BattleTech: Visions of Rebirth

Founding of the Clans #2

by Randall N. Bills

THE DREAM DESTROYED…General Aleksandr Kerensky is dead. The Pentagon Worlds are in flames. The dream of a Star League-in-Exile is over, shattered by civil war. Amid the chaos, Nicholas Kerensky leads those who will follow him on a second exodus to the world of Strana Mechty.Yet unlike his father, Nicholas must choose a different He wants to do away with all that was, and create an entirely new order. However, the bounds of society that go back millennia cannot be shed so easily. Resistance must be overcome, and blood must be spilled before Nicholas' dream can be achieved. But without his brother Andery's help, the entire venture is doomed before it even begins.Brothers, however, don't always share the same goals. And as more aspects of civilization are purged in the relentless forging of this new society, Andery fears the worst of human nature will arise. Can he find a way forward and stay by his brother’s side…or will Nicholas’ ultimate vision be realized as everything Andery stands against?

Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction

285 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Sean · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

Theres some reasonably well thought out ideas here about how an awful (and silly) society like the clans might come about. Andrey is a different kind of protagonist for battletech and, in certain senses, more ambitious than most found in franchise fiction in terms of his psychological realisation.

Unfortunately, Andrey is just such a passive and negative presence with an interminable amount of inner monologing. Almost any scene with Dana is even worse. The material you really want to read in here in clan story terms could easily be a novella, and 2 books in we spend a lot of time studying Andrey but rather than an arc its more bobbing along the bottom.

Theres a lot of time jumps but yet little sense of progression. Really, I think it would be better just to read Operation: KLONDIKE for clan lore.

[Peter D. Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another History Book

Another gap filling history book f the origins of the Clans. More character development, very little action.

SPOILER

One gaffe. When Nicholas created the first 20 Clan names. Sea Fox was one of them. One of the previous books gave the history of Clan Sea Fox and they were _not_ one of the original Clans. They started out as something else, Diamond Shark maybe, and later became Clan Sea Fox.

So, Nicholas could not have had them as one of the original Clans.

[Walter Robinson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read about the founding of the clans

Good read about the founding of the clans and the construction of the new clan society. Viewed from Andery Kerensky and his views of the Machiavellian manipulation of both civil and military society by his brother and founder of the clans Nicholas Kerensky.

[Tim Gray · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm finding these a little hard to follow TBH. But some interesting stuff in terms of history.