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Title: White Moon, Red Dragon : A Chung Kuo Novel: Book Six by David Wingrove ISBN: 0-440-22308-3 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 10 March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must have
Comment: Take the chance and embark on a long journey with David Wingrove. You will not be let down. Problem is, you will see nothing of your friends or family for the next three months.
But, that is what you are looking for in a book, isn't it?
Rating: 4
Summary: Picture living in a humongous crawlspace...
Comment: ...underneath a city almost the size of a continent, and you've got "the Clay". We learned in earlier volumes that this was scientist Kim Ward's homeland. But now, in this volume, we get a closer look at the place--much of this book is set there. This is an "underworld" with none of the romance of the Sewers Of Paris as depicted in "Les Miserables". Two hundred years of the Seven's rule have created an underclass of people in both a social and a geographic sense, and it's beginning to boil up into a conflagration we couldn't begin to imagine in present-day ghettos and barrios. Meanwhile, the rule of the Seven has been on the skids since the previous volume--the only T'ang who's still a viable ruler may be the most decent of the original Seven, but that fact doesn't help a bit. Arch revolutionary Howard Devore--a Stalinesque type who as a cure for tyranny is worse than the desease--has come back from his exile on Mars. In the words of James Baldwin, it's "the fire next time", and next time is right now.
Rating: 4
Summary: Wingrove's cycle builds to an impending climax.
Comment: Wingrove's Chung Kuo cycle has been compelling for a number of reasons, not the least of which is its believability. Despite his daring intent to combine politics, science, sexuality and history into one dangerous mix, his tale has never sunk into the category of easily-dismissable science fiction. He has done this by refusing to follow the lead of popular SF trends; he has, for the most part, eschewed the technical-laden side of SF storytelling, preferring to anchor his tale to the human element.
"White Moon, Red Dragon" departs somewhat from that formula, however, in its greater reliance on technology to progress plot and to solve problems, almost deus ex machina. But the masterpiece of the previous five books encourages me to expect a sublime and profound climax in Book 7, followed by an audible denouement that will bring Wingrove's vast vision to fruition.
This book is but a preliminary step to that greatness. Though paler than its predecessors, it nonetheless reflects their glory and brilliance.
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Title: The Stone Within : A Chung Kuo Novel: Book Four by David Wingrove ISBN: 0440217555 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The White Mountain by David Wingrove ISBN: 0440213568 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 12 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: CHUNG KUO II : THE BROKEN WHEEL by David Wingrove ISBN: 0385298749 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom : Book 1 by David Wingrove ISBN: 0440207614 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 05 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Broken Wheel : A Chung Kuo Novel by David Wingrove ISBN: 0440209285 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 05 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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