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Polar City Nightmare (Gollancz S.F.)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Gollancz (2001-05-10)
ISBN: 1857987837
EAN: 9781857987836
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Paperback: 368 pages
Edition: New Ed
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Customer Reviews
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Great sequel to Polar City Blues.
Rating  (4)
Date: 2001-05-18
7 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book carries on from Polar City Blues. It contains most of the characters from the first book and has them unconvering another plot that could affect the independent human Republic planets caught in the tenuous and delicate stalement between the huge, antagonistic power blocks of the alien Interstellar Confederation and the Coreward Alliance.
The book is well written and I found myself unable to tell that it had been written by two authors - their writing styles blended together very well in my opinion. I have to admit I was worried when I saw that the novel was a collaborative effort, but Kate Daniel did a really good job of writing within the Polar City Universe.
I love Katharine Kerr's novels because of the huge amount of detail she puts into creating/describing both the characters and the settings. For example, the plausible linguistic developments she puts into her books, both with this series and the Deverry books. At times the characters in these novels speak a future projection dialect of the English spoken in Southern California today. Don't let that put you off as it is very easy to understand. If you can understand the guests on the Jerry Springer Show you can understand the characters in this book.
The reason I'm giving it only 4 stars is: there is far too much baseball and baseball related stuff in the novel. I hate baseball and consequently didn't enjoy those parts of the novel.
If you enjoyed Polar City Blues and want to find out what happened to some of the characters you will enjoy this novel. If you want to read an intelligent, well thought out and plausible SF novel with very enjoyable and believable alien characters you will enjoy this too.
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A welcome return to Polar City... THANK YOU!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-10-17
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is really a stand alone novel in that you don't have to have read Polar City Blues to read and enjoy this book (but you might as well as its anouther good book!).Based a few years after the events in Blues, this book uses some of the less well delevoped characters from the previous books and turns them into the central characters (as well as bringing totaly new ones into play), and relegates the major characters from Blues to bit parts in this book, which would have been a shame as I liked the old characters, but the story telling makes you love the news ones as much as the old ones. If you like sci fi then give this book a read I promiss you won't be disapionted..... (P.S. amy chance of a return to the world of Palace? )
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Difficult to follow this dialogue is.
Rating  (2)
Date: 2000-09-04
1 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
A good story about a stolen alien artifact and the surrounding murders as its importance slowly comes to the fore. There is a lot about baseball in this book. That's not bad in itself but there are also unexplained baseball terms used. I would not expect people to understand shinty (Gaelic hockey) and I would not use shinty slang to explain the plot of a story. Worse was the made up slang the characters spoke. I noted that by page 200 I was still struggling to follow the text. Odd conversational writing may be OK for Roddy Doyle who has an audiance who can understand it. But for an international readership, making your own slang up is a strain on the eyes.
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Well worth reading... what more can I say.
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-08-22
I have just finished reading this book in a couple of days and must just say that I really enjoyed it..... A very good follow up to Polar City Blues using some of the main characters from the first book, and introducing new ones that fit nicely into the world they have created.I must admit to wishing that they had used more of a couple of the old characters (such as Nunks), but you can't have everything. This is not a space opera or a book about space combat, but a close study of people, events and baseball (I duno but they seem to like it *SHRUG*) All thats left to say is if you like a thoughtful read then read this...
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