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%T Krispos of Videssos
%S The Tale of Krispos
%V Book II
%A Harry Turtledove
%I Del Rey
%D August 1991
%O paperback, US$5.95
%P 355
%G ISBN 0-345-36119-9
Ah well, it's not as good as Krispos Rising (RR#110), but then, it's a sequel. Ex-peasant
Krispos discovers that keeping the Videssan throne is harder than
taking it; he must prevail against civil war and the machinations of
the necromancer Avshar. As usual, Turtledove writes well, his
craftsmanship marred only by an occasional labored quality to the
prose.
%T Artifact of the System
%S The Black Hole Travel Agency
%V Book 2
%A Jack McKinney
%I Del Rey
%D August 1991
%O paperback, US$4.95
%P 281
%G ISBN 0-345-37054-6
More of the adventures of Lucky Junknowitz, the hapless Everyman who, in
Event Horizon (RR#125), discovered that
aliens were scheming to turn Earth into a gigantic theme park. The trouble
with this sequel is that nothing really happens; there's just lots
more good-, bad-, and in-between-guys scurrying through teleportals and being
confused because nobody can figure out who's doing what to whom. The author's
hyperkinetic prose and pop-culture jokes definitely begin to lose their charm
about halfway through. Not recommended unless you liked the first book enough
to want to see the whole series through.
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