X-Men/Magneto: The Chaos Engine, Book 2 [Illustrated] [Mass Market Paperback]

Steven A. Roman (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Chaos Engine Trilogy, Book 2 | Publication Date: December 30, 2002

The second part of the epic trilogy which began with X-MEN: DOCTOR DOOM. In Book 1 of THE CHAOS ENGINE, the X-Men tried to stop the villainous Doctor Doom from ruling the world through the use of the Cosmic Cube, a device that allows its owner to twist reality and create their personal vision of a perfect world. Unfortunately, they failed their mission and the cube is now in the hands of their most diabolical enemy, Magnet! Forced to form an uneasy alliance with Doom, the team of super heroes must race against the clock before Magneto's plans formutant supremacy lead to worldwide genocide!

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About the Author

Steven Roman has been a contributing writer for the Marvel anthologies UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDERMAN and THE ULTIMATE HULK. Stan Timmons is the co-author of the successful novelisation of HEAVY METAL.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: I Books/Marvel (December 30, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743445465
• ISBN-13: 978-0743445467
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,253,395 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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than the first, September 22, 2003

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"melinda05" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X-Men/Magneto: The Chaos Engine, Book 2 (Mass Market Paperback)

I enjoyed this book much more than the first one. I didn't like the first novel (Doctor Doom), because the villain was written just like a madman. (Dr. Doom's behavior was very illogical and abrupt. It bothered me a lot.)
In this book, Magneto's personality was portrayed very carefully and thoroughly. In his new world, Magneto was written as a person with a noble soul and ideal and I could understand him better than in any other novelization. I was touched by his conversation with Professor X.

This book is above the average and definitely worth to read. But as a person who read both Legacy Quest and Chaos Engine trilogies, I will recommend the Legacy Quest trilogy over this one. Legacy Quest has more interesting plots and character development.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, February 7, 2003

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El Sevillano "NO8DO" (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X-Men/Red Skull: The Chaos Engine, Book 3 (Paperback)

Ok, before I start, read the first two before you read this one, as they were excellent books as well, and you really have to read the other two just to get the story in this one.

This book was amazing. Roman finds a way to perfectly balance out all the different characters in the book and it is well written...simply put.

This part of the trilogy takes you to the version of earth where the Red Skull comes upon the cosmic cube, bringing about the Fourth Reich where the nazis had defeated the allied forces in World War 2. Mutants are considered the scum of the earth and the Skull goes by means of special task forces, and sentinels to apprehend these genetic impurities. Cyclops (who's secret as a mutant isn't discovered until mid-story) and his wife (Frau Sommers) are the poster-couple of the empire, Storm presides in Africa where all colored humans and mutants were sent to- her powers deactivated genosha-style, Magneto is in a concentration camp, Nightcrawler is on the Lightning Force strike team of the empire (though he is still considered scum, he only gets to be on the team because he is a true german), rogue is a tool of the empire, gambit is a collared worker, professor x is a traitor to the mutant race, leaving Psylocke and Warren the only 2 X-Men left unaffected by the cube. The story has 2 plots really that are going on. Betsy and Warren are up in the citadel where Doom is ascending to god-hood (won't tel you how), and of course you have the cube/Red Skull storyline. Definitely a 2 thumbs up!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars x men is the best, July 19, 2005

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Clarkkent316 "Kal El" (Pearland Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: X-Men/Magneto: The Chaos Engine, Book 2 (Mass Market Paperback)

I find these book really exciting i already have book 1 and 3 of the trilogy. i hope more of these will be written. I am a fan of x men