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    A Forest of Stars: The Saga Of Seven Suns - BOOK TWO

    By Kevin J. Anderson

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    It has been five years since humanity's heady expansion among the stars came to an abrupt, and violent, halt. The emergence of the Hydrogues, an immensely powerful alien race dwelling within gas-giant planets, has placed the scattered colonies of the Terran Hanseatic League in jeopardy. With space travel heavily curtailed, and supplies of fuel dwindling, young King Peter and Chairman Basil Wenceslas, the harsh power behind the throne, have no choice but to impose strict rationing.

    But the Hydrogues are not the only enemies of humanity. The scheming Mage-Imperator, leader of the ancient Ildiran Empire, attempts to forge tangled alliances among all combatants in order to protect his failing civilization. The mysterious Klikiss robots, only remnants of an extinct race, continue to work their sinister plans while pretending to be friends and advisors to the Hanseatic League. And archaeologists Margaret and Louis Colicos -- whose discovery of an ancient alien weapon accidentally triggered the Hydrogue conflict -- have vanished on the abandoned world of Rheindic Co. Rlinda Kett and Davlin Lotze, sent to investigate the disappearance, soon realise that the Colicos' discoveries may lead to an incredible new way to travel between worlds... or to the awakening of enemies even more fearsome than the Hydrogues. Something of inestimable power must have been required to destroy the Klikiss race. Will humanity be next?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateApr 14, 2011
    ISBN9781849835145
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    A Forest of Stars: The Saga Of Seven Suns - BOOK TWO
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    Kevin J. Anderson

    Kevin J. Anderson has published more than eighty novels, including twenty-nine national bestsellers. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Reader's Choice Award. His critically acclaimed original novels include Captain Nemo, Hopscotch, and Hidden Empire. He has also collaborated on numerous series novels, including Star Wars, The X-Files, and Dune. In his spare time, he also writes comic books. He lives in Wisconsin.

