- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Ace; 1st edition (Feb 19 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0441231942
- ISBN-13: 978-0441231942
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #465,523 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
When humans colonized Doona they thought it to be uninhabited. When they discovered another race--the catlike Hrrubans--the two races decided to forego their traditional isolationism and try to share the planet. That treaty is up for review 25 years later, and a conspiracy is afoot to discredit Todd Reeve and Hrriss, best of friends, who have come to symbolize the human/Hrruban cohabitation and, by extension, the treaty. McCaffrey and Nye (coauthors of The Death of Sleep ) return to the setting of McCaffrey's 1969 Decision at Doona for a novel that falls far short of their previous works. The good guys (Todd, Hrriss and their families and friends) are so noble and upright and true and the bad guys (Admiral Landreau--who has a longstanding grudge against the Reeve family and the Hrrubans--and his flunkies) are so irredeemable that any interest in the conflict is lost. Interactions between catlike aliens and humans have become a stock element in the SF genre, and McCaffrey and Nye have nothing new to add.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Congratulations to McCaffrey and Nye on a novel well done! Visions
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
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2.0 out of 5 stars
It's a crisis alright.,
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This review is from: Crisis On Doona (Paperback)
Looking and reading like a romance novel, I found Crisis at Doona a dissapointment. Being a long time fan of Ms. McCaffrey's I was dismayed at what I read. Instead of the usual well developed characters and stories, cardboard cutouts moved around on a wooden stage. Ms. McCraffrey wrote several romance novels and now apparently has become enamored of the style, sadly enough. Like late period Heinlein, go back and read the earlier works, leave the rest to the rabid fans.
3.0 out of 5 stars
irritatingly inconsistent book,
By Darius Wilkins (Roswell, Ga United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crisis On Doona (Paperback)
It's just that this sci-fi/mystery book has very poor elements of mystery in it. Many facts in the book are contradictory (not on face). I shouldn't tell any element of the book so I won't reveal the errors.However, I did manage to get through this sacharrine and very typical book of the style of Anne and Mercades and Andre. It's O.K. despite my disappointment with it. To the point, this book is the lightest of light reading for people who want to pass time. There is no way it deserves five stars in my opinion.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Even better than the original,
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This review is from: Crisis On Doona (Paperback)
Here we find that Todd and Hrriss, two characters who became best friends as children in "Decision at Doona", are still best friends 25 years later and have become role model citizens. But suddenly they are accused of some serious crimes just as the agreement between the Humans and the Hrrubans is up for renewal, and as a result the continued existence of their shared colony world is in jeopardy. No one who knows the two very well believes for a minute that they've committed the acts they're accused of, but the body of evidence against them that will be used to hold them in judgement seems to be mounting up. A riveting tale of mystery and suspense.
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