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Title: The Tenth Planet: Final Assault by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith ISBN: 0-345-42142-6 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 28 November, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Worth your time
Comment: This is the third book and follows Tenth Planet and Tenth Planet Oblivion. I gave this one four stars instead of the five I gave the first two books because I was led to believe that this story was a trilogy not an open ended series. Don't get me wrong, I like long stories, but I wasn't expecting it here. I was expecting a satisfying conclusion to the Tenth Planet trilogy, but instead I got an exciting ending to book three and an open invitation for a sequel.
So, where is book four? It doesn't seem to have been written and I want it! Anyone know if Smith will/has written book four?
Mark E. Cooper
Warrior Within (ISBN:0-9545122-0-0)
Rating: 4
Summary: An easy and fun read
Comment: The third and final book in the Tenth Planet series. Somebody earlier said it was pure escapism and they were correct. I read this strictly for fun and I enjoyed it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fast-paced adventure novel
Comment: In the third and final book of the series, Smith describes Earth and Malmuria (our solar system's tenth planet) locked again in mortal struggle. Both worlds have gained experience from their previous encounter six months before and are now prepared to confront each other with new resources and knowledge. The war is a fierce one, for only one species can win.
This is the type of book that would make a perfect movie. Much action, many dialogues, places which are described but would much better be seen on screen, planes, spaceships which would make the special effects people happy. This is how you must think of this book: an adventure/SF movie. You should not look for philosophy or character development, monologues, any "serios literature" stuff. This book does not intend to do that.
It is easy-reading, but pleasant nevertheless, the action is fast-paced, it keeps you on your toes all the time, the suspense is mastered beautifully.
The book gets a minus (hence 4/5 stars) because of the human characters. The book pictures the entire human race as prejudiced. The aliens are more human than the humans.
The aliens explain the reasons for their actions all the time and are considerate towards the human race - before the war had started, every time they had "harvested" the Earth they had tried to do minimal damage to the population. Their violence, which shocks so much Earth's people, is never unjustified, it is dictated only by their will to survive - and we all can understand that.
On the other hand, humans always refer to the aliens as "those bastards", they only want to "blast them off", think only of killing them. Never once did they try to find a way to solve the conflict other than by completely exterminating the Malmuria. Kind of like Will Smith in "Independence Day": "Take that, you bastard". If that sums up the human attitude towards an alien species, I'm disappointed.
And another thing: I had expected the nano-stuff Portia designed to be more used. All that work... for nothing. This was quite a let-down.
Still, a pleasant reading. And I appreciated the quite unexpected ending... read it to see what I mean.
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Title: The Tenth Planet (Book 1) by Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Christopher Weaver, Rand Marlis ISBN: 034542140X Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Assault on Atlantis by Greg Donegan ISBN: 0515136301 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Rock by Robert Doherty ISBN: 0440220726 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 09 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Atlantis: Devil's Sea by Greg Donegan ISBN: 0425178595 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 06 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Atlantis by Greg Donegan ISBN: 0425169367 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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