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    • 3/5
      The plot got a little better compared to the first book in the series, but other than that it is still very repetitive and at times boring. It also manages to introduce even more loose ends. Anyway I'm dropping the series, I will just read the summary for the rest somewhere if I can find it.
    • 2/5
      In my review of the first in this sequence I said that I might read the sequel in a library copy or buy it very cheap. I seem to have done both: I bought this one cheap, and I was more than halfway through before I realized that I had actually read it before. Like the first volume: plot not bad, some of the scenery great, some nice pieces of imagination; but clunky characterization, repetitious explanation, too much development that occurs in narration rather than action or dialogue, and no intention or motive is ever left ambiguous.And what is this obsession with dynastic arranged marriage? And why do the ordinary people not realize that the King of the Hansa is a ceremonial figurehead? It's hardly a new idea: the British have been developing it for a couple of hundred years already.MB 19-xi-2012
    • 1/5
      Couldn't engage with this one and the idea that there were still five more after this - had to abort.
    • 5/5
      Kevin J. Anderson set all his toy soldiers out in the first book, a tedious if necessary procedure. In this second volume, he gets to pick them up by the fistful and smash them against each other, which is much more fun. Besides the familiar cast from the first book, a couple of more alien players take the stage as well, promising some epic battles in the coming books. This one definitely kept me turning the pages.The book is a bit less repetitive in its descriptions this time around, although you will still find yourself reading passages, especially exposition about character's motivations, that you already read earlier in the book, and in the book before that.One complaint: The whole Klikiss robot conspiracy is painfully obvious: how can the humans not see this coming? And didn't Anderson do this already in the Dune prequels?
    • 2/5
      Things don't get much better in this 2nd book of the Saga. The mysterious hygrogues continue to attack the human and Ildiran civilizations, and the humans continue to remain blissfully ignorant about just about everything. Apparently in this future while they have some neat technogadgets like a FTL drive, they don't have any sort of improved sensor technology, robotics, weapons technology, or a whole lot of common sense. There are some interesting ideas in these books, but they move too slow, the 'science' is far too uneven and inconsistent, and the reader has to ignore far too many things to make them really worth reading.
    • 3/5
      Book 2 of Seven. That places me closer to the finish line. Looking now at what will probably be close to 4500 pages of material, and being 28% done, we should have plot twists and we do. When you thought before we had three, perhaps four combatants by the end of the last book, that number has nearly doubled.Not that the short chapters and the cast of thousands still does not detract from the book. Though I also read it several years after publication, the story line seems to echo in my memory, and so do several of the plot points. I wonder if I have read this all before by another author. Somethings are different, the archaeologist thread, the world forest, but the battles always lost at the beginning, the abandoned officer, those seem to come from stories that are part of sci-fi lore by other authors. It is possible that it is being done better here.But also worse. When you confront some introspection all in four pages and then flip to the next scene, it is a disservice to one of our many protagonists. We have so many it is hard to keep track of who are our real heroes and who are our villains. Where the smartest people are, and that too few brains at the top syndrome permeates to govern a society of billions. (The whole chairman, one commanders in chief, General thing is worrisome, since we know from our own reality that the top man would have hundreds of advisers who would be the best in their fields, relying on many other brains to filter information. One man can not do it all.)To judge on style then, this book would get lower marks. Too short chapters, too many characters, action is decidedly lacking and one sided, the bad guys always win right now... (That changes as new allies? come to play)To judge on story, except for the echo of what has happened in other very well done science fiction epics, it is getting better. Based on the first two, may not be worth a read, but by the end (3000+ pages to go) it may be so.
    • 3/5
      Much better than the first book, probably because far fewer principle character are killed off. Humanity is at war with a mysterious, powerful race and their full military capacity seems unable to phase them. These aliens, the Hydroges, live inside of gas giant planets, and a war was inadvertently triggered when, in the first book, an ancient technology was tested that turned such planets into small suns. The Hydroges were not amused as cities containing millions were annihilated. With the war going poorly, humanity considers using the ancient technology to blow up other known planets, but are concerned that doing so could trigger a campaign of extermination. Little do they know such a campaign is already under way.There is still some very strange twists and turns. Humans are proving to be late arrivals in what was an ancient war. The World Trees, a sentient tree that can transmit thoughts across vast distances instantaneously with the help of "green priests" are an ancient enemy of these Hydroges, and the real reason humans are being targeted is because they are aligned with and sheltering these trees. Meanwhile, a fiery race dwelling in suns is also made an appearance, joining the war without even a how-do-you-do by an exploding diplomatic emissaries. Then one of the characters from the first book discovers some sentient water that condensed as he was scooping up free hydrogen in a nebula cloud. In spite of the war, political machinations continue abound. The chairman of the Hanseatic League is dissatisfied by the lack of tractability in what was supposed to be his puppet king, Peter (replacement for Frederick, who was blown up by the aforementioned emissary. Political marriages are arranged which could create a string of alliances throughout all of the human groups, but war causalities are wreaking havoc even on the aristocrats. And then there are the robots. Evil, evil robots.
    • 3/5
      This series continues to amuse me by combining all the stereotypical and overused sci-fi story elements into one epic. We've got tragic love stories, an evil corporation, ancient evil robots who rebelled against their creators, grudges between ancient races of aliens, some very strange types of ancient aliens (including sentient and telepathic trees for some reason), huge space battles, and, of course, plenty of scrappy and resourceful humans. I love it like I love made for TV movies about space monsters/godzillas/fill in your favorite really bad and clichéd entity.
    • 4/5
      Book two of the Saga of the Seven Suns worked well to continue the story of the numerous characters featured in book 1. Speaking on that point, there are almost too many POV characters to keep track of and really care for. Any lesser author than Kevin J. Anderson and it would have failed miserably. What I did like about this book was that it went further in depth of the ancient war that is being renewed. He brings about all of the four races, though some are still very shrouded in mystery. I would like more information released about the Klikiss, though too. Another problem with the numerous POV characters, is the fact that there is so much repetition. I counted at least 12 at one point, though some die off, some are not featured as often, and then of course some are very important. Since it moves between them so often, it can be six or more chapters down before coming back to the same character. Then Anderson has to repeat (loosely for the benefit of the reader) what happened last time the character was featured. Overall, I liked the book. I will definitely read the third in the series when I can get my hands on it. Lucky for me, they are already released so I can get straight to it, though due to it's problems I won't rush.