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Pax Omega (Pax Britannia: El Sombra #3)
by
Al Ewing
Doc Thunder's last stand against a deadly foe whose true identity will shock you to your core! El Sombra's final battle against the forces of the Ultimate Reich! The Locomotive Man in a showdown with cosmic science on the prairies of the Old West! Jackson Steele defends the "25th Century" against the massed armies of the Space Satan! A duel of minds in the mystery palaces...more
Paperback, 320 pages
Published
April 1st 2012
by Rebellion Publishing
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Now before I begin this review I have to admit that I was one of the two guys who won the Genre for Japan auction to feature as a character within these pages. So I was already pre-disposed to liking the novel. That being said, even I wasn't prepared for how amazing this book was.
The story begins at the dawn of time and travels forward touching on the time of the Dinosaurs, the Eighteen Hundreds, the old West, Modern Day, the 25th Century and One Million AD.
It goes without saying that if you lov...more
The story begins at the dawn of time and travels forward touching on the time of the Dinosaurs, the Eighteen Hundreds, the old West, Modern Day, the 25th Century and One Million AD.
It goes without saying that if you lov...more
Al Ewing writes fucking great pulp, right enough.
Pax Omega spans the entirety of time, and deals with a series of characters from a variety of pulp genres, who come together in an incredibly entertaining pastiche of superhero stories (but it's a lot better than that sounds).
Apparently it's book 3 of a series, but I've not read them, and it didn't affect my enjoyment.
Sometimes I feel a bit guilty reading 'trash culture' books as I get that sort of thing more from comics. I should probably be rea...more
Pax Omega spans the entirety of time, and deals with a series of characters from a variety of pulp genres, who come together in an incredibly entertaining pastiche of superhero stories (but it's a lot better than that sounds).
Apparently it's book 3 of a series, but I've not read them, and it didn't affect my enjoyment.
Sometimes I feel a bit guilty reading 'trash culture' books as I get that sort of thing more from comics. I should probably be rea...more
I love story cycles anyway - a series of short pieces with different protagonists, moving through time to build up something more than a novel. Even better when the stories are this much fun - and when, while working admirably as steampunk romps, they also build up to a searing critique of steampunk, and of what would have had to be lost from the world in exchange for all those top hats with cogs on.
This just wasn't really for me. I do like it when different character threads slowly weave together but for me the segments were too disparate to hold my attention. It took too long before I saw any connections in what I was reading, and by that time my interest had been lost. There were some well written scenes and ideas, particularly towards the ends with the robots, but overall it was disjointed and Ewing was trying to put a lot of big ideas into a small space.
Mar 16, 2013
Peter
marked it as to-read
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review of another edition
Shelves:
steampunk,
abaddon-books
Dec 17, 2012
Martin
marked it as to-read
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