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After the defeat of the evil Dominion forces at Farholme, Commander Merral DAvanos prepares a task force to rescue 30 hostages captured by the fleeing Margrave Lezaroth. Merrals only hope is that he can get to the hostages before theyre taken to Lord-Emperor Nezhuala at the Blade of Night - the heart of the evil Dominion worlds. But in order to get there, Merral and his crew will have to survive a perilous trip through Below-Space. Meanwhile, news of the Dominions defeat at Farholme reaches Earth but is tempered by the sobering truth of the enemys growth and strength. It is now clear that an attack on the Assembly is imminent, but how far should the Assembly go to stop it? And does the real danger lie in the Dominion, or within the Assembly itself?
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Born in Wales, Chris Walley grew up in northern England. He studied earth sciences at university and has a doctorate in geology. He taught at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon from 1980 to 1984 and then returned to Wales and spent ten years as a consultant with the oil industry. He began writing in the late eighties and had two novels, Heart of Stone and Rock of Refuge, published under the pseudonym of John Haworth. In 1994, along with his family, Chris returned to Lebanon to teach again at AUB. In 1998, he came back to Wales and began writing again. He is currently fitting his writing in between teaching geology, environmental science, and geography at a local college. Chris and his wife live in an old cottage on the edge of Swansea.
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Lamb Among The Stars -The Infinite Day, Jan 9 2009
By Connie A. Prewitt - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Infinite Day (Hardcover)
Wonderful book in excellent condition. Christian science-fiction. This book really made me stop and think about all the consequences of our actions and our spirituality. It was very well written, and very thoughtfully written. I wish all Christians could read this series and enjoy the spirit of the Lamb Among The Stars. Not preachy- fun to read, but the philosophy of the universe being all Followers is unique and made me stop and think about my own life.
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A worthy, satisfying conclusion, May 30 2008
By Dennison Schreffler - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Infinite Day (Hardcover)
First of all, for those who have found this book, but haven't yet looked at _The Shadow and Night_ and _The Dark Foundations_, please do so now, as they are the first books in the series.Back? Good.
We see ever more in this book the changes in the people of the Assembly: on Farholme the shift in government from collegial committee to autocracy has culminated in bureaucracy. At the heart of the Assembly, factions flourish, arguments abound, and many are dissatisfied with the person in charge for being too weak to unite people behind him. What I found most interesting, though, were the revelations about the people of the Dominion: just as those of the Assembly never were fully good, those of the Dominion (and the True Freeborn) were not fully evil. So the Assembly when falling looks more and more like normal politics today, the Dominion looks increasingly like something that today's society could turn into, and between them, not even human, is Betafor, provoking questions about the sentience of intelligent machines, the ethics of dealing with them, and the ethics of them dealing with humanity.
Ultimately, this is a story about the societies, about the people in them and the choices they make, about the consequences of those choices. The science fiction setting allows for these subjects to be raised in interesting ways.
For those who want a direct comparison, this series has much better prose and pacing than the _Left Behind_ books, and aside from issues of setting (i.e. the setting is this way, so these events had to happen in history), the theology should not be objectionable at all to those who agree with the theology presented in the _Left Behind_ series.
All in all, a wonderful, thrilling end to a thought-provoking series.
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The best trilogy I have ever read., Jun 29 2008
By aaron michael "adubya" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Infinite Day (Hardcover)
Incredible. I almost feel that there is no point in reading any other sci-fi book after reading the epic brilliance of Chris Walley in "The Infinite Day." Reading any other book now would be like eating dry stale bread after a ten course meal. It is a shame so many other lesser books and authors are so shamlessly promoted and this epic classic seems to have had none at all. C.S.Lewis sci-fi does not even come close to this groundbreaking, epic, instant clasic. I was at times moved, shocked, affirmed, horrified, excited, anxious, satisfied, elated, triumphant, depressed, angry, disbelieving, challenged, convicted... need I say more (I could). The series was so unpredictable, creative, and exciting. Yet challenging and thought provoking. I think I will read the whole series all over again.
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