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The alien hydrogues have been defeated, driven back into the cores of their gas-giant planets by an alliance of the Earth Defence Forces, the ancient Ildiran Empire, the gypsy-like Roamer clans and gigantic living 'treeships'. The various factions try to recover - but the deep-seated wounds may prove fatal. The Hansa's brutal Chairman Basil Wenceslas struggles to crush any resistance even as King Peter breaks away to form his own new Confederation among the green priests on Theroc, the Roamer clans and an ever-growing number of colonies who have declared their independence. Like jackals smelling wounded prey, swarms of ancient black robots built by the lost insectoid Klikiss race continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen Earth battleships. A race of terrifying fiery elementals, the faeros, has joined with an Ildiran madman to declare war against all life. And the original, voracious Klikiss race - long thought to be extinct - have returned, intent on conquering their former worlds and willing to annihilate anyone who happens to be in the way.
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Kevin J. Anderson has over 20 million books in print in 30 languages worldwide. He is the author of, among others, the X-FILES novels, GROUND ZERO and the JEDI ACADEMY trilogy of STAR WARS novels - the three bestselling SF novels of 1994. He has also co-written the international bestselling prequels to Frank Herbert's monumental DUNE series. He has won, or been nominated for, many awards including the Nebula Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Visit his website www.wordfire.com
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
2 stars barely,
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This review is from: Metal Swarm (Saga of Seven Suns 6) (Paperback)
What started out as a fun and slightly original series has driven itself into the gound with silly plotlines and poor or unbelievable character development.
To be honest, I have thrown this book on the floor a few times in disgust and only finished it today as I was sick and it was all I had to read. I don't mind intelligent killing of characters in a book, but Anderson's execution of everyone with a mindblowing overly powerful enemy is typical of authors who can't create a decent plot line. Rushah is stupidly annoying and Basil Wencelas is pretty much the same. Rushah could've been a great character and Basil should've been. This book feels like the Days of Our Lives goes to space, where the bad guys are dastardly and the good are sickeningly sweet and the airlock should've been used to eject the entire cast into the cold clutches of space.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Hope! Dashed hope... then more hope! Oh, dashed again.,
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This review is from: Metal Swarm (Saga of Seven Suns 6) (Paperback)
Why, I wonder does Kevin Anderson build a whole plot-line for some characters then kill them off seemingly at random? In this volume of the SofSS, he does it several times. The death of the character(s) becomes a frustration instead a tragedy, leaving the reader confused and wondering "What was the point of that thread ever starting?". It's like deciding characters will say "We have a great idea, we'll go and do this!" followed by "And at that moment a Piano fell on them all.". Why bother with stating the existence of the idea? It did nothing.
For me, this complaint sums up what is wrong with the entire book. Hopes are simply dashed repeatedly, to the extent that by the halfway mark, we know that any character who is doing something that could rescue someone, advance the fight or solve a problem is going to die before they actually get a chance to act. What's the point of reading the build-up when our minds are cynically predicting disaster already? Oh dear. I do hope the final 900 chapters (sarcasm now, you see how upset I am?) have a point when they're published. I'll buy the book, because I need to have an ending. I'll be battling to keep an open mind while the plot re-convinces me that hopes are not always dashed in the Saga.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
An unengaging read.,
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This review is from: Metal Swarm (Saga of Seven Suns 6) (Paperback)
Whilst I am still enjoying the series as a whole, this is clearly the weakest book so far. Chapters that are, at most, 4 or 5 pages long, and totally unbelievable characters, mean you don't get any sense of depth that you might find (and desire) in other space operas, for example in Peter Hamilton's Nightsdawn trilogy. I do enjoy it when main characters die in their droves, though. :)
In addition to more obvious overlooks being made to further the plot (e.g. Confederation being able to manufacture a navy in about 2 pages, unlike the Hansa, and why couldn't the Hydrogues have destroyed Earth already?!), the distinctions between good and evil are also far too black and white for my liking when there are this many players: it's clear that the Verdani, Wentals and Confederation are the Good Guys, whilst Hydrogues, Klikiss robots and Basil Wenceslas are the Bad Guys and they're going to ultimately lose. Only the Faeros and returned Klikiss keep you guessing, and hence they are really the only things that keep you turning the pages. Hopefully the next (and final?) book will have a satisfying plot that makes you care about what's going on again, it would be a shame if the series carried on like this.
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