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War in Heaven (Horizon War Trilogy , Vol 3)

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This was a great novel I liked it alot. I wonder though why the ending was not done better. It seemed that the author was in a hurry and needed something to finish it. Thank God; however, the author brought back Dire McCann at the end.

This last volume of "Horizon War" is really good, a work worth of Weinberg. Notwithstanding that fact, there are some loose ends in the midst of all the nice plotting and narrative. Why Ezra`s family was even mentioned? Why leave the pattern-clone identity a mistery? What are the shapechangers and what they want? This approach kind of reminds me of "Lost" (ok, this book came a way before that TV show) and the frustration of many who followed the story from the beginning to the end to nothing. The "Red Death" trilogy explained everything in the end and was fantastic! That last line: "you reader decide who the pattern-clone is in you world, because I, the author, know my truth" is particularly upsetting if you are not a Mage the Ascension player. Also, there was no need of Mccain in the Epilogue.

Yes! Don't you just love it when mages battle? Finally the agents from the Technocracy and the Traditions meet under the most dire circumstances, fighting a common enemy. The stakes are high, the losses are great, and Weinberg actually manages to make us feel empathy for a cyborg! This trilogy is even better than Weinberg's Masquerade of The Red Death, I strongly recommend it. I would have enjoyed seeing a little more Paradox though, but you can't get everything. Read it carefully, and see if you can figure out who the Master of Harmony was. Hopefully Weinberg will give us the answer sometime in the future, until then, read and rejoice.

I have enjoyd reading the three books of this trilogy,and the conclusion is very great.At last the characters face the truth. Very good book, from a very good author.