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Well I just re-read this series and I must Zahn is a damn good writer...
Has anyone else read this series and if so what do you folks think of it?
And if you have any other series to recommend please do so...
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| Posted: 27-Feb-2003 15:49 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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I'm thinking I've read that series...what are the names of the books?
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| Posted: 27-Feb-2003 17:13 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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The only books of his that I have read were those in the Star Wars universe. I have long felt that Zahn's was a very good writter just from reading those few books.
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| Posted: 27-Feb-2003 17:57 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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On 2003-02-27 15:49, chihawk wrote:
I'm thinking I've read that series...what are the names of the books?
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Conqueror's Legacy
Conqueror's Heritage
Conqueror's Pride
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| Posted: 27-Feb-2003 18:03 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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I personally LOVED the Conqueror's series...had decent characters and I loved the plot twists...it was a VERY good series...
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| Posted: 27-Feb-2003 18:06 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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On 2003-02-27 18:03, Ruger wrote:
I personally LOVED the Conqueror's series...had decent characters and I loved the plot twists...it was a VERY good series...
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Yes it is...I think it's one of his better series...
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| Posted: 27-Feb-2003 18:08 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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Better than his Last Command Trilogy for Star Wars?
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| Posted: 27-Feb-2003 20:47 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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Yes I read it...and I could barely keep it down. I liked it a lot more than Zahn's Heir to the Empire trilogy simply because he had a lot more freedom to play with. But I still say my favorite Sci-Fi books ever are the Hand of Thrawn series.
Zahn is awesome...prolly the best writer to ever grace Star Wars.
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| Posted: 28-Feb-2003 01:15 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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The Conqueror series was good, but certainly not as good as his Star Wars work. The main plot elements were quite easy to guess at, even from book one.
The one thing I especially disliked was that Zahn didn`t have enough imagination to invent names. All the named Mrachani (sp?) have Finnish names, usually just their function translated directly. Very funny, ha ha. Their highest military commander is named Valloittaja, or Conquerer in Finnish. Brilliant! 
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| Posted: 28-Feb-2003 01:22 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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Forgot to add reading suggestions.
Try Joe Haldeman`s Forever War and the later books Forever Free and Forever Peace. Interesting, at least in my opinion. I liked the first one so much after reading a library copy that I had to go out and buy it for my own.
Or if you want to go fantasy, pick up a copy of Fritz Leiber`s Lankhmar series. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser rock!
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| Posted: 28-Feb-2003 08:07 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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On 2003-02-27 18:08, Jade_Dragon wrote:
Better than his Last Command Trilogy for Star Wars?
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No, The Last Command was the better of the Trilogies...
And I've read quite o' few of them.....
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| Posted: 28-Feb-2003 09:11 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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Yes better then his SW stuff...IMHO.
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| Posted: 28-Feb-2003 09:29 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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Hey anyone that intruduces a character such as Mara Jade gets several extra bonus points in my book.
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| Posted: 28-Feb-2003 10:24 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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On 2003-02-28 01:15, Nightmare wrote:
The Conqueror series was good, but certainly not as good as his Star Wars work. The main plot elements were quite easy to guess at, even from book one.
The one thing I especially disliked was that Zahn didn`t have enough imagination to invent names. All the named Mrachani (sp?) have Finnish names, usually just their function translated directly. Very funny, ha ha. Their highest military commander is named Valloittaja, or Conquerer in Finnish. Brilliant!
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At least he got the translations right... som author don't even try to get them right...
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| Posted: 28-Feb-2003 12:16 Post subject: RE: Timothy Zahn's Conquerors's Trilogy... |
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Forget Mara...what about Thrawn
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