City of Pearl: Wess'Har Series, Book 1
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Locus, January 2004 (Gary Wolfe)
A thoroughly competent and satisfyingly complex tale...(which)...evokes the earlier moral fables of Le Guin...a writer worth watching.
Locus, February 2004 (Faren Miller)
....makes the old tropes new again. Traviss handles everything with a mixture of panache and restraint... a bravura performance.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Pearl of a Novel,
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This review is from: City of Pearl (Mass Market Paperback)
From the moment I started reading I couldn't put this book down. I know that's a cliche but with this book it was true. The characters really leap out of the pages as 'real' people.The main character, Shan Frankland, is one of those rare human beings, someone with integrity. Throughout the book she is struggling to keep her charges alive despite their best efforts. The whole environmentalist theme of the book really appealed to me. And Karen's view of the future, one of human society being run by large corporations, while at once sinister is also very believable. And the vision of humans rapaciously spreading to other worlds is all too familiar to human history so far. If you like your science fiction with a lot of realism, with a hard edge and without too much techno-babble getting in the way of a strong story, then this book is for you. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good story. Ripping yarn!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Finest Science Fiction,
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I think this novel is a rare treat for the most demanding readers of Science Fiction: clear and profound narrative, intriguing, original story, marvelously described aliens (Weinbaum and Vance come to mind) , interesting characters, plausible and competent in scientific speculation. The commander of an expedition to a forgotten Earth Colony on planet Cavanagh II believed extinct finds the colony alive, but also finds the expedition is less than welcome, as the humans on the planet have managed to adapt to the alien and complex eco-political balance under the surveillance of the planet appointed aklien Guardian, Aras. From this, the tale which unfolds largely from the POV of alien species, which the Author depicts with unusual skill and originality. No little green men with silly antennas, here, but truly alien beings here, thinking in alien ways. Isaac Asimov would have been delighted as I've been by Karen Traviss narrative art.
29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
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First in an excellent series,
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This review is from: City of Pearl (Mass Market Paperback)
First book in a very imaginative and fascinating series. One of very few science fiction books which has aliens who are both plausible and genuinely different from humans and other terrestial creatures.
The sequence is: Book One, City of Pearl Book Two, Crossing the Line Book Three, The World Before Book Four, Matriarch Book Five, Ally Due in April 2008: book 6, Judge. The series works best when read in this sequence.
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