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Legacy (Hardcover)

by Greg Bear (Author)
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 349 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (Jun 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0312855168
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312855161
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,913,739 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Legacy - What made Olmy...., 16 Dec 2002
This review is from: Legacy (Paperback)
I found this book very different from Eon and Eternity in style and content - the book features Olmy, a Hexamon agent, who features prominently in the other two books of this series. It wasn't quite my cup of tea really but is an intriguing view into a past events that profoundly moulded Olmy in his comparative youth. Olmy is at this point a young Hexamon agent sent to a wayward human colony on a planet called Lamarckia and has to face life on a very different planet with sentient vegetation and various 'human' social problems. I felt that this book added some more depth to the character of Olmy in Eon and Eternity but I would recommend it only as an addition to the series, not a standalone book.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly original prequel to Eon, 19 Mar 1999
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Although the 3rd in the Eon/Eternity trilogy, this is in effect a prequel to the other 2. The enigmatic fixer, Olmy endures decades of exile on an exotic planet with a mission to investigate an illegal colonisation. The real star of the book however is the planet Lamarckia, which is visualised with endless originality and invention. The processes of life on Lamarckia are grandiose and incomprehensible; the colonists struggle with war and starvation amid luxuriant growth. Although much will remain mysterious about the biology of the planet and its concealed sentiences, we are party to myriad wonders along Olmy's travels. The human drama is absorbing and tragic, and, as is usual with Greg Bear, handled as competently as by anyone in the literary mainsteam. (Hard SF this may be but it doesn't fetishize technology or descend into physics seminar.) My personal favourite SF book.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not quite what i was hoping for, 3 Jan 2001
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After reading the two other books in this series 'Eon' and 'Eternity' I was very dissapointed that this book wondered off into a gardening documentory. No sharp Sci-fi here just a large biological rambling about a colonised planet which Olmy is sent to investigate. I only read it all because I thought that at some point it would change pace. Yawn..only read if you are a huge Greg Bear fan or if you are into the biology of supposedly sentinent plant life! No excitement, no technology, no awe ispiring story line.
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2.0 out of 5 stars a pity
I am a great fan of Greg Bear, and have thoroughly enjoyed his other work. This is not in the same league, however. Read more
Published 17 months ago by A. Anderson

4.0 out of 5 stars remarkable vision of an alien world
This book is a kind of adjunct to the Eon/Eternity saga. It involves one of our heroes from those books, Olmy, on a much earlier mission to the extremely strange world of... Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2007 by Gareth Power

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