Sentinels (Starshield, Book 1)

By Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis

Book Overview

Created by the bestselling team of Weis & Hickman,Starshieldintroduces their newest fantastic universe with an unforgettable, magical, grand adventure! Rebellion threatens to rock the very foundation... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345397606
• ISBN13: 9780345397607
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Length: 421 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.8" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A grand tale of power, betrayal, and ancient legends

This book opens up a new universe in the fantasy/sci-fi genre. It begins a series that seeks to combine the best tenets of science and technology with the absolute power of sorcery and magic. It paints a picture of a dynamic universe, a universe that is not filled with the same "stuff" as we would like to believe. The story begins with one of the main protagonists of the story, a strong woman character of the Omnet.This book tells of her life as she sought to correct mistakes told in the first chapters of the book. In enters the second of the two protagonists, Jeremy Griffiths. A replacement astronaut for the first FTL space voyage that humanity has sent to the stars. They were hopeful to just collect "bacterial samples". Obviously they took a bigger bite than they intended since plutonium isn't radioactive in one of the areas they passed through. You will have a grand time as Griffiths is faced with the command of the mission and his ascendance to something more than he bargained for. Because at the end, their voyage will lead to the Mantel of Kendis-dai, a long ago legendary artifact of the greatest Empire in the galaxy, an empire headed by a human Emperor with 3 absolutely powerful artifacts. The Mantle to give wisdom and knowledge, the Nightsword to shape the universe to the user's will, and the Starshield to create peace throughout the galaxy. These sound like mere artifacts, but this is the new galaxy we are talking about. And in the new galaxy, where magic and technology exist side by side and layer on layer, legends are real.

A Must

For anyone who has ever been completely enchanted by their first fantasy novel, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman can bring that feeling back over and over again. I've read all of their works out so far and this ranks among the most original I've ever read. The characters are well rounded, the plot is involved and the writing is fast paced. A fantastic read.

Wonderful!

I am a rather new fan of M.W and T.H, seeing as I viewed the Dragonlance as an extreme dissapointment, however, I was rather impressed by the skill and infinite emotion they placed in this book. This book is an inviting mixture of fantasy and science fiction, somethign that is terrible underrated these days, and involves spaceships and synthetic minds, temples and legends come true. It is a mind-boggling exeperience that really sets the wheels of thought into motion. I would recommend this book to any fan of science fiction and fantasy, and, to any fan of M.W and T.H, this is by far the best I have read by them.

A definate buy

Truthfully, I loved the whole thing. This books is great, showing all the things you would expect from the great team of Weis/Hickman. The only drawback is that they only go into the magic part of it for about a page ebfore jumping right back to technolidgy. otherwise the characotrs are great, the plot thick and the readinf fun.

A wonderful start to a new reader-interactive universe.

Weis and Hickman are masters at creating unique universes...and they are sharing that experience with us in the Starshield series. Tucked into the author's notes of this first book of the series is a invitation to join them as they explore their universe online, encouraging fans to post stories and other creative ventures that will become part of the canon. The opportunities for expansion into role-playing and other games, be it online, live-action, or table-top gaming, are wonderful and a fantastic new take on the genre.