Nightfall at Algemron (Star*Drive Harbinger Trilogy, Vol. 3) (v. 3) [Mass Market Paperback]

Diane Duane (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (April 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786915633
• ISBN-13: 978-0786915637
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,777,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Diane Duane was born in New York City -- a descendant of New York's first mayor -- and worked there as a psychiatric nurse before leaving the profession for the only one she loved better, the business of writing. Since the publication of her first novel in 1981, she's written fifty more, not to mention numerous short stories, comics, computer games and screenplays for TV and film, and has picked up the occasional award here and there. (She has also worked with Star Trek in more media than anyone else alive.)

Right now she's probably best known for her "Young Wizards" series of young adult fantasy novels, featuring the New York-based wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan -- in business for twenty-five years now, their most recent adventure being described in the ninth YW novel, "A Wizard of Mars" (just released in paperback).

DD shares a two hundred-year-old cottage in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland with her husband, the Belfast-born novelist and screenwriter Peter Morwood, a laid-back white cat named Goodman, and various overworked computers... an odd but congenial environment for the staging of epic battles between good and evil and the leisurely pursuit of total galactic domination. (And a lot of ethnic cooking: her own favorite foods come from the cuisines of central Europe and the Mediterranean.) In her spare time she gardens (weeding, mostly), studies German and Italian, listens to shortwave and satellite radio, and dabbles in astronomy, computer graphics, iaido, amateur cartography, and desktop publishing ... while also trying to figure out how to make more spare time.

Her favorite color is blue, her favorite food is a weird kind of Swiss scrambled-potato dish called maluns, she was born in a Year of the Dragon, and her sign is "Runway 24 Left, Hold For Clearance."

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Service, May 28, 2011

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This review is from: Nightfall at Algemron (Star*Drive Harbinger Trilogy, Vol. 3) (v. 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

The book was shippe din a timely manner was in the shape advertised. I would deal with this company again.

13 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Competently Done, But Still, June 7, 2000

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This review is from: Nightfall at Algemron (Star*Drive Harbinger Trilogy, Vol. 3) (v. 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book landed in my basket because of The Book of Night with Moon and its sequel. When I started it, I thought, "Now, I have read about these characters before, haven't I?" And yep, I had. I didn't remember them off-hand, though things came back.

The trouble is, this book is going to slip my mind by next week.

This is competently done, decently plotted, and the characters are both fairly likeable and fairly interesting. But these guys are interchangeable with any other group of characters from any number of novels.

That nest of adverbial phrases covers it. My feeling about this is ambiguous. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this book. But it's a good thing that it's in paperback, or I'd be feeling cheated right now, and probably annoyed.

Feel free to buy it. It will give you a couple pleasant hours, but you won't add to your already over-flowing bookshelves.

7 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great Conclusion to a great Series, March 30, 2000

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This review is from: Nightfall at Algemron (Star*Drive Harbinger Trilogy, Vol. 3) (v. 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

Diane has really outdone herself on this entire series and she doesn't leave reader hanging. I think that she has added a lot to the universe with yet another well written book.