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Title: The Siege of Eternity by Frederik Pohl ISBN: 0-8125-7766-3 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 October, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Shallow and unimaginative start of series.
Comment: Pohl is a fine and talented author, but in Siege of Eternity he ignores his experience and squashes his talent. The writing is simplistic, but with too much sex and violence for this to be a childrens book. The characters are shallow and undeveloped. Despite the action and sex, the book is a bore. Worse yet, when you finish (and I am not giving anything away), *nothing* is resolved! Turns out you wasted all this time on an obvious introduction to a serial. If you want to enjoy some good Frederik Pohl, don't read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Pohl at his best
Comment: Part of a true three novel trilogy Eschaton, including (The Other End of Time, The Siege of Eternity, The Far Shore of Time). This trio deals with first contact but Pohl couldn't let it be a simple aliens encounter, there are two different and of course warring alien alliances but that is as far as the "of course" goes. The leaders of earth first have to come to terms among themselves so they can choose correctly from slim, hidden and misleading evidences, which group of aliens is truthful and altruistic and which will conquer and enslave.
Besides the wonderful Sci-Fi and multitude of sentient beings there is a good study of the human psyche in captivity. Also a twist in dealing with unwanted clones; not knowing which is the original, if there is an original, which clone gets the spouse and like conundrums.
You have to stay alert to the fast pace and changing / multiplying cast. A very good read with interesting alien customs and biology's.
Rating: 3
Summary: comic bookish
Comment: The Other end of Time (the first in the series) was certainly better in terms of story and imagination. This is simply a bridge to a third novel, which I'm hoping is a bit better. But here's the thing, at least for me: this is basically a comic book in fiction form. And if you don't go into it that way, you're gonna bang your head against a wall at all the nonsense.
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Title: The Other End of Time by Frederik Pohl ISBN: 0812535197 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Annals of the Heechee by Frederik Pohl ISBN: 0345325664 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 April, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: World at the End of Time by Fredrik Pohl ISBN: 0345371976 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 13 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: STARCHILD TRILOGY : STARCHILD TRILOGY by Pohl ISBN: 0671655582 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1986 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Heechee Rendezvous by Frederik Pohl ISBN: 0345300556 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 March, 1985 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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