XMen, Diane Duane
XMen, Diane Duane
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X-Men
Empire's End

Author: Diane Duane

Narrator: Piper Goodeve

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/18/2020

Synopsis

Professor X, the X-Men's founder and mentor, and Shi'ar Empress Lilandra have been forced to love each other from afarhe has to remain on Earth to lead the X-Men, and she must stay with the Shi'ar to run the empire. Now, Lilandra must turn to the X-Men for help against a threat to her domainand possibly the Earth as well. Shi'ar scientists have learned of a creature that devours galaxies and is heading toward Shi'ar space. Beset by a panicking people and by several assassination attempts, Lilandra calls upon the X-Men for their assistance, for the galaxy-eater will target Earth nextbut the price for stopping the galaxy-eater may be higher than the X-Men expect. They must use a device that increases their powers a thousandfold to drive the creature back, a process that could destroy themor make them insane with power!

About Diane Duane

Diane Duane's first novel, The Door into Fire, garnered her a Campbell Award nomination. Since then, Diane has published numerous short stories, various comics, computer games, and over forty novels, including the Young Wizards series, the Tom Clancy's Net Force young adult series, and a host of Star Trek novels. She lives in Ireland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on May 15, 2020

This is very good X-novel, centering on an X-pedition to Shi'ar to resolve an interstellar problem. It's a well written book with lots of fun interplay between the familiar characters (Logan and Gambit and Beast, oh my!), and a touch of a romantic conundrum for Charles. It fits well into the continu......more

Goodreads review by Jeremiah on June 04, 2022

You ever watch a movie in a movie theater and you’re the only person there? That’s what reading this book feels like. I was really rooting for it but parts of the plot were really repetitive, like after page 240 or so, I was wondering if anyone had read past that page. It became kind of exciting—in a......more

Goodreads review by Jay on September 10, 2021

snooze fest. more science and math than action. this was just useless.......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 25, 2015

This book takes place in the Marvel universe. In this one, something is destroying a neighboring galaxy and the X-Men travel to this galaxy to put a stop to this destruction. This was a decent adventure with our favorite mutant team. I had no problem with the portrayal of the characters or the settin......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on May 22, 2012

Diane Duane is one of my favorite authors, mostly because of her amazing Star Trek fiction. Although X-Men: Empire's End didn't match up to Spock's World in terms of quality, it was still a good, fun novel. It wasn't anything too special, but I would think that fans of Professor X and company who ar......more

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