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Northworld Trilogy Mass Market Paperback – March 1, 1999

by David Drake (Author)

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An omnibus edition featuring the three popular novels in the Northworld Trilogy--Northworld, Vengeance, and Justice--chronicles the adventures of Nils Hansen, who sent to uncover the truth about an intergalactic enigma responsible for the disappearance of three powerful fleets. Original.

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"Northworld is that rare work -- a novel that works on more than one level. A stunning tapestry ... highly recommended!"

-- The SFRA Newsletter

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The inhuman Rulers of the galaxy sent three fleets to learn what had happened to the world located by Captain North and the Survey Team he led. Neither a soul nor a message returned. The fourth time, the Rulers sent a single man: Nils Hansen.

Commissioner Hansen had a mind that saw the shortest path to each task's completion and a ruthless determination to do what the task required. The cost -- to himself and whoever happened to be in the way -- didn't matter. Hanson's Special Units had kept his planet safe from the most sophisticated and violent criminals in the galaxy. Now Hansen was being sent to penetrate a spacetime enigma which had made gods or demons of the first humans to discover it. He would succeed or die.

Northworld: a place of slashing violence and mystic transformation

Northworld: a place of treachery and dazzling beauty

Northworld: a place of honor, of faith, and of love.

Hansen's iron will and strong arm confront godlike power and godlike cunning while a galaxy trembles for the outcome. And if Hansen dies -- he will not die alone!

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0671577875
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baen (March 1, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 791 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780671577872
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0671577872
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 1.3 x 6.75 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,974,004 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5,777 in Hard Science Fiction (Books)
- #13,966 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction
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The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn't run fast enough to get away.

Dave returned to become Chapel Hill's Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences.

Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader's hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer's Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background.

Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina.

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Top-quality David Drake storytelling!

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2021

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I've been a fan of the varied works of David Drake, from SF to fantasy to horror, since I first read "Hammer's Slammers" about 40 years ago. Somehow I missed "Northworld" and it's two sequels, until now. Wow! I'll admit that the first book took some digging to really grok; if I hadn't been hooked by the introduction to Commissioner Nils Hansen on his home world on Annunciation, I might not have stuck with it through some confusion after he was sent on his mission to Northworld, long enough to figure things out and enjoy it. The second book in the trilogy, "Vengeance," unlike some other trilogy-second-books, isn't merely a bridge but is a full story in it's own right, primarily that of Sparrow the Smith, based on the Volsunglied portion of the Icelandic Eddas. Then the third novel, "Justice," is the big payoff of all the story threads begun throughout the trilogy, as Hansen sees the peace that he helped take hold through his training of the soldiers of the West Kingdom, turned to ashes and tyranny a century later by an Emperor who thinks that "peace" means that the whole world is subservient to his whim, and now Hansen must take it upon himself to tear it down and replace "peace" with Justice. The author's notes on his inspirations from Norse myth add extra depth to the stories. One-eyed North is of course Odin; his Searchers are Valkyries; Sparrow the Smith is Volsung the Dwarf; the malicious human/android halfbreed Fortin is an especially slimy Loki; but I remained uncertain to the end whether Nils Hansen could be neatly modeled to one particular mythic figure. Almost ready to begin rereading, to see what I missed the first time through. Five Stars!

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Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2022

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Military meets science fiction with a twist. The twist being old world knights fight in high tech battle suits. Multiple worlds are inter woven throughout the three books. THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD, I have read it multiple times. This book has been edited a small paragraph has been removed. About Marshals son,if no biggie,this but I thought it gave even more insight intro the main characters thinking and feeling.

good enough read to finish the trilogy, but a bit lacking

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2013

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As a free kindle book, this was adequate. It was good enough for me to rapidly turn pages, but if I had paid money for it, I would have been disappointed, and probably would not have gone farther than the first book in the series.

This was the first time I had read anything by David Drake. There's a clear separation between him and the self-published authors on the Kindle website. Very imaginative, good story pacing, good characters, and solid writing with enough depth and detail to immerse the reader. I'm not sure if his other works are any better, and I suspect they are, but this kind of limited my interest.

The stories just bounce around too much without a whole lot of cohesion. I had the sense Drake was more interested in drawing parallels with Norse Myth than focusing on a well developed story. Characters that received a decent amount of air time in the first novel were barely mentioned, if at all, in the remainder of the trilogy. There were no common threads that really tied the three novels together. Each one was more or less self-contained, but I was expecting more. Romance was just strange, as a character who played a very minor role in the first book was suddenly revealed as a major romantic interest of the main character in the rest? Huh? It was as if the author intended more but changed his mind. That logical consistency doesn't work in a trilogy like this and just struck me as intellectually lazy. I also found the world concept a bit difficult to understand as well as some of the plot motivations, except, again, just as a tool for Drake to match up with certain Nordic mythological themes. While that was interesting in its own right (and I do think Drake is a talented author), it really minimize the impact of his stories.

