{"id":1399,"date":"2002-10-12T15:42:22","date_gmt":"2002-10-12T15:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2016-10-25T15:45:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T15:45:36","slug":"sagitarius-whorl-by-julian-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/science-fiction\/sagitarius-whorl-by-julian-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Sagitarius Whorl, by Julian May"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sagitarius-whorl-by-julian-may<\/a>Genre: Science Fiction<\/strong>
\n Publisher: Ballantine<\/strong>
\n Published: 2001<\/strong>
\n Reviewer Rating:\u00a0\"two<\/strong>
\n Book Review by Aaron M. Renn<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The third (and final?) book in the Rampart Worlds series is similar to the first two — another installment of the Continuing Adventures of Asahel Frost. Mr. Frost is the son of the founder of a major interstellar corporation, once an outcast, now reluctantly involved in the family business, seeing them through a legal dispute with a competitor who tried to do them in with dirty tricks.<\/p>\n

But Asa’s true obsession is, as it has always been, his belief that the alien Haluk race is planning a major attack against humanity. This leads him on a daring mission to the remote Sagitarius Whorl in search of proof of his theory.<\/p>\n

Anything spectacular here? Nope. But the book reads fast, and what’s more reads fun. Not every book needs to be some super-massive, deep and heavy read. This one is clearly on the light side, but not in a bad way. I don’t believe May had any intentions of this one being anything other than what it is. One warning I will give is that while this book is to some extent a standalone, it definitely helps to have read the previous two installments first. Since they are both similarly enjoyable, this should not be much of a hurdle to jump.<\/p>\n

Click here to buy Sagitarius Whorl, by Julian May on Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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