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Title: T2: The Future War by S.M. Stirling ISBN: 0-380-97793-1 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.27 (11 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: A Book Written on Spec, and it Shows
Comment: T2: The Future War is the third book in a series that follows the characters of
The Terminator movies from where the movies leave off to future world that was
described so chillingly in the first movie. Stirling is faithful to the movies, and keep
his characters consistent with those on the big screen. He expands on the story
told in the movies and provides a good deal of background information and detail
on how the Terminator future can to happen. The problem with T2: The Future War
is that most of the plot and themes in the book are so simplistic that I found myself
skimming chapters to get to the paragraphs where SkyNet unleashes a new round of nasty machines upon humanity. The characters were so shallow that I simply did not care what happened to them. To make things worse, the ending is pre-ordained so there was no real suspense in the story.
A more serious problem, however, was that the book was full of cliches. For example, environmentalists and ecologists are portrayed as cold-blooded, fascist who are incapable of thinking for themselves. Stirling seems to be using this book
to editorialize on groups that he does not like, and he assums that his readers share his views. I lost interest after a few chapters.
Stirling has written some very good stories, but this is not one of them. Read The Children's Hour to see Stirling at his best.
Rating: 2
Summary: Good series, but weak ending
Comment: "T2 The Future" is the third book by S.M. Stirling. This books starts right before Judgement Day though years of battling the Skynet. While this might have be good idea for the third teminator movie, it just didn't work well for this series. The writer left many details that would have explain the action of his characters. I believe that Mr. Stirling could have given the characters more emotions, like he did in the first two books. Also since the book had alot on jumping in the future, its clear that the reader lost alot that could have made the book better. As I said before, this have been better if it was a movie and not a book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Great idea...poor deliverance
Comment: It's the same old song and dance. The left-wing revolutionaries fighting against the right-wing Nazis. Leninist/Marxists versus concentration camps. Science fiction is especially plagued by this utter lack of creativity, and sadly so. The T2 series is no exception. If you want to know who is evil I can tell you ahead of time they have blue eyes (sometimes "piercing blue eyes") and/or blond hair. If you want to know who is good, just check their skin color. If they are non-white then they're fighting for justice and freedom. This is not to say that we should be rooting for whites over blacks. I don't mean that. But this predictable politically correct dogma that Stirling serves up is so by-the-book that it lacks fire and imagination. Stirling has done better in the past and I hope he'll do better in the future.
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Title: T2: Rising Storm by S.M. Stirling ISBN: 0380977923 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 09 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Dark Futures (Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles, Book 1) by Russell Blackford ISBN: 0743445112 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines by David Hagberg ISBN: 0765347415 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 02 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: T2: Infiltrator by S.M. Stirling, S. M. Stirling ISBN: 0380808161 Publisher: HarperEntertainment Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Times of Trouble (Terminator 2: The New John Connor Chronicles, Book 3) by Russell Blackford ISBN: 074347483X Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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