Armageddon Blues (Mass Market Paperback)

by Daniel Keys Moran (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Spectra (March 1, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553271156
• ISBN-13: 978-0553271157
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #736,437 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book confirms Moran as an unusual writer... (!), April 2, 2001

By	Earl P. Dean (Lexington, KY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Moran became a cult writer with the publication of his first book, the Armageddon Blues. Let me give you some idea of what this book is like. Good? Well, I think that some readers will find enjoyment in reading it. But Moran doesn't seek the middle ground with his readers. I found it disjointed and hard to read as a continuous narrative, with some clever ideas. Unusual features of the Armageddon Blues include: (A)its presentation, in short, punchy vignettes that feel like single scenes rather than full blown chapters. Chapters?! (B) A sense of some grand, plotted machinery occurring someplace offstage in the universe, with aliens and stuff. Drama?! Only the personal stuff, about Jalian D'Arsenette y ken Selvren, his female lead, and a couple of others, guys. She doesn't like them. (C) Time travel into the past through a negative entropy universe-- where time flows backwards, basically. The best thing about this book is the tightly focused scenes, some being pretty exciting. At times I found myself laughing and saying WHAT IS HIS PLAN HERE? The book gives you just a hint of what he has planned for later books in this timeline, which he calls the Great Wheel of Existence. This book is not a part of his Continuing Time series. The Continuing Time is set on the Great Wheel, but it gets better kudos than the Armageddon Blues.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the most unusual sci-fi books I've ever read, November 30, 2002

By	Raine Wynd "Raine W." (Bothell, WA USA) - See all my reviews

Of the books by Daniel Keys Moran that I've read, this is easily my favorite. He builds a complex world, and at times, the way the story is going isn't clear, but I think it's worth the effort. This was, at the time it was published, a critically hailed book by some - I remember reading a review of it in one of the free newsletters offered at Waldenbooks - and I read it as a teenager during the height of the Cold War, so the future it predicted seemed all too easily imagined. It still is a good book, unusual in its premise, and, as I've rarely seen it in a used book store, worth finding and keeping.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good. Complicated. Did I mention good? , January 10, 2005

By	The Literate Wench (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Armageddon Blues (Paperback)

The first book I ever read over and over again... wasn't Daniel Keys Moran. However, the first Sci-Fi book I read over and over again was a Moran book. Not Armegedon Blues... Emerald Eyes. All of which was years ago. Recently I decided to re-read the old favorites, and hit this one along the way since I'd never been able to find it before. So I got it, and read it, and really, really enjoyed it. It's sort of a kind of prequel to Emerald Eyes, but not really. It might be sort of in the same universe, or not. Anyways, it's very good. I liked the three computers, a lot.

Plot.... well, that's complicated. See, the world ended. And then some aliens stopped by because their spaceship broke down. And then the girl ran away to the past, and the luckiest man alive met her... no, really, it all makes sense when you read it.