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    <body><![CDATA[The beginning of a sprawling, seven-volume space opera.  It's massive, but it's important to note that Anderson planned the entire story out ahead of time, and that the entire series is complete.  It's not one of those series that just keeps growing because the author wants to milk the franchise.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46283617">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a fan of science-fiction.  I also like fantasy.  But magic ... not so much.  Both sci-fi and fantasy follow the rule that something unfamiliar is abroad in the world, and the story explores how that new thing affects the lives of the characters.  Magic simply allows anything to happen at any ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71477809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the sprawling eic that set up the SAGA OF SEVEN SUNS, an inspiring read about the future of space travel and when an ancient alien civilization joins us to battle other wild star faring life. Set after the graphic novel VEILED ALLIANCES it sees the human race ignite a gas giant in order to m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65957592">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having read KJA previous 6 novels in the Seven Suns arc I've been looking for a critique that doesn't sound blindly sycophantic when considering dogged commitment to the seventh/final installment.<br/>I don't know how critics have overlooked KJA's plodding and extremely repetitive chapters. Or the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62313627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This series is the closest equivalent to an epic fantasy series in Sci-Fi form that I've read.  I really really love it.  The characters are really interestingly drawn, the worlds are interesting, the species are intriguing, I can't recommend it enough for the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84136.Fantasy_Lover_Dark_Hunter_1_" title="Fantasy Lover (Dark-Hunter, #1) by Sherrilyn Kenyon">fantasy lover</a> looking to cross over.  I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15363317">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book to see how the idea of The Hansa can be applied in fiction. Always a good idea to try and get a grasp of a complex of ideas this way.<br/><br/>Ok, it's a big book, I admit I skip-read. Well, it is written as a chapter per character, and not all the characters are that interesti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69225599">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ordinarily, I have no problem with tall, sad-eyed, green-skinned (from subcutaneous chlorophyll) priests who communicate instantly across the galaxy by means of the WorldTree. But when combined with characters I'd rather slap a few times than read about, arrogant aliens giving humanity a lesson for ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50094703">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome book.  It reminds me of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Triology/ Star Wars, in that the setting is an entire galaxy run mostly by one single man.  You've got robots, space travel, cool aliens, and &quot;green priests&quot; who are linked through instant telepathy across the galaxy.<br/><br/>The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43858767">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;What I learned from this book.&quot;  This book has.. wait.. let me count.. THIRTEEN characters (so far) that have characters written to their perspective.  I'm on page 196 out of 637.  Seriously.  NO.  Where are the editors of this world?  Why have they not stepped in?  DO SOMETHING TO STOP T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41680439">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is written in a style unlike any other I think that I have read.  It is narrated from the point of view of at least 20 different characters.  In fact, something like the first 14 chapters are all told from the POV of different characters.  Unfortunately, this technique makes the book chopp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72713548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anderson is a hack, a shit writer writing for a genre that only begets shit writing. Perhaps the man just likes to write like some people like to act, no matter the level of the outcome. Since Anderson is so prolific(he's been a cohort in several <em>Star Wars</em> and <em>Dune</em> novels), a certain percentage of h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29981439">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could go on and on about the Saga of the Seven Suns. This is the Ultimate SF epic. But make no mistake, its much more than Sci Fi. I've finished 3 of them out of 7, and every one is equally amazing. I'm not just saying that because I love sci fi. Anyone looking for an excellently entertaining seri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26668463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, space opera. A cast of millions, heelder werelden geschapen, allerlei gebeurtenissen, tien plots die allemaal rond elkaar en door elkaar en in elkaar draaien, heldendom, verraad, verdriet, plotwendingen, dingen op schaal van het universum: what's not to like?<br/><br/>Ik heb een week gedaan ov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17746158">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the beginning of a massive series, which I never would have finished if I hadn't listened to it on audiobooks. I could never read something this long, but what interested me was the huge scope that he tackles. This series has everything a space opera could possibly offer: robots, a variety o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62236676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hidden Empire is the first of a fully-published seven-part series, so it's long on set-up and relatively short on action until a good portion of the way through the book, but reading through all that set-up was still very enjoyable.  The series is ostensibly science fiction, but feels more like scie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77457661">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like the story, characters, and setting of this book and can't wait to pick up the next book.  My only beef is that the author gets very repetitive - I can see why he chooses to do that, since he jumps around between a large number of characters, but I don't need to be reminded every hundre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54581310">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book enough. HOWEVER, I found parts of the storyline somewhat...hokie. The whole being-connected-through-plants thing was a little much for me. I did like that Anderson made the &quot;aliens&quot; non-humanoid bipeds for a change. I also liked some of the political stuff. As this is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79885024">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing seemed far too simplistic.  The characters were thinly drawn, and the universe too sparse to get into.  When building universes, they must be thick and meaty, and Anderson seems to believe that the key to world-building is adding extra adjectives in.  This book did not work for me and I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50125358">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. I've read it and the second while the third sits on my shelf waiting. I date back to the 60s and have read both good &quot;space opera' and bad &quot;space opera&quot; this is good space opera. I tend to like what is called &quot;Military Science Fiction&quot; (though I'v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73592200">more...</a>]]></body>
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