Kevin J. Anderson books

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Blood Lite (2008)

This is a collection of 21 horror stories by various authors. I read this book specifically for the Kelley Armstrong and Jim Butcher stories, both of which I enjoyed. I also read the Charlaine Harris story and have to say that I didn't like it at all. I couldn't believe that it was actually her w...

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Clockwork Angels (2012)

Great steampunk fantasy! Somewhat reminiscent of "The Golden Compass" since it mixes mechanized technology and religious ideas. Still trying to wrap my head around what the theme of the novel might be. Obviously the book is an expansive adaptation of sorts from Neil Peart's lyrics, but I'm not su...

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Enemies and Allies (2009)

I should start off by saying that I am not much into superhero lore, with the exception of a few Superman and Smallville episodes that come my way. I usually read much "heavier" reading, but let's face it, we all need some recreation now and then. I don't want to come off sounding snobbish by say...

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Enemies & Allies (2009)

Breezy, page-turning fun with an excellent premise that really should have been a lot better than it was. Kevin J. Anderson is a fantastic writer and his epic space opera "The Last Days of Krypton" was beautifully crafted, creating rich beautiful space-landscapes and never talking down to its aud...

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Blood Lite III: Aftertaste (2012)

I had bought this book ONLY for the story of Jim Butcher, that hadn’t been published anywhere else. As luck happens, except that story, and one by Kelly Armstrong, and a classic one from the golden oldie Mike Resnick, rest of the stories were unadulterated crap. Somebody needs to drop the editor ...

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Death Warmed Over (2012)

I am so on the fence about this, but I feel like the concept alone deserves a star, so 3.5 to 4 it is.On the one hand, I could not get past the often heavy-handed nature of the humour. Anderson goes for the obvious joke at every opportunity, like a corny dad who cannot be stopped. If he'd just le...

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Unnatural Acts (2012)

Zombie PI Dan Chambeaux, with Robin, the lawyer half of their business and Sheyenne, Dan’s ghostly girlfriend who does everything else in the office, take on a number of cases for their unnatural clients in this second installment. Some of the things being tackled are the rights of golems, livin...

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Dark Between the Stars, The (2014)

I've read the Hellhole books that Kevin J. Anderson Co - write with Brian Herbert. They were to date the best sci-fi books I had ever read. The Dark Between The Stars rates up there with them. Each chapter is written about a particular recurring character and what is happening to them at this poi...

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The Dark Between the Stars (2014)

The setting is really cool. It has little to do with real science or hard sci-fi but as a quasi-fantasy space opera it works really well. It is epic in the way that high magic epic fantasy is epic, except it has a unique setting and creatures in space rather than the normal epic fantasy tropes....

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Resurrection, Inc. (1988)

This was a very strange experience for me. I have never really been all that interested in zombies or the reanimation of the deceased within the Sci-Fi genre. I just never took to this novel, maybe my lack of interest in the subject played a major part in that. The characters were fine, the idea ...

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Of Fire and Night (2006)

The threads are coming together as the battle ramps up. This kind of plot always feels a bit contrived of course - how realistic is that the good guys scramble together a sufficient defense with just enough time to spare? Timing tends not to be symmetrical, and this aberration is all the more exp...

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Scattered Suns (2006)

The war between the alien hydrogues and the faeros ravages the Ildiran Empire, dividing humanity. New Mage-Imperator Jora'h must quash the rebellion launched by his mad brother before the hydrogues destroy what is left of the empire. He sends his beloved half-human daughter on a desperate mission...

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

This novelization of the film of the same name was a nice little read. It was an ok book, fitting if you want to relax and not think about something too much without running the risk to be infuriated by bad writing. It is not a book I would say you need to read but its also not something that wou...

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Ground Zero (1996)

Βαθμολογία: 7.5/10Τρίτο αυτοτελές μυθιστόρημα της σειράς X-Files, πρώτο που συγγραφέας είναι ο γνωστός στο είδος της επιστημονικής φαντασίας και του Φανταστικού, Κέβιν Τζ. Άντερσον (π.χ. The Saga of Seven Suns, μυθιστορήματα Star Wars κλπ). Μου φάνηκε αρκετά καλύτερο των δυο προηγούμενων βιβλίων,...

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The Saga of Seven Suns: Veiled Alliances (2005)

The human race begins its expansion into outer space only to discover that for centuries a multitude of other planets have been interacting on a cosmic scale.

