The Gate To Futures Past

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By Julie E. Czerneda

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The second book in the hard science fiction Reunification trilogy, the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning Clan Chronicles

Betrayed and attacked, the Clan fled the Trade Pact for Cersi, believing that world their long-lost home. With them went a lone alien, the Human named Jason Morgan, Chosen of their leader, Sira di Sarc. Tragically, their arrival upset the Balance between Cersi’s three sentient species. And so the Clan, with their newfound kin, must flee again.

Their starship, powered by the M’hir, follows a course set long ago, for Clan abilities came from an experiment their ancestors—the Hoveny—conducted on themselves. But it’s a perilous journey. The Clan must endure more than cramped conditions and inner turmoil.

Their dead are Calling.

Sira must keep her people from answering, for if they do, they die. Morgan searches the ship for answers, afraid the Hoveny’s tech is beyond his grasp. Their only hope? To reach their destination.

Little do Sira and Morgan realize their destination holds the gravest threat of all....

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“3.5 stars, https://reviews.metaphorosis.com/review/the-gate-to-futures-past-julie-e-czerneda/ Summary Having finally left the planet Cersi, where Om'ray had been trapped for centures, and M'hiray had only recently come, what's left of the Clan tries to understand and communicate with the highly advanced spaceship they inhabit, and figure out where it's taking them. Review This book was always going to have a tough time, because so much was resolved in the first book that it left few options for the story. In the event, I found the bulk of this middle entry to be workmanlike, but not terribly interesting. The end, however does pull out some somewhat unexpected elements, including one very nicely managed twist about the Watchers. However, it feels like it has left the third book even more constrained. As some books have multiple openings, this series has had two endings already, and I worry now about the third. About half the book is spent in a Hoveny spaceship with technology far beyond what any of the participating cultures has, and I felt Czerneda could have done far more with the “Look! Cool stuff!” aspect. She instead concentrates on the group’s emotions and psychology. Ordinarily, this could be fertile ground, but it frankly felt muddled and never committed to. One healing stratagem using the ship is foiled at the end, but I didn’t really care much, and it never felt like any of the characters expected it to work either. There’s a little more interest when the ship gets where it’s going, but I was disappointed that it was generally ‘more of the same’ – something like I felt in John C. Wright’s Golden Oecumene trilogy, when the protagonist gets to the bottom of a long and mysterious sky ladder, to an unexplored world that is … just like the one he left, just on the ground. Again, I felt Czerneda could have done much more with the society the ship finds, but that she rushed through it all to get to other things. The other things, Watchers included, are interesting, but it didn’t feel to me as if they had much grounding in the 7 books that had gone before. Czerneda does tie this in to some events previously described, but it felt like a marriage of convenience rather than organic growth. Overall, a functional but disappointing middle book with an odd ending.”

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About Julie E. Czerneda

For twenty years, Canadian author/ former biologist Julie E. Czerneda has shared her curiosity about living things through her science fiction, published by DAW Books, NY. With seventeen (and counting) novels and numerous short stories in print, she’s also written acclaimed fantasy. Her Night’s Edge series (DAW) began with A Turn of Light, winner of the 2014 Aurora Award for Best English Novel. A Play of Shadow followed, winning the 2015 Aurora. Julie’s edited/co-edited sixteen anthologies of SF/F, including the Aurora-winning Space Inc. and Under Cover of Darkness. Her most recent anthology is the 2017 Nebula Award Showcase, to be published May 2017. 2017 will also see the completion of Julie’s Clan Chronicles, with the conclusion, To Guard Against the Dark, in stores October 2017. Please visit www.czerneda.com.

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