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Mission to Minerva (Giants) (Hardcover)

by James P. Hogan (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Baen (3 May 2005)
  • ISBN-10: 0743499026
  • ASIN: B000VYCQ98
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Number 5 in the "Giants" series, 5 Nov 2006
By Marshall Lord (Whitehaven, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mission to Minerva (Giants) (Mass Market Paperback)
This excellent story is number five in the "Giants" series.

The individual volumes to date are

1) Inherit the Stars (one of the best SF stories ever written)
2) The Gentle Giants of Ganymede
3) Giants Star
4) Entoverse
5) Mission to Minerva

There are also two omnibus volumes: "The Two Moons" which combines the first two books (The moons concerned being Earth's moon, and Jupiter's moon Ganymede) and the a "3 in 1 Giants Omnibus" which combines the first three.

All these stories follow on from a story which begins when modern astronauts on the moon find a 50,000 year old human body which completely overturns our ideas about man's place in the universe.

During the course of the series, and usually several times per book, the heroes keep finding new discoveries which force them to re-evaluate their ideas about the origins of humanity all over again. A positive aspect of that is that it keeps the books fresh as the stories often go off in different directions: a negative aspect is that some readers who like the first book may find some of the subsequent ones a little silly.

The scientific and computer backgrounds appear to be very carefully researched and thought through, but some readers will find the leaps of imagination a too extreme to retain credibility: others will find the sheer ambitious breadth of Hogan's imagination to be the very thing which makes these works of fiction so memorable and entertaining.

I enjoyed all five novels and warmly recommend them. If you like the kind of science fiction which stretches the imagination, you will very probably enjoy these stories.
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