word, John Ross has struggled against the tireless dark forces of the Void for twenty-five years. A rootless wanderer scarred as deeply by the magic he wields as by the unspeakable horrors he was witnessed in its service, Ross is driven by dreams that show the world reduced to blood and ashes by the Void and its minions. The grim future he dreams each night will come true unless he can stop them now, in the present. But for all his power, John Ross is only one man, while the demons he hunts - and which hunt him in turn - are legion.
Then Ross learns of the birth of a gypsy morph, a rare and dangerous creature formed of wild magics spontaneously knit together. If he can discover its secret, the morph will be an invaluable weapon against the Void. But the Void, too, knows the value of the morph, and will not rest until the creature has been corrupted - or destroyed.
Desperate, Ross returns to the town of Hopewell, Illinois, home of Nest Freemark, a young woman with magical abilities of her own. Twice before, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance, the lives of Ross and Nest have intersected. Together, they have prevailed.
But now they face an ancient evil beyond anything they have ever encountered, for a demon of ruthless intelligence and feral cunning awaits them in Hopewell. As a firestorm of good and evil erupts, threatening to consume lives and shatter dreams, Ross and Nest have but a single chance to solve the mystery of the gypsy morph - and their own profound connection.
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