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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780316003445 ISBN: 0316003441 Label: Orbit Manufacturer: Orbit Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 672 Publication Date: November 01, 2007 Publisher: Orbit Studio: Orbit Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The author of the New York Times bestsellers Dune: House Atreides and Star Wars: Darksaber delivers the first book in an all-new epic science fiction adventure trilogy.In our galaxys distant future, humans are one of three known intelligent races. Having had the ability to navigate star travel for only a few centuries, we are considered the new kids on the block in a long- established universe. The second intelligent race is the Ildirans, who are ruled by their Mage-Imperator; and the third race, the Klikiss, seems to have vanished and left behind a world full of artifacts and remarkable technology, which humans are now beginning to find and utilize. One such piece of technology is a device that has the power to turn a gaseous and useless supergiant planet into a small sun, thereby creating a new solar system in which humans can live. But when the device is tried for the first time, it awakens the wrath of a previously unsuspected fourth race, the Hydroguesand a galaxy-spanning war that threatens all life begins. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - THIS BOOK MADE ME EAT MY DOG! (IT'S THAT GOOD!)I'm not kidding. (Peh peh peh...I'm still coughing up fur.) Kevin J. Anderson is without a doubt THE single most unbelievable talent in his field today. At first I thought I was going to hate this book, but the simplistic, almost childlike, prose style and repetitive storytelling eventually wore down my defenses and I ended up loving every single page. I've already ordered ALL the remaining books in this series. I can't wait until they arrive! Rating:  - C-Level Writing, But Good World DesignAnderson has a good knack for world building -- creating interesting political structures, cultures, social dynamics, and so on. However, he's absolutely terrible, at least in this book, at creating characters that you want to empathize with and/or which feel real. He is similarly terrible at writing dialog, and most of his characters seem to speak in one of two or three modes -- very little distinct personality is shown. The mortal sin of writing he commits repeatedly ... Read More Rating:  - Total, Complete & Utter Rubbish!672 pages of total, complete and utter rubbish! KJA needs to think about finding himself a new job, most of his "ideas" are STOLEN from various fathers of sci-fi! What a shame! Rating:  - A Good Series OpeningIt's quite an ordeal for me to begin a seven-book series with so much on my reading list. But I'd heard so many good things about this series so I picked up Hidden Empire and it with much promise that I'll return to the series for the second volume. Kevin J Anderson sets up a universe with a lot of good ideas. The coolest of these ideas is the Theron green priests of Theroc, an order of futuristic druids who can communicate telepathically through the worldtrees - instantaneous across ... Read More Rating:  - I GUESS I AM JUST A CHILDISH JUVENILE...Because I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Yes, it might not have the finest prose, the most complex characters, or the most valid science (but what the heck do I know, I'm just a thirty-something kid), but it did have what I consider to be the most important aspect of science fiction: an interesting, even captivating story. Much of the "hard" science fiction out there bores me silly. I want to be entertained when I read, and this book was entertaining. I won't take the time to write a more thorough ... Read More 
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