For years, the alien Klikiss robots have pretended to be humanity's friends, but their seeming "help" allowed them to plant an insidious Trojan Hor...
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Aug 10, 2010
D.w.
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Only one more book to go.
Often during the reviews of this series I cite how timeline is a terrible distraction. The Pregnancy that has gone on forever is now finally over. How a second problem that the author thinks is a triumph is the short vignettes of everyone's story. That still plagues us.
How as a political treatise we have a meglomaniac ruling earth without a checks and balance system. Still the Chairman gets away with terrible horrors and no one stops him.
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Often during the reviews of this series I cite how timeline is a terrible distraction. The Pregnancy that has gone on forever is now finally over. How a second problem that the author thinks is a triumph is the short vignettes of everyone's story. That still plagues us.
How as a political treatise we have a meglomaniac ruling earth without a checks and balance system. Still the Chairman gets away with terrible horrors and no one stops him.
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Jan 13, 2008
Dave
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man, this really disappointed me. with such a great previous book, i really thought this was going to be amazing. it actually turned out to be my worst fears. anderson finally succumbed to corny characters, predictable plots, and tired conversations. too bad. i guess i'll still read the next one. i guess i have to since it'll be the last in the series. maybe this was a fluke.
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Jan 12, 2012
Danny
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This one was slow at the start, but built up steam as it progressed to the end. Anderson leads you to believe that the war in the Spiral Arm is over, but as often happens in reality things just keep getting worse! With the help of the wentals, and verdani the humans and the strange yet compelling allies of the humans, the Illdrans, might yet survive the continuing war.
The Kilkiss(an ancient and very alien race believed to be extinct) are back, and the irrationality of the Hansa Chairman More...
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Jul 27, 2010
John
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This was a fun series to read. The semi long winded way of writing reminds me of the Dune prequels and conclusions he helped write. Not that I'm really complaining it’s just a lot to get through.
The story is big but the character list is bigger, and you get plenty of detail. I was able to read the entire series with only 1 or 2 forced distraction books to get a break from the story. Which for me means it’s pretty good if I don't get too sick of it after More...
This was a fun series to read. The semi long winded way of writing reminds me of the Dune prequels and conclusions he helped write. Not that I'm really complaining it’s just a lot to get through.
The story is big but the character list is bigger, and you get plenty of detail. I was able to read the entire series with only 1 or 2 forced distraction books to get a break from the story. Which for me means it’s pretty good if I don't get too sick of it after More...
Mar 18, 2010
Paul
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For this one I started in book six or seven of a giantic epic. Fortunately there was a rather large recap of the last five books at the beginning so I wasn't lost. Andersons universe is peppered with hundreds of subplots and characters. Basically we got a number of groups of human confederations fighting against black robots (created by a race of bugs). Those bugs have resurfaced to destroy the robots and use the humans as of new DNA so they can fight against each other. There are also subwars b
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Dec 07, 2010
John
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The plot lines in this series were very interesting, and it was just enough to keep me reading it through to the end, but I found the writing repetitive, than tiresome and finally flat out boring.
Anderson writes each chapter as if you may have forgotten the setting laid down previously...I get it that the roamers are inventive, I get it that Ildarians can feel each other through some sort of psychic link, and I get it that the Chairman is distrustful of others...you don't need to con More...
Anderson writes each chapter as if you may have forgotten the setting laid down previously...I get it that the roamers are inventive, I get it that Ildarians can feel each other through some sort of psychic link, and I get it that the Chairman is distrustful of others...you don't need to con More...
