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Title: Washington's Dirigible (Timeline Wars/John Barnes, No 2) by John Barnes ISBN: 0-06-105660-X Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: "An OK Story That Could Have Been Better."
Comment: Mark Strang was a pretty decent character, but I felt there was a lot of untapped potential that Barnes did not bring to the surface. He did do a good job with the scenes where Strang questioned his lust for killing anything associated with the enemy Closers. I also did not get a sense of any great crisis as Strang fights to keep this alternate 1775 on its intended track. The changes to this timeline were pretty cool. I am a sucker for time travel/alternate Earth stories. I liked the introduction of steam engines and dirigibles to 1775. And George Washington, Duke of Kentucky? Neat twist. The action scenes were OK, but tended to get a little too wordy at times.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not my favorite but...
Comment: Here Matt and a co-agent travle to an alternate america where King George III offered consessions to the American Founding Fathers and so the american revolution never took place. Matt also comes to another realization that is both chilling and brilliant at the same time. While this book is not as action packed as the others it is still a worthy edition to the serise.
Rating: 4
Summary: Wow + Wow = Wow.
Comment: Just as interesting and compelling as the first entry in the Timeline Wars. The scenes were Mark confronts his evil self, captured and tortured into becoming a monster by the watchamacallits in a paralell dimension, are absolutely climactic and memorable. There's a line the good Mark says to the bad that is just positively intense. Bad Mark talks to good Mark about how wonderful it is to torture his wife and force her to serve his every impulse, the same wife who was killed by the watchamacallits in good Mark's world, and good Mark's reply was positively defiant, though I don't remember it exactly word for word, and I can't find the exact page with it, so I'll do my best to paraphrase. Something like, "That's wonderful, have her serve you with a smile and a thousand-yard stare."
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Title: Earth Made of Glass by John Barnes ISBN: 0812551613 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Candle by John Barnes ISBN: 0812589688 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Lest Darkness Fall, to Bring the Light: 2 Books in 1 by L. Sprague De Camp, David Drake, L. Sprague De Camp, David to Bring the Light Drake ISBN: 0671877364 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Merchants of Souls (Giraut) by John Barnes ISBN: 0812589696 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 18 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Million Open Doors by John Barnes ISBN: 0812516338 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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