Sunday, March 02, 2003

A few days ago I finished the book Conqueror's Legacy by Timothy Zahn. I won't do an in-depth review here, mainly because it's the third volume in a space-opera trilogy that I really enjoyed, and to discuss it in depth would be to spoil a lot of the plot. Basically: it's a good book, although it takes too long for the plot to get going, and I never felt as if it was "building" or culminating. Somehow the scope felt "off" -- kind of like those episodes of Star Trek where the crew would have to avert a giant interstellar war, and yet you only saw six characters and two space ships in the entire episode.

It's a minor complaint, though. Zahn's Conquerors trilogy is excellent, grand fun, and it's nice to read Zahn when he's doing his own thing as opposed to playing in George Lucas's universe.

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