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Title: Emerald Eyes by Daniel Keys Moran ISBN: 1-57646-638-8 Publisher: Quiet Vision Pub Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $17.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Unbelieveably GREAT
Comment: One of the BEST sci-fi books of all time! I first read this book about 15 years ago when it first came out. It, along with The Long Run and The Last Dancer, is definitely one of the best books that I've ever read. These are really the first great cyberpunk books in my mind. Every time I go to the book store I check to see if there's a new book out by Moran. Far better than Gibson and right up there with Neal Stephenson. I wish that some publisher would pick up Daniel Keys Moran and give us more of this great universe.
Characters that you realy care about and a plot that forces you to stay up all night long to see what's going to happen next are the reason that my original copy was worn ragged as I forced all my friends to read this series. Ask anyone who's read his books and you'll have to gag them to get them to stop praising his books. I liked it so much that I bought two copies of the whole limited edition series including Armageddon Blues which is not part of the series but is great for it's ideas. The writing in Armageddon Blues is not quite as polished as Emerald Eyes and the others but it's still a great read.
This is one of those rare stories that takes place in the near enough future with characters that are real enough that you really care what happens to them, and you have a sense that this could be the future that we will all experience in our lifetime. It's full of things like a reverse microwave to instantly cool things down that you wish you had in your own kitchen.
If you can't afford to buy this book go ask your local library to buy it. Just make sure that you READ this book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderful edition of a great book
Comment: Emerald Eyes is the opening act of Moran's stories about Trent and the Castanaveras telepaths. It covers how the telepaths were created, how they were destroyed, and how Trent and Denice survived. The characters are perhaps less well-formed than one would like--it's really not a very long book, and Moran spends a chunk of his time on showing us glimpses of the larger universe, glimpses that are hard to understand until you read The Last Dancer. But, if you like stories with a lot of mythic impact, then you'll love this one.
The text of the limited edition is slightly different from the paperback edition that came out in 1989. It's the same editor (who's now Moran's wife), so you don't get much in the way of really glaring changes; most of the ones I spotted were improvements. (I haven't gone through and compared them side-by-side yet, but I've read the paperback 5-10 times, so any differences tended to catch my eye.) Some of the more artificial bits have been trimmed (e.g., the line where Trent says of Carl, "His grammar is poor, but he never says anything he doesn't mean."), and some of the phrasings have been improved. Nothing major, but enough that I'm not going to get rid of the paperback.
The novella tacked on to the end, The Star, is from Trent's time in the Fringe. It's a nice bit of backstory for The Long Run, but mostly it's just a minor adventure story. Worth reading, but I'm glad I didn't have to buy it separately.
Rating: 4
Summary: Definitely underrated
Comment: Even after years and several moves, this is still one of my favorite books. If you're a fan of action/adventure fiction that doesn't delve too deeply into emotional territory, this is for you. I consider this - along with Steven Boyett's "Ariel" - to one of the most underrated sci-fi/fantasy works published.
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Title: The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time by Daniel Keys Moran ISBN: 1576466396 Publisher: Quiet Vision Pub Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Armageddon Blues by Daniel Keys Moran ISBN: 157646637X Publisher: Quiet Vision Pub Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Last Dancer (Bantam Spectra Book) by Daniel Keys Moran ISBN: 0553562495 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Terminal Freedom by Daniel Keys Moran ISBN: 1576466434 Publisher: Quiet Vision Pub Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time by Daniel Keys Moran ISBN: 0553281445 Publisher: Spectra Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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