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| Mr Nelg | Jun 15 2008, 07:02 PM Post #1 |
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I just recently stumbled upon an interesting new trilogy, "The Eden Trilogy," and I was trying to find out if anybody's read it. The reason I'm so hesitant to buy it is it's written by Harry Harrison, and I'm still trying to get over "Stars & Stripes Forever." Plus reading a review of the first book, the reviewer states that... "Unfortunately, the Yilane seem to exist mostly as the enemy of the humans - you never learn to sympathise with them and openly root for the humans." To me, when i read that I think of Stars & Stripes, and the weather suddenly turns very chilly. Anybody?
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| eamonhart | Jun 15 2008, 09:53 PM Post #2 |
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The Liquor Lord
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It does sound like Harrison's shoddy writing style. I'm wary of reading anything of his after 1901. |
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| Makkabee | Jun 15 2008, 10:26 PM Post #3 |
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He's better when he's not doing alternate history. I read the first Eden book when I was in high school and thought it was kind of interesting. He also wrote a sci fi novel called The Daleth Effect that I thought was okay. His Stainless Steel Rat novels actually have a good reputation, though I've never read any of them. |
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| Custer | Jun 15 2008, 10:43 PM Post #4 |
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Resident Kamikaze Warrior
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1901 was Robert Conroy's failure, not Harry Harrison's. |
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| SladeJack | Jun 16 2008, 05:59 AM Post #5 |
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Conroy and Harrison are two very different failures, though they do tend to run together, don't they. Eden isn't new, it's pretty old. I never read it but what I've heard of it suggests it's not so bad. |
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| MapleLeafs4Ever | Jun 16 2008, 11:49 PM Post #6 |
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I read the first Eden book when it first came out and thought it was okay but not so good that I read the other two books of the trilogy. Its AH in the loosest sense since the POD is the dinosaur killer asteroid didn't hit 65 million years ago and so an intelligent species evolved along with an intelligent mammal species which are servants (or perhaps slaves is a better work) of the dinosaurs. The Stainless Steel Rat series are works of SF humour with gonzo, over the top, adventure plots. Somewhat similar in style to Keith Lamer's Retief books. I did enjoy the ones I read. |
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