Seven Suns
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:34 am
I found this review on another SF site and wanted to comment on it here (as I did there). About Seven Suns, someone said:
I had no idea what these things were about until reading this synopsis. Now I know that the whole thing is like 5K pages long, but doesn't this sound like a rip off of the Dark Phoenix story in Marvel's X-Men from the eighties? Isn't that what the conflict in that was all about? And maybe a bit of a rip off from Clarke's 2010: The Year We Make Contact? [/quote]I would not like to give away much of the plot, but it is a series, all interconnected, so not just individual novels set in the same 'universe'. The whole story is told in 7 books. The whole gist of the story is that mankind uses a 'found' technology to convert gas giants to stars, and as such destroys one planet of an advanced species of beings who live there. There are multiple species throughout the galaxy, and this embroils all in a galaxy-wide war. There is good character development, good plotting (all seems to be consistent so far), mostly space battles, and some innovative ideas. I have been very pleased so far.