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Emerald Eyes: A Tale of the Continuing Time Paperback – June, 2002

by Daniel Keys Moran (Author)

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“Full of intrigue, excitingly presented against an original and well-thought out background.” – Asimov’s

“Ambitious, successful... the stuff of high drama – achievement, tragedy, love, heroism, loyalty, dreams – handled easily.” – Analog

The first volume in the science fiction epic Tales of the Continuing Time, Emerald Eyes is set in 2062 and introduces favorite series character Trent the Thief. The brutal Unification War has united earth. In Occupied America, the gene-engineered Castanaveras telepaths have just won a hard-fought freedom. But not everyone agrees with the ruling – least of all, cyborg Peaceforcer Elite Mohammed Vance.

Although Daniel Keys Moran’s 5-star rated paperbacks have long been out of print, hardbound limited editions are listed as high as $400. All four books in the series, Emerald Eyes, The Long Run, The Last Dancer, and the long-awaited newest installment, The AI War: The Big Boost are now on sale as e-books. Emerald Eyes includes novella, “The Star, ” not available with the original paperback.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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Product Details

Paperback
Publisher: Quiet Vision Pub; 1ST edition (June 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1576466388
ISBN-13: 978-1576466384
Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,902,277 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Read this twenty years ago, it is still a thought provoker.

Forrestersmate

I recommend that you start the series by reading the first book "Emerald Eyes".

J. Fontecchio

Moran does a great job of world building and his characters are interesting.

G. B. Keefer

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful

A fun ride!

By Glen Engel Cox on January 28, 2003

Format: Paperback

Long a favorite of the rec.arts.sf.written newsgroup, Daniel Keys Moran is an author who, by all rights, should be more popular than he is. Here is a writer who has an world so thoroughly mapped out that he plans thirty-two books to tell its entire story. While his influences are centered directly in the science fiction field, his plotting and writing are strong, if not subtle. What makes Moran so different from bestselling authors like, say, Orson Scott Card or Lois McMaster Bujold, who have similar influences and styles? Maybe it is because he is not as prolific as these two, and can't satisfy the fan craving for one to two books a year?
Let me get it straight here, and say that Moran's writing is never going to win him any literary prizes. His goal is adventure on the grand scale, not style or depth of human understanding. Yes, he can touch on emotions, but it is the action--the events--that concern him. It is a proud science fiction tradition, of which Asimov was its chief adherent for so long. Moran's a modern author, though, and while he writes in a traditional manner, his subject matter and some of his language would have been quite shocking in 1950.
Emerald Eyes is the first volume in Moran's epic vision of a series entitled "The Tales of the Continuing Time," a series that he has been planning and designing since he was thirteen years old (he goes into this in a quite amusing afterword to this volume). I remember doing the same thing when I was a teenager; I had a couple of spiral ring notebooks that I wrote the adventures of a couple of friends and myself interacting with fantasy and movie characters.Read more ›

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

Unbelieveably GREAT

By A Customer on August 21, 2001

Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase

One of the BEST sci-fi books of all time! I first read this book about 15 years ago when it first came out. It, along with The Long Run and The Last Dancer, is definitely one of the best books that I've ever read. These are really the first great cyberpunk books in my mind. Every time I go to the book store I check to see if there's a new book out by Moran. Far better than Gibson and right up there with Neal Stephenson. I wish that some publisher would pick up Daniel Keys Moran and give us more of this great universe.
Characters that you realy care about and a plot that forces you to stay up all night long to see what's going to happen next are the reason that my original copy was worn ragged as I forced all my friends to read this series. Ask anyone who's read his books and you'll have to gag them to get them to stop praising his books. I liked it so much that I bought two copies of the whole limited edition series including Armageddon Blues which is not part of the series but is great for it's ideas. The writing in Armageddon Blues is not quite as polished as Emerald Eyes and the others but it's still a great read.
This is one of those rare stories that takes place in the near enough future with characters that are real enough that you really care what happens to them, and you have a sense that this could be the future that we will all experience in our lifetime. It's full of things like a reverse microwave to instantly cool things down that you wish you had in your own kitchen.
If you can't afford to buy this book go ask your local library to buy it. Just make sure that you READ this book!

