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Title: The Prodigal Sun (Evergence, Book One) by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0-441-00672-8 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A lighthearted space adventure
Comment: Williams and Dix do a superb job with the opening book to their Evergence trilogy. This story involves Morgan Roche, an intelligence operative for the Commonwealth of Empires, a sort of conglomeration of solar systems that agree to have the same government. Roche's mission is to escort a super-AI known as the Box to Commonwealth Intelligence HQ. Everything begins to go wrong, however, when the ship she is on (the Midnight) is ambushed by Dato Bloc (another government) forces.
Roche, with the help of the Box, bucks the odds by surviving the attack and escaping the Midnight in a small pod. Along the way, she enlists the help of Adoni Cane, a seemingly normal human with some very superhuman capabilities. While her "partners" all seem very willing to help, several strange facts come to the forefront, and Morgan begins to wonder what her "friends" might secretly think. Who, really, is Adoni Cane? And what does the Box really want? Read the book and find out!
Rating: 4
Summary: Builds on you - thoroughly enjoyable.
Comment: Straight off - the first book of this series reminded me an awful lot of a revamped version of Blakes 7, a classic british science fiction show. I loved that show, so this review may be a little biased.
Morgan Roche is a strong, competent, highly intelligent 'intelligence' officer for the Commonwealth. She has been ordered to transport a brand spanking new generation of AI to headquarters via a highly circutitious route that should 'throw off anyone chasing'. Needless to say, they catch up anyway. Thrown in with an old, sneaky trader, a young mutilated ESPer, a gentically engineered supwerwarrior from the distant past and a smart talking briefcase, Morgan has to escape from the prison planet she just happened to crashland on, and continue her mission.
That all sounds very pat, and it is the basic framework for the story. But its a lot more interesting thatn that, with a lot of plot twists, and a genuinely interesting universe thats guaranteed to keep your attention. Keep in mind that this is the first book in a series, probably a trilogy, and there are some questions raised that will be answered in later books.
Rating: 4
Summary: Out of the frying pan
Comment: Two aussie up and coming authors write a sci-fi story with Indianna Jones like rolling action. Ideas and depth of culture and science I found most enjoyable. The book was full to the brim of twists, betrayals and action.
Two males writing from a female perspective, I found this intriguing, being a male I can't say whether they pulled it off or not with any authority.
Although this is the first of a trilogy it easily stands alone as a work with a begining and a definate outcome, which I find refreshing.
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Title: A Dark Imbalance (Evergence, Book Three) by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0441008119 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Heirs of Earth by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0441011268 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Echoes of Earth by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0441008925 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Orphans of Earth by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0441010067 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Phoenix Exultant : The Golden Age, Volume 2 (The Golden Age) by John C. Wright ISBN: 0765343541 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 19 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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