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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781416555513
ISBN number: 141655551X
Label: Baen
Manufacturer: Baen
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 704
Printing Date: June 24, 2008
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It began with two men. They came from very different worlds—entirely different universes, in fact—one using sorcery and the other using mental powers and steam-age technology. They met in a virgin forest on a duplicate planet Earth. Neither side knows who shot first, but each blames the other, and it doesn't really matter, now, because war has begun.
War between the universes is the last thing responsible leaders on either side want. But the fury of their respective populations, xenophobic fear of the unknown, and cries for 'justice' (or vengeance), are all driving both sides towards the brink. And unscrupulous, power-hungry men—and Arcana and Sharona alike—have agendas of their own.
The fuse has been lit, and a war stretching across the universes, fought between dragons, spells, and crossbows and repeating rifles, machine guns, and artillery is erupting in white-hot rage and fury. Where it will end—and how—no one knows
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This is an excellent fantasy/scifi book , leaves you wanting the 3rd book in series
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This book came out two years ago, and there's no sign of the subsequent book coming out either this year or subsequent year. Thinking positively and assuming that we'll see the subsequent part in 2010, that means this series should reach its conclusion, hopefully, in the year 2020.
I almost wish that this book was bad, so I wouldn't mind the wait so damn much. It's a really good series, great characters, fascinating setting...so I recommend that new readers stay AWAY unless they have the patience of saints.
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I've just finished reading Hell Hath no Fury and I'm just disappointed. Everything in the book seems so grey and white, with very few shades of gray. So far, the vast majority of the Saronians (technology and psionics) are honorable, caring for others, etc. and the vast majority of the Arcanans are dishonorable, sadistic, self serving, etc. Over 75% of the book deals with things from the Saronian point of view, there is less than 2 chapters dealing with the 2 sympathetic, honorable Arcanans that we met in the very first book.
I doubt that I'll try any further books in the series and cannot reccommend this or Hell's Gate.
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I have to say this book is alot like the very first however it just flowed so much better. Having been through the character development in book 1 book 2 just took off and was non-stop action virtually from the beginning. It also seems to me that book 2 was really the rest of book 1...just so many pages they had to make it into two books, as the very first one ended rather abruptly.
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This is the second in the "Multiverse" series by Dave Weber and Linda Evans and follows on from the excellent "Hell's Gate."
Tells the story of contact and increasingly of conflict between two civilisations, both spanning multiple universes.
Between one and two centuries before the events of these novels, portals start to open between different versions of the planet earth - apparently between parallel timelines. Most of the different universes are not inhabited by intelligent life, but two have human civilisations. Both start to explore the new worlds to which their homeworlds are suddenly connected. At very first neither finds any sign of intelligent life.
Then on a world new to both civilsations, a lone scout from a military survey party of the Union of Arcana encounters a single member of an armed civilian survey party from the world called Sharona. Nobody, including the reader, would ever know for certain who shot first, because one was killed and the other mortally wounded. At very first each side believes it has been attacked.
Both civilisations now spread over hundreds of worlds, and their cultures have more in common than either realises, but their technology is utterly different. Sharona's is broadly similar to our science, and their engineering and construction abilities are in most respects about where our Earth was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including railways, machine guns and heavy artillery. They don't have radio but do not need it because their scientists have discovered how to train people to use certain psionic talents such as telepathy.
Arcana, by contrast, has very little of what we would call engineering - the most advanced weapon they which does not use psi-abilities/magic is the crossbow - but they have formidable weapons of a completely different type. Firstly they have trained creatures from their world, such as flying, fire-breathing dragons, which are just legends in ours: and their magical/psionic talents, while operating on different principles, are far more powerful than those of the Sharonians, and include the ability to store energy and information in crystals so as to be able to use them like a handgun or a laptop computer.
So when these two utterly different civilisations find themselves at war, each is able to inflict surprise after surprise on the other.
At the start of this book the two civilisations have made a temporary truce after a series of clashes of arms. Negotiations are under way, which the decent people who are a majority of both sides want to succeed. Unfortunately both sides have their share of wicked individuals. On the Arcanan side, a country called Mythal is ruled by a hereditary caste of magic users called the shakira caste, who resent the fact that the Union of Arcana constitution gives the other castes some rights and restrains the power of the shakira.
An evil conspiracy of these shakira has some of its people in key positions among the the Union of Arcana army units and diplomats who are dealing with the Sharonians. These individuals decide that provoking a war with the Sharonians is the best way to trigger the conditions which will let them launch a bid for total power in Arcana ...
Soon both sides will have more victims to mourn and more stories of atrocities, mostly true on the Sharonian side, mostly grey propaganda on the Arcanan, will lead to a downward spiral of ever-greater anger between these to nations and an increasingly nasty war.
Before I read these books I thought they might be just another rehash of John Barnes' "Timeline wars" stories of the battles against the Closers (e.g. Patton's Spaceship etc). Having now read the very first two "Multiverse" books I think that does Weber and Evans an injustice. If you do like Barnes' "Timeline wars" books you will probably love this series but it's not just a rehash of the same idea, there are a lot of very original aspects to the clash of civilisations in these books.
I can strongly recommend both "Hell's Gate" and "Hell Hath No Fury."
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