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The Ashes of Worlds (Saga of Seven Suns) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher: Orbit
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 4668
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.6
ISBN: 0316007579
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316007573
ASIN: 0316007579
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Product Description
The culminating volume in Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns weaves together the myriad storylines into a spectacular grand finale.
Galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other. Heroes rise and enemies make their last stands in the climax of an epic tale seven years in the making. The Saga of Seven Suns is one of the most colorful and spectacular science fiction epics of the last decade.
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 Well worth it! October 9, 2008
The whole series is great. I was taken in from the first book to the last. I found the books very hard to put down once I started reading them. The characters, plots and sub-plots and just the whole ball of wax. The is a must read for anyone who is looking for something on the same level as Dune. Kevin Anderson's writting is brilliant.
 The Final Chapter October 3, 2008
42 out of 42 found this review helpful
Ashes of Worlds (2008) is the seventh SF novel in the Saga of Seven Suns series, following Metal Swarm. In the previous novel, the hydrogues were defeated in a great battle in the Sol System and then bottled up in their gas giant planets. The EDF and Idiran navies were greatly depleted in the final battle.
King Peter and Queen Estarra escaped from Earth during the battle and fled to Theroc. There they declared a new unified government for humanity: the Confederation. With the Therons, the Roamer clans and orphaned Hansa colonies joining the Confederation, the Terran Hanseatic League became even more isolated.
Rusa'h -- the Faeros Incarnate -- attacked certain green priests through their telink/thism pathways and converted them to carriers of the faeros. The flaming green priest set the world forests on fire. Soon, the verdani treeships were under attack.
Chairman Basil Wenceslas had Admiral Deinte intercept Mage-Imperator Jora'h in midspace and escort his ships to Luna. Jora'h and his retinue were placed in suites within the moonbase. Basil visited Jora'h on the moon and declared him to be a "guest" of the Hansa.
In this novel, Admiral Sheila Willis takes her ships to Theroc to turn them over to the Confederation. Approaching the planet, she notices pandemonium among the ships in orbit. Apparently the planet is under attack, but by whom?
Admiral Willis soon sets up relays of her smaller ships to dump water on the flames. The faeros fight back and the water dumps are performed from higher attitudes. The treeships pull up the fully engulfed trees and dump them into a black hole. Finally, the fires die out, but large expanses of land have been reduced to ashes.
General Laymon raids the Roamer skymines at Golgen. They are totally unprepared and the EDF captures enough ekti to keep their ships operating for months. They also plant pingers on the escaping cargo escorts.
Chairman Wenceslas has been withdrawing within himself, blaming other people for his troubles. If they would only do exactly what he tells them to do, everything would be just fine. When they fail him, Basil arranges various degrees of punishment.
The Mage-Imperator is growing more desperate as the faeros kill his people. He tries talking to the Hansa Chairman, but Basil has some conditions. Jora'h must repudiate King Peter and the Confederacy or the EDF will not allow him to return to Ildira.
In this story, Chairman Wenceslas is approached by Sirix's compies offering to trade repaired EDF ships for newly constructed Klikiss robots. Basil makes a deal with Sirix, but asks for certain other repairs. Naturally, both parties expect to betray the other.
The Chairman is having problems with the Archfather of Unison. The supreme pontiff of the Hansa state religion has been growing more reluctant to give speeches approving of the Klikiss robots. When he complains to the Chairman, Basil allows him to prepare a speech of his own devising. Then the Archfather is blown apart by a bolt of energy out of the sky in full view of the video audience.
General Laymon is also having problems. When he raids the Osquivel shipyards, the Roamer ships give his ships a warm reception. Then Admiral Willis brings her ships out against his and Laymon flees back to Earth.
The Klikiss are swarming and warring against each other. They are also retaking their former planets and killing off many human colonists. The swarm on Llaro, however, is infused with the personality of Devlan, who tries to protect the humans.
The Roamers are changing their strategy toward the Hansa. They are beginning to develop warships of their own and using them against EDF raiders. They are also developing weapons to use against the faeros and the Klikiss.
This tale is the final volume in the series. It is just as crowded with characters, places and events as the previous six books. Even more characters are terminated in this novel. The conclusion is rather pat, but fits into the ambiance of this series.
Recommended for Anderson fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of epic space opera, alien societies, and human folly.
-Arthur W. Jordin
 The Ashes of Worlds September 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Stretched like a stale bubble gum. I was very excited when I started on this series when it first came out and then the books started getting too chummy with the characters that we are supposed to like and polarize every thing else. Should have ended it at book 3. Seven was too many.
GREAT END TO THE SERIES! August 31, 2008
Kevin Anderson is a wonderful writer and continues to amaze with the end to this series.
Great space Opera August 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've given Kevin Anderson 5 stars for the series as opposed to this book - that's probably a 4 star effort.
Then again i think it must be incredibly hard to have a compelling - perfect ending to such a complex & imaginative series. Personally - i think he did a great job. & for me there's a lot to be said about tying all the ends up in a credible non-cataclysmic way. Ok, ok it was a little too rosy maybe, but hey who doesn't like a fairly happy ending :-)
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