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

Wonderful edition of a great book

By A Customer on September 16, 2002

Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase

Emerald Eyes is the opening act of Moran's stories about Trent and the Castanaveras telepaths. It covers how the telepaths were created, how they were destroyed, and how Trent and Denice survived. The characters are perhaps less well-formed than one would like--it's really not a very long book, and Moran spends a chunk of his time on showing us glimpses of the larger universe, glimpses that are hard to understand until you read The Last Dancer. But, if you like stories with a lot of mythic impact, then you'll love this one.
The text of the limited edition is slightly different from the paperback edition that came out in 1989. It's the same editor (who's now Moran's wife), so you don't get much in the way of really glaring changes; most of the ones I spotted were improvements. (I haven't gone through and compared them side-by-side yet, but I've read the paperback 5-10 times, so any differences tended to catch my eye.) Some of the more artificial bits have been trimmed (e.g., the line where Trent says of Carl, "His grammar is poor, but he never says anything he doesn't mean."), and some of the phrasings have been improved. Nothing major, but enough that I'm not going to get rid of the paperback.
The novella tacked on to the end, The Star, is from Trent's time in the Fringe. It's a nice bit of backstory for The Long Run, but mostly it's just a minor adventure story. Worth reading, but I'm glad I didn't have to buy it separately.

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful

Familiar Themes done Very Well

By Inchoatus.com on February 18, 2006

Format: Paperback

Emerald Eyes has not sold particularly well. It is not likely to be made in to a movie any time soon. The avowed thirty-plus publishing ambitions have silently waned in to something closer to four or five. If the book survives, it will survive based upon an underground network that it is establishing. It has survived this long because of the great ambition the book has in exploring themes of time travel, genetic engineering, and political hegemony that are so interesting and so prevalent to many science fiction fans. Yet will it exert any influence? Are authors writing today in 2006 taking up themes that Moran wrote about back in 1987? Or in the nearer term, are cyberpunk writers hacking away on their countercultural Macintoshes dealing with complexities Moran has set up? We have to say, not yet. This book has probably sparked ideas but not shaped them.

Who should read this:

This book has a very specific focus. Fans of science fiction who are avidly interested in telepathy and the moment of human evolution to a post-human status will be very intrigued by this book. People who enjoy action-oriented, thrill-ride science fiction novels that still have some ambition and meat to them-Ender's Game being a good example of this type of pacing--will like this book as well. Emerald Eyes is quite a bit better than the great many mass-market paperback sci-fi novels you're going to find on the typical bookshelf in an airport. Movie fans of Blade Runner, The Matrix movies, Ghost in a Shell, and perhaps even Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, should check this book out... and that covers quite a lot of people!Read more ›

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Five Stars

This guy is the best sci fi writer ever.

Published 24 days ago by Carlos Oquendo Jr

Good stuff

I really enjoy this book and the entire series. Excellent read.

Published 4 months ago by TFuder

Great series.

Re-read this series after so many years...still great.

Published 4 months ago by Amazon Customer

Not quite as good as the later books but still good in its own right

Emerald Eyes isn't the best book in the series but it is still quite good and helps make the later books even better by giving you more information on the world and some key events... Read more

Published 7 months ago by Stephen Wilcoxon

A great book

Emerald Eyes is a fascinating start to the "Tales of the Continuing Time" storyline. The characters are interesting and engaging and Mr. Read more

Published 9 months ago by Matt in Chicago

Still great

I read this when I was in high school, and it still holds up well 25 years later. I was thrilled to find that Moran had finished the trilogy and put it out electronically. Read more

Published 10 months ago by Morgan Mckinley

How can I love something this flawed this much?

I have to preface this review with a simple statement. I love this book. It is not perfect but it is super enjoyable. Read more

Published 16 months ago by G. B. Keefer

Starts strange

It starts with multiple timelines, multiple points of view and way too many characters. by the middle of the book I was hooked and when it ended I immediately started the sequel.

Published 18 months ago by Alaskan Curmudgeon

Sublime Sci-Fi

"Emerald Eyes" is the first book in a trilogy containing "The Long Run" and "The Last Dancer", and without giving anything way, I'm going to review them as a set because you are... Read more

Published 19 months ago by Tghu Verd

...like fine wine.

I'll keep this short & leave the writing of in depth reviews to those better suited for the task. It's been nearly 25 years since I first read 'Emerald Eyes' by Daniel Keys Moran. Read more

Published 22 months ago by R. S. Chaney