Slan Hunter

Slan Hunter
by Kevin J. Anderson

Slan Hunter
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Author: Kevin J. Anderson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-26
ISBN: 0765323508
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Tor Books

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Book Review: A Worthy Sequel To The Original Slan!
Summary: 5 Stars

While I would rate it a fraction below five stars, since Kevin Anderson couldn't replicate van Vogt's economy of language and marvelous "turn-of phrase", I found this sequel to be as fast-paced and compelling -- with many twists and surprises -- as the original. I reread "Slan" first (after 41 years), and I was pleased that this book picked up right after that and the roller-coaster-ride resumed almost immediately.

I didn't realize when I discovered science fiction in 1954 that I was tapping into what is known as the "Golden Age of Science Fiction", which is considered to have started around the time when van Vogt's "Black Destroyer" was published in "Astounding Science Fiction" magazine in 1939. "Slan" followed in 1940, and through to the end of the 1950's many great authors (including my other favorites, Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov) created wondrous stories. (While those and some others continued the tradition for several decades, more recent SF authors have gone different directions, and the genre is not quite the same.) "Slan Hunter" has really helped to recapture the feel of that "Golden Age". I was riveted throughout.

My recommendation to potential readers is to first read "Slan" and follow it with this sequel. And you should take it for what it is -- a marvelous extension of the story. (Then if you have been captured by A. E. van Vogt's unique style, consider reading some of his other classics. I strongly recommend "The Voyage of the Space Beagle" -- the first van Vogt book that I read -- which starts out with his "Black Destroyer" story as a basis. That has always been one of my favorites, and I plan on rereading it soon.)

Summary of Slan Hunter

The sequel to A. E. van Vogt?s Slan, one of the most famous SF novels of the twentieth century!

This startling SF adventure novel is a collaboration between the classic SF Grand Master, A. E. van Vogt, and contemporary master Kevin J. Anderson. At the time of his death in 2000, van Vogt left a partial draft and an outline for the sequel to his most famous novel, Slan. Van Vogt?s jam-packed, one-damn-thingafter-another storytelling technique makes his active plots compulsively readable. Now the story has been completed by Anderson, and is sure to be one of the most popular SF novels of the year.

Slans are a race of superior mutants in the far future, smarter and stronger than Homo sapiens and able to read minds. Yet they are a persecuted minority, survivors of terrible genocidal wars, who live in hiding from the mass of humanity. Slan Hunter tells of this towering conflict in the far future, when a new war among the races of mankind bursts out, and humanity?all types of humanity?struggles to survive. The heroic Jommy Cross of Slan is once again called upon to save the human race.

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