- Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Harper Prism
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0061056995
- ISBN-13: 978-0061056994
- Product Dimensions: 16.5 x 10.4 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #977,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Confronting the sins of the past, Jan 21 1999
By flying-monkey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Legacies (Mass Market Paperback)
Sinclair's debut novel is phenomenal. A mentally disabled hero, Lian D'Haldt is partially raised by empathic aliens on a world where his own people, the Burdanians, live an unreal existance in an idealised artificial home environment, whilst knowing all the time that they might have destroyed the the very world they seek to recreate and remember. Lian's inability to communicate with his own people, and his sense of dislocation, proves however to be the spark for the Burdanians to confront their guilt over their past actions and return to their homw world. Legacies is a beautifully written evocation of not one but two alien worlds and peoples, with an interesting and successful structure; Lian's personal story is told in parrallel to the tale of the return to Burdania. Needs reading more than once.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Perhaps.....Perhaps we all need to be dropped on our heads., Jun 25 1997
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Legacies (Mass Market Paperback)
Lian D'Halldt was hurt in a childhood accident - He fell on his head, and nearly died. Modern technology saved his life, but there were scars which affected his memory and his speech. As a result, no one would any longer take him seriously. Everyone dismisses him, including his father. Yet, it is Lian who struggles for his people not to make the same mistakes their forefathers made. It is Lian who uses his few words to make his peers take his hope - Burdania's hope - for reconcilation - seriously. It is Lian who works ferociously to reunite two peoples, eventually discovering respect, honor, love, and a reason to love life. Perhaps.....Perhaps we all need to be dropped on our heads, at least once
0 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Their ancestors killed the planet, now the children go back., Oct 5 1998
By "roger@nightly.com" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Legacies (Mass Market Paperback)
Escaping from government confiscation, the last sensor pictures the colonists of Taridwyn saw was the destruction of their homeworld, Burdania. An unforeseen reaction caused by their new untested 'star drive'. Five generations later, representing the lone colony racked by 'survivors guilt', an expedition returns to finally prove that life could have survived on Burdania, or not..
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