Adiamante
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4.6 • 17 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
After ten thousand years in exile, the cyber-warriors return in their fleet of spaceships to the planet that rejected them: Earth.
Other Series by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
The Saga of Recluce
The Imager Portfolio
The Corean Chronicles
The Spellsong Cycle
The Ghost Books
The Ecolitan Matter
The Forever Hero
Timegod's World
Other Books
The Green Progression
Hammer of Darkness
The Parafaith War
Adiamante
Gravity Dreams
The Octagonal Raven
Archform: Beauty
The Ethos Effect
Flash
The Eternity Artifact
The Elysium Commission
Viewpoints Critical
Haze
Empress of Eternity
The One-Eyed Man
Solar Express
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the far future, humanity is scattered among the stars and has divided into many subgroups. On Old Earth itself, after many wars and disasters, society is based on conservation and non-aggression. But the resilience of this culture is tested when a hostile fleet of 12 spaceships appears in orbit around the planet. Built of adiamante, a nearly indestructible material, the ships have been sent by a former colony bent on revenge. Narrator Ecktor deJanes, Earth's temporary coordinator, has to prevent the fleet from sterilizing the planet. He's not without resources, as it turns out. But he's bound by a code of honor that mandates that "those with great power must exercise equally great responsibility." Modesitt avoids the digressions and lingering scholarly points that sometimes slow his popular Recluce series, though his narrative here does get didactic at times ("For all our nets, for all our communications, humans... are aliens, aliens to each other and to the universe, and that is why we must trust"). If he doesn't always fully explain the technological distinctions and intricacies of his elaborate far-future Earth, he nevertheless paints an absorbing picture of this world and how it became what it is.
Customer Reviews
Gripping storyline ruined by bad OCR
The storyline was fairly gripping to the point that the first couple of pages convinced me to buy the book. However, since a lot of the terms introduced were heavily obscured by the terrible job translating this book into electronic form coupled with inadequate editing, it was hard to figure out what was a typographical error due to a bad electronic translation and what was due to author intention. e.g., there were a couple of spots where exclamation marks (!) were unintentionally substituted for the letter "I" in the beginning of a sentence; the two letters "r" and "n" together in sequence "rn" were unintentionally substituted for the letter "m"; the nonsense word "Uke" was unintentionally substituted for the word "like"; etc.: All common mistakes often seen in cases of automated machine translation but easily caught by a human editor. This made words that were intentionally created/invented by the author such as Masc and Fern/Fem so much harder to differentiate from the typo-cluttered background since some terms like "SoshWar" were not explained nor was there a glossary. Thus, it reduced the enjoyment of the story. [This is a review of the iBook edition.]