GATEWAY TO HELL'S FURY
The Union of Arcana has expanded through the portals linking parallel universes for over a century and a half. In that time, its soldiers and sorcerers have laid claim to one uninhabited planet after another—all of them Earth, and in the process, the Union has become the most powerful, most wealthy civilization in all of human history. But now the Union's scouts have discovered a new portal, and on its far side lies another human society, Sharona, which has also been exploring the Multiverse, and the first contact between them did not go well. Arcana is horrified by the alien weapons of its sudden opponents, weapons its sorcerers cannot explain, weapons based upon something called . . . science. But Sharona is equally horrified by Arcana's "magical" weapons. Neither side expected the confrontation and each thinks the other fired first. But as the initial disastrous contact snowballs into all-out warfare, both sides can agree on one thing. The portal which brought them together is Hell's Gate itself!
"Magic and high tech collide in this exciting military SF novel from bestseller Weber and Evans, the first of a new series. . . . The authors treat both societies sympathetically and realistically, with human vices and virtues evenly distributed."—Publishers Weekly
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Product ReviewI man enjoying the story, but I have trouble keeping track of who is who, and even who is on which side. There are lots of context switches in the book and it often takes me a couple of paragraphs to realize that I am now dealing with the 'other side' of the conflict and to remember who this person is and their back story, if I can remember the back story.
There are so many players from so many contries it gets confusing.Posted on
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Product ReviewThis is a very well written story crafted to the standard I've come to expect from any book that has David Weber involved. If I remember correctly how David tends to work with his co-authors, then Linda Evans is an author well worth watching, and the series that this book appears to be the second of is well worth the reading.
And that is faint praise for this book. It stands very well as a book of its own, a story of personal triumph and tragedy for many, of the conflict between malice and honour for others, and ultimately the beginnings of consequences for a short-sighted piece of political manoeuvring that has been centuries in the execution.
If you haven't guessed already, I think this story is worth the rating I've given. Somewhere between damn good and great.Posted on
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