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Jan 29, 2015 Mara Reitsma rated it it was astonishing

Getting lost in the realm of fantasy is easy when your travel with Elves! I institute myself turning page after page, unable to put them downward!

Het verhaal is gewoon best wel sterk máár… Waarom moet 'ie de hele tijd alles onnodig sexualiseren???? 'T is zo irritant en ook fucking raar??? Hoezo moet iemand perse getrouwd zijn met een vrouw van 30 godvergeten jaar jonger??? iel echt bah en het had absoluut 0 verschil gemaakt als het niet zo was geweest. Ik vind het zonde desire het verhaal is echt wel heel interessant en hij houdt de spanning er goed in alleen maar om onderbroken te worden door dit soort vage stukjes text? Jammer.

Oct 26, 2019 Phil rated it information technology was ok

I've been reading this one off and on for a month. I wish it had been more infinite oriented instead of corporate spy drama. Written in a time when women were merely beautiful toys and at best, helpmates... this part was a petty distracting to me. Even so, not a bad read. I may see if the library has other books by him. I've been reading this one off and on for a month. I wish it had been more infinite oriented instead of corporate spy drama. Written in a time when women were merely cute toys and at best, helpmates... this function was a niggling distracting to me. Still, not a bad read. I may encounter if the library has other books past him. ...more

I read this book a while back. Maybe 40 years ago??? Loved it then.

Read it again this twelvemonth (2020) and, although it's "new" to me 'cause I've forgotten it, I didn't go as much of a "blindside" from it as before. Peradventure I'1000 getting also picky in my dotage?

The writing is solid and probably worth at least one read if you like intrigue and infinite battles.

I read this volume a while back. Possibly xl years ago??? Loved it then.

Read it once again this year (2020) and, although it's "new" to me 'cause I've forgotten information technology, I didn't become every bit much of a "bang" from it equally earlier. Perhaps I'grand getting as well picky in my dotage?

The writing is solid and probably worth at least one read if you like intrigue and space battles.

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May 04, 2017 Brian Sloan rated it it was astonishing

Dear Love LOVE this series! It remains my favorite story of all time. A perfect mingling of by and nowadays, and a possible time to come. Activity, Adventure, Uncommon heroes who barely escape hopeless Odds time and again, mystery, and just a touch of romance. I really haven't read anything even as close as skilful as this! But don't take my word for information technology, effort to put it down after reading three chapters, I dare you! Dear LOVE Love this series! It remains my favorite story of all time. A perfect mingling of past and present, and a possible futurity. Action, Adventure, Uncommon heroes who barely escape hopeless Odds time and again, mystery, and just a touch of romance. I really haven't read anything even as shut every bit adept every bit this! But don't have my word for it, attempt to put it down afterward reading three capacity, I dare you! ...more

I picked upwards this yellowing paperback in the used bookstore hoping for a swashbuckling take chances from science fiction's silver age. Instead I got a tedious, sermonizing libertarian political fable. Obviously they wrote those in 1969! Well-nigh of the sentiments expressed in this book wouldn't be too alien to modern libertarian, except for the author'southward somewhat startling devotion to the idea of a noble and benevolent corporation - I don't think that modernistic libertarians call back much more highly of massiv I picked up this yellowing paperback in the used bookstore hoping for a swashbuckling adventure from science fiction's silverish age. Instead I got a tedious, sermonizing libertarian political legend. Evidently they wrote those in 1969! Most of the sentiments expressed in this volume wouldn't be too alien to modern libertarian, except for the author's somewhat startling devotion to the idea of a noble and benevolent corporation - I don't think that mod libertarians retrieve much more highly of massive conglomerates than they do of Big Government.

The plot isn't worth repeating since it isn't really the point. Our hero, a thoughtful, square-jawed, manly type, wanders around being right nearly things. Men admire him, women undress for him, except for those who disagree with him, who will of course all be dead or humiliated by the stop of the volume.

