Thieves of Light

by Michael Hudson and Michael Hudson

Book Overview

It's not just a game. Suddenly transported to an alien spacecraft, Christopher learns the shocking truth. Photon is a recruiting center for the warrior elite. The weaponry and technology are real, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425098109
• ISBN13: 9780425098103
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Little Known Fact about this book!

Yes this is a great book! Did you know that it was based on a game that I LOVED to play.. Just like the main character. But furhter more, Lord Baethen in the book was one of the founders of the original game. He was also my friend. Also, I have found other books in the series.. So I hope to get them all soon.. Great SCI-Fi Book, full of action, and the effects of war on our young.

an amazing shame there are not more!!!

I came online looking for more of these books, I am shocked and appalled that they do not exist! how upsetting! i am one of those people that hits a couple used book stores every 6 - 18 months and purchases 300$ worth of books (25% and i want 75% as chances) this was a chance book but darnit if it wasnt an awsome book!! I am so upset there isnt more of them!! in fact, i recomend this book to NOONE! DONT READ THIS BOOK!!!! you will just want to read the sequal! and guess what; turns out there IS NONE! I had to say that yes, the book was geared toward youth. but the author did do a very good job of expanding beyond that, with exellant and diversified characters and an apallingly interesting story line, i would buy the entire series if it existed!! Like i said, i am EXTREMELY upset i read the book because if leaves off perfect for a sequal, it was designed to have a sequal! and it doesnt have one! its extremely infuriating!! because it leaves off right in the middle of the story. leaves you with a hollow feeling, knowing you will never know what happens next.

After 18 years, I still pick up this book

I don't know what to say other than the fact that at sixteen, I wanted to be the heroine to the hero in this novel. It was so much more than a tie-in book to a children's tv show. The depth that this story went to in portraying the events going on in these alternate galaxies was truly unique and engrosing. I'm glad to know that there are used copies out there, so when my copy finally dies, I'll have the chance to replace it. An excellent book that shouldn't be dated by the time it was written or overlooked because of the 'childish' subject mater/tie in.

Terrific, little-known adventure novel

I have always had a soft spot for stories which could easily have been treated as "hack" assignments but which the author cared enough about to make worthwhile. "Thieves of Light" is one of my favorites.Michael Hudson is the pen name of Michael P. Kube-McDowell. "Photon" was a forgettable Lazer Tag ripoff of the 1980's. The toy company commissioned a TV show based on it, and this novel was intended to be a tie-in to the show. (There is a separate series of children's novels connected to the show written by Peter David under the pen name David Peters; don't read them, they're awful). Hudson took great liberties with the source material he was given, producing a much more intelligent and mature story than the show lent itself to.The premise is reminiscent of The Last Starfighter--the Photon game turns out to be an alien civilization's method of locating and training potential fighters for an interstellar war against a genuinely evil enemy. Percival is wonderful as the lonely wunderkind. It's difficult to write an intelligent child character properly, but it's wonderful when it is done right, whether it's L'Engle's Charles Wallace or the BBC's Tomorrow People or Twain's Huck Finn. Bhodi Li is the gifted but overeager teenager who has to learn the seriousness of war. I've always loved reptile characters, and as Lihon delivers lessons on Sun Tzu and the strategy of avoiding needless bloodshed, he lends a weighty, saurian dignity to the proceedings. The rapid-terraforming devices that the war is being fought over are a very cool piece of technology.This was intended to be the beginning of a series of books, and it's a pity that others were not completed-though my understanding is that Kube-McDowell was only under contract for this one book, so subsequent volumes might have wound up being of lower quality.Reminiscent of Heinlein's young adult books, this is a fun, intelligent adventure that I'd recommend to science fiction fans of any age.

Very Good

This book was very good. It had/has a very good plot to it. What I also liked was how it didn't get to discriptive, it let u accually think about it.