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Blindfold (1995)

Atlas is a struggling colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by Truthsayers. Trained from birth as the sole users of Veritas a telepathy virus that lets them read the souls of the guilty Truthsayers are justice. Infallible. Beyond appeal. Troy Boren is falsely accused of m...

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Darksaber (1996)

This was simply horrific. I think my comments made below while reading this atrocity of storytelling should be more than adequate convey my dismay, but I can't resist the temptation to throw a few gifs into a scathing review. So here goes. Anderson's characterization of the Big Three (Luke, Leia,...

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Highest Score (1996)

Jake and Nog have hit the jackpot playing holo videogames in the Amusement Arcade. An alien named Kwiltek has offered them jobs helping him run remote-controlled mining operations on a distant planet where dull mining is turned into a thrilling video game. In the "gaming room, " teams of kids wor...

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Antibodies (1998)

Another one of those books that I have yet I don't know why exactly. I am a huge fan of X-Files. I used to watch it like crazy when Netflix decided to put up all the episodes on Instant. This book read exactly like an episode of the show. I got to say that this book was written full of coincidenc...

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The Last Days of Krypton (2007)

You can find the full review over at The Founding Fields:http://thefoundingfields.com/2013/02/...Shadowhawk reviews the audiobook edition of Kevin J. Anderson’s novel about the fall of Superman’s world and its final moments.“Emotionally super-charged, this is a story that is not to be missed.” ~T...

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Slan Hunter (2007)

This startling SF adventure novel is a collaboration between the classic SF Grand Master, A. E. van Vogt, and contemporary master Kevin J. Anderson. At the time of his death in 2000, van Vogt left a partial draft and an outline for the sequel to his most famous novel, Slan. van Vogt's jam-packed,...

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The Trinity Paradox (1991)

Activist Elizabeth Devane wished for an end to nuclear weapons. Surely, she thought, if they'd known what they were unleashing, the scientists of the Manhattan Project would never have created such a terrible instrument of destruction. But during a protest action, the unthinkable happened: a flas...

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Tales from Jabba's Palace (1995)

this book doesn't require any vast Star Wars knowledge or brain cells to read and understand, it's actually quite a good book. I thought it was organized a little better than the others too, since they all seemed to have something to do with each other, and flowed along as a full story better tha...

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Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina (1995)

I'm going to attempt to write a few lines on each story as I read them so bear with me on this one. I remember when I first received this as a gift back in '95 for Christmas and being so, so excited to finally read all the back stories of the denizens shown in what to me was the best set of scen...

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Ocean Realm (2008)

Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.comCousins Gwen and Vic Pierce, the protagonists from CRYSTAL DOORS, are back in this exciting follow-up, along with some of the other great characters we came to know and love in the first book: Uncle Cap, Ali el Sharif, Tiaret, Lyssandra, and even the wonderful d...

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Horizon Storms (2005)

(Every time I read the character name, Basil Wenceslas, I want to sing "looked out"... I know, but my mind must be a little weird.) This is another one of those books where the rating tended to slide between 3 and 4 as I went along. This book does tend to ramble a bit, but then the author has giv...

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Jedi Search (1994)

This was the first Star Wars expanded universe book I ever read, and as mediocre as it is, it's primarily responsible for my obsession with Star Wars (and the EU) throughout my last two years of high school. Simply by existing, it was awesome back then. There was MORE STORY after the movies. More...

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Captain Nemo (2002)

Most readers know Captain Nemo only as the enigmatic protagonist of Jules Verne’s classic novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But what if Nemo was a real man, whose actual life was more fantastic and adventurous than all the fictions it inspired? Here is the tale of Andre Nemo, the man behind th...

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Fantastic Voyage: Microcosm (2001)

An unidentified flying object is shot down over the Caspian Sea, and a single strange pod survives intact. Now Team Proteus, made up of American and Russian scientists, doctors, and technicians, will be reduced to a size smaller than a human cell to penetrate the surface of the pod--and launch th...

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Game's End (1990)

The finale to the Gamearth Trilogy. It’s all-out war between the players and characters in a role-playing game that has taken on a life of its own. The fighter Delrael, the sorcerer Bryl, as well as famed scientists Verne and Frankenstein, use every trick in the Book of Rules to keep the world of...

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Fallout (1997)

They call themselves Eagle's Claw, one of the most extreme militia groups in the United States. They have infiltrated the Device Assembly Facility at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. And the most frightening display of nuclear terrorism is about to unfold.

