Grail, Elizabeth Bear
Grail, Elizabeth Bear
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Grail

Author: Elizabeth Bear

Narrator: Alma Cuervo

Unabridged: 12 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/23/2012


Synopsis

Booklist calls the world of Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear's spellbinding Jacob's Ladder series "magnificently populated, well worth visiting." Here the trilogy that began with Dust and Chill draws to its stunning conclusion. The passengers of the generation spaceship Jacob's Ladder have found a new home at last. But the planet Grail is already inhabited-and its population of genetically engineered humans has no intention of sharing the world. "[A] deftly told story ."-Publishers Weekly

About Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, a Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. She is the author of the acclaimed Eternal Sky series, the Edda of Burdens series, and coauthor (with Sarah Monette) of the Iskryne series. Bear lives in Brookfield, Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Phoenixfalls on January 16, 2013

Dust was an ambitious novel, drawing on a medley of influences ranging from medieval romantic ballads of chivalry to gothic horror novels to classic SF generation ships, all overlaid with a smattering of Judeo-Christian myths. Its sequel, Chill, was best read as a character study. Grail, the final n......more

Goodreads review by Hallie on November 03, 2017

I really liked the first two books in this series, so I was disappointed with the uneven quality of this one. Characterizations and speech registers were pretty wildly inconsistent, which is always the most annoying aspect of writers who are mediocre at world-building. She did such a good job with t......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on June 19, 2015

It's all light. I liked this one much better than the previous two novels, full of better contrast, deeper ethical considerations, and more interesting intrigue. Mind you, this is all subject to my own subjectivity, but It was much easier to fall into a society of dull board members and sit back conf......more

Goodreads review by Alexandra on July 05, 2011

The last thing I expect from the final book in a trilogy is for it to throw up major questions about the characters we have come to, if not love, like and admire over the course of two books. But that's exactly what Bear does in Grail. It's a remarkable move that I admit makes a fitting end to a rem......more

Goodreads review by Leslie on June 13, 2019

Every book in this trilogy could be at least 50 pages longer, although I doubt Elizabeth Bear would spend the page-time explaining the things I want explained. Everything always comes to a head in the last 30-25 pages and things go so off the rails from where I expect them that some extra time to ex......more