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Salute The Dark (2010)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0330511440 (ISBN13: 9780330511445)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Tor Books

series

Shadows of the Apt

review 1: Seven or so major strands to the narrative, all of which steam right along. A fit conclusion to the war & numinous object storylines from the first three volumes. Generates effective pathos through key character deaths--one in particular is badass in execution, but then cheapened by an ambiguous epilogue. That said, so many others are not presented ambiguously, so one person running around mostly dead might be alright.Love how the mosquito vision of the world is to turn back the clock to the bad old days when exsanguination of rivals was commonplace. Cool colloquy between engineers regarding the morality of chemical weapons deployment on non-combatants, and the implications of total war doctrine (235-37).We see that "rich people love death" (220), so, yeah, a moment of... more realism.Anyway, am thoroughly enjoying these now. Given the rate of technological development in the setting, I can only assume that the eighth volume will feature nukes and the tenth volume will have phasers, quantum singularity cannons, and time-traveling cyborgs. Looking forward to that.Recommended for those who watch single points disintegrate into nothing, readers who would tear themselves apart were they to run out of enemies, and persons whose prey is already dead.
review 2: c2010. Brilliant. Brilliant. Not one of the books in this series has let me down. I loved the ending but hated the ending as well. Che, Stenwold, Salme, Thalric - the list goes on...all favourite characters. And what can I say about Tisamon the Weaponmaster, Tynisa and Felise.......and all the other characters. Certainly not your standard fare .........come on Mr Tchaikovsky ....another one sooner than a year please. less

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