Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #159273 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 368 pages

Customer Reviews

A modern princess of mars
This is an enjoyable sequel to the "Sky People". Set in the same universe where Deux ex Machina aliens have transported hominids to other planets in the solar system, it is modernised homage to Burrough's swashbuckling Barsoom.
The author has crafted a believable Martian culture, where the biological sciences have been crafted to provide humankind with the resources to survive on an arid dying planet. The main Earth protagonist is a fish in a desert Burrough's, but manages to win through on skill, pluck and the odd bit of humour. Finally, the author casts nods to various other adventure books, especially in the appearance of ROUSes.

GOOD NOT GREAT
A follow-up to Stirling's 'THE SKY PEOPLE' but this time set on Mars.The hero becomes the consort of a martian princess-warrior in disguise who is on a quest to become the heir of the ancient emperors of Mars.Unfortunately Leigh Brackett,from whose visions of ancient Mars Mr Stirling's Mars is clearly derived,did this sort of thing much better Even ERB's Barsoom had more life and energy in it.
A passable effort,and enjoyable in its own way,but not up to the standard of 'THE SKY PEOPLE'.

Zuendedenker
For Kline-Brackett-Barsoom fanatics this is a must read. The old stories just could not be true. Not in the real world. So Stirling creates a universe in which they could be true and are. For those who did not grow up with the classics this is a 3-star. For us oldies it is a 5-star. Therefore 4-stars.