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4.3 out of 5 stars 13 customer reviews
Book 2 of 2 in the Heyoka Blackeagle Series
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Baen (March 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0671319795
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671319793
  • Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1 x 6.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsHrinn uber alles
By Walt Boyes on April 15, 2001
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Aliens are usually giant bears with human personalities...or giant cockroaches with human personalities, or giant somethingorothers with human personalities. In Black On Black and Stars over Stars, Kathy Wentworth has done something that few SF writers can: she creates two races of highly believable aliens, the Hrinn and the Flek...and she explores the issues of the differences in the minds of humans and aliens. Using Heyoka Blackeagle, the ultimate outsider, the Black on Black of Hrinn legend, who is raised as a Sioux warrior, and Mitsu, the human who is transformed against her will into a Flek hivemember, she explores what it is like to be human...and what it is like to be "other." The Hrinn are neither giant wolves or giant bears or giant wolverines...they are simply Hrinn. Their culture and their personalities are clearly and carefully drawn. So are the Flek, which Wentworth transforms from a faceless and remorseless enemy into a people, worthy of protection and defense. This is a great read, as well as a deep well.
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5.0 out of 5 starsMasterful military SF with extra kick
By A Customer on March 7, 2001
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It is no accident that K. D. Wentworth is a multiple Nebula® Award nominee.
In other hands, STARS OVER STARS, the second installment in the Heyoka Blackeagle saga, could be just what a surface reading suggests: an exemplary example of a military sf novel. In Wentworth's hands, however, STARS OVER STARS becomes much more than a straightforward non-stop action adventure. Layered into the straightforward oft-told tale of a group of military trainees learning to work as a team are two major themes Wentworth deftly explores.
The book opens with Heyoka trying to train the first Ranger recruits from Heyoka's native planet. The new recruits, like Heyoka, are Hrinn, seven-foot tall furry wolf-like aliens. Unlike Heyoka, they were not raised in Human society and so are having difficulty adapting to Human standards and customs. Wentworth masterfully plumbs the social dynamics of the canine-like pack society of the Hrinn. Other authors might have stopped with this wonderful accomplishment, but Wentworth uses it as just the wedge to pry open the real themes of the book.
Beginning with the struggle of the rebellious Hrinn recruit Kei, and continuing with the inner anguish of the Human Ranger, Mitsu, Wentworth explores the twin themes of self-identity and where that identity fits within the larger social group. Wentworth never preaches it, never blatantly hits the reader over the head with it, never for one second stops the seesaw planetary battle, but each character in the book goes through the struggle to find self and to find one's place in the larger group: Kei; Mitsu; Heyoka himself; the treacherous Skal; the priestly Visht; the cull Kika with her secret.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsMisfits prove their worth
By Chrijeff VINE VOICE on August 16, 2003
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On the planet Oleaaka, Ranger Sgt. Heyoka Blackeagle, a lupinoid hrinn who was raised in the Restored Oglala Nation on Earth, is struggling to make a going concern of the first integrated human-hrinn Ranger unit. The hrinn are fierce fighters, but they have absolutely no concept of chain of command and hate sitting around and waiting to get in on the fight they've been promised against the insectoid flek. Heyoka's second and longtime partner, Cpl. Mitsu Jensen, is still recovering from the brainwashing she endured as a flek POW. And Oleaaka has what everyone assumes to be a native species of its own, the laka, who supposedly--nobody yet understands how--drove the flek off 48 years ago. Entirely by accident, the Ranger unit discovers a hidden flek transport station, and everything starts going downhill from there. As has been mentioned by other reviewers, the multiple pov's may be a bit hard to follow--we get the chance to see through the eyes of just about everyone, from Heyoka and his kinsman Kei to assorted laka. But what makes the book work, like its predecessor, is Wentworth's amazing ability to put herself into the skins and minds of her nonhuman characters and portray them as true aliens, with their own cultures, concerns, and convoluted ways of thinking. In the end there's an opening left for yet another book in the series, as Heyoka's unit literally saves the day (it's been two years since the book was published; I can only hope that the author is putting the finishing touches on the final conquest of the flek!). Of course, I knew very early on that Heyoka was going about his program the wrong way, but given his raising that may be inevitable, and at least he realizes eventually that he can't, and shouldn't try to, make hrinn into carbon copies of humans.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsReminds Me A Bit of Vintage Andre Norton
By Fairportfan on March 30, 2001
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There has been a recent fad in the US for pet wolves or wolf-cross dogs. The owners of such animals will explain that they are perfectly tame and can safely be allowed to protect and romp with children. The problem that many of these people fail to recognise is that such an animal may be tame, but is not domesticated like a dog, who has thousands of generations of genetic coding behind him that tell him humans are boss, no matter what. To the wolf or wolf-dog, the human is boss only so long as he remains strong in the wolf's eye, remains worthy to be alpha male of the pack. All too often, the owners of such animals find that they do something totally natural... which the wolf interprets as a sign of weakness, and the wolf makes his move to be alpha. Among wolves, this is a natural occurence, and, as soon as the weaker animal submits via body language, the other animal is genetically programmed to literally be unable to continue the attack; but if the weaker does not submit, the stronger will kill it. Humans, unfortunately, cannot signal submission in the proper mode, and so the owner suddenly finds his pet trying seriously to tear out his throat and may or may not survive, but will certainly be hurt.
So what has that got to do with a science-fiction review?
The Hrinn, an alien race who make up rather more than half of the "good guy" characters in this book, are basically seven-foot-tall wolves with double-thumbed hands. Their society is organised along the lines of the Terran wolf-pack, and they have the same built-in dominance/submission reflex to determine packleaders.
They also have the ability to "blueshift" -- basically to shift into a hyper-metabolism state in which they literally can move faster than human eyes can perceive.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsEditing is your friend.

