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Fri, Jul 13, 2007

"Wess'har Wars" by Karen Traviss

Posted at 7:19 pm MDT to Media

I just finished reading the first three books of this series, City of Pearl, Crossing the Line and The World Before, which make a story arc that comes to a fair amount of closure at the personal level for the central character. .

The science is fairly hard: no faster-than-light travel. The aliens peoples and ecologies are interesting, and quite alien. The human characters are varied and three-dimensional. The politics, unfortunately, are believable... and in a state of flux at the end of the trilogy.

I'm glad that there is a second trilogy "Matriarch", "Ally", and "Judge", (the final book comes out in 2008) addressing the larger problems, and I'm looking forward to reading them.

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