Helix Wars
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.84 (714 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1781080496 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Brown's spectacular creativity creates a constantly compelling read. - Kirkus Book Reviews on Helix. . SF infused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility Accomplished and affecting. - Paul McAuley on Helix
Eric Brown is the award-winning author of a huge number of SF novels, such as Helix, Guardians of the Phoenix, Engineman, and The Kings of Eternity, as well as many children's books, radio plays articles and reviews.
Aeons ago, the enigmatic Builders constructed the Helix as a refuge for alien races on the verge of extinction. For that long, peace has reigned on the Helix. But when shuttle pilot Jeff Ellis crash-lands on the world of Phandra, he interrupts a barbarous invasion from the neighbouring Sporelli - who scheme to track down and exterminate Ellis before he can return to New Earth and inform the peacekeepers.Helix Wars, sequel to the best-selling Helix, is a fast-paced adventure novel about the ultimate threat to the Helix itself.. Helix Wars, sequel to the best-selling Helix is a fast-paced adventure novel about the ultimate threat to the Helix itself and to humanity, whose role it is to protect it.The Helix: a vast spiral of ten thousand worlds turning around its sun. Two hundred years ago, humankind came to the Helix aboard a great colony ship, and the Builders conferred on them the mantle of peacekeepers
A pulpy effort with broader implications Eric Brown's original Helix (2007) was merely an introduction in what the Helix has in store in terms of alien culture and alien architecture. Recall first reading Larry Niven's Ringworld(1970) and remember gaping at awe in the possibilities of exploring its swathe of cultures and plumbing the depths of its remarkable . "Deux ex machina every 50 pages" according to Cyclelicious Santa Cruz. We return to Eric Brown's Helix 200 years after the crashlanding described in _Helix_ for good old fashioned action adventure sci fi in which Our Heroes (a macho Predator-type engineer alien and her weakling human cohort) tirelessly battle megalomaniac alien Nazis who are bent on conquering the thousands of worlds in t. Nice, but feels unfinished beatbox Good hard SF is well, it is hard to find these days when fantasy and pseudo-fantasy rules the market.So, thanks to Solaris Books, we have Eric Brown's Helix universe and Helix Wars is the sequel to the Helix book.I would immediately like to state that his Bengal Station series are much, much better but also quite diffe