Dear author of "Stars Over Stars",

Have you considered having your work edited? I have been reading it in two-chapter increments, and I was still very much annoyed by... Read more

Published on April 11, 2011 by Thorn
3.0 out of 5 starsOkay read, but I'm a tough audience

I read the previous book some years ago and did not know there was a sequel until someone showed it to me. So I bought it. Read more

Published on June 8, 2010 by John Van Stry
5.0 out of 5 starsA delicious read!

A delicious read! Loved it! Loved it! Great action, great characters immerse you in Wentworth's fascinating universe!

Published on September 7, 2009 by K. Henschell
5.0 out of 5 starsStars Over Stars Review

I greatly enjoyed this sequel to Black On Black with the return of Heyoka Blackeagle as he now tries to prove to the Human Confederacy that Hrrin can make effective Rangers in... Read more

Published on June 1, 2009 by A. E. Terry
4.0 out of 5 starsGood entertaining read

Everyone else here has the details...entertaining book but I'm getting a little tired of everyone always being injured...want some healthy troopers to kick Flek tail! Read more

Published on November 16, 2006 by Cpl Hans Buckeye
5.0 out of 5 starsA Loupy Tale

K.D. Wentworth's fast-paced (and beautifully written) "Stars over Stars" has to be one of the weirdest, and yet most fascinating, contributions to the "military" science-fiction... Read more

Published on March 8, 2003 by lb136
5.0 out of 5 starsreally awesome!

i picked up Heinlen's "Citizen of the Galaxy" in a bookstore and considered buying it until i started flipping through; and was almost immediately turned off by both the first... Read more

Published on June 28, 2002
4.0 out of 5 starsAnother Good Traditional SF Novel

Having read K.D Wentworth's BLACK ON BLACK, I kniew what to expect -- somewhat. This time she focuses on three alien species, not counting the humans, and brings them all off... Read more

Published on June 19, 2001 by James K. Burk
5.0 out of 5 stars*Avalanche/In/Motion*

Oh, wow.
That seems a little inadequate for a book which kept me up past midnight just to finish it. Read more

Published on February 15, 2001 by Oso Blanco

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