Anemone
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Post by Anemone on Jun 29, 2006 11:21:59 GMT -5
This series is amazing! And amazingly complicated. As the summary on the official site says: The Star of the Guardians is set far in the Earth's future at a time when a corrupt democracy rules over much of the known civilization. Earth has long been destroyed and now the government is spread through space and encompasses the worlds of humans and many other species. The democracy was established when the former government, a weak but proud monarchy, was overthrown by revolutionaries. The monarchs were protected by those known as the guardians, a race of genetically superior, specially bred humans who fought with energy swords known as bloodswords, but were unable to defeat the revolutionaries. As the series begins eighteen years later, the warlord Derek Sagan, a former guardian and now a henchman of the new president, Peter Robes, is finishing his hunt to destroy all of the other guardians still alive. All the while a large threat, the race known as the Corasians, energy creatures who feed of all other life and have terrorized humanity in the past, hangs over the universe. Not to mention that the main character, Dion Starfire, just happens to be the heir to the throne of the overthrown monarchy, and the series follows him as he wrestles with God, politics, love, and himself. There's romance, violence, ghosts, spaceships, fencing, allusions to art and literature, religious questions, and even killer vacuum cleaners. One thing's for sure: you're a very different person after you finish the whole thing. |
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Post by Vorchia on Jul 1, 2006 14:49:57 GMT -5
It sounds interesting. I just dug into the online catalogus of the local library and they have many of her books, most of which are Dutch translations. Unfortunately there is no book called specifically 'Star of the guardians' though the word 'star' does show up in a few titles as does the word 'dragon'. I'll see if I can get some of the books from the library. Summerbreak is about to start and my job is only 30 hrs a week and my Spanish course a few hours a week... So I have time to read some books. Is this one the books involving elves riding dragons?  Hmm, killer vacuum cleaners... I might LIKE this!!!  BDSP Vorchia |
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Post by Azonthus on Jul 4, 2006 10:14:56 GMT -5
Killer vacuums? I'm getting it from the library! Well, I have been looking for some good books to read lately=) I'll give this one a go. But, if it's terrible, I'm coming after you, Anemone!  Hehehehehe;) I love library summer reading programs  . I haven't picked them up yet, but I apparently won some pictures! *stares forlornly at the walls* Now to figure out where to put them...  Edit: Just checked out my library for it and they don't have it. I'll have to have them order it;) Vorch, I found out that the series title is Star of the Guardians but there is no book titled that; it's a four book series. First book is The Lost King, second is Kings Test, third King's Sacrifice, and last is Ghost Legion. Hopefully that will help you out with your search=) |
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Post by Vorchia on Jul 4, 2006 13:08:07 GMT -5
I'm afraid not. The library has its catalog online and the available titles by Margaret Weis are: 'Dragon's son', 'Mistress of dragons', 'The sovereign stone trilogy', 'Guardians of the lost', 'Legacy of the darksword', 'Dragon wing', 'Dragons of a fallen sun', 'Dragon wing', 'Well of darkness', 'The prophet of Akhran', 'Doom of the darksword', 'The paladin of the night', 'Forging the darksword', 'The will of the wanderer', 'Fire sea', 'Into the labyrinth', 'Elven star', 'Triumph of the darksword', 'The seventh gate', ' The hand of chaos', 'Serpent mage'... They don't have the one series this thread is about!  |
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Anemone
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Post by Anemone on Jul 17, 2006 16:22:07 GMT -5
To avoid confusion:
Lost King
King's Test
King's Sacrifice
Ghost Legions
And they're out of print and rather hard to find in libraries. You wouldn't believe the amount of time it took me to find some of them.
Edit: Hopefully that doesn't discourage any of you from reading it.
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Post by Vorchia on Oct 1, 2006 3:23:07 GMT -5
Hey Anemone!
Now that the summerbreak ended more books are 'at home' in the library so I could at last get my hand on one first-book-in-a-trilogy by this author, (co written by Tracy Hickman). I've been reading 'The will of the Wanderer', first book in the trilogy 'The Rose of the Prophet´ and finished its fourhundredsomething pages more or less in one go.
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