X-Men: Doctor Doom (Chaos Engine Trilogy, Book 1) [Mass Market Paperback]

Steven A. Roman (Author), Stan Timmons (Author)

Book Description

Series: X-Men: Chaos Engine Trilogy

Doctor Doom has taken over the Earth whilst the X-Men were in another dimension. Their return finds them having to take on an armour-clad madman with the whole world against them and one of their deadliest enemies on Doom's side.

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About the Author

Bruce Coville is the author of nearly ninety books for young readers, including the international best-seller My Teacher Is an Alien. He has been a teacher, a toy maker, a cookware salesman, and a grave digger. In addition to his work as an author, Bruce is much in demand as a speaker and as a storyteller. He is also the founder and president of Full Cast Audio, a company dedicated to producing unabridged recordings of children's books in a full-cast format. For more information about Bruce, check out www.brucecoville.com. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: I Books/Marvel (July 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743400194
• ISBN-13: 978-0743400190
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,038,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

STEVEN A. ROMAN is the author of the Saga of Pandora Zwieback dark-urban-fantasy novel series, as well as the bestselling author of the novels X-Men: The Chaos Engine Trilogy and Final Destination: Dead Man's Hand. His writing has garnered praise from such authors as World Fantasy Award-winner Charles de Lint, Bram Stoker Award-winner Elizabeth Massie, and fantasist and crime fiction novelist Neal Barrett Jr.

His short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Best New Zombie Tales 2, The Dead Walk Again!, Doctor Who: Short Trips: Farewells, If I Were an Evil Overlord, Tales of the Shadowmen 4: Lords of Terror, The Ultimate Hulk, and Untold Tales of Spider-Man. He also wrote the graphic novels Lorelei: Sects and the City, Lorelei: Building the Perfect Beast, Stan Lee's Alexa, and Sunn, and co-wrote the direct-to-DVD animated short X-Men: Darktide.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!!, January 5, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: X-Men: Doctor Doom (Chaos Engine Trilogy, Book 1) (Mass Market Paperback)

I am not even finished reading this book and can't wait to read the next one. The review by Sophia says it all. I am thankful I missed the review that spoiled an important event in the book. And like her I cried, re-read, cried, etc. Best X-Men book I have read in a while. If you like Cyclops, Phoenix, Rogue, Gambit, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Phylocke, and Angel, you will like this book.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars X-Men Chaos Engine 2 - Magneto, January 8, 2002

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This review is from: X-Men: Magneto (Chaos Engine Book 2) (Paperback)

First just a note on bad advertising, unlike the last book (Chaos 1 - Dr Doom) where the character appearances were fairly balanced, this book is not balanced at all. Rogue and Logan appear on the cover and are hardly in the book. Logan of course more than Rogue.

For those who like the first book of this trilogy (which I would have given it 4 stars or better), I'm very underwhelmed with this next installment. First, it's nearly all Magneto (which is the good part), Xavier (ok), Psylocke mooning and crying over Warren and being the only one not affected though we don't know why she gets to be this heroine over everyone else (as Sophia noted in her review of the first book, Betsy and Warren were not that interesting to begin with in this story, and they become actually overkill here) and too much of the cosmic players (Roma, etc.). Also unlike the last issue with Storm, it totally blows by how the X-Men stuck in Magneto's new world are generally affected and feel about this and they don't even get to do anything to help or figure it out themselves as Betsy got to. They are pretty much just there except in the most shallow of ways though it does a little more with Jean, Scott, and Logan than Rogue and Kurt. The latter two might as well not be in the story. For anyone who read the first one and wonders about Gambit, he like Warren is not only in the same situation from the first one but unlike Warren who gets to come back in his way, Remy doesn't and no one seems to care, especially Betsy and Xavier who go on and on about Warren since they are the ones who know what's going on. I think Gambit's mentioned twice in an almost off-handed way. Unlike the last book, I found little to care about in this story but Magneto regaining what he lost. The Magneto characterization is very good, Xavier ok but in general I found the the rest terribly lacking. Unless you just need to keep up, like Magneto when done well (which was the only thing that kept me reading), or are a huge Betsy/Warren fan, I could almost say skip this middle book and hope the last one is as good as the first and not more of this.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars cant wait for the third book, April 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: X-Men: Magneto (Chaos Engine Book 2) (Paperback)

I've probably read all of the X-men novels out and this trilogy is looking to be as good as the mutant empire one. THe first book set up a dictatorship with Doom and this one shows how Magneto's dream could work and shows sympathy for magneto because he only fight's for his dream. I have no idea how Roman will fix this situation because of the bleak ending. This isn't as action packed as the mutant empire trilogy but the intrigue and suspense is better.