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Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780345355232 ISBN: 0345355237 Label: Del Rey Manufacturer: Del Rey Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: November 13, 1988 Publisher: Del Rey Release Date: November 13, 1988 Studio: Del Rey Editorial Review: Product Description: In 1945, the technology of death was mastered, and mankind entered an era that could be its last. But Nature evolves its own defense, and children with amazing mental talents have been born. They are the metapsychic operants--and they have the power to rule the world. An amazing new series from the author of The Saga of Pliocene Exile. HC: Houghton Mifflin. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A Pliocene Sequel - A great read for different reasons.I enjoyed the Pliocene series very much and although the Milieu series, introduced by the novel Surveillance, is different in tone and texture it is still very good but for different reasons. The Pliocene series explored, in barbarically delightful drama, all the vagaries and emotional flaws that make us uniquely human. The Milieu series explores the same thing but in high-minded, civilized fashion, with splashes of anachronistic barbarity thrown in. The story is set among the awesome ... Read More Rating: - The Dawn of The New Age of MankindI began to think that as the great masters of the Golden Age of Science Fiction began to die off or their work diminshed, that we would not see the combination of plot, character, and scientific thought that characterized so much of that work. And then I read "Surveillance"... No one recommended the book to me; it just attracted my attention on the shelf, with it's interesting cover. Then I began to read and it was if I was there. The book described places I knew (I grew up in ... Read More Rating: - A good read-- prequel to the Pliocene Exile SeriesI found it interesting that Julian May viewed her Galactic Milieu Trilogy as her tour de force. She thought about it for years according to her interviews. She wrote the Pliocene Series as a means of introducing the reader to many of the concepts she thought might be difficult to digest without it. According to her, she wrote the first two books of the Pliocene Saga in like two months! Unbelievable! That being said, I thought Intervention and the Galactic Milieu series were a touch below ... Read More Rating: - The awakening of the human MindLong before George Lucas thought of making a prequel to Star wars, Julian May revisited the universe of her Pliocene Exile to tell us the origins of the story, though with a time line like this, the word origin is meaningless. Meet Rogatien Remillard (Rogi for short - pronounced Rogue He) and his twin brother Donatien (Don). Born in late 1945, just months after Hiroshima, the two have a relatively normal childhood. Normal, that is, except for their developing mental powers and Rogi's regular visits ... Read More Rating: - Excellence in alternate realityThis is my favorite of the survallence series. Rogi is finally introduced, and is also on of the most important humans ever born (catspaw of the Lymlik). I love the way modern life is blended into the Sci-Fi epic, especially Denis's "60-minutes" interview when he shocks the world with metaphysic power. |
