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Battle-ready factions converge above Darien, all with the same objective. The goal is control over this newly-discovered planet and access to the powerful weapons at its heart. Despotic Hegemony forces dominate much of known space and they want this world too, but Darien’s inhabitants will fight for their future.However, key players in this conflict aren’t fully in control. Hostile AIs have infiltrated key minds and have an agenda, requiring nothing less than the destruction or subversion of all organic life. And they are near to unleashing their cohorts, a host of twisted machine intelligences caged beneath Darien. Fighting to contain them are Darien’s hidden guardians, and their ancient ally the Construct, on a millennia-long mission to p
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What customers say about The Ascendant Stars: Book Three of Humanity’s Fire Reviews?
A solid end to a great trilogy – may contain slight spoilers,
I’m half tempted to write a negative review of this book, simply because the author seems to be engaging with his detractors here on Amazon. To do so would be a great disservive to what is an intelligent, well written and thought provoking series of books.
As much modern science fiction and space opera does, Humanity’s Fire takes the form of multiple viewpoints and weaves 4 or 5 different but connected storylines into one tapestry, the book reviewed here being the summation of that. While many of the features of the series read like a tick box checklist of contemporary writing (weapons of unimaginable power, evil aliens etc.), what seperates Mr Cobley’s work from those around him is the innovative way he crafts these – the indiginous Uvovo (who I can’t help but thinking of looking a bit like Ewoks) use nature as their power, much like early Studio Ghibli films; similarly the concept of dead universes forming the tiers of hyperspace is refreshing.
As the author’s mate Dave says in another review, the human stories here are well written and you do genuinely care about the fate of the various protagonists, something that, say, Stephen Baxter is probably guilty of overlooking – this is not a book where the ideas overshadow the characters.
Amazon are currently offering the whole trilogy for less than £20, and if you frequent charity shops in north London you can get the fisrt book pretty easily for less, so put down the cash and buy this series – you won’t regret it.
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|Disappointing,
I had high hopes for this book as I really enjoyed the first two books of the trilogy. However, the third book is marred by a convoluted plot which runs out of steam. I found the all the characters (except for Julia) developed into predictable stereotypes, either didn’t evolve at all or turned into charcacters I didn’t particulary like. The story itself also seemed to degrade in quality and seemed flat and predictable with very little innovation other than the adventures in the Tiernet. I also found the number of “just in the nick of time” circumstances drove me crazy, with characters being rescued from tight spots at the very last second throughout the book. All in all I found the book a big let down and what could have been an awesome finale turned into a big disappointment.
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|If you liked the first two books, you should like this,
I see a lot of people complaining in their reviews that the book was too complicated and hard to follow, but I didn’t feel it was any worse than the others in the series. Besides, lots of different stories entwined like that is what I love so much about the space opera genre.
My only real problems with the book were the overuse of silly terms such as “meta-quantal” and the idea that non-physical realms would behave and be experienced in a way very similar to the real world.
But I enjoyed the book, it wrapped up all the stories nicely and had a pretty decent ending. So if you enjoyed the first two books enough to want to read the third you will probably be all right.
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