Finally, after three novels with essentially the same exact thing (people fighting each other in battlesuits with lots of gore while the gods sit around and watch and do - something? - except for the main character), it just got really stale. All in all, this was a good mindless read to occupy your time in between searching for better series or authors.

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Good classic military science fiction

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2014

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I re-read this book every few years. I think that's the highest compliment I can pay a piece of writing.
This book has hidden depths.
Drake's writing is fast-paced, direct, and his observations on the human condition are incisive and to the point. His is a military, goal oriented approach, and that really works for his writing. His action descriptions might go on longer than some people like; however the detail is necessary so you understand the twist he's going to perform to let his character win a situation.
There's not a little deus ex machine in this book but since it's used to put a character in an untenable position as often as it's used to get the character out, perhaps that balances. Possibly it's forgivable, too, because these are stories about Gods, godlike powers, and (semi) divine intervention.
In his Afterwords, Drake explains how the plots are derived from Norse mythology. That's interesting, but if you don't care it doesn't distract from the writing. (It's a fascinating way to derive a story; his Cross The Stars is derived from The Odyssey.)
If you like military science fiction, this book is worth your time.

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Paul T.

Pace, excitement - and depth if you want it.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 17, 2013

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One of the most interesting things about this omnibus edition is the afterword at the end of each book, where the author explains how each one was inspired by some of the ancient Icelandic poetic sagas. This may explain some of the loose ends and unresolved plot lines, which I found frustrating, yet contribute to the mythic quality of the stories. Or perhaps not!

But in any case, the sheer pace and excitement of the writing didn't leave me much opportunity for ruminating on the background - that only came in retrospect. Drake is one of the foremost writers of military SF, and these books show his talents in full flow. The battle scenes are many, from individual combat to massed battles, and involve a variety of exotic weaponry - but they focus on the warriors themselves, not on the hardware. The stories are cleverly structured, and Drake uses the background of multiple linked worlds where 'duration' is not always a relevant concept to show his main characters following different adventures apparently at the same time. Hard to describe, but he pulls it off very well, and I loved the way he resolved and integrated the different strands.

The characters themselves are well developed, complex and believable, even when doing some unbelievable things. But then, some of them are gods - or, more accurately, human beings with god-like powers. The result of that tension between human nature and unlimited capability is the intriguing and profound underlay beneath the stories. But you don't have to go there. Just enjoy the action.

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AJW

Entertaining but flawed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2013

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Some might find it mean that I give only 3 stars to a trilogy I was happy to read and by which I was entertained. But 5 stars can't be beaten and there are few of those. Four stars for me is too much given its flaws.

The author makes great play of the legitimacy of the story based upon Norse/Icelandic sagas but little of that grounding is evident. If he'd not said, nobody would have noticed.

The introduction of Nils Hansen, the protagonist was good. With little gap the reader is transported with Hansen into what seems an almost subuniverse held together by the Matrix and which contains eight worlds created by the survivors of Earth expeditions sent to explore that part of space and who themselves were made into gods.

Hansen is a warrior fighting endless battles with a mix of weariness and rage. The battles, are well-told, warts and all affairs. He's able to move between the worlds at will but his reason for so doing, or not, isn't given. He too has godlike powers but these are seldom used.

As others have noted the other characters are not very well drawn (maybe Sparrow is more real than the others) and by the end one has learned almost nothing about anyone or anything.

The story itself simply stops, without any form of conclusion. It's not even a hanging ending - it just stops. Disappointing.

All this notwithstanding it was quite a good read and the battlesuits are novel.

Vasporran

Enchanting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 12, 2013

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This trilogy (as I read all three in order) starts well and the first book seems suitable for a teenage age group. However it does contain in the latter books several incidents of an adult nature. The third book comes into its own as the author fully explores the ability literally of someone being able to be in more than one place at a time. The characters are excellently developed and the various simultaneous storylines of the main character may be a little confusing for some, but if you don't enjoy sci-fi then put the book down before you even open the first page. There is still space for a fourth book, and I say this not because there is a lot of open ends, but because there is space to take things further possibly to conclusion in some cases. I only gave it 4 stars as a few of the concepts or ideas in the book did not seem entirely original. (Third book, when Hanson has the AI helmet called THIRD to assist him I was reminded of HELM from Rogue Trooper). But this does not detract from the enjoyment of this excellently written trilogy.

Mark R

An interesting view is worlds

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 18, 2020

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Highly enjoyable tales with an interesting twist . Although highly moral in places and almost fables with the morality message at the end, very readable, where you are drawn in and have to keep reading as you're carried along by the tale.

Andrew

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 25, 2013

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I downloaded this book for free from Amazon. You don't get anything for free, so I didn't expect the book to be very good. I was wrong. Its a great science fiction/fantasy tale very loosely based on Norse mythology. I love science fiction and I love Norse mythology. I would read more in this series if there were any, and I'd gladly pay for them. I emailed the author to say thanks for the free book, and got a reply the next day. Try it, its free, or if its no longer free, its worth buying!

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