Customer Reviews

ANTARES PASSAGE (The Antares Series)

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

This book and "Antares Dawn" have got me scourering the dusty shelves of used book stores and libraries trying to find something more written by Michael McCollum! He has really piqued my interest and I'm going through withdrawl symptoms anticipating the next in the series! Highly recommended reading.

For those who have been waiting for the final book in the Antares Series, ANTARES VICTORY is currently at the 70,000 word mark and things are coming together nicely as I begin the buildup to the climax.

It won't be long now!

Excellent, believable hard Sci-Fi with a dash of romance and Hornblower thrown in. Loved it. Sorry he left the series hanging. I'm still waiting for the denoument.

It's great that this long out of print book and its mate ANTARES DAWN are again available. An exciting, hard science adventure story set against the backdrop of interstellar war. Mr. McCollum's characters are a bit wooden sometimes, but the story moves along, the alien menace feels real, the puzzles are puzzling and the revelation at the end is a clever one, leading into the last book of the trilogy. The good news is that that book is at last available. I read ANTARES VICTORY, published by scifi-az.com, and it is a very satisfying conclusion to the series. I hope the books become more widely available because they are quite enjoyable.

Another book I couldn't put down. Not quite as much action as the previous book, but still plenty of things happening, and definately still very interesting. I'm fast becoming a big fan of Mr McCollum!

Now all I need is Antares Victory...

Honestly, this book (and also the 3rd book, which I just finished) really do not deserve a 1-star rating, however I'm getting totally fed up with trying to pick books based on amazon reviews that are spammed with 5 star ratings by fanboys and friends of author. There is just no way this series has anything near the quality of a 4/5 star rating.

The author does have talent, you will enjoy the characters, the plot is interesting, the action (when it occurs) is good and leaves you wanting to find out how things end...However!

Books 2 and 3 are SO full of page after page after page of horrible re-hash and re-explaining of Everything, from the underlying science, to the macro history, to every previous character development, that it leaves you completey annoyed that you payed $7.50 for nearly 40% filler crap.

The remaining 60%, sadly, is not all good either. This is one of those authors who will constantly pause any action/plot and fill 2-5 pages with boring background/history lessons. So this leaves you with basically skimming to dialog (you've come across these books before I bet). Doing this, I suspect you will enjoy the story...as long as you ignore how you've been sucked into buying 3 (not cheap) books that could easily have been condensed into one.

If these books were $2.50 downloads, I'd probably give them a solid 3 star. As is, I'm ticked off that I allowed myself to get sucked in on the 2nd book, and that I allowed myself to think maybe the 3rd book would be different (its not, its even more re-hash).

I think this is one of the greatest and most realiistic sci/fi novels in existence.If you like Star Trek or Babylon 5 you must read this book and don't forget the prequel Antares Dawn.Mr.McCollum gives very detailed and realistic descriptions,and why not he's an engineer involved with spacestation FREEDOM!

I think this is one of the greatest and most realiistic sci/fi novels in existence.If you like Star Trek or Babylon 5 you must read this book and don't forget the sequel Antares Passage.Mr.McCollum's descriptions are accurate and realistic and why not he's an engineer involved with spacestation FREEDOM!