false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174006924m/352774.jpg 352774 6 Christopher Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a rag-tag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the alien Ashiyyur. But now, one man believes Sim was a fraud, and Alex must follow the legend into the heart of the alien galaxy to confront a truth far stranger than any fiction. Reissue. 2944265 1989 A Talent For War total:231|5:37|4:90|3:82|2:17|1:5| 231 830 326 30 3 1 false false Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 10:40:41 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 10:25:55 -0700 2008
Alex Benedict learns that his uncle, who raised him, has disappeared along with several hundred other people aboard a space space headed for a remote location. His uncle leaves him the entire estate, along with the mystery that...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 19:13:39 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 19:26:34 -0800 2008
Written in 1988, McDevitt managed to predict alot of the technologies that we currently see used in space, or see being prepared right now, in addition to randomly being correct at guessing at a "multiverse"...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 07:54:14 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 07:54:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 22:51:52 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 22:55:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jan 24 08:27:41 -0800 2009 Sun May 17 12:58:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 26 20:22:39 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 20:22:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Dec 09 10:29:55 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 10:35:18 -0800 2008
Fairly good elements of hard sci fi in this with a bit of mystery thrown in. I enjoyed it and have a stack of his other novels to work through.

I think he has a certain richness of description, but his char...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 12:29:13 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 17 17:11:31 -0700 2008
Anyway, Talent's not bad. I don't quite know who that is on the cover... it's n...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 06:50:17 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 07 06:15:08 -0800 2008 A Talent For War reads very quietly, but moves along no less for that. A dealer in historical artifacts inherits his uncle's estate, and learns that his uncle died on the cusp of an amazing discovery about a war hero from an interstellar war a few centuries...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 26 13:16:18 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 15:48:51 -0700 2008
However, I can only give it 3 stars. It was interesting enough to read (after I got into it about 200 pages) a...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 16:50:49 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 07:55:39 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 11:20:56 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 21:57:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 08:06:49 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 08:06:49 -0700 2009 The mystery kept me reading from the beginning to the end. The back summary of the book sort of spoils at the same sort of misdirects your theory as you read the book (because you know something is "not right").

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The story follows Alex Be...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 19:48:02 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 19:50:27 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 10:26:36 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 10:50:23 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 21 17:21:49 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 20 04:55:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 17 20:34:31 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 20:38:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Mar 22 18:05:02 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 18:05:24 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Feb 11 23:01:11 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 12 09:17:04 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 11 23:00:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=352774