The Vang: The Battlemaster (Mass Market Paperback)

by Christopher B. Rowley (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Del Rey (September 13, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345358597
• ISBN-13: 978-0345358592
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #826,081 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Too bad it's out of print., February 24, 2000

By	Greg Bishop (Florida, United States) - See all my reviews

I read it and the other 2 in the series.

I thought it was a good book with a interesting ending and believeable characters and the aliens were very interesting.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vang returns!, August 16, 2000

By	blod (Russia) - See all my reviews

Genre of hardcore horror/SF is Rowley's strongest point, although others prefer BattleDragons books. The Battlemaster make you think about scale of Universe, about ancient wars between stars and planets whose distant echo now threaten Humanity by mortal danger. All because of the Vang, protoevil alien species, battle demigods once created huge space empire, but now dethroned and dispersed.

Chris, are you sure that there're no more The Vang beings left around? I don't think so... Oh, god...

5.0 out of 5 stars engrossing, April 25, 2007

By	Bryan Odriscoll "brian boru" (ireland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have read all three of Rowley's books in this series numerous times. Rowley uses great imagination in creating this possible future and the Vang remain one of the most frightening alien life forms in science fiction - much more lethal than the 'Alien' type in my opinion. While remaining in a brief time period for his story line Rowley can casually allude to events stretching over vast aeons or relatively recently which tie in to the current action and make it so much more interesting in that context. An example is the reference to the Laowan Grotto of Bones in the Battlemaster story. It is a great pity that he didn't develop the theme into further books and it is surprising that he is not better known in this field. I think that if any or all of these three books were adapted for cinema and taken up by the major studios with the best special effects they would be great hits.