ENTOVERSE. [Paperback]

James P. Hogan (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Del Rey (1991)
• ASIN: B000OV8IOK
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating Speculative Fiction, November 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Entoverse (Mass Market Paperback)

Hogan, as usual (Giants, Lifemaker, Thrice Upon a Time), does a magnificent job creating a gripping story based on plausible-sounding scientific principles. Hogan's writing is quite intricate, and he does a great job tying up seemingly unimportant loose ends. Some of the character development seemed a little artificial, though. I would strongle recommend having read the first three Giants books, although this story does stand mostly on its own.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Number 4 in the story of the "gentle giants of Ganymede", November 15, 2006

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Marshall Lord (Whitehaven, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Entoverse (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the fourth book in the "Giants" series which began with "Inherit the stars" and continues with "The Gentle Giants of Ganymede" and "Giants Star."

The first three books in the series are also available in a "3 in 1 Giants Omnibus" and there is now a subsequent fifth book, "Mission to Minerva".

Continues the story which started when human ideas of our place in the Universe were turned completely topsy-turvy by the discovery of a 50,000 year old human body on the moon in "Inherit the Stars" which was one of the most brilliant SF novels ever written.

I thought the story had finished with "Giant's star" but James Hogan finds a way to continue it with brilliant new twist. Something is going wrong on the planet Jevlen, and to solve it the heroes of the first three books have their minds projected inside a huge computer - where they find a whole different kind of Universe.

About the only thing on which I agree with the reviewers who trashed this book is that it's not quite as good as the first three. However, I think it's still well worth a read if you are into science fiction and original ideas.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read!!, February 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Entoverse (Mass Market Paperback)

I could not put this book down! It is a brilliant mystery book, with a fair amount of action thrown in for good measure. My only regret is that I have not read the previous three books in the series, so I was, so to speak, thrown in at the deep end, with no knowledge of the characters. All the same, I was able to pick up the story very quickly. I just wish that it had been longer!