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Strap in, sit back and enjoy the ride. This set of novels is the book to take on holidays and long flights. Rollicking adventures and endearing characters with some exceptional ‘bad guys’ thrown in for good measure. Enjoy!
Excellent collection with great plots and vision from the author's.will be reading more from these authors over the next few months. Amazon please create more of these collections
compendulums arer a good way of sampling new authors and new series. They are often cheap and offer good value. 1. The backworlds. M Pax. 1st of 7 in backworlds series. Poor, difficult to follow, uninteresting. 2. Ambassedor. Patty Jensen. 1st of 10 in ambassedor series. Excellent - more like a spy thriler. Rest of the series rather pricey. 3. Alien Hunters. Daniel Arensen. 1st of 3 in Alien Hunters series. Excellent. Funny, OTT, far fetched, not to be taken seroiusly. In short FUN to read. 4. Hard Duty. Mark E Cooper. 1st of 5 in Merkiaari wars. Very good but left hanging which is frustrating. Rest of the series pricey. 5. Bypass Gemini. Joseph Lallo. 1st of 5 in the Big Sigma series. Very good. 6. Sky hunter. Chris Reher. 1st of 5 in series Taragon Tales. Very good. 7. 1st Conquest. David Van dyke. 1st of 5 in Plague wars-Stellar conquest series. Good though the battle scenes of which there are many are a bit repetative, but riviting nonetheless. Overall a worthwhile compendulum.
It's a compilation of 8 authors putting their stories together in a free set to try to entice you into reading more of their books. To this end, you can't really go wrong. I am tempted to read further works by 4 of the writers as a result of buying this, so a 50% strike rate on new authors which is why I gave it 4 stars. Ambassador, Hard Duty, and First Conquest are all really classic tales which I liked and Bypass Gemini was an enjoyable and quirky read which appeals to my sense of the irreverent but won't be for everyone. The other stories were a mixed bag with varying quality.
5.0 out of 5 starsAll decent, some great, eight free SF books so what are you waiting for?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2017
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At least five of these eight books are really good, and they're all at least OK. The standout for me was 'Bypass Gemini', which was a bit more 'hard SF' than some of the others and reminded me of a less rambling Neal Stephenson. Great introductions to the various authors' series, and they're free so you have nothing to lose!
4.0 out of 5 starsGreat way to be introduced to a number of different writers
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2016
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I enjoyed this collection of Novels. I had not read many of the authors before. As a result I have purchased a number of books in various series of which the first was in this book. Novels by Chris Reher, Patty Jansen, Mark Cooper, Daniel Arenson and David Vandyke. . So I would recommend this book. You might not like all the novels but I would be very surprised if any reader doesn't like the majority. This set of books was free. So how can you go wrong???
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 February 2018
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Meh, the stories were just OK, bordering on 2 stars. I didn't seek out other books by any of these authors, so that is about the best thing I can say about them. As with all these type of books where Amazon are publishing, it's a bit of a roll of the dice if you find an author you will like. Clumping them together like this should have been a clue!