Storm at Eldala (Star*Drive Harbinger Trilogy, Vol 2) (v. 2) [Mass Market Paperback]

Diane Duane (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (March 9, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786913347
• ISBN-13: 978-0786913343
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,861,122 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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4.0 out of 5 stars An Exercise in Character Development, December 20, 1999

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Eric Graff (Hudson, NH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Storm at Eldala (Star*Drive Harbinger Trilogy, Vol 2) (v. 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

"Laidanwe," Tlelai said, "The one who brings what must come." Gabriel looked at him. "Harbinger," he said.

That just made my heart skip a beat, as I truly knew that the character that I have grown to love in the past 700 pages or so, has begun to develop into a real human being.

Duane has a real knack of bringing character to life, giving them personalities that make them just jump out of the page and into your imagination. It's like their real people.

Storm is an excellent new installment of the Harbinger trilogy. In it, we meet new characters and see the reoccurence of many old ones, as well as a nice way to show first contact with an alien species that communicates, shall we say, "strangely" at best.

My only gripe is that there are a few sections where Connor spends too much time milling over ideas and thoughts in his head... a bit more action would make the book sizzle!

4.0 out of 5 stars An Exercise in Character Development, December 20, 1999

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Eric Graff (Hudson, NH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Storm at Eldala (Star*Drive Harbinger Trilogy, Vol 2) (v. 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

"Laidanwe," Tlelai said, "The one who brings what must come." Gabriel looked at him. "Harbinger," he said.

That just made my heart skip a beat, as I truly knew that the character that I have grown to love in the past 700 pages or so, has begun to develop into a real human being.

Duane has a real knack of bringing characters to life, giving them personalities that make them just jump out of the page and into your imagination. It's like they're real people.

"Storm" is an excellent installment to the Harbinger trilogy. In it, we meet new characters and see the reoccurence of many old ones, as well as a nice way to show first contact with an alien species that communicates, shall we say, "strangely" at best.

My only gripe is that there are a few sections where Connor spends too much time milling over ideas and thoughts in his head... a bit more action would make the book sizzle!

I would recommend it to anyone who likes good SF, especially the Star Drive setting in particular.

3.0 out of 5 stars The second of this series satisfies, April 19, 1999

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C. B. O'DELL (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Storm at Eldala (Star*Drive Harbinger Trilogy, Vol 2) (v. 2) (Mass Market Paperback)

Although not truly inspiring, the book remains consistant with the first one where our hero attempts saving another group of aliens against the malicious company.

Also of interest, we find out more about the mysterious ghost ships, and exactly what the luck stone is.

I had to keep putting the book down after 50 pages or so to get a break from it. Otherwise, this one definitely is a keeper for star drive fans.