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Glory Season (Mass Market Paperback)

by David Brin (Author) "Sharply angled sunlight splashed across the table by Maia's bed, illumirating a meter-long braid of lustrous brown hair ..." (more)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 784 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam USA; Reissue edition (3 Dec 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553567675
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553567670
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,010,416 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"One of the most important SF novels of the year.""--The Washington Post Book World"
"A rousing adventure story...brimming with surprises both wonderful and harrowing.""--The San Diego Union-Tribune"

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'David Brin's intelligent and exuberant novels have quickly made him a firm favourite of science fiction fans' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, but not gripping, 7 Sep 2001
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This review is from: Glory Season (Paperback)
Brin's prose is illlustrated with vivid imagery - probably developed when writing the Uplift series.

Glory Season though, is a departure from Brin's usually heavy tech books, and is closer to the Postman than it is the Uplift wars.

The development of characters gets special attention, but by the end, they aren't that memorable. The world where these events takes place is not horribly convincing either. The plot has some interesting developments; but moves too slowly, and never really gets exciting.

Certainly not on the scale of Infinity's Shore or Heavens Reach.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not as Good as Uplift, 1 Jun 2008
By Roger Cawkwell (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Glory Season (Paperback)
I won't go into details of the plot as some of this has been covered in other reviews & I don't want to add more spoilers. It took me a little while to get into this book but after 100 pages or so I found myself curiously gripped by the protagonist's fate and wanted to read more.

As has been flagged elsewhere, the plot is a little repetitive, especially in the matter of Maia being kidnapped and then escaping, to the point when I began to think, Oh no, not again... I couldn't quite believe the ending - I thought that there must be another chapter somewhere. Perhaps I should re-read the last one but there seemed to be serious discrepancies between what was said to Maia and what actually happened. Though actually I can't be bothered as I have other things to read.

Brin is a seriously good author, especially in the matter of being able to imagine alien societies and make them reasonably convincing, but this book needs editing.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent - In Parts..., 28 Dec 2003
By M. LOCK "Custer" (Northwood, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Glory Season (Bantam Spectra Book) (Hardcover)
I found Maia's voyage of discovery around her strange, female clone-dominated world very enjoyable, but I don't think it is one of David Brin's best books. She, a summer "var" conceived the old-fashioned way, certainly grows as a character as her adventures continue, but she does seem to spend a lot of time in various captivities, and while major and exciting events do unfold around her towards the end, too often the best bits happen "off camera" - having her read a hurried letter from a friend is not the same as being there! The apparent death of a major character is rather inconclusive, and the book does not really have that great an ending.

Still, the strange new world we progress through is always interesting, and Maia is an engaging character. I certainly don't regret the time I took to read the book, and will be checking out more of Brin's work soon.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not Brin's best
This book is the closest to Fantasy that David Brin has come.
It is a big "what if..." (see the book description) with good characters and a nice adventure but it is a bit slow... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2002 by Philippe Nachtergal

1.0 out of 5 stars Brin totally loses it!
I think I've read every book David Brin has written, and ALL of them are better than this one. He seems to have totally forgotten how to tell a story. Read more
Published on 20 May 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars The mysterious world of Maia and her mirror twin Leie.
This is one of the best book I have read so far. Trust me, I have read books. Although this is only the first book I have read by David Brin, I really admire his work. Read more
Published on 13 Dec 1998

3.0 out of 5 stars Glory Season is a feminist Utopian novel, very readable
Glory Season follows the beginning of reintegration into the human family of the hidden planet Femina, whose founders explicitly re- engineered women's biology to allow... Read more
Published on 8 Oct 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Speculative fiction at its best.
Glory Season is socially conscious, broad in scope, and well considered. Brin does not restrict his vision, but allows it to run where it will, carefully considering the likely... Read more
Published on 3 Jul 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Proof that a good thrashing can't keep the strong ones down
In a life where the dice is already loaded, favoring THEM, _Glory Season_ proves that it isn't easy to survive, but it can be done. Read more
Published on 8 Nov 1997

4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting world to explore
Since I'm not female, I can't really judge how feminist this book really is. My suspicion is that some feminists would have preferred a more radical viewpoint. Read more
Published on 22 Mar 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars THE FIRST FEMINIST SF NOVEL WRITTEN BY A MAN
BRIN IS ONE MY FAVORITE SF NOVELIST. GLORY SEASON IS A CLASSIC SF NOVEL. BRIN TAKES US INTO A WORLD WHERE CLONED WOMEN RULE AND WOMEN BORN NATURALLY(VARS) ARE SECOND CLASS... Read more
Published on 27 Feb 1997

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