- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Press; First Edition edition (3 Jan 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0593047370
- ISBN-13: 978-0593047378
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,377,551 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Thrilling SF adventure about a world under threat from forces unimaginable - the concluding volume in John Meaney's acclaimed Nulapeiron Sequence.
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The war against The Blight is over, and the subterranean realms of Nulapeiron have a chance for peace. But Tom Corcorigan, revolutionary and war hero, newly married and longing for the quiet life, knows that a greater force threatens his world: the planet-consuming Anomaly, which has absorbed billions of humans and alien beings into itself. Tom's association with the disembodied Eemur's Head, the flensed and bloody remains of a powerful Seer, changes him into something more than a poverty-stricken Lord. The spacetime-warping science of Seers and Oracles penetrates the heart of reality, bringing new enemies and allies into Tom's life. And his story crystal, gift from a mysterious mu-space Pilot, reveals more of the Pilots' history and true nature, and the existence of their home in a universe no ordinary human being can experience: the strange, shifting, living fractal city that is Labyrinth. Soon the Anomaly, an evil far more powerful than its offspring Blight, rips into the world, decimating the human realms. Among the free humans who survive in the floating terraformer spheres of Nulapeiron's skies, only the forces commanded by Tom Corcorigan have the smallest of chances against this omnipotent invader. For only a Warlord who is no longer quite human, who is willing to sacrifice everything, can deliver humanity from darkness...
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
A disappointing ending to a frustrating series
1 Mar 2006
Format:Hardcover
OK. I confess. I liked this series enough to order the last book from Amazon in the UK, just so I wouldn't have to wait for it. (I also saved myself a couple bucks because it was available in paperback there). That having been said, I found this book at times wonderful and at others god-awful, just like the other two books in the series.
If you haven't read the first two books, then you need to know that this series involves a one-armed genius who is a combination fightin' and rock climbin' machine and also the liberator of his world. The inhabitants of the world (Nulapeiron) live in an extensive series of caves that honeycomb the entire planet.
The first book covers the protagonist's rise from rags to riches (and back down to rags again) as he battles the ingrained caste system of his world. The second book covers the fight against an energy creature called "The Blight" which is gradually taking over the world. The last book involves the battle against the Blight's Daddy, the Anomaly.
One of the saving graces of this book is the story-within-the-story, which consists of a series of vignettes which take place about 200 years from our own time, and which cover the creation of a race of uber-mensch called The Pilots. The Pilots have the ability to throw lightning bolts from their eyes and can exist in the sub-basement of the universe called "Mu-Space". You spend all three books trying to figure out how this story is going to move the main plot-line along.
One of the reasons I bought this book is because Charlie Stross (whose fiction I adore) recommended it as great "hard Science Fiction". It is not. If that is what you are looking for, don't shop here. It is techno-gibberish through and through. If you want great hard Science Fiction, stick with Charlie.
This book is much more a science fantasy, a space opera, with futeristic deus ex machina geegaws. About the time that you start reading about people with the ability to warp space and time, and who use "femtatech" (one million times smaller than nano - COOL!) you know that you need to let out the clutch on your suspension of disbelief and let it ride.
What to say about this book? It's like Bill Baldwin's Helmsman series, but without the well-rounded characters and scientific grounding (that's sarcasm, if you're not familiar with the series). Hey, don't get me wrong - I LIKE space opera. I own ever Helmsman and "Sten" book made, and eagerly await more. However, good space opera this is not. If you want THAT, try Julian May's Many Colored Land series.
In summary - this book has lots of mediocrity interspersed with enough periods of brilliance to make you grind you teeth and cry out for a better editor. It IS a page turner, though. Wait for it to come out in paperback, read it with your bedroom door closed and don't admit you ever read it.
If you haven't read the first two books, then you need to know that this series involves a one-armed genius who is a combination fightin' and rock climbin' machine and also the liberator of his world. The inhabitants of the world (Nulapeiron) live in an extensive series of caves that honeycomb the entire planet.
The first book covers the protagonist's rise from rags to riches (and back down to rags again) as he battles the ingrained caste system of his world. The second book covers the fight against an energy creature called "The Blight" which is gradually taking over the world. The last book involves the battle against the Blight's Daddy, the Anomaly.
One of the saving graces of this book is the story-within-the-story, which consists of a series of vignettes which take place about 200 years from our own time, and which cover the creation of a race of uber-mensch called The Pilots. The Pilots have the ability to throw lightning bolts from their eyes and can exist in the sub-basement of the universe called "Mu-Space". You spend all three books trying to figure out how this story is going to move the main plot-line along.
