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The Union of Arcana has expanded through the portals linking parallel universes for over a century and a half. In that time, its soldiers and sorcerers have laid claim to one uninhabited planet after another-all of them Earth, and in the process, the Unio
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I don't know if I'm really entitled to review this book as I've read just over 100 pages and I don't intend to read any more.
The book is so turgid it feels like a work of non-fiction by a particularly dull academic. Every page seems to contain a long explanation of the circumstances which brought the multitudes of indistinguishable characters to wherever they are.
I know it's by David Weber and I really ought to persevere, I think he's one of the most compelling SF authors I've ever read but this is just too much for me. I can't recommend this to anyone who expects it to be even remotely like David Weber's other work.
The book is so turgid it feels like a work of non-fiction by a particularly dull academic. Every page seems to contain a long explanation of the circumstances which brought the multitudes of indistinguishable characters to wherever they are.
I know it's by David Weber and I really ought to persevere, I think he's one of the most compelling SF authors I've ever read but this is just too much for me. I can't recommend this to anyone who expects it to be even remotely like David Weber's other work.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I came to this via the Honor Harrington novels, as well as the Weber/White collaborations (In Death Ground, et seq.). I regard the Honorverse as one of the most interesting and coherent science fiction constructs I have encountered (well, until the last few). So, I bought this without any hesitation. And I have been regretting it ever since. I'm trying to finish it, honest. But it is so DULL!! A sweep across multiple universes, yes- but it spends all the time looking at people's tangled emotions in tiny, tiny segments of them. Dull, very dull. Think Thomas Covenant without the leprosy. And avoid.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Just like a Hollywood blockbuster, this latest novel from an author I deeply like starts with a tremendous idea but does not live up to its premises. In a nutshell, here we have two universes: in the first one, magic works, the second is technology-based. They meet and they clash. It sounds interesting, and it is, but... See, all of Weber's characters in all of Weber's works are proud, noble, intelligent and selfless if commissioned officers; selfless,a bit dumb and great workers if NCOs. I normally like it (almost as much as I loved Heinlein's militaristic fiction before). You see, Asimov taught me that it's better if the enemy is not plain evil, but he's just a smart guy with a different viewpoint. This time around it all sounds a bit fishy, though. Why should two stable words with a vivid culture and strong economy start warring if the people in charge are such paragons of perfection? In this one case, one is left thinking that the reason is "we plan to write at least five books about this, so we can't have peace, that's why"...
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Long term Weber fan, I hated this book
I read 80% of this before giving up.
Firstly the straw man characters driving either side towards war are so, so obvious and in some case more strawman than the... Read more
Firstly the straw man characters driving either side towards war are so, so obvious and in some case more strawman than the... Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2010 by C. D. Speirs
slow starter
I put this book down after a very slow start and planned to never bother finishing it...
I was out of reading material and decided to give it another try. Read more
I was out of reading material and decided to give it another try. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2009 by N. Cutting
They don't want you to know how bad it is???
Very , very interesting. I wrote the first ever review of this book (the first time I have ever reviewed on Amazon) and hated it so much that I have even come back to check that it... Read more
Published on 4 Jun 2009 by Me and only me maybe
Robbed of a month of reading
I never thought I would say this of any David Weber book but, whatever you do, don't buy this.
1208 pages can be read in a week or two by someone who reads as I do, this... Read more
1208 pages can be read in a week or two by someone who reads as I do, this... Read more
Published on 24 Jan 2009 by D. O'Connor
Better than expected
As an avid fan of David Weber I have yet to read a really bad book associated with him. For some time I had ignored this book after reading the reviews here. Read more
Published on 30 Oct 2008 by Ken Fowler
Not for everyone but don't be too quick to write this off
This is the first in the "Multiverse" series by Dave Weber and Linda Evans and is followed by "Hell Hath No Fury (Multiverse II)" It tells the story of contact and increasingly of... Read more
Published on 20 Sep 2008 by Marshall Lord
Weber at his worst.
1200 pages of tedium. Interesting idea, which is why I give it 2 stars, ruined by Weber's tendancy to explain every tiny aspect of his societies - particularly the politics - in... Read more
Published on 3 Aug 2008 by G. C. White
Lousy
Weber's work started so well with well thought out action and a real plot. Then it deteriorated. Ending with this. Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2008 by P. Callaghan
Long to get going, but then turns out fine
All right, this is not Honor Harrington and remember that the book is co-written by Linda Evans and she does bring in her writing style as well. Read more
Published on 19 Jun 2007 by Swiss Mercenary
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