Conqueror - Stephen Baxter

Emperor - Stephen Baxter

A long time ago I wrote down the names of the 'Weaver' series though I never saw them in the shops, so I was delighted when I saw the first three books in the local library. The books are: 'Emperor', 'Conqueror', 'Navigator' and 'Weaver'. 'Emperor' follows the fortunes of one family living under Roman rule in Britain. A woman in childbirth starts screaming out words none of her family except one, who (luckily) knows Latin and records it. The mystery is how this woman, who was uneducated, could suddenly know Latin. In time the words are recognised as being a prophecy. The future generations of the child born during the prophecy are followed, including a plan to assassinate an ...

Emperor - Stephen Baxter

A long time ago I wrote down the names of the 'Weaver' series though I never saw them in the shops, so I was delighted when I saw the first three books in the local library. The books are: 'Emperor', 'Conqueror', 'Navigator' and 'Weaver'. 'Emperor' follows the fortunes of one family living under Roman rule in Britain. A woman in childbirth starts screaming out words none of her family except one, who (luckily) knows Latin and records it. The mystery is how this woman, who was uneducated, could suddenly know Latin. In time the words are recognised as being a prophecy. The future generations of the child born during the prophecy are followed, including a plan to assassinate an ...

Emperor - Stephen Baxter

completely misinterprets the meaning of the prophecy a disaster is avoided by the quick thinking of the slave boy. In 2 paragraphs I have just told you what Stephen Baxter said in 300 pages. I don t think the story was strong enough to fill a whole book and the book had no excitement. The story of the ancient prophecy was a good one but even though there were little substorys going on in the background there was nothing keep me interested for long. Each segment of the story is spread over about 50 years and I thought this was too big a time frame to be shortened into 100 pages. There did not seem to be enough balance for me because the segments were set so many ...

Emperor - Stephen Baxter

completely misinterprets the meaning of the prophecy a disaster is avoided by the quick thinking of the slave boy. In 2 paragraphs I have just told you what Stephen Baxter said in 300 pages. I don t think the story was strong enough to fill a whole book and the book had no excitement. The story of the ancient prophecy was a good one but even though there were little substorys going on in the background there was nothing keep me interested for long. Each segment of the story is spread over about 50 years and I thought this was too big a time frame to be shortened into 100 pages. There did not seem to be enough balance for me because the segments were set so many ...

Titan - Stephen Baxter

and storms of a new world, something goes wrong, badly wrong and theres no one to help as the craft falls at 300 miles per hour. Our heroes are alone, very alone. That’s as far as I go as the real adventure is to come.If you like real intelligent SCI-FI then this is for you and only Stephen Baxter does it with this much detailed fact and thought.Great read. ...

Titan - Stephen Baxter

and storms of a new world, something goes wrong, badly wrong and theres no one to help as the craft falls at 300 miles per hour. Our heroes are alone, very alone. That’s as far as I go as the real adventure is to come.If you like real intelligent SCI-FI then this is for you and only Stephen Baxter does it with this much detailed fact and thought.Great read. ...