Sun's End (Panther Science Fiction) [Import] [Paperback]

Richard A. Lupoff (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Grafton; paperback / softback edition (1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0586070982
• ISBN-13: 978-0586070987
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stupid., February 1, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Suns End (Paperback)

Although mildly interesting throughout, this decidedly unoriginal book is more a showcase for the author's emotional immaturity than anything else. A man injured in space wakes up 80 years later to discover that he is a super-cyborg; too much like The Six Million Dollar Man and even Superman. He discovers that the Sun is going to render Earth uninhabitable several decades hence and so travels around the solar system with three other people in search of a stupid mystery that may save Earth's people. The story then ends without really resolving anything.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dross, July 3, 2001

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Philip Davis (Silicon Valley, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Suns End (Paperback)

I agree with the previous reviewer. The beginning generated enough interest for me to finish the book mainly by inertia. The author fumbles almost every opportunity at character development and fails to capitalize on the story's set up (cyborg/bionic man), hackneyed as it is. All of this might be bearable if the ending provided even the slightest shred of satisfaction. Instead, it's as if the author reached some magic word-count. The book just ends. It's an intensely dissatisfying close to a generally mediocre book.

2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Idea that never goes anywhere, September 21, 2011

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Bill Mann - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sun's End (Panther Science Fiction) (Paperback)

First few chapters seemed good, so i read to the end. But the author clearly had no idea where to go with the story. It ends SO abruptly, without resolving anything.

There are some interesting ideas and some interesting scenes. In fact certain chapters would probably function better as stand alone short stories, than as part of a larger whole. I still remember his description of one chapter filled with shifting points of view, when the story is told from the perspective of various forest animals that are all killing each other that I found fascinating at the time. But scenes like that don't fit coherently together, they are just a bunch of random images jumbled together. As a novel, it just never comes together.