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	• Hell's Gate (BOOK 1 in new MULTIVERSE series) (Multiverse) David Weber, Linda Evans Baen, 2008 - 1248 pages average customer review:based on 54 reviews view larger image
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There is a good novel in here...somewhere

I read, or rather flipped through, this turgid novel in paperback where it clocks in at 1236 pages, including a 27 page glossary. Although this book has excellent action sequences these are separated by page after page after page of meandering prose that gives the term 'expository writing' a bad name. Clearly, the publishing house editors have lost control of the authors here. You can get through this book and have a petty good grasp of the situation by skimming along and actually reading about one page in three. I think about 20 percent of the text could have been eliminated if they had just included a few maps. At the very least would if have killed them to include maps of the Sharonan and Arcanan home 'Earth' equivalents? Fortunately, the book doesn't cost more than a normal paperback.

It's a shame because the characterization is pretty good and the plotting has some interesting twists and turns. But the good parts are oases in a desert of gobbledygook. Despite this, I bought the second book - the first ends in a cliffhanger and I'm a sucker for cliffhangers.

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Too long for too little story

Late 19th century technology and psychic abilities versus magic and dragons. That's what this book is about. Two separate civilizations, Sharona and Arcana, have been exploring empty parallel worlds until they very violently bump into each other.
Now the first thing you'll notice about this book is that it is pretty long. Unfortunately two thirds of that length is little more that explaining, re-explaining, and re-re-explaining the various worlds, governments, etc. in the book. It starts off fairly slow, but picks up towards the middle, but then slows down again until the very end with a fullscale war we've been waiting for finally starting just as the novel ends.
In general this book has a good idea for a story and what story is there is pretty good, unfortunately it gets bogged down in endless explanations and instances in which the viewpoint switches between three different characters to give three different viewpoints on the same experience or event. It's interesting, but we really don't need it to enjoy the novel.

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Very good

This book was a bit confusing at first, trying to keep the two cultures seperated (and telling the names apart), but it was really very good. So is Hell Hath No Fury.

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The Union of Arcana has expanded through the portals linking parallel universes for over a century and a half. In that time, its soldiers and sorcerers have laid claim to one uninhabited planet after another?all of them Earth, and in the process, the Union has become the most powerful, most wealthy civilization in all of human history. But all of that is about to come to a screeching halt, for the Union?s scouts have just discovered a new portal, and on its far side lies a shattering revelation. Arcana is not alone, after all. There is another human society, Sharona, which has also been exploring the Multiverse, and the first contact between them did not go well. Arcana is horrified by the alien weapons of its sudden opponents, weapons its sorcerers cannot explain or duplicate. Weapons based upon something called . . . science. But Sharona is equally horrified by Arcana?s ?magical? weapons. Neither side expected the confrontation. Both sides think the other fired first, and no one on either side understands the ?technology? of the other. But as the initial disastrous contact snowballs into all-out warfare, both sides can agree on one thing. The portal which brought them together is Hell?s Gate itself!

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