The Mantle of Kendis-Dai: Amazon.ca: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman: Books

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Created by the bestselling team of Weis & Hickman, Starshield introduces their newest fantastic universe with an unforgettable, magical, grand adventure!

Rebellion threatens to rock the very foundation of civilization. If the wrong side wins, the people will be at the mercy of minds with no conscience or humanity. The only hope for freedom lies with the Mantle of Kendis-dai, a relic reputed to hold the power of absolute Truth. But the Mantle of Kendis-dai is long lost in the mists of myth and time...if it ever really existed at all.

Merinda Neskat, dedicated to the pursuit of Truth above all, is determined to find the legendary Mantle. The key to her quest is a group of lost Earthpeople, led by the feckless Jeremy Griffiths, who holds knowledge he shouldn't have--and doesn't understand. Together, Merinda, Jeremy, and his companions set off on a dangerous race against time and deadly enemy forces, seeking a mysterious world that holds the secret that can save them--or destroy the path of civilization forever. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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Knowledge, information and the power of absolute Truth, as embodied in the legendary Mantle of Kendis-dai, are the only things that can save civilization from a rebellion that threatens to destroy it. Merinda Neskat, dedicated to the retrieval of information and the pursuit of Truth, is determined to race against time--and deadly enemies--to find the Mantle before chaos envelops all. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A grand tale of power, betrayal, and ancient legends, Dec 30 2002

By	Yiwei Sun (Tucker, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mantle of Kendis-Dai (Mass Market Paperback)

This book opens up a new universe in the fantasy/sci-fi genre. It begins a series that seeks to combine the best tenets of science and technology with the absolute power of sorcery and magic. It paints a picture of a dynamic universe, a universe that is not filled with the same "stuff" as we would like to believe. The story begins with one of the main protagonists of the story, a strong woman character of the Omnet.

This book tells of her life as she sought to correct mistakes told in the first chapters of the book. In enters the second of the two protagonists, Jeremy Griffiths. A replacement astronaut for the first FTL space voyage that humanity has sent to the stars. They were hopeful to just collect "bacterial samples". Obviously they took a bigger bite than they intended since plutonium isn't radioactive in one of the areas they passed through. You will have a grand time as Griffiths is faced with the command of the mission and his ascendance to something more than he bargained for. Because at the end, their voyage will lead to the Mantel of Kendis-dai, a long ago legendary artifact of the greatest Empire in the galaxy, an empire headed by a human Emperor with 3 absolutely powerful artifacts. The Mantle to give wisdom and knowledge, the Nightsword to shape the universe to the user's will, and the Starshield to create peace throughout the galaxy. These sound like mere artifacts, but this is the new galaxy we are talking about. And in the new galaxy, where magic and technology exist side by side and layer on layer, legends are real.

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3.0 out of 5 stars a near miss, Nov 9 2001

By	Beau Halonen "mercury6262" (Morrilton, AR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mantle of Kendis-Dai (Mass Market Paperback)

this book had good characters, but I dont like the whole "lets restore our once great universe to what it once was, and use magic flagrantly when we just can't supply the hard science" motif

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4.0 out of 5 stars Slow start. Great ending., Nov 4 2000

By	David Joy (Amboy,WA USA) - See all my reviews

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It took me a quarter of the book before I got into it. The body of the book was average, but the ending more than made up for it. A Margaret Weis book with a happy ending? Out of the 18 books of hers I've read, this book probably has the happiest ending. Actually it may have been too happy. It doesn't leave you hanging for the next book of the series like most of her books do.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Must
For anyone who has ever been completely enchanted by their first fantasy novel, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman can bring that feeling back over and over again. Read more

Published on Sep 15 2000

1.0 out of 5 stars Trash?
As a big Weis/Hickman fan I had great expectations to their new series. I did not even finish this book. Too many, less interesting characters, for my taste. Read more

Published on Sep 10 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!
I am a rather new fan of M.W and T.H, seeing as I viewed the Dragonlance as an extreme dissapointment, however, I was rather impressed by the skill and infinite emotion they... Read more

Published on Sep 29 1998

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good for a new universe.
This book was pretty good. I say pretty good because I think they could've made the plot a trilogy, which would've made it better. Read more

Published on May 8 1998