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Books of the Cataclysm #4
The Devoured Earth
It's the end of the world. But there is hope, just as there was last time, when Seth and Hadrian Castillo trapped Yod in the Void Beneath and sacrificed their future to keep it there.
584 pages, Paperback
First published August 23, 2006
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Sean Williams
277 books468 followers#1 New York Times bestselling Sean Williams lives with his family in Adelaide, South Australia. He’s written some books--forty-two at last count--including the Philip K. Dick-nominated Saturn Returns, several Star Wars novels and the Troubletwister series with Garth Nix. Twinmaker is a YA SF series that takes his love affair with the matter transmitter to a whole new level. You can find some related short stories over at Lightspeed Magazine and elsewhere. Thanks for reading.
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January 12, 2021
Good conclusion to a good series.
Felt it was a little hacky and already been done that it ended with a pregnancy, but the general conclusion was nice.
Felt it was a little hacky and already been done that it ended with a pregnancy, but the general conclusion was nice.
January 12, 2025
A very confusing story comes to an end...3.75 stars for this book and 4 stars for the series
September 6, 2014
On its individual merits this series was by no means a masterpiece, although the first book was different and inspiring.
The sum of all its parts, however, made this absolutely brilliant. Not the least of which being that Williams can actually write women. It may say equally unkind things about both the SciFi/fantasy genre at large and ME, that I was so bloody startled to learn the author isn't female.
It shouldn't be shocking when women are written as well as men, it shouldn't be shocking when an author can write a gender well which is different to their own. However, these are still minority occurrences and it's amazing and heartening to find them both existing in the same author/series that I also absolutely loved.
As a huge SciFi/fantasy consumer I am ashamed that I was unaware of Sean Williams before now, but better late than never.
The sum of all its parts, however, made this absolutely brilliant. Not the least of which being that Williams can actually write women. It may say equally unkind things about both the SciFi/fantasy genre at large and ME, that I was so bloody startled to learn the author isn't female.
It shouldn't be shocking when women are written as well as men, it shouldn't be shocking when an author can write a gender well which is different to their own. However, these are still minority occurrences and it's amazing and heartening to find them both existing in the same author/series that I also absolutely loved.
As a huge SciFi/fantasy consumer I am ashamed that I was unaware of Sean Williams before now, but better late than never.
March 24, 2013
[4 and 1/2 stars]
This is very satisfying conclusion to the Books of the Cataclysm, I think. While it may lack a little of the gravitas and sheer weirdness of the earlier books (or maybe I'm just used to this universe by now :-P), it's still a very cohesive drawing together of lots of disparate threads, with some some startling plot developments, rousing action sequences (including a battle to dwarf all that came before) and the same care taken with characterisation. Well done, Sean Williams! I can't wait to read more of your books :-).
This is very satisfying conclusion to the Books of the Cataclysm, I think. While it may lack a little of the gravitas and sheer weirdness of the earlier books (or maybe I'm just used to this universe by now :-P), it's still a very cohesive drawing together of lots of disparate threads, with some some startling plot developments, rousing action sequences (including a battle to dwarf all that came before) and the same care taken with characterisation. Well done, Sean Williams! I can't wait to read more of your books :-).
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July 24, 2012
I think this is an interesting tetralogy and this represents a reasonably satisfying ending.
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