Kevin J. Anderson has written 46 national bestsellers and has over 20 million books in print worldwide in 30 languages. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Readers' Choice Award. Find out more about Kevin Anderson at www.wordfire.com.
Anderson's fifth installment (after Scattered Suns) of the "Saga of the Seven Suns" space opera is feeling limber and rejuvenated. Though the thrill of the series' newness is diminished, more action helps to centralize dozens of story lines revolving around multispecies interstellar war. Klikiss robots ally with the hydrogues to exterminate humans (nomadic Roamers, gentle Therons, and earth-based Hansa) and force their cousin soldier "compy" robots to rebel viciously against humankind. Meanwhile, the Therons strengthen their alliance with the verdani (trees with networked consciousness) and, with the help of the water-based wentels, create treelike battleships that can defeat hydrogue warglobes. In all, it's not going well for the humans, particularly because super-controlling Hansa chairman Basil Wenceslas continues to shoot humankind in the foot by creating enemies both human and nonhuman. Though narrator David Colacci's agreeable voice lends itself well to the action, both the repetition required of such a long tale and the publisher's annoying 99 tracks per disc detract. Recommended for libraries where the earlier installments did well.-Douglas C. Lord, Connecticut State Lib., Hartford Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
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