I have read all of Anderson's books, and each one is wonderful. "Our Children Forever" follows the same theme as the other ones: clear, simple, to the point. They are all worth reading.

I have read ALL of the books concerning George Anderson. I bought the Martin series (all three) after I read George Anderson's "Lessons from the Light." They are very good books, not as excellent as "Lessons", but terrific just the same.

I have previously read We Don"t Die and We are Not Forgotten and I must say this Our Children Forever followed the suit of the other two books.I couldn't put them down!I was getting so much peace and comfort from the writings that I never wanted them to end. I read all three books in 6 days and I am a very slow reader. I am waiting for the arrival of Lessons From the Light,as I am sure this book will be just as promising.I was experiencing a great deal of grief from losing a loved one and George Anderson without even meeting him has put my mind at peace knowing my loved one is ok.If you are reading any of these books it is probably because you have also lost someone.I hope you find the same kind of comfort I have in the readings.

This is actually the first book at a new publisher; there was another 12 novels released by another publisher. This is a pretty good Wild Cards novel. Just in case you've never read a Wild Cards novel, they are science fiction based on the earth where a virus was released back in the '50s. This virus killed 90% of the people infected, 9% of the people got a Joker (deformity with or without some sort of super-power) and 1% got an Ace (a super-power of some sort). This novel focuses on a search for a conspiracy against Jokers, a group that wants to eliminate all Jokers. Rather than several stories that are loosely or not related, this novel follows the recent pattern of a single plot tied together by several inter-related short stories. The novel includes several of my favorite characters: Croyd "Sleeper" Crenson and Jay "Poppinjay" Ackroyd. Several new characters are also introduced and add to the universe nicely. Of course, the story makes more sense by knowing some of the background from the previous novels, but they are not necessary. Especially with the ending which left me saying "Oh no" to myself.

The characters almost come to life as you read, and the storylines are great. A must-read for anyone interested in science fantasy or comic books.

As an avid reader of Science Fiction, I must confess that there was a certain amount of reluctance to review this particular book. Because, you see, I am a fan of the Wild Cards series, and have been for many years. For those of you unfamiliar with the series, let me sum up. The series from number 1 to number 12 is based on the idea of what would happen if we had people with superheroic powers on Earth now. Then it goes further and says, well what if these people were given these powers by an alien virus, which could kill you or cause some kind of disfigurement? When you get the virus, one of three things happens. You die, which is what is called drawing the Black Queen, you can become disfigured in some strange way, like grow tentacles, or feathers or something wierd, then you draw the Joker. If you are really lucky, you can gain superhuman powers, which is called drawing the Ace. Now put all of this in our world as we know it and it gets a little strange. There has been a change in publishers and artists with the series. Baen Books has picked it up, and the new cover artist does a wonderful job. (Wish this one had been around when Tachyon was still around) There has been a fire at a church in what was the Bowery but is now called Jokertown, and a new fire inspector has been called in to investigate. What she uncovers is a web of lies, deception, and murder so entangling, that she is caught in the web. Now she must use all of her skills, and a few friends, to find answers.. But the truth is always more dangerous, especially when there are some who would rather not let it be known. If you like comic books, you will like this book, although I would reccomend that you run, don't walk, to get the series 1 thru 12 by Bantam Spectra, and then read this one. There are also graphic novels of the Wild Cards Universe, and other stuff.

There are three points about Wild Cards 6: Ace in the Hole, which perhaps make me unfairly biased against it.

The First is that this is a Mosaic Novel, meaning that there are lots of authors, each writing a short part ( between a few paragraphs to a few pages, usually), and than leaving the stage for someone else. I'm not particularily fond of this form of story-telling. I don't think it does justice to the author's abilities.

The second Problem I have with 'Ace in the Hole' is that the outcome is not one I approve of. I don't like the ending because the characters I wanted to win, didn't.

The third problem is really personal. This is the first WILD CARDS book without anything by George R. R. Martin. Martin is my favorite living author, so I think it's a shame.

Thus maybe someone who doesn't have all these problems will like ACE IN THE HOLE better than I did. Although, to be sure, I liked it quite a bit.

Basically it's the stroy of Puppetman's attempts to get elected as the Presidency Candidate for the Democratic party.

The other characters find out that Puppetman is an ace, and than they attempt to stop him from winning.

We have a pretty great collection of authors here. Stephen Leigh leads as the best of the bunch, writing Puppetman. Close behind are Melinda Snodgras with Dr. Tachyon, and Walter J Williams tellling us about the Judas Ace, Golden Boy. I wish the Golden Boy parts would have been written in the first person, like 'Witness' in the first WC book. The other two authors are Simon who reintroduces us to Demise ('don't look into his eyes' goes the WC gingle), and Victor Milan who writes the weakest bits, about Sara Morgenstern and Mackie Messer. Morgenstern was great when written by Leigh, but doesn't work nearly as well in other hands, and Messer was a character I never understood or wanted, and this book proves that he wasn't really necessary.

