Devices and Desires (Engineer Trilogy)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00C0ZU97C
Publish date: June 16th 2009
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 672
Edition language: English
Series: Engineer Trilogy (#1)
When Tom Holt uses his K. J. Parker heteronym, at his best, is a very good genre writer: which is not to say that genre writers can't be as good as (if not better than) their literary counterparts - but they have not been taken as seriously, which is true even now. I must admit I found Gene Wolfe's ...
Uuggh... So I have read other reviews that discuss the brilliance of the plotting within this book...and I admit that these reviews kept me going throughout this long book...I had hope! In the end, this book was tedious and monochromatic. It was overlong, the characters lacked life and I just di...
Sharp and refined, the dialog crisp, the characterizations and motivations precisely sketched, the plot an intricately interlocked mechanism. The first book leaves the reader with only a vague idea of how that mechanism is constructed--we know what the Rube Goldberg machine will do, but can't begin ...
An industrial republic borders on two warring feudal duchies. When an engineer escapes the technically-advanced Mezentine City, he upsets the power balance of the continent. There's an interesting struggle between thought processes of the meritocratic City, wherein the workers serve the machines, ...
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