- Paperback: 740 pages
- Publisher: Backinprint.com (September 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0595248527
- ISBN-13: 978-0595248520
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 4.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,956,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"For those interested in science fiction, Barry Longyear is required reading." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
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Book Description
By the award-winning author of Enemy Mine, Infinity Hold is the story of an idea and of a murderer who becomes the first police officer in a world of murderers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Delighted,
By A Customer
This review is from: Infinity Hold (Paperback)
Finally, I can read the Series. It is the complete and unabridged Infinity Hold trilogy: Infinity Hold, Kill All The Lawyers, and Keep The Law. In a world of terrorists, murderers, and criminally insane, one man rises to become the world's first police officer and the guardian of their most precious possession: The Law. Three full novels, the complete saga from before the landing to Bando Nicos's murder trial. Kill All The Lawyers: First time in book form. Keep The Law: First publication!
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Good Sci-fi examining law, society and morality,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Infinity Hold (Paperback)
I've been searching for another copy of this book for quite some time. My original copy was loaned out so many times, it apparently decided make a go of it on its own. An excellent read. The main character is a piece of human filth at the beginning of the story, and is landed on a prison planet in a shipload of similar creatures. Being thrown together in adversity makes a group of these lowlifes, and they find themselves fighting back-to-back against a whole planet of people like themselves, bloodthirsty, implacable and despairing. With no laws to break, and no society to offend, they find they have to construct such from scratch or die under the heels of the gangs they face.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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An old Si-Fi concept presented in a down-to-earth manner!,
By "ladyjessy" - Published on Amazon.com
It took me a long time before I got around to reading this book, but once I did, I wondered why I hadn't read it earlier! Dumping prisoners on an empty planet is a fairly old Si-Fi concept and has been used many times, but never with the angle Longyear takes on it. Not only is it facinating as a fiction novel in itself, but is also a psycological book that will open your eyes to the modern day prison system and its flaws. Although I have never been very interested, or had many opinions on 'Justice', this book has helped me form some of my opinions on it. I found the book to be very realistic portrayal of the criminal mind/society and I would recomend this book to EVERYONE!!!!! I have already recomended this book to my history and psycology teachers after hearing concepts in their classes that this book could apply to. Please give the book a try. I garenttee that you will be glad you did! I was! :)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Justice for All,
By Melissa McCauley - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Infinity Hold (Paperback)
In 2115 Bando Nicos is a twenty-seven year-old inmate of "The Crotch", the Union of Terran Republics' prison for incorrigibles in Greenville, Mississippi. Like many other prisons, The Crotch is shut down and the entire population deposited on the planet Tartaros, named for the lowest level of hell, the galaxy's dumping ground for the unwanted. Soon after they are abandoned in the sandy desert of Tartaros, the seventeen thousand-plus population is reduced to three thousand. The remaining "sharks" decide they must band together if they want to survive, and elect a leader who makes Bando the first police officer of the newly-christened Razai gang. With the help of pre-teen killers, homicidal maniacs, and political dissidents, Bando makes up the brutally simple Law of the Razai as they travel in search of a place of refuge. In between trials and fights for survival against the gangs already in residence, Bando and his compatriots must think about the meaning of justice, and Bando examines his own heart to see if he is worthy of the trust placed in him.This edition contains all three books in the series: INFINITY HOLD, KILL ALL THE LAWYERS, and KEEP THE LAW, and features a lengthy introduction by the author (in which he hints that there may be more Tartaros books in the future). |
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