The Books of the Wars

The Books of the Wars #1-3

by Mark S. Geston

Super-science, Weirdness and Wonder!Jack Vance. Gene Wolfe. Cordwainer Smith. If you like your SF evocative and full of amazingly bizarre ideas that recall the best of such writers, you're gonna love Mark Geston! First, the remnants of humanity attempt to build a cathedral-like spaceship to flee a devastated Earth—but are we still at the mercy of the dark forces that brought on the first apocalypse Next, it's been an 800-year battle after the invasion of Earth by transdimensional magic-users. Now humans finally grasp the secrets of thaumaturgy and are ready to turn it against their foes! Finally, a young prophet faces down a super-science Armageddon in a weirdly-baroque far future. Three Geston novels of startling imagination and strangeness, together for the first time!At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (DRM Rights Management).

Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction

688 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 27, 2009

About the author

American sf and fantasy author.

Reviews

[Paul Jarzabek · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice finish of the series.

[Mark Lacy]

Abandoned after reading first part (Lords of the Starship). So disappointing. I picked this up because I had read the first two parts of this when I was young, and I thought I remembered liking them. I even had gone back and re-collected the paperback editions. So when I saw this omnibus volume with a third story, I thought I would enjoy it. Wrong. A new character every page. No character development. Boring prose. Battles too hard to follow. I can't believe an editor really saw value in this, but maybe back in the late 1960s this was good by comparison.

[Trip · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is insanely depressing (literally: the second story is nothing but the descent of one man into madness), but what can you expect from stories set at the end of the world, when humanity has lost the will to build, or even to survive, but not the will to massacre each other? A lot of the imagery is very nice, though, and it's at least interesting doom.