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Crystal Doors (2009)

Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.comFourteen-year old cousins Gwen and Vic Pierce are almost nothing alike. Where Gwen is serious, scientific, and analytical, Vic is fun-loving, spontaneous, and outgoing. Older by a mere five hours, Gwen likes to think of herself as the one in charge. Vic likes to...

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Gamearth (1989)

Gamearth was just a fantasy land created for a game until it actually became real. David wanted to destroy the made-up world in one last battle, forcing Melanie and the inhabitants of Gamearth to twist the rules enough for survival.

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Lethal Exposure (1998)

At Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois -- Fermilab -- Nobel candidate Georg Dumenco is bombarded with enough radiation to kill him within days.FBI Special Agent Craig Kreident knows it was no accident -- but he has to prove it. Only Dumenco knows enough to track down his own killers...

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Virtual Destruction (1996)

Virtual reality is the technology of the future. Groundbreaking. Dangerous. Almost limitless in its potential. It could replace nuclear power as the most coveted knowledge on the planet. And in a supersecret installation in California, under the most restricted security, one of the top scientists...

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Game Play (1989)

For two years, three humans had given so much to their fantasy game that it developed a magic of its own. Now one of the players is tired of the game and wants to destroy it. The real inhabitants of Gamearth must fight their most evil foe to keep their world alive.

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Hopscotch

Every moment passed with heightened awareness, deeper suspicion, faster reflexes . . . and frazzled nerves. He had to pay attention to everything. But the stranger who reached out for him from the dim alley was a real master at stealth. The man touched his arm, and Eduard leaped aside, ready to w...

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A Fantastic Holiday Season: The Gift of Stories

Dread welled up inside of Virginia, tightening her stomach until she thought she might vomit. She’d tried to distract herself from the looming date, but nothing worked.The school bus is here.Virginia blinked to turn off the vid playing on her retinal display. She hadn’t been paying attention to i...

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Drumbeats

Anderson & Neil PeartAfter nine months of touring across North America—with hotel suites and elaborate dinners and clean sheets every day—it felt good to be hot and dirty, muscles straining not for the benefit of any screaming audience, but just to get to the next village up the dusty road, w...

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Blood of the Cosmos

Having been born after the end of the Elemental War, Xander had never experienced the appalling destruction caused by the hydrogues and the faeros. But seeing what the Shana Rei and the black robots had done at Ulio Station made him understand what those horrific days must have been like. As they...

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Alien Landscapes 2

Weren’t we all supposed to be flying regularly to big pinwheel space stations in orbit? Vacationing on Mars, or going to college at the Lunar Dome Academy? The future didn’t turn out exactly the way we all saw it depicted on The Jetsons. *sigh*But a story is all about turning preconceptions aroun...

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The Martian War

The interior of the vessel was entirely dark, thanks to the closed blinds that covered the transparent walls. There was not a glimmer of light, no lessening of the intense shadows. No outside sound, though fire and fury must be all around them. His stomach gave a queasy lurch, and he had the odde...

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Star Wars: Tales of the Bounty Hunters

Anderson is the author of nearly 100 novels, 48 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists; he has over 22 million books in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, the SFX Reader’s Choice Award, and New York Times ...

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Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius

Fergusson’s hazel eyes drank in the scenery with boundless enthusiasm, taking copious notes for his expedition records. Nemo shared the spyglass with Caroline as they looked down upon the unfolding landscape. She studied the maps and charts purchased from Zanzibar merchants, but it didn’t take ...

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Dark Carbuncle

Copyright © 2010 by WordFire, Inc. and Janis Ian. Originally published in Blood Lite II: Overbite, edited by Kevin J. Anderson, Pocket Books, 2010. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopyi...

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Prisons

The prisoners consider it an ironic jest.Barely a meter square, the forcewalls form the boundaries of my holographic body. Once this felt like a throne, an isolated position from which I could control the workings of Bastille. Now, though, I must look out and watch my former prisoners laughing at...

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Island in a Sea of Stars

Iswander could only stare at the horrific beauty from his tower windows. The harpy song of alarms shrieked from dozens of systems as if his entire facility had gone insane. Rlinda Kett put her hands on wide hips. “I know shit hitting the fan when I see it. You have an evacuation protocol?” Iswand...