Overall, the book is well written, and pretty fast paced. Some scenes are great, many are interesting.

But it has problems. The most obvious is the exessive amount of Sex. The WC books have never shied away from Sex, but this is rather absourd. People seem to be falling into each other's... well... I don't know... well, ALOT. Exessively.

I don't want to explain the plot much further. It's pretty well handled with all the viewpoint characters etc, although there were some things left I didn't quite understand. Maybe there'll be further explanation in the volumes to come.

Three Short notes. If there's something you can't say on the universe of the Wild Cards, is that things have no consequences. They have lots of them. The Status Quo was dramatically changed in this book, with a major secondary character in the WIld Card universe discarded of off screen, and a life changing experience to Gregg Hartmann and possibly to Tachyon. The future should be interesting.

Second note is Tachyon. Tachy's tale returned to the realms of the Soap Opera with this book. He's getting way too much of the limelights, and it doesn't help him. I hope we'll get a little less from him, so that we'll miss his character a little more by the next time Snodgras returns to him.

And final note, if you're reading the Wild Cards Series, and want to discuss it, please email me.

While each of the 11 Wildcards books I've finished reading thus far would earn 4-stars in my opinion, thus making each one great, this one surpasses them all. Funny how, in a superhero story such as this, the most intriguing chapter should be one revolving around politics.

This book just focuses on a great selection of the most memorable characters from the Wild Cards universe, and to this day, to me at least, screams to be a movie. The whole series reads out very cinematically, but this book in particular.

Aces Abroad is exactly what the title says - American Aces going outside of the US. A delegation of Aces, Jokers, and Nats( all in a Boeing 747 names The Stacked Deck), goes abroad to see the situation of aces outside the US. They go to South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe - in short, a 'round the world' tour. After three books that focused on the US, the much needed international perspective to the story was finally given. Perhaps the highlight of the books was the return of Greg Hartmann, masterfully written by Stephen Leigh. I really liked Leigh's Strings in the first Wild Card book, and his story here, is every bit as well written, and if it isn't as tense, that's a fault of the narration, not opf the author - but wait, we'll get there. Other things worth mentioning - for the first time we get a Joker perpective. Both the continous Journal of Xavier Desmond, and John Miller's story, have an Joker narrater(Des and chrytalis, respectively). We also get answers to several nagging questions - about the Huge Ape with the passion for Blonds, about Tachyon's past, and best of all - a little more information about the Envoy. Priceless. The average level of story telling was rather high. I thought there were only 1 stincker in that pack - Down in Dreamtime, a terrible story about Jack the Aligator Man's niece. I must admit I forgot her name. Ok, but what's wrong witht he books? The greatest complain is the lack of real plot. We get basically adventures. The Stacked Deck arrives at a country, bad stuff happends. then it arrives at a new country, and a new aqdvanture starts. There's little feeling of a continuous story, despite some attempts there. Especially bothering is the fact that at the end, all the stories seem to be about Terrorists. That was somewhat of an overkill. Tachyon, for one, becomes annoying. I won't spoil anything, but he turns out more and more annoying. Snodgrass writes a nice story about him, but I don't like the direction they're taking the character. A Final complaint is that George R R Martin doesn't write a story for the book, but only the journal of Desmond, which isn't good enough for a Martin fan like me. Overall, this is a strong volume. Not as strong as ACES HIGH, maybe, but stronger then JOKERS WILD and then WILD CARDS. If you like the wild Card series, this is a good addition.

I LOVED this book in the series, because it explores (for the first time) how Wild Cards affected the rest of the world. We get to travel along with a World Health Organization Fact-Finding Mission, charged with documenting the global affect of Wild Cards. And through their eyes, we get to see how cultures around the world changed and evolved as a result of the virus; I found that was really the final detail I needed to flesh out the Wild Cards universe in my head as a complete alternate reality. The Wild Cards were alive for me after the first three books, but after this one, they were talking to me. =;>

After picking this book up at a Sam's club out of curiosity I found that I couldn't put it down and ended up putting it in the cart. My companion is a begining Astronomy buff and he couldn't get enough eighther. We were reading it to each other and trying to read it at the same time. We have learned alot from this book and have put it to good use with his new telescope. I highly remommed this book to the person who has always wanted to get started in astronomy!

This beautifully produced book is a superb addition to the library of any backyard astronomer or anyone from eight to eighty. It's a best buy for several reasons.
The first is its outstanding quality. The second is the BEWARE!.
This book is actually a softcover, otherwise identical reprint of "Advanced Skywatching", ISBN: 0783549415, published in 1997, also by Time-Life.
Perhaps Time-Life used this subterfuge to catch unwary on-line shoppers that already own "Advanced Skywatching" (as I do), since you can't view the contents on-line to discover you already own the same book under a different name.