One of the reasons I bought this book is because Charlie Stross (whose fiction I adore) recommended it as great "hard Science Fiction". It is not. If that is what you are looking for, don't shop here. It is techno-gibberish through and through. If you want great hard Science Fiction, stick with Charlie.
This book is much more a science fantasy, a space opera, with futeristic deus ex machina geegaws. About the time that you start reading about people with the ability to warp space and time, and who use "femtatech" (one million times smaller than nano - COOL!) you know that you need to let out the clutch on your suspension of disbelief and let it ride.
What to say about this book? It's like Bill Baldwin's Helmsman series, but without the well-rounded characters and scientific grounding (that's sarcasm, if you're not familiar with the series). Hey, don't get me wrong - I LIKE space opera. I own ever Helmsman and "Sten" book made, and eagerly await more. However, good space opera this is not. If you want THAT, try Julian May's Many Colored Land series.
In summary - this book has lots of mediocrity interspersed with enough periods of brilliance to make you grind you teeth and cry out for a better editor. It IS a page turner, though. Wait for it to come out in paperback, read it with your bedroom door closed and don't admit you ever read it.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Brings the story threads together to a good conclusion
15 April 2005
Format:Paperback
This is the final installment in the Nulaperion trilogy and the story of Tom Corcorigan. The revolution and the invasion of the Blight has come and gone and Tom is now together again with Elva. He is also the sole recepient of the wisdom in the severed head of the seerer Eemur. The head is severed, but still strangely alive and able to see the present with a searing clarity which she passes onto Tom.
However, there is a new threat on the horizion that will make the revolution/invasion in book 2 look like a child's play-pen, and Tom is proably the only person who can pull all of Nulapeiron together to fight it before they loose their world to a galaxy spanning engulfing darkness.
This was a satisfying conclusion to this series. It ties together the threads in books 1 & 2 and we finally get to see why the pilots story is so important to both Tom and his world and those fighting The Anomaly. All 3 books are told on a mythic scale of story-telling, but they do tend to fall into a bit of a noticable plot pattern at times. However, despite that I was egar to finish this series and was glad I read it. A keeper to be re-read at another time in the future, and a sci-fi series that successfully combines myth with science.
However, there is a new threat on the horizion that will make the revolution/invasion in book 2 look like a child's play-pen, and Tom is proably the only person who can pull all of Nulapeiron together to fight it before they loose their world to a galaxy spanning engulfing darkness.
This was a satisfying conclusion to this series. It ties together the threads in books 1 & 2 and we finally get to see why the pilots story is so important to both Tom and his world and those fighting The Anomaly. All 3 books are told on a mythic scale of story-telling, but they do tend to fall into a bit of a noticable plot pattern at times. However, despite that I was egar to finish this series and was glad I read it. A keeper to be re-read at another time in the future, and a sci-fi series that successfully combines myth with science.
A little disappointing
11 April 2012
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
OK, I liked the book, but only "OK".
This is the conclusion of a trilogy. As such, much of the backstory has already been told, and you don't need or expect as much backfill and explanation. But even saying so, this volume felt a little thin compared to the sheer magesty of the first two. Like even the author was a bit tired out and just wanted to wrap it up and go home.
As I write this, also, only the first and third books are available on Kindle. Um, publisher, what freaking sense does that make???? As a result I re-read the first two on paper before switching to this one.
Note also that this author uses a lot of non-standard paragraph formatting to indicate things like machine communication (headers/footers) and internal dialog and the like. Not all of that comes across cleanly in the Kindle edition. Had I not read the first two on paper I might have wondered if the OCR program was just having a fit the day they converted this novel.
This is the conclusion of a trilogy. As such, much of the backstory has already been told, and you don't need or expect as much backfill and explanation. But even saying so, this volume felt a little thin compared to the sheer magesty of the first two. Like even the author was a bit tired out and just wanted to wrap it up and go home.
As I write this, also, only the first and third books are available on Kindle. Um, publisher, what freaking sense does that make???? As a result I re-read the first two on paper before switching to this one.
Note also that this author uses a lot of non-standard paragraph formatting to indicate things like machine communication (headers/footers) and internal dialog and the like. Not all of that comes across cleanly in the Kindle edition. Had I not read the first two on paper I might have wondered if the OCR program was just having a fit the day they converted this novel.
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