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Comrades in Arms

Targeting vectors appeared on the inner surface of his helmet face shield, and the tactile sensors on his gloves linked to his artificial hands.Ten Jaxxans skittered along the angled trenches they had dug as they made progress across the planetoid’s contested landscape. Moving in ranks, they all ...

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Eternity's Mind

When Jora’h summoned him into the Skysphere audience chamber, the attenders, court functionaries, and noble kithmen were dismissed; the Mage-Imperator even sent away Nira and Prime Designate Daro’h. He wanted to see Tal Gale’nh—and no one else. Gale’nh felt intimidated, but when he saw the expres...

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Clockwork Angels: Comic Script

Studios editorI’m in Susina Bakery on Beverly Boulevard, enjoying one Los Angeles’s best cups of coffee. Well, not exactly. I’m physically there, sure. Mentally, I’m standing before the Temples of Syrinx. Rush’s classic “2112” is blaring in my earbuds for the umpteenth—no, sorry, the umpteenth an...

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Frog Kiss

The frog tasted cold and slimy against his lips, with a taste like brackish water, mud, and old compost. But Keric gave it a dutiful smack on its mouth, hoping that it wouldn’t suddenly turn in to the fat old king, who had also been enchanted, along with several more desirable members of the roya...

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Lifeline

It astounded him that it had been just a point of light seen from Orbitech 1.Karen’s voice came over the radio. “Ramis, the Doppler has pegged you five hundred yards from the Kibalchich. You’ll feel some tension in the weavewire as we help slow you down.”Ramis mumbled an acknowledgment but contin...

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Hellhole

“That’s Devon!” The vehicle looked as if it had been chewed up in a storm, rolled down a steep hill, and then bombarded by meteors. Behind the smeared windshield he could see two people in the cab. All calm gone, Sophie was off the porch and running...

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Dark Labyrinth 1

Anderson“Special Makeup” copyright 1991 by WordFire, Inc. Originally published in The Ultimate Werewolf, edited by Byron Preiss, Dell Books, 1991.When I was asked to write a werewolf story for an anthology, I didn’t see any reason not to do a funny one! I’ve always been a fan of the old monster m...

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Gameplay

The Outsiders’ Ship“We must continue to learn, continue to study. As Sitnaltans, our quest is to understand everything about the Rules and how they affect our lives. With such an intimate knowledge perhaps we can defeat the Outsiders and free ourselves from this Game.”—Professor Verne, speech to ...

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The X-Files: Antibodies

Scully said. “The man couldn’t still be alive. Even if the plague put him in some kind of extreme coma, I’d already performed an autopsy.” The ME said, “I know Edmund, and he’s not the skittish sort. A little bit of a pest sometimes, but this isn’t the kind of story he would make up. I was going ...

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Tucker’s Grove

His wife steadfastly refused and concentrated on her driving. He watched how her lips pressed tightly together, how her hands gripped the steering wheel. Betty had quit, all right—hook, line, and sinker. New Evidence Shows Cigarettes May Cause Cancer the newspapers and newsreels screamed. Too bad...

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The Map of All Things (2010)

The lookouts remained on high alert to make sure no Urecari vessels saw them. Up against the cliffs, a small pier and marker obelisks indicated a stony path that wound into the narrow gorge. Destrar Tavishel was sure that this was the right place. Flushed with excitement, Jenirod watched the dete...

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Mammoth Dawn

The story is filled with modern scientific techniques, a sense of wonder, and is also a relevant cautionary tale about the damage being done to the ecosystem and the diversity of life on Earth. A passionate billionaire scientist, Dr. Alex Pierce, and the intelligent and beautiful activist, Cassie...

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Saga of Shadows 1: The Dark Between the Stars

His mistress was pregnant, and he’d decided, belatedly, that he wanted children after all. Matthew was gone now. No further discussion, just a change in situation, and Orli refused to become one of those shrill and desperate wives in a crumbling marriage who embarrassed herself by fighting for so...

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Dragon Business, The

The knights were full of tales, each one as imaginative as it was improbable. Cullin believed none of the stories, but he did file away the details for later use. Sir Hernon puffed his broad chest and adjusted his wolf-skin cape. “Back in my own kingdom, I spotted a dragon...

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Hidden Empire (2002)

Alone. There, she would survive through the grace and protection of the worldtrees. As an acolyte, she had spent her life waiting for this moment. She had devoted every waking hour to praying and studying how to serve the sentient forest, how to bec...

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