Jun 17, 2011
Ngakma
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Book 6 of the Saga and I thought it was pretty good. Having been told this was the weakest book of the 7 I was pleasantly surprised. A few of the story lines from earlier books that seemed like irrelevant red herrings came back and proved that there was some point to them. I felt this book was better written than some of the earlier ones with more skillful descriptions. The characters were more filled out and the story moved at a good pace. I am looking forward to seeing how it all gets wrapped
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Jun 02, 2010
Heather
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It was fairly clear for a few books that the Klikiss were not extinct, and I was eagerly waiting for the moment when they would reappear. I had an image of the Klikiss in mind which was totally destroyed in the first few pages of their appearance. The black robots had been painted as such villains that it was natural to assume their creators were benevolent victims. By this point, I shouldn’t be surprised that Anderson created something completely unexpected. After this book, I see the robot
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Feb 10, 2008
Paul
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This book, part 6 in the series, takes place in the far future, after a brutal galactic war. Klikiss robots pretended to be humanity’s friend, building soldier compies (battle computers) for the Earth Defense Forces in their war against the hydrogues. The compies were all programmed to turn against their human hosts at a particular moment, killing thousands and stealing many Earth battleships. Sirix, the leader of the robots, uses these Earth battleships to attack undefended Earth colonies.
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Mar 12, 2011
Vincent
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Where book five was fun and exciting, book six was tedious and boring at times, almost as bad as the first book. A lot of plot occurred in book five, but the story did not end there. Several plot threads still need wrapping up plus an almost new thread that was only hinted at in earlier books has blossomed in this book. Still, the final part of the book was good enough to give me hope that the seventh and final book of the series might be a good one.
Mar 19, 2009
Jason
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This is great science fiction - excellent character development, complex story arcs and just pure excitement to read. I'm glad I got into the Saga of Seven Suns series after 5 of them had been published as it would have killed me to have to wait long periods in between publishing each book.
May 02, 2009
Jim
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Book 6 of the Saga of the Seven Suns. The story continues, now I have just one book left. I must say I will hate to see this story end.
Will save a larger review when I finish book 7. But, let me just say here and now, this is a classic and definitely worth the time, for science fiction fans.
Will save a larger review when I finish book 7. But, let me just say here and now, this is a classic and definitely worth the time, for science fiction fans.
Mar 28, 2011
Rory
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Really struggled with this book after devouring the preceding 5. Too many threads were wrapped up in book 5 so that 6 feels a little empty for a good part of the book. Looking forward to reading the last book but shall wait till I have caught up on some of the other books in my pile.
Feb 04, 2012
Nathan
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This book brings a lot of the plots of this Epic series to a critical juncture. Things don't really look good for anyone. The story is fast paced enough that the pages keep turning and make this book seem a lot shorter than it actually is.
Sep 19, 2010
MJ
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The series is beginning to bog down as more characters and alien races have been added, taking away from what I really like from the earlier books in the series.
Mar 02, 2011
Jane
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Yep, definitely just want to get the end now. Definitely won't abandon the series, but some of this stuff is just going on a bit long now.
Nov 08, 2009
Rob
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Anderson has done a very poor job with the "Saga of Seven Suns" series. He repeats the same parts of a storyline, an individual scene, or character background information as to become pedantic. The only other books I have read of his are his Dune prequel and sequel collaborations with Brian Herbert, which suffered from some of the same problems; however, I had been sucked into the Dune universe by Frank Herbert's originals, so the holes in that series that were filled by these collabor
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Oct 30, 2009
Jeremiah
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I feel this should have been a sequel series instead of a continuation of the first 5 books. That said it was still an entertaining read. The bad guys are a bit more 1 dimensional which makes things a bit obvious and redundant.
Nov 02, 2008
Michelle
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I like these books by Kevin Anderson because each chapter follows a character. They are great for reading in places where you have small snippets of time like the bathroom, the doctors office, the car waiting to pick up kids, on the morning train, etc. The chapters are short 3-4 pages and only follow one character at a time so it's not too confusing. The characters are also richly developed and the plot is always thickening. Just when you think you've figured it out the author throws somethi
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Feb 03, 2010
Andypants
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i don't think i'm spoiling it to say that this book jumped the shark about 12 times.
Aug 05, 2011
Diane
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More of the series. I am still liking the characters and the morals of the good ones. It seems there are too many setbacks in good vs. evil, however, and I'm getting tired of evil winning so often. Hopefully the last volume of this series will end with a win for good.
Sep 13, 2009
Eric
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As the previous book this one kept me asking for more. The more I read this serie the more I wish they will make a movie from it and in the same way I am so sure I would be disappointed. Sometime I wish some of the caracters' interactions would be more developed but in this case it might take a couple more books, which I would not complain about. So excited about reading the last book of the serie finally.
