- Paperback: 286 pages
- Publisher: Lion Hudson Plc (25 April 1986)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0745911102
- ISBN-13: 978-0745911106
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.4 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,278,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lose yourself in 900 pages of expertly-written storytelling,
By A Customer
This review is from: Empyrion (Paperback)
This is a deeply insightful and revealing book that uses the science-fiction genre to examine human behaviour under extreme conditions. The story is compelling, can't-put-it-down stuff, and the characters are scarily real. You really feel wrapped up in the action, and it is almost a disappointment to finish it - so much so I started it again to see just how many finer points I missed. Subtle yet dramatic and truly gripping from the word go, buy this book if you're after something special.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not your average sci-fi epic ... but fantastically better,
By Aaron Kendall (Milton Keynes, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Empyrion (Paperback)
A book where the two worlds of fantasy and science fiction are expressed together by the story telling craft of a genius. The books follow Orion Treet the most unlikely of hero's (a historian) who despite the grave lack of experience and muscle power of a typical hero shows an even stronger strength of mind and morality throughout his journey. His task is to unite the divided world of Emperion, a paradise earth colony millennia in earth's future whilst quite in its present and past. The story follows a similar genre to that of Lawhead's dream thief and similarly the pace rarely flags and warrants long stints without sleep. Anyone put off by futuristic science fiction don't worry, Lawhead somehow manages to limit the focus on technology rather concentrating on how technology can lead to the destruction of society not only in the physical but in the effect this has on societies politics and religion. Arguably one of Lawheads best novels this is a must read for any long time fan or new Lawhead reader.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Too Long but Good Story,
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This review is from: Empyrion (Paperback)
This doorstep of a book is more commonly split into two. However I have the full 900 page version (with smallish print). As a story it's not so bad. Orion Treet - a historian - is paid handsomely to visit the new colony world of Empyrion, established a few years previously. On arrival though, things are not at all as expected and over the course of many pages it becomes clear that 3000 years of colony history have past, and that very early in the life of the colony there were disasters that almost destroyed them. What is more, there has been a split that saw rival fighting colonies, that throw the new visitors into a war.
This book failed to grip me though. It is to my knowledge Lawhead's only foray into science fiction. There are some nods to other works in the story - particularly to Dune by Frank Herbert, when Treet et al. are crossing a desert. In some ways this book is like Dune - but not, I am sorry to say, in depth of vision. Rather it is long winded with a tendency to get a little boring! Ultimately the story is a good one, but I think it could have been delivered in a book one third the size of this one - then I would probably have enjoyed it.
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