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Title: The Forlorn by Dave Freer ISBN: 0-671-57831-6 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fast-paced coming-of-age fantasy in science fiction clothing
Comment: "The Forlorn" is at once familiar and intriguingly strange, blending high fantasy archetypes with a fast-paced science fiction plot. Against a backdrop of programmed medieval culture, alien invasion and centuries-old betrayal, a street-rat, a spoiled princess and a born-and-bred warrior must live, learn, grow up and try to save the world from the devilish insectoid Morkth. Guiding our heroes is someone very like an ageless wizard, subtle and quick to anger. The objects of their quest are the gem-like shards of a transporter, a technology so advanced, it is almost indistinguishable from magic.
"The Forlorn' is classic science fiction. It is high fantasy. It is a coming-of-age story reminiscent of S.E. Hinton's works. Read it. It's good.
Rating: 5
Summary: Science Fiction in the old style
Comment: This book was a rare find. I didn't like the cover much, so I nearly didn't buy it. I'm really glad I did. It is writing of type I thought had died out of science-fiction. Exuberant, fun and fast. A little clumsy at times - but the pace carries you through it. Reminiscent of Andre Norton's early books, with just that bit more character-development, and complexity. The story follows three distinct threads - The street-thief boy with soul of a prince, the princess with the soul of a courtesan, the utterly terrible alien-raised shadow of a man with a tabula rasa soul. Appealing characters in very different ways. These three move at breakneck speed on a collision course in a sort of 'medieval' world. It's a quest story across painted deserts, mountains and oceans. There is very little description, but it is descriptively the best I've read for a long time. Most authors seem to describe in rather tedious detail if they describe at all. This guy comes up with one sentence stuff. 'In the moonlight the tangled weave of sharp edged valleys lay like some gargantuan mauled tapestry below them.' That's all, but I've been into the desert. I worked there for three months, it's a brilliant description. For an American his use of English is very good indeed. Easy to read and with bits of dry humour. The other things I found fascinating was an alien culture where only one sex was intelligent. Oh yes, and food, this guy should definitely on a cooking channel. The story does indeed have a fantasy-like quality to it for sf, but I guess at the level of technology that was inevitable. My favourite character is the hairy gene-splice Beywulf with ape and bear genes in a human - the guy gets described as a cross between mine host of the friendly pub and an axe murderer. That's a great description. I read the book at sitting, because it is sort of a mystery story too and I wanted to know just what happened. No, I didn't work it out, but the clues were there. Also it is fast paced and easy to read. It was only the next day at work that I found myself thinking about the book. Its a good book when you find yourself doing that. I sat there with my mouth open. The author is a sneaky... It's a damned clever spoof of fantasy. It's got all the stock characters doing the opposite to normal fantasy. It's clever but non-intrusive. My only real criticism is that the end is too sudden. I would have liked an epilogue at least to find out what happened. I hope that's because there is a sequel in the pipeline.
Rating: 3
Summary: A good read
Comment: This book falls in that genre that mixes SF with fantasy. It's a good enough book for those rainy days. Not one you'll be thinking about later, though.
Fleeing an interstellar war that would possibly mean the destruction of Earth, a human colony is launched to a distant planet. However the Morkth catch up with them on the new planet. Betrayals and fights end in a standoff. Both races are now on the planet and unable to leave.
300 years later, the new human society resembles Earth in the 16th century.
A thief ,a warrior, a princess and a member from the original human crew set out to find the 'magic' stones that will provide the struggling colony with a way to beat the aliens.
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Title: There Will Be Dragons by John Ringo ISBN: 0743471644 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Ring of Fire by Eric Flint ISBN: 074347175X Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: March to the Stars by David Weber ISBN: 0743435621 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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