Gibraltar Earth [Paperback]

Michael McCollum (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1999

Trade paperback version of science fiction novel. Book is large format, printed on bright white paper, perfect bound, with full color, plastic laminated covers. Books are autographed by the author.

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About the Author

Michael McCollum is the author of 10 science fiction novels and one book of short stories, with total sales of 250,000 books in bookstores. He is now the proprietor of Sci Fi - Arizona, an Online Science Fiction bookstores and publishing company.

Product Details

• Paperback: 374 pages
• Publisher: Sci Fi - Arizona (January 1999)
• ISBN-10: 1929381255
• ISBN-13: 978-1929381258
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,352,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic Space Opera, July 10, 2002

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Henry Cate III (CA. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gibraltar Earth (Paperback)

In a couple hundred years humanity has started to explore nearby stars. Humans are investigating a new star system when two alien spaceships appear, fight with each other, and destroy each other. The humans are able to rescue one alien survivor. They learn of a Galactic Empire ruled by the ruthless Broa who tolerate no equals. All other alien races are slaves.
So what should humanity do? Several options are discussed, and finally our heroes go to get more data by studying the empire some. There are a number of surprises along the way.
This is a fun book; it is the first of three. I had trouble putting it down. It has a very classic space opera feel. We have the Milky Way Galaxy for the backdrop, there are lots of alien races, all of humanity is at risk, and the pace moves along fairly quickly.
If you like E. E. Doc Smith, David Webber, or James Schmitz, I think you'll enjoy this book.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but..., September 9, 2009

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daustin (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gibraltar Earth (Paperback)

First, the bad:
- The dialog in this book really brought me out of the story sometimes. Most people in this book talk without using any contractions, which is really strange. Instead is saying "Lisa, I couldn't find you yesterday." and "I don't want to do that." they'll say "I could not find you yesterday" and "I do not want to do that". It reads really weird, like they're robots or incredibly proper. I tried to get past this.

- The main characters are somewhat interesting, but I didn't really feel any attachment to them. The secondary characters were all very boring and ran together. I had a hard time remembering who was who.

The good:
- Cool idea for a story. I've never seen quite this take on the way the galaxy is setup. I don't want to give anything away here, but what the humans discover is pretty cool.
- Some good twists in the storyline that I was not expecting. There was some foreshadowing, but it didn't turn out to be what I was expecting

In my opinion this is good scifi, but not great scifi. For great SciFi, I would point to authors like Dan Simmons (Hyperion is the all time best scifi book ever) and Peter F Hamilton.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gibralter Earth, May 10, 2006

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Geoffrey Reid Perry (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gibraltar Earth (Paperback)

Outstanding. Much in the flavor of the Life Probe sieries.
If you liked them, you'll like this one. We'll see how he completes it in Gibralter Sun. Should be a good read.