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The Killing of Worlds (Succession) (Hardcover)

by Scott Westerfeld (Author) "The contrail of a supersonic aircraft blossomed weakly in the thin, dry air, barely marking the sky ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books (31 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0765308509
  • ISBN-13: 978-0765308504
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,175,568 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Captain Laurent Zai embarks on a suicide mission to stop the next invasion of the Rix, machine-augmented humans dedicated to the destruction of the immortal Emperor with their own eternal cybernetic dynasty, while his lover, Senator Nara Oxham, is engaged in a deadly game of political intrigue.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nearly an Epic..., 31 Oct 2008
By K. Charlton "Happy Dad" (Surrey, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Killing of Worlds (Succession) (Mass Market Paperback)
I dug around a bit and discovered that 'The Risen Empire' and the 'Killing of Worlds' was one manuscript but was chopped in half because the publisher didn't think a Sci-Fi book that long from a relative unknown would sell for the higher price a larger book costs.
Or so is claimed.
A bit of a shame really because like other reviewers I think this book deserved at least a mention in the big awards.
I will review both books here.
A very original story line winds through a well thought out and well fleshed out universe that the author has taken time to make quite believable. Different political parties, a Senate, an Emperor all help the story to rise above the standard Space Opera, and make the reader believe there is a functioning Universe within the pages of this book.
Characters are well detailed with even bit players not feeling superficial or shallow. There are even different classes of people all with their own agendas or in the case of the risen, dark secrets.
The high tech military hardware and operations blend nicely with the Senatorial episodes and the love interests between Captain and politician, Captain and Exec and a data analyst and a cyborg/gestalt being are important subplots rather than just an 'interest'
The highlight of the whole book has to be the space battle between the outclassed latest Imperial prototype and an advanced sentient gestalt type race. It is a fantastic bit of story telling with heavy yet understandable science and engineering underpinning the combat. Its probably one of the best examples of what space warfare might be like I have read.
Well worth a read, just remember if you just get the first book it will cut off in the midst of the action and you will kick yourself.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Killing of Worlds, 28 Oct 2009
By A. Haaland (Stavanger Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Killing of Worlds: Succession Book 2 (Paperback)
I have enjoyed reading The Risen Empire. When I bought Killing of Worlds, I thought this book continued the story ending with The Risen Empire, but I was very disappointed to find that Killing of worlds was the same book, however shorter, starting with chapter 5: Space Battle.
This is bad marketing, and fooling the customers. The book ended in the waste bin.
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