- Mass Market Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: Baen Books; Reprint edition (Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743435656
- ISBN-13: 978-0743435659
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 10.3 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 47,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Led by the supercomputer Link, the Malwa Empire has built a deadly army that nothing on 6th century Earth can beat -- nothing, that is, except Belisarius, the greatest general and military genius of the age. Against overwhelming odds, Belisarius has prevailed in one brilliant victory after another -- but his greatest battle is yet to be fought and this time, the future of mankind is in his hands.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the fifth installment of the Belisarius series and takes the battle to India and the home of the Malwa. I have read and enjoyed the previous four books in this series and I find that the basic premise of this type of book - What if - can lead to some fantastic storytelling, if it is done well. Up till now, these stories have fulfilled their promise admirably. This book tells the story of the Romans and their Allies taking the war to the Malwa homeland and the only complaint that I could make is that it is starting to be to easy for Belisarius to win. Although one of the main characters is killed, there still seems to be a kind of inevitability about a Roman victory and I found these books to be at their best when there was some doubt as to the outcome. Having said that, these are still good books to read and I can reccommend them to anyone who likes alternate universe stories. I can't wait for the next one to be published.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
And it goes on and on and on...
6 Sep 2001
Format:Hardcover
Ok
Overall the alterantive history series is good, very good actually. In general I recommend it. But...
Overall the alterantive history series is good, very good actually. In general I recommend it. But...
As each new volume is released the characters begin to act more like comedians and less like actual people. It appears that the authors are trying to milk as much $$$ out of it as possible
The intra character quips which were charming in the first series are wearing really thin. The plot is pretty much done, we know whats going to happen, and who will do it, no mystery here.
I really cant believe this volume doesnt finish it up.
It would have been a great 3 book series! You can easily pull out the hokey banter (10%) the repeated quips (10%) the repetitive story lines (10%) and the history lessons for those who havent read the previous volumes (20%)
Of course you can filter and distill the 6 books (1 still unpublished) into 3 so that your left with a darn good story. But filtering out 40%-50% is burdensome. It gets so bad at times that I start skipping pages!
Im tired of hearing how big one characters breasts are, or how "only the soul matters in the end" or how one character looks like a weasel, and being told over and over again about past episodes that occured in earlier volumes etc. etc. etc ad nauseum...Sheesh...
This series could have been a classic, but it's degrading itself with every new volume. I still recommend the series, but thats more in the way of how bad most other works are, and how good this one "Could have been"
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Great Series But...............
4 July 2001
Format:Hardcover
This is an incredible series but it is also one whose time has come to end. This book leaves little doubt to the final outcome at the end of the novel and has very few suprises outside the death of two main characters. The book is well written but seems to almost have fallen into a pattern. The dialogue is starting to seem repetitious and the characters are almost beginning to act a little over the top. Quite a bit more occurs in this novel then in the previous installment in the series which is gratifying. Don't get me wrong, this is still an enjoyable book in a great series. The time has come for the series to end. I still recommend this as a buy and it is still one of my favorite series but it is beginning to seem a little stretched.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Don't judge a book by its cover, however ...
11 Aug 2001
Format:Hardcover
... in this case it could be justified. I 've read all the books of Drake/Flint's Bellisarius-series so far and like them a lot. It's just that the story becomes drawn out with so many sub-plots and -stories. The upcomming sixth book hopefully will conclude the story arc - but IMHOP four books would have done the job.
This book itself is well written, the characters are known even if there is some fluctuation: one major killed , a few new introduced. However for someone who doesn't know the story so far the book must be an enigma: there is this Roman General Bellisarius, who must be mad because he talks with some inner voice and ponders American Civil War decisions while campaigning in India....
Sounds crazy, reads crazy and then there is a book cover that crys SWORDS! SEX! EPLOSIONS! Please! Was this really necessary? This is a book of alternate history and is by and large meant to be serious. So why did the publishers burden it with this cover? Do they worry that because of the lenght of the series the readers might abandon it and know want to gain a new, somewhat different audience?
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