Giants Star

Name: Giants Star
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.3 (3 reviews)
Author: James P. Hogan
ISBN: 9781470882143

Author: James P. Hogan

Narrator: John Pruden

Unabridged: 12 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/01/2013

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Eons ago, a gentle race of giants fled the planet Minerva, leaving the ancestors of man to fend for themselves. Fifty thousand years ago, Minerva exploded, hurling its moon into an orbit about Earth. In the twenty-first century, scientists Victor Hunt and Chris Danchekker, doing research on Ganymede, attract a small band of friendly aliens who are lost in timeand who begin to reveal something of the origin of mankind. Finally, man believed that he comprehended his place in the universe until he learned of the Watchers in the stars. Now Earth finds itself in the middle of a power struggle between a benevolent alien empire and an off-shoot group of upstart humans who hate Earth more than any alien ever could.

About James P. Hogan

James P. Hogan (1941â€“2010) was a science fiction writer in the grand tradition, combining informed and accurate speculation from the cutting edge of science and technology with suspenseful storytelling and living, breathing characters. His first novel was greeted by Isaac Asimov with the rave, â€œPure science fictionâ€¦Arthur Clarke, move over!â€ and his subsequent work quickly consolidated his reputation as a major SF author. His many novels include the New York Times bestsellers The Proteus Operation and Endgame Enigma, as well as the Prometheus Award winner The Multiplex Man.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Phil

Hogan wraps up his Giants trilogy (although he wrote a few more installments later) with Giants's Star, but this was the weakest of the series. In fact, I am not sure why he decided to add to the first two novels, and the second really ending with a satisfying bang. Nonetheless, here we are. Volume......more

Goodreads review by Craig

This is the third book in Hogan's Giants' series and was regarded as the final book of a trilogy until he decided to write a couple of books more. The second (The Gentle Giants of Ganymede) seemed a bit weaker to me that the first (Inherit the Stars, which was one of my all-time favorites), and this......more

Goodreads review by Gary

This author really likes educating his reader about science and the moving parts that go into making up possible theories about the world from justified true beliefs and lays the ground work for explaining how science really works while telling a passable sci-fi story. One also gets a peek into the a......more

Goodreads review by Paul

I liked Inherit the Stars quite a bit because it was a book about "starseeds" that actually addressed the weight of the archeological and biological evidence pointing to humanity as having originated on Earth. Each subsequent book in the series has moved a bit further away from that ideal, but t......more