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Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making.
Acclaim for The Saga of Seven Suns
"Anderson weaves action, romance, and science with a rousing plot reflecting the classic SF of Clarke and Herbert and the glossy cinematic influence of Lucas and Spielberg." --- Publishers Weekly *Starred Review*
"Kevin Anderson has created a fully independent and richly conceived venue for his personal brand of space opera, a venue that nonetheless raises fruitful resonances with Frank Herbert's classic Dune series." --- Scifi.com
"Everything about Anderson's latest is BIG-the war, the history, the aliens. These are elemental forces battling here, folks. Yet the characters are always the heart of the story, and their defeats and triumphs give perspective to it all." --- Starlog
"A soaring epic . . . a space opera to rival the best the field has ever seen." --- Science Fiction Chronicle
"Colorful stuff . . . bursting with incidents, concepts, and a massive cast of characters, matching well-thought-out SF ideas with melodrama and interfamily strife." --- SFX
- Sales Rank: #470829 in Books
- Brand: Anderson, Kevin J.
- Published on: 2009-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.00" h x 1.75" w x 4.25" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 720 pages
About the Author
Kevin J. Anderson has written 46 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in 30 languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.
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35 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent End to an Excellent Science Fiction Series
By Avid Reader
I am a softy for grand space opera. Of course, I'll read most forms of science fiction but I love the kind of science fictions that spans galaxies and feature strange alien races and grand space battles. Kevin J. Anderson's seven-book epic, science fiction series, The Saga of the Seven Suns, fits all those criteria. I have been enthralled by this series since the first book, Hidden Empire, was published in 2002. I have to give credit to Anderson for creating an interesting universe with intriguing concepts and mostly original alien races. No, the series wasn't always perfect, but it's fun and exciting, and best of all they are the kind of books you can't put down until you've read the last word.
The book arrived on my doorstep Friday and I finished it by Saturday night. I have to give Anderson credit for creating one hell of a good story in Ashes. Of course, like any good final volume, Anderson ties up all the loose ends, but he puts our heroes through a lot along the way, but in the end we get the satisfaction we've been waiting for throughout seven books. If you're not reading The Saga of the Seven Suns you're missing one hell of a great science fiction series and one hell of a rollicking good time.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Ambitious Failure
By mobiusklien
I am writing this review after reading all seven books in a row. I waited until all 7 books were available in paperback till I read it so I would not have continuity issues. The main "elemental" antagonists were poorly described on a sadly consistent basis. These "ancient" battlers , Hydrogues, Faeros, Wentals, Verdani really had very little motivation for any of the actions. They exhibited mutual hatred or fear and not much else. The Wentals desire for order had little foundation. The dialogue for most of the 7 novels was trite at best. I felt some empathy for some of the characters, but overall it just felt poor, and badly connected. The human "bad guys", were just bad, with little balance. I will give the author some credit for undertaking a saga of this scope, but the societies were contrived and flimsy in their description, it was sad. I wanted to read this saga after suffering through his Dune pre-quels and sequels. In those books the author butchered the science and never created the atmosphere of wonder. In this saga, all of Anderson's own, he failed to go deep in so many areas, yet he had 600+ pages per book. I could not believe how poor the dialogue was throughout. The final pages of the last book, where King Peter is addressing his compatriots who just went through years of horror and grief was so poor, so trite, I was appalled.
This fails the test of great space opera, it was a big disaster movie put to print.
some specifics:
The explanation for known science is sadly idiotic. I understand that describing science is often a problem for speculative scifi, as it puts speculative science and engineering at risk during the story, so I will not criticize that. A few of many horrible mis-statements
From of Fire and Night
1- Admiral Stromo asking about emergency signals from Qronha. The Response from communication officer "We're still very far away sir, the transmitters on the pods are not very powerful". Power has to do with the strength of the signal, more power cannot overcome limitations of the speed of light.
2- A scene with Jora'h and the hydrouge emissary
" The emissary's voice manifested as a throbbing hum as if it were manipulating air molecules to transmit sound waves rather than using a simple speaker system." are you kidding me.
3- on Forrey's Folly- explanation for the lack of planets. "while coalescing, the sun had lost its grip on most of the material in the primordial cloud and hadn't had enough mass left over to create any planets worth counting. .... But the metal asteroid Forell's Folly was there for the taking." This explanation was poor
Emotions- you get to feel for some characters pain due to loss, and it was effective. There are other examples where this fell short
* DD the companion computer - Consistently wrong characterizations of emotions expressed throughout. There were supposed to be clear limitations to what it could feel, by its own admission, but complex emotions kept coming out including fear.
* All elementals- no attempt to describe the emotional wars inside all of them, potential conflict among their society. Some attempt with the Wentals. No attempt to use their POV. This is a total abdication for a work of this length and scope. They are four caricatures of fantasy creatures with great powers. Another way to consider them is (boogeymen [drogues], fairies[ wentals] , imps [faeros], and damsels in distress [verdani], It makes them cheap
Descriptions
* Ildirans- there are so many kiths, but descriptions were poor, the contrast between humans and Ildirians was also poor, and this is significant as there was cross breeding.
* The physical description detail was wildly inconsistent in terms of beings and landscapes
* A poor job of describing hydrougue cities, etc. Through the eyes of DD, Osira'h, Brindle, etc.
* Great opportunity missed- on so many levels, compare this to Iain Banks, China Mieville, Peter Hamilton
Dialogue
* down right poor overall, terse, never an extended conversation about views of any kind. Most concepts are delivered in expository form, which provides little excuse for ignoring the viewpoints of the elementals.
* The chapters are arranged in tiny components which really does not lend itself to getting into vital scenes.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Should be used in creative writing classes
By Menkaure
Kevin Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns should be used as an example in creative writing courses of everything to avoid. I've never found a more complete catalogue of bad literary devices contained in one place before. It's all there:
1) An overuse of exposition, thereby avoiding scene and character building.
2) Excessive repetition, in the form of re-capping what previously took place. Not just at the beginning of the book to refresh the reader's mind, but throughout each book, every 20 pages or so, we get a recap of what we just read. Worse still, this is sometimes delivered in the form of dialogue between characters.
3) Deus-ex-machina. In fact, nearly every conflict and or problem is resolved in this manner, with a new weapon, invention, discovery, or even a whole new species popping up out of nowhere to save the day just in the nick of time. This happens repeatedly in all 7 books.
4) Plot driven characters: the characters all behave, speak, and act however the plot demands at any given point, rather than---as in good literature---reacting to events in a natural, logical, or consistent way. This creates many, many head-slapping, eye rolling moments for readers, where supposedly intelligent and rational characters behave like perfect morons to reach the next plot point.
5)Internal consistency. There isn't any. No consistent technology, physics, biology, or any decernible rules to the 7 Suns universe. Races that have amazingly advanced tech in some areas, are abysmally backwards in other aspects without any attempt at rationalization. The tech works either as brilliantly or as restrictively as the plot requires at any given point. Sometimes ships cross thousands of light years in a few hours, other times it takes weeks. Sometimes characters can walk around fully exposed to deadly environments, other times they require space suits. The insect race who has billions of disposable worker bugs invents a highly advanced army of robots (why? What purpose?). The same insects have star gates that allow them to travel from planet to planet, yet they still use standard space travel. There's sentient water, sentient trees, sentient fire, sentient gas molecules and no explanation for how any of these things function, or why they function, or even what their abilities are. It's just magic. Like thism, it works because it wants to, if we just close our eyes, hold hands and believe...
You get the picture.
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