Metal Swarm (Saga of Seven Suns)
by Kevin J. Anderson
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Author: Kevin J. AndersonEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-01
ISBN: 031602175X
Number of pages: 672
Publisher: Orbit
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Book Review: Anderson is a master of the dissapointing climax
Summary: 4 Stars
Time and again Anderson spends hours of storytelling putting his heros in ridiculously impossible situations to built a dramatic rescue, escape, or victory. Unfortunately the drama often isn't there. Instead you feel like you are being subjected to endless incompentence and bad luck on the part of the heros, and ridiculous displays of power by the bad guys, and getting nothing in return. The misery drags on for chapter after chapter, while the victories are always wrapped up in a few pages. Very frustrating.
The plot is also full of inumerable holes and missing justifications. Why in the world does Admiral Willis drop General Lanyon off at Earth? Why are the flame-creatures so ridiculously powerful? Why does the mage imperator set off with only a single warliner? Why are the people of Earth so incredibly gullible and stupid? With the information given it is very implausible that the Chairman could have stayed in office this long. Far too much of the book's villany is wrapped up in this one man. Any number of people could have easily assasinated him 3 books ago and ended the entire drama (he apparently has NO bodyguard). Meanwhile the mage imperator has hundreds of bodyguards but they turn out to be completely useless time and again.
Just a lot of missing elements. Every planet feels like it's no larger than a mid-size city. Planetary populations are repeatedly described in the low millions, where are all the people? Everything revolves around individual characters, there are almost no institutions or organizations that play any role.
Most good space opera has brilliant + lucky heros and devious + calculating villians. This series is more along the lines of bumbling + unlucky heros and irrational+lucky villians. Very odd.
Overall the series is interesting and builds a lot of anticipation, but just dissapoints again and again. It definetly rides on the strength of the characters rather than the plot.
Summary of Metal Swarm (Saga of Seven Suns)
For years, the alien Klikiss robots have pretended to be humanity's friends, but their seeming "help" allowed them to plant an insidious Trojan Horse throughout the Earth Defense Forces. Now, in the aftermath of a devastating war, swarms of ancient robots built by the Klikiss continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen and heavily armed Earth battleships.Among the humans, the Hansa's brutal Chairman struggles to crush any resistance even as King Peter breaks away to form his own new Confederation among the colonies who have declared their independence.
And meanwhile, the original, voracious Klikiss race, long thought to be extinct, has returned, intent on conquering their former worlds and willing to annihilate anyone in the way.
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