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Beyond Heaven's River
Beyond Heaven's River
Author: Greg Bear
Yoshio Kawashita is a great warrior until aliens whisk him away during World War II. They put him on a desolate planet far from his home, where he is destined to remain forever, leaving him alone in his new hell. Then Anna Nestor appears. This empress does not see planets as homes for their inhabitants; she sees exploitable real estate. At first...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780727817891
ISBN-10: 0727817892
Publication Date: 11/1989
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Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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A little hard to digest ...
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Sublime and Inventive to boot., January 11, 2000
Reviewer: Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer (Minneapolis, MN USA)

"Beyond Heaven's River" is a well-plotted novel, something that seems to be increasingly rare in the world of Science Fiction. Maybe it is because it is a sparsely printed, 250 page novel, instead of some 600 page, mini-script, sloppy "epic". For that reason alone it is well worth reading; there can be good, short SF novels. Beyond that, Bear has constructed a wonderfully sublime, if a bit overly vague, universe, inhabited by unseen aliens and filled with motivated, imperial human beings. Within this context, a Japanese soldier, from the early 20th Century is an interesting point of view to follow through the bizarre, soul-searching, (dare I say?) epic.


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