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Title: The Last Legends of Earth by A. A. Attanasio ISBN: 0385263937 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: The most overlooked sci-fi classic of our time!
Comment: I've read this book over 5 times, and I still find something new everytime. Time travel, aliens, other realities, this novel has it all. Humanity is recreated from it's DNA and brought back to life along with EVERY other species that ever lived on Earth. I cannot say enough about this book! READ it! If you love sci-fi this one cannot be passed up! Attanasio's poetry helps move the story line along, and in some places, makes the novel. I'll leave you with this example from the start, where the being about to return humanity to life after billions of years, ponders her actions.
"Plucked whole from the stride of oblivion, you spirals of ascension shall climb again into flesh- and your black silence shall unwind into light."
Rating: 5
Summary: Only the best. A genre all its own!
Comment: This book is simply one of the best. Nothing I have ever read in all of the 500+ books I have consumed (at least half being sci-fi) has come close to the depth and entertainment of this book. Not only does it entertain, but this is one of those few books that truelly makes you think. The sheer scope of the epic is unbeleiveable. It goes through 2 very different primary species on Earth, a group of beings that literaly eat the pain of lower races, an aloof group of beings from another reality out for revenge, it goes on and on. Throughout it all, the central thread is humanity itself.
When you finish reading this book, you won't put it down and pick up another. For days at least, you will just sit back thinking about the book saying "wow that has heavy, but SO great". It is unparalleled at what it is, one of those small genre of Sci-fi books all by its self. The end of time/universe/etc book. Besides the central plot of the book, and all the many subplots, the story actually strives to tell something in its completness and complexity. The book shows the unstoppable power of the human spirit, and humanity as a race's unwillingness to give up or surrender. Infact, at several points thoughout the book, the Rimstalker actually handycaps humanity against the high tech Zolt, fearing that humans would prove too difficult of prey. That would cause the solarsystem sized trap to be unsucsessful.
In summary, simply a beatiful master peice, long neglected. Honestly, I have no idea why this book is not considered one of the great "must reads" of the science fiction world. If you ever see a copy, BUY IT because this great (and unfortunately rare) book is out of print. Enjoy it while you can. One for the ages.
Rating: 5
Summary: an extraordinary book
Comment: There are more original ideas in this single volume than found in ten average Sci-Fi novels. A.A. Attanasio is simply one of the most brilliant and talented writers ever. Though it is the final book of a series, "Last Lengends of Earth" can be read and appreciated alone on its own merits. A rich and broad tapestry of human values set against truly alien worlds in a far, far distant future.
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Title: In Other Worlds by A. A. Attanasio ISBN: 0553255665 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 1986 List Price(USD): $2.95 |
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Title: Arc of the Dream by A. A. Attanasio ISBN: 0553260359 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 1986 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: Radix by A. A. Attanasio ISBN: 0553254065 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 1985 List Price(USD): $14.50 |
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Title: Wyvern by A. A. Attanasio ISBN: 0899194095 Publisher: Ticknor & Fields Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Diaspora by Greg Egan ISBN: 0061057983 Publisher: Harper Prism Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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