The complaint on the star charts about this book (or its twin) not covering the entire sky is not critical.
There isn't room on anyone's bookshelf for all the possible fun sky-hops, of which this book and its twin present abundant excellent examples. There are more and different, also challenging and instructive ones in another fine volume, "Turn Left at Orion", and many others.

Not to worry if you get sucked in. This one makes a fine gift for your favorite grandchild as mine will.
Add this to your "must have" list if you don't already own its twin. If you do, buy it anyhow and give it to someone special.
The price is astonishingly low for the fine content.

This is the end of this Card cycle, providing closure to the Puppetman And the deadly Black trump virus. Mark Meadows once again becomes the Radical the ever changing sleeper teams up with the every obnoxious Carnifix to battle a plot to destory the wild cards with the Black trump as the newly formed Radical works with Popenjay to save Vietnam. `

Ah! This book is one of my favorites. It has in it, the thing we Wild Cards fans have been waiting for for 14 books.....the return of....THE RADICAL!!!! Yay! Yes, Wild Cards fans, the Radical returns!!! Again, yay! But, alas, this is and probably will be the last Wild Cards book, due to the death of Roger Zelazny. (He died in 95, one has not bwwn published in 2 years...before, one was published every year..go figure...)

I am a 10th grade World History teacher in California. This book is the best resource I own. It not only helps the students, but allows me the chance to review prior to lectures and activities. It is must for any world history or global history student or teacher.

Like many high school New Yorkers, I was super-worried about doing well on my Regents exam. But thanks to Mr. Mark Willner's book, I not only passed, I excelled! I was so satisfied, I told everyone to use it. If you are taking a Global Regent, get this book. This, in addition to your Global History class, will definately assure your success. Mr. Willner's thorough analysis and explanation in crucial areas in the subject is comprehensive and thorough. He is the Social Studies chairman at my school and was named best in the country, so he must have done something right! Get this book, you'll be glad you did.

I graduated from High School in NYC and there you must pass this regents in order to graduate. Well, I've always liked History, but taking such a hard test is another story. This book is great help for those who need to study for this test, since is not easy to remember all that things they taught us in two years (at least that's how it is in NY). Well, with the help of this book and my History teacher I was able to get a good score and pass the regents all at once! Thanks Barron's and Thanks Ms. Gasparevich!

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Fans of artistic photo books for kids will find this an intriguing contemporary treatment of the Red Riding Hood classic. Here a little country girl faces urban and rural threats on her way to grandmother's house, only to find her grandmother has been replaced by an evil wolf. The sad ending for Riding Hood is dramatic and revealing, providing a realistic twist on the fairy tale.

I enjoyed the story as Perrault wrote it, not as yet another alternate version with yet another happy ending. Red Riding Hood, also available in French as Le Petit Rouge, contains marvelous photos by Sarah Moon which lend an eerie, appropriately menacing mood to an already dark tale. It should be said, however, that this book is unsettling and is undoubtedly not one to share with your child as a bedtime story.

Schmidt writes clearly and analytically about texts not readily understandable.

A good, interesting (but somewhat overly academic) study of the ebb and flow of post-Kantian continental thought. Worth reading for philosophy majors and those interested in philosophical exegisis.

A good and thorough beginning to the study of Heidegger. Well written and argued, very persuasive. Recommended for interested readers in post-Kantian continental philosophy.

This book is not for the serious history buff nor for those who are seeking a macro view of historical events. But what this book does provide is the insite into an individual solder's life during our darkest hour. Other books on the Revolutionary War delve deep into the problems faced by Washington when the initial 6-month enlistments were to expire. Those Continental Troops who did not re-up are now viewed with scorn. However, Joseph was one of those troops who left after his enlistment was up and returned home without regret. The viewpoint from this individual solder provides balance from those Officers who were sustained in relative comfort. However, one has to begin to question some of the stories such as seeing Molly Pitcher in battle and his personal meeting with General Washinton near Yorktown. Regardless of the accuracy of his saga, Yankee Doodle Boy is easy reading and adds a sense of what it was really like to battle fatigue as much as the redcoats.

After reading this book, I know that the best way to learn about something is to get the viewpoint from someone who experienced it. Joseph Plumb Martin was a great writer, and told me what it was like to be an average soldier in Washington's army. He writes in a style that's easy to understand, even for a 7th grader like me, and he has a very good sense of humor. By the time I finished "Yankee Doodle Boy," I could have sworn I was there with Joseph. You can't say that you've read about the American Revolution until you read this book!

History doesn't get much better than hearing it first-hand from someone who lived it. Joseph Plumb Martin has paid us an invaluable service by recounting his seven years of enlistment in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. This is a great book which should be read by all Americans. Highly recommended.