Prisoners of Arionn

by Brian Herbert

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877958866
• ISBN13: 9780877958864
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Arbor House Publishing
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good read, good characters, enjoyable reading

Although this isn't your typical science fiction novel, it stands out amongst the genre as a good piece for one simple reason: the characters are so well developed. You come to know them as if they were family. I enjoyed reading this book years ago, mainly because it seemed more a mainstream novel than science fiction. It is a good piece of work, worth the time spent reading it (for me, the second time)and I would recommend picking up a copy --- if you can find one. Brian Herbert should be proud of this work!

An Excellent Story

PoA is a great book that melds a good Science Fiction Question ("What if...") with a character based story. The Question is "What if San Francisco were yanked up into space by aliens with unknown intent", and the human story is the dynamics of the totally dysfunctional family, the Fouquets. The story is compelling, and I read through the 407 page book in two sittings. The book takes it's time to find a protaginist, and the readability and "neato" concepts start showing up a third of the way through the book, alsmost as if the resolution hadn't been planned out. In addition, the resolution itself begs for a sequal, leaving much up in the air (pun clearly intended).