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Charon: A Dragon at the Gate (The Four Lords of the Diamond #3)
They took the body of Park Lacoch and stripped away his mind. Then they stuck him aboard a spaceship and exiled him to Charon, from which no return was possible. And just when he thought things couldn't get any worse, Park found himself transformed into a changeling -- a half-beast, half-man, with the beast rapidly gaining ascendancy . . .
Mass Market Paperback, 289 pages
Published
October 12th 1982
by Del Rey/Ballantine Books
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Well, I think it is official. I only like Chalker's The Four Lords of the Diamond, everything else of his that I've read has been blase to bleh.
So what makes this different? It has many of the same themes as his other books. I think part of it is that I read this back in highschool and it made an impression on me, and it has stuck.
Also, who wouldn't want to have an idealized body made by your mate while you get to make her body to suit you?
So what makes this different? It has many of the same themes as his other books. I think part of it is that I read this back in highschool and it made an impression on me, and it has stuck.
Also, who wouldn't want to have an idealized body made by your mate while you get to make her body to suit you?
Book 3 of 4... Not as good as book 1, but much better than book 2. An intersting twist at the end, and the introduction of a new and unexpected character who, while he was discussed and even made one dramatic appearance early in the book, was only revealed as a major character in the last few pages of the book. Very nice. Actually made me want to hurry and start the last book. Which I did.
I enjoyed The Four Lords of the Diamond books. I thought it was a different approach to "clone" the main character and have a book for each of the clones, each taking place on a different world with a different set of "unique" rules.
It would have been better to publish the four books in one volume - but I guess they had to make money.
Great series.
Read them when I was younger.
Time to read them again and see if they hold up.
Read them when I was younger.
Time to read them again and see if they hold up.
See Review of "Lilith: A Snake in the Grass (The Four Lords of the Diamond)" Book 1
SF/Adventure. Third in the Four Lords of the Diamond series. Mindless action but fun.
ho-hum.
Well, this was odd. So far this was the weirdest book in the mini-serie of them. Lots of "there's no hurry" and just post-lunch "we need to hurry" things going on, too much explaining of things that didn't need that much explaining and so on. Once again women are perfectly attached to the Mr. Agent and his loved one is practically a slave of his, pleased to please him.
Third book of 4. What happens, when woodoo and witchcraft actually work in a society where science is the only measure? The hero and his girl are turned into dinosaurs (or something similar) and then something else. All while being hunted and trying to solve the situation that will bring war to the known universe. YES! Read it :)
The least of the tetralogy, Chalker's must have been in a preachy mood when he wrote the beginning. It almost seems as if he thought, "Well, I'm committed to four..." Still, it continues a creative series in an entertaining narrative.
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Besides being a science fiction author, Jack Laurence Chalker was a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for a time, a member of the Washington Science Fiction Association, and was involved in the founding of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society. Some of his books said that he was born in Norfolk, Virginia although he later claimed that was a mistake.
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