Shadow World (Deathlands) [Mass Market Paperback]

James Axler (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Gold Eagle; First Edition edition (March 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373625596
• ISBN-13: 978-0373625598
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,455,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Deathlands just gets better and better, March 31, 2000

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Mistrmind "mistrmind" (MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shadow World (Deathlands) (Mass Market Paperback)

I've been reading this series since 1986, when 'Pilgrimage To Hell' came out under Jack Adrian instead of Axler. Out of all the titles that have come out since then, I find 'Shadow World' to be one of the most entertaining. The story starts off with Ryan Cawdow and crew escorting a family through cannibal infested area. After getting involved with a confrontation with one of the 'cannies' (cannibals), Ryan looses his beloved Steyr rifle to one of the lunatics. Ryan and Co then embark on a vendetta for the loss of the family's father and for the retrieval of his rifle. At the same time these events are happening, a gateway opens in the town of Moonboy. The gateway unbenounced to the inhabitants of the town leads to an alternate earth where the nuclear exchange never happend. Instead a population time-bomb went off on that cold January day. Now, in the future this alternate earth has a staggering 100 billion inhabitance. Through the gateway appear amored soliders who decimate the towns inhabitants for the exception of one prospector who flees. The prospector runs to the next town, where entertains the inhabitants with the tales of the soliders that appeared from this mysterious gateway. The cannies overhear this story and make a deal with the prospector to attack the soliders and divy up the spoils (armor, laser rifles etc.) As Ryan and friends track the cannies to Moonboy, Ryan inadvertanly gets captured by the soliders and taken away to a dredfully overpopluated earth. What does Ryan learn about this strange new world? Does he ever return back to his own reality? What happens to the cannies? Read this entertaining book and find out

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining & impressive, June 11, 2000

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Chesley - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shadow World (Deathlands) (Mass Market Paperback)

I used to read Deathlands when I was a teenager, but when I "matured" I graduated to science-fiction. Deathlands seemed stuck in a rut. I was very glad to find out that Deathlands is finally growing up too and SHADOW WORLD is an impressive entry into science-fiction. Even though it deals with a parallel world situation, it was so unexpected to find in a Deathlands novel I was surprised...and entertained. The writing was excellent too. If the series can keep up this kind of quality I'll start reading it regularly again!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting change of pace, May 20, 2000

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Michelle - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shadow World (Deathlands) (Mass Market Paperback)

This was the first Deathlands I've read in a long time and the only reason I picked this book up was because it was being compared to the Outlanders series which I prefer. I liked it much better than the last Deathlands novel I read, but except for the more sci-fi plot it wasn't very similar to Outlanders. It was interesting, well-written and held my interest most of the way through. My main criticism is that it was very light in the area of characterization, at least compared to Outlanders. But overall it was a nice change of pace from the usual Deathlands formula.