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Summary: In a world of her own...
Review: I know that there are 21 other reviews and I am not going to say anything unique but I have loved this series for so long, I just want to put it in writing.Sometimes you are just loping along in your own life and something wonderful happens - you fall in love, get your dream job, fall pregnant (if you want to be!) and for a while the world is a shing place where everything is glowing and bright. Sooner or later the shine dims, but the memory, of how happy you were, how special it was, that stays. So here you are, loping along, wondering what book to buy next, and here it is, a shining experience waiting for you... This is the start of a magical series (ignore the awful cover drawing show here! It doesn't reflect the books at all) I reread these books on average once every two years, so all the characters are now old and familiar friends. They are complex, with foibles and mistakes, with heroism and madness, with granduer and evil. There are dreamers and victims, great imagination and a sense of an entire universe out there. It isn't even strictly speaking science fantasy. It's set on earth, and everything is (sort of) feasible. It's an epic tale, one to sink your teeth into. It will fill your days and invade your dreams. Enough already - go out and buy it!! :-)
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Summary: In a world of her own...
Review: I know that there are 21 other reviews and I am not going to say anything unique but I have loved this series for so long, I just want to put it in writing. Sometimes you are just loping along in your own life and something wonderful happens - you fall in love, get your dream job, fall pregnant (if you want to be!) and for a while the world is a shing place where everything is glowing and bright. Sooner or later the shine dims, but the memory, of how happy you were, how special it was, that stays. So here you are, loping along, wondering what book to buy next, and here it is, a shining experience waiting for you... This is the start of a magical series (ignore the awful cover drawing show here! It doesn't reflect the books at all) I reread these books on average once every two years, so all the characters are now old and familiar friends. They are complex, with foibles and mistakes, with heroism and madness, with granduer and evil. There are dreamers and victims, great imagination and a sense of an entire universe out there. It isn't even strictly speaking science fantasy. It's set on earth, and everything is (sort of) feasible. It's an epic tale, one to sink your teeth into. It will fill your days and invade your dreams. Enough already - go out and buy it!! :-)
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Summary: An entire alternate History.
Review: I read this book years ago, and then simply ran to my local bookstore, and bought all the follow ons, simply because I found it to be so perfect. The characters are beautiful in their complexity, terrifying because of their strength, and admirable for their nobility. They return to an era which has been taken over by exotics, and all they can do is fight for freedom, and oppression, coming from an era where that was the norm. Marvellous.
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Summary: Entertaining and educational: a winning combination!
Review: In the tradition of Stephen R. Donaldson, May has concocted an unlikely blend of fantasy, fiction and social commentary into a splendid example of first-class storytelling. Psychology, geology, sociology, economics, classic literature references...all intersected around a delightful merry-go-round of a plot, with enough twists and turns to keep you dizzily turning pages. Read it once for entertainment...read it again for an education you'll not soon forget
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Summary: This is a great book that all SF/Fantasy fans should read!
Review: In this book Julian May brilliantly combines SF with Fantasy. In an alternate-past misfits from the future are coming through a oneway time portal to exile in the pliocene period of earth. Once there they find a world very unlike the one they had expected to find. From there unfolds a fantastical adventure
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Summary: Solid on on levels - Definitely worth a read
Review: It's difficult to assign a genre to this four-part series, which is really the strength of Ms. May's writing. She has a firm grasp of so many fields (general science, language, history, geology, sports, cultural myths, etc.) that are very well incorporated into her stories. May blends relevant factual details into her fantasy/science fiction journey, making the leaps of logic required to "believe" so much easier. Her characters are complex but still identifiable. Her settings unusual and exotic. And her overall story refreshingly original, a real treat in the fiction world. True, the core characters are introduced over a few hundred pages, making a first time read difficult. However, the story really accelerates thereafter, and the reader appreciates the detail May provides throughout the remainder of the series. I am always surprised when science fiction writers fail to do their homework - luckily, Julian May is not one of them. I would have to rate this series as one of the finest I've read, and head and shoulders above the hoard of hacks churning out the same rehashed yarns over and over again. Although I hate to give five stars to any book - I usually reserve such praise for the Tolkein's and Clarke's of the world, this series honestly rates at that level.
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Summary: Compelling and entertaining
Review: Julian May's Saga of the Pliocene Exile, in concert (metaconcert?) with the Galactic Millieu & Intervention novels, are either the result of really good luck, or a very nice, intricate, and thoroughly planned romp. The books don't have a great deal of depth to them, but what they lack in character development and stylistic advantages, they make up in their grand scale and audacious concept (metaconcept?). As a distracting and entertaining read, these books are hard to beat. The only flaw is that all of the nifty psychoverbiage starts to diffuse into your brain after a while, and you start thinking of redaction and PK as normal parts of your vocabulary (a similar effect can be obtained by playing fooseball for 4-5 hours a day for a month). In any case, this is a series of very clever (metaclever?) books that gets continually better. I don't, however, recommend reading the Intervention & Surveillance novels while staying in New Hampshire. After reaching the summit of the novels, it's just not as much fun to ride that incline-railroad thing as you might think it would be.
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Summary: Compelling and entertaining
Review: Julian May's Saga of the Pliocene Exile, in concert (metaconcert?) with the Galactic Millieu & Intervention novels, are either the result of really good luck, or a very nice, intricate, and thoroughly planned romp. The books don't have a great deal of depth to them, but what they lack in character development and stylistic advantages, they make up in their grand scale and audacious concept (metaconcept?). As a distracting and entertaining read, these books are hard to beat. The only flaw is that all of the nifty psychoverbiage starts to diffuse into your brain after a while, and you start thinking of redaction and PK as normal parts of your vocabulary (a similar effect can be obtained by playing fooseball for 4-5 hours a day for a month). In any case, this is a series of very clever (metaclever?) books that gets continually better. I don't, however, recommend reading the Intervention & Surveillance novels while staying in New Hampshire. After reaching the summit of the novels, it's just not as much fun to ride that incline-railroad thing as you might think it would be.
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Summary: Un muy buen libro de ciencia ficción
Review: Sinceramente es uno de los mejores libros de ciencia ficción que he leído. Un nivel de detalle y desarrollo tal que deja impresionado. La historia es muy atrapante y sugerente. Es un libro recomendable.
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Summary: SF Grand Opera
Review: Superior story-telling, with a wide range of fully-realized characters set against a brilliant backdrop. How can anyone manage to create so many vivid, original characters in such a small space? This is the kind of beautiful and exciting story that can ONLY be told in print; as visual and striking as this work is, it could never be properly realized on film. The second book is not properly a sequel, but really the rest of this work-- save time and buy it at the same time.
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