1969 was a long time ago, technologically speaking, but on the science fiction front this volume all the same manages to be singularly unimaginative. Apparently 1500 years in the future looks a lot like 1969, only cars are prefixed by "hover-" and some people have laser guns, fifty-fifty though our hero for some reason insists on sticking with a .45 from the 20th century. The author sidesteps the problem of faster-than-light travel through the invention of extra-dimensional 'zilch space': that is as far every bit his interest in physics extends.

Like I said, it's a libertarian political fable, and not a very practiced one at that.

The virtually interesting function of the volume, for me, was when I pulled out a mail-in card that the publisher had affixed to permit the reader to express interest in taking a course past mail courtesy of International Correspondence Schools. Courses on offering include "Fortran Programming" and "Color TV Servicing"! The card is Business Reply Post and has no accost as such, only the proper name of a company in Scranton, PA. I wonder what would happen if I tried to postal service information technology 46 years likewise late? Hmm...

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The Heaven is Filled with Ships might be my favorite book to come up out of Singularity & Co's "Save the Sci-Fi" campaign thus far. It'southward an interesting piffling story that has some action, some infinite battles, some intrigue, and maybe a couple besides many melodramatic $.25. But all told, I liked this ane. The Sky is Filled with Ships might be my favorite book to come out of Singularity & Co'southward "Save the Sci-Fi" campaign thus far. It'due south an interesting little story that has some action, some infinite battles, some intrigue, and maybe a couple likewise many melodramatic bits. But all told, I liked this one. ...more

Not much there. Kind of reads like a Heinlein juvenile, but with less interesting characters and no real moral purpose. It'southward brusk, nether 200 pages, but nada much happens. Then around page 160, the protagonists contemplates his action for a few pages earlier completing the fairly standard plot. Not much there. Kind of reads like a Heinlein juvenile, but with less interesting characters and no existent moral purpose. It's brusk, nether 200 pages, but nothing much happens. Then around page 160, the protagonists contemplates his action for a few pages earlier completing the fairly standard plot. ...more

Been on my bookshelf for years. Finally read information technology. Short and forgettable. A. paint past numbers SF with zip to give a sense of wonder. . Going to transport information technology to a library sale.

some parts of were interesting, but pretty wearisome

I really enjoyed the thrills of this old archetype. At that place were some very real comparisons with things today and it was welcome.

Richard Carlton Meredith was an American writer, illustrator and graphic designer, best known as the author of science fiction short stories and novels including "Nosotros All Died at Breakaway Station" and The Timeliner Trilogy.

Meredith's works give unfamiliar twists to many familiar SF themes: A human Galactic empire and its struggle with a non-homo rival (We All Died at Breakaway Station) or with in

Richard Carlton Meredith was an American writer, illustrator and graphic designer, all-time known as the author of science fiction short stories and novels including "We All Died at Breakaway Station" and The Timeliner Trilogy.

Meredith's works requite unfamiliar twists to many familiar SF themes: A human Galactic empire and its struggle with a non-human being rival (We All Died at Breakaway Station) or with independence-seeking human subjects (The Sky Is Filled with Ships); a theocratic dictatorship, nuclear and biological warfare, and the effort to change history by time travel (Run, Come See Jerusalem!); or the "sidewise" travel into alternate histories and the struggle for control over a multitude of divergent timelines (The Timeliner Trilogy).

Meredith'southward protagonists tend to be highly motivated and devoted people, wholeheartedly taking upwards Earth- or Universe-shaking causes to which they give their all - and often discovering that they had been duped into serving an evil cause, or that an action taken with the all-time of intentions actually makes a bad situation worse. A reader opening a Meredith book can by no means count on a happy ending - indeed, some of the books can be classed as dystopias.

In the preface to Breakaway Station, before the reader had yet met the protagonists, Meredith already tells that all of them would eventually die heroic deaths comparable to those of Leonidas and his three hundred at the Boxing of Thermopylae — and indeed, the book duly comes to precisely that ending.

Meredith died unexpectedly on viii March 1979, aged but 41, following a stroke brought on by a brain hemorrhage.He was survived past his wife and four children.

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