
Summertide
The Heritage Universe, Book 1
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Geoffrey Howard
Access to the unstable Quake was supposed to be prohibited, but some very insistent travelers were determined to make the trip. Professor Darya Lang, who studied artifacts left by the long-vanished aliens called the Builders, had a hunch that she might find the Builders themselves. Louis Nenda and the Cecropian Atvar H'sial had their own interests in Quake, and would do anything to get there. And Councilor Julius Graves was hunting murderers - if they were hiding on Quake, he would find them.
Planetary Administrators Hans Rebka and Max Perry had no choice but to go to Quake - risking their lives to protect the others - and to learn, just maybe, the secret of Summertide and the Builders.
©1990, 1991, 1992, and 1997 Charles Sheffield (P)2002 Blackstone AudiobooksListeners also enjoyed...




















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Great ideas
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If you could sum up Summertide in three words, what would they be?
Good but carefulAny additional comments?
Be careful, the book (and for the most part, the series) is good. But the ending to the series is pretty darn disappointing.Warning: End to the series is disappointing
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hard
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World building is great
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This series of books is different. The author writes HARD sci-fi. He spends a lot of time describing (in detail) the technologies, aliens, etc.
If you like Hard sci-fi, this is an excellent series.. the narration is very good also. Each book is better than the last.
Hard Sci-fi
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Actually quite good - recommended
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Good Story and Good Reader
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In passing, I should mention another old classic that treats exactly the same theme with slightly different point of view, and is a LOT more fun, in that it's written very wittily and funnily. It's the Heechee saga by Frederik Pohl (Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Hechee Rendez-Vous, and Annals of the Hechee). Now those are books that I would treasure in audio format. If you've enjoyed that one, this Summertide will feel a bit austere and just a bit belabored sometimes. But it's still good science fiction.
Intriguing and leaving you wanting for more...
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I gave up after chapter 3.
Straight reading
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Great new sci-fi
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