The Tranquility Wars

by Gentry Lee

Book Overview

A young student, a dangerous love affair, and an explosive conflict to establish control over humanity... For young Hunter Blake, the future is bright. He has been awarded the exclusive Covington... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553090089
• ISBN13: 9780553090086
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 481 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

very good read.

This book actually references Gentry's other series Rama that he wrote with Arthur C. Clarke.

A good story from a good author

An engaging story... This is one of those books that you just can't put down! An excellent work of Science Fiction... and a plausible outlook on things to come. Save this one for vacation... otherwise, you will not get any sleep!

The Tranquility Wars are revolutionary!

For Hunter Blake, the future is bright. After years of separation he is reunited with the one woman he has ever loved & has been awarded an exclusive fellowship in the Federation of Independent Space Colonies which will bring him fame, fortune & success. Still, all good things tend to gather flies to its sweetness & as tensions mount between rival neighboring colonies, roving space pirates take advantage of the hostilities, raiding & looting in the tradition of the disaffected. On such a raid both Hunter Blake & his love are kidnapped by an unusual band called the Utopians. Reading The Tranquility Wars & the life of Hunter Blake took me back to those thrilling days of yesteryear when, as a young man, I dreamed dreams & envisioned futures that today I still hope for. The moral dilemma are not only posed well, the solutions are plausible & laudable. Gentry Lee comes by space adventures honestly, he has been chief engineer on Project Galileo; was director of science analysis & mission planning for NASA's Viking Mission to Mars & partner with Carl Sagan in the design & development & implementation of the television series Cosmos. Will I read another Gentry Lee? Absolutely!

A good read with understandable characters

The competition between the Federal Space Independent Colonies (FSIC) and the United Democratic Space Colonies (UDSC) over control of the solar system is fierce. However, Covington Fellowship winner Hunter Blake is oblivious to the goings-on as he sees the scholarship providing him an easy ride to the top of society. His girlfriend Tehani Wilawa pays off her deceased father's enormous debt by earning her living hooking at the popular Sybaris pleasure palace. Even with her financial problems, Tehani enjoys the indulgences of the privileged.Because of the dispute between the FSIC and UDSC, pirates have begun to successfully roam space. One such band abducts Hunter and Tehani. Soon the duo begins to question their lifestyle. Is this the case of a taste of true freedom not all it is cracked up to be or just the Stockholm Effect?THE TRANQUILITY WARS is a coming of age science fiction novel that pulls the rug out from underneath the reader, helps the fan back up, and re-pulls the rug again reminiscent of Lucy and the football. The story line is entertaining, but action aficionados need to understand that the war is tranquil on this novel. The brilliant Hunter is the star of the tale, but in spite of his obvious superior intellect, he is one dumb stud when it comes to females and clearly no Buck Rogers. Gentry Lee provides an intriguing comparative social systems tale of competing ways of life in the twenty-fifth century.Harriet Klausner