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Title: The Reformer (The Raj Whitehall Series, Book 7) by S. M. Stirling, David Drake ISBN: 0-671-57860-X Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not as good as I had hoped
Comment: David Drake and Steve Stirling are two of the best military science fiction authors that exist, and have earned their excellent reputations. I'm afraid that this book didn't live up to them. This is based in the same Raj Whitehall/Center universe as the earlier excellent Forge and Chosen serieses. In Chosen we saw that the authors like to use historical events as fictional backgrounds for the plot. They do so in this book a little too much. For example the ConFed city and army were Roman. Not close to Roman but dead on for Roman, including camps, cities, armor, siege tactics, everything but assagi for swords. The Emeralds are the Greeks, including phalanax, philosiphers, Athena, and the legend of the Thousand Ship War (a war that takes a thousand ships, sound like Troy?). The main battle is Tyre, with a bit of gunpowder. The story is not that bad, but the societies were just too much Greek and Roman. And the book should have been longer, probably spread into two. The end leaves us knowing that another book will follow, hopefully it will be up to their usual standards.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Reformer
Comment: Agree that this book is not in the class or breadth as The Chosen.
But it was never intended to be. Rather, The Reformer is more along the lines of the first books of the General's series. -- The Forge.
Also the authors followed their trend of translating ancient engagements into this new science fiction military context. The Forge and what followed tracked with a Byzantine general's , Belasarius, actual exploits.
In The Reformer, Stirling and Drake examined Alexander the Great's actual siege of Tyre and created a plausible alternate ending.
Still a good read. I'm looking forward to the next one.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Reformer
Comment: A very good all-round read; developed male AND female personalities, civilian and military, not more stereotypes than real-life, and the historical links are great fun - if you don't know history, then it might spur you to check it out (hey, education is GOOD, check out military history or classical history under Google search engine). And if you DO know history, you may well groan a bit (they take a few liberties -- cleverly) but, hey, gentlepeople, was it really like that or not? Remember, history is writtem by the survivors (egos all). Anyway, prime reason to buy -- it makes you think.
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Title: The Chosen (The Raj Whitehall Series, Book 6) by S. M. Stirling, David Drake ISBN: 0671877240 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Forge (The Raj Whitehall Series: The General, Book 1) by S.M. Stirling, David Drake ISBN: 0671720376 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Steel (The Raj Whitehall Series: The General, Book 4) by David Drake, S. M. Stirling ISBN: 0671721895 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Sword (The Raj Whitehall Series: The General, Book 5) by David Drake, S. M. Stirling ISBN: 0671876473 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Anvil (The Raj Whitehall Series: The General, Book 3) by David Drake, S. M. Stirling ISBN: 0671721712 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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