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Title: Lodestar (Firestar Saga (Hardcover)) by Michael Flynn ISBN: 0-312-86137-0 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Left turn into Cyberspace
Comment: After enjoying the first two books in this series, I eagerly awaited Lodestar. Now that I've finished it, I still eagerly await anything that resembles the first two books.
If you take the Jimmy Poole at the virtual OK Corral story arc out of this book, the remainder of plot progress takes up no more than a hundred pages. Jimmy on a virtual gambling boat, Jimmy fighting virtual attacks, Jimmy fighting not to be a jerk and read his wifes book. Geez! Nuke Jimmy and get back to the plot.
Rating: 4
Summary: Get on with it!!!!!!!!
Comment: Others before me have written more articulately, praising this volume, (and rightly so), than I ever could. And I agree with them. However, I just have this to say:.....
Ok Flynn, you have me hooked. You've milked this 'Star series long enough. If you don't come up with a closer soon, you'll start losing readers. As for me,... I'll buy one more,....maybe two,....OK,OK,...three more 'Star books. But that's all!!! But by then you had better have resolved these issues:--Save Earth from the asteroids; Find out who the "Aliens" are, and why they did it..
Rating: 3
Summary: weak link in a great chain! (but still pretty good)
Comment: I am a great admirer and have much enjoyed Michael Flynn's series. Lodestar is still pretty good, even though maybe not up to the first two. I admire Flynn's characters as he develops them.. and sort of miss some of the earlier ones (e.g. Barry Fast). I found myself skipping over some of the "hacker" text. I could sort of follow most of it, and it may have been dynamite to someone more computer-wise than I.... but it did drag on. I kept expecting more space travel to occur, and was disappointed when it was such a small part of the story. I do admire how with each successive book the cultural landscape becomes more removed and different from that of the present. He has some creative slang terms, most of which I can decipher. He does keep coming up with great characters, and making some of the established ones more interesting. I like his inclusion of and interplay among the topics of science, technology, politics, high-finance, even a bit of art, and makes it all into a complex and compellng story.
More SF should be written this well!
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Title: Rogue Star (Firestar Saga (Paperback)) by Michael Flynn ISBN: 0812542991 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Firestar (Firestar) by Michael Flynn ISBN: 0812530063 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Wreck of the River of Stars by Michael Flynn ISBN: 0765300990 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: For Us, The Living : A Comedy of Customs by Robert A. Heinlein ISBN: 074325998X Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Dark as Day (Cold As Ice) by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0812580311 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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