Starhammer

by Christopher Rowley

Book Overview

Story of the battle against the Laowon Imperium, dominators of humans for centuries. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345314905
• ISBN13: 9780345314901
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Old but still exciting

This book is one of my dumpster diving finds from almost 15 years ago. It has no cover and is about the most damaged book I own. But, I treat it as best I can, considering I have read it at least twice every year since I found it. It is a detailed trip into a bleak future, where mankind is saved long before it ever reached the stars. The book has some technical flaws, and the pacing changes through the story, but for all that it presents ideas and visions with clarity and imagination. I would love a story about the long past heros of the novel. The plusses of the book significantly outweigh the minuses. The heros are thinking, feeling beings, the villans obviously think a different way, and the true villan turns out to be much scarier than expected. Plus, its smart.In all this is a very exciting and fast paced (mostly) book that is a vision of redemption.

Just A Thought????

Hey really more of a comment/Thought type thing. With all the trashy SF movies over the last few years; with a few notable exceptions, most of the problems lie with poor basic scripts. Can you imagine a movie by Riddley Scott or Jame Cameron based on the Vang books.....Probably the most complete and well rounded yet exciting books Ive ever read. I would love to read more of the wars background/history that would be some tale. As a final note what ever happened to his Golden Sunlands series...C'mon my man finish it off damnit. If you like Rowlies books read Anything By Ian M Banks, specifically his Culture Books they rule....G

The Best Book I have ever read (Out of about 2,000)

Couldn't let this pass without a comment.This is my favourite book... and believe me I have read a million science fiction and fantasy novels. (Well Honestly about 2,000). I never read a book more than once.. its no fun if I know what's gunna happen .. but I have read this one 3 times.Why is it so good.. Well, characters, plot, bad guys, impossible odds, a great epic story about a reluctant hero, sex, violence, heroism.. blah blah.. I'm raving... but this book deserves it. So far I have recommended this book to several friends (not even sci-fi fans) who now rate it as one of their favs !

Great story that keeps you guessing to the very end

The human race after coming into contact with a technologically superior, but morally corrupt alien race, have become their slaves. The aliens modify human DNA to create genetic mutations that serve their particular needs. One of these genetic "slaves" becomes the hero of the story and, through circumstance, travels on a path, (an extremely violent path) that will change the course of human history. I am an avid reader of science fiction and I don't know what made me buy this book way back in 1987, because the cover design, and the summary on the jacket, were some of the worst I have seen. Fortunately, I ignnored this fact, and I have never regretted it, because this is definitely my favorite SF book of all time.