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Saga of Seven Suns, The - Veiled Alliances

By: DC Comics

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Misc Graphic Novels - Superhero (DC Comics)

Last Stocked on 6/20/2013

Product Info

Title
Saga of Seven Suns, The - Veiled Alliances
Publisher
Category
Publish Year
2004
Dimensions
7x10x.45"
NKG Part #
2147417242
Type
Hardcover

Description

Eleven exploratory ships carrying people who don't want their descendants to have to live on what they see Earth becoming have now been discovered by another, more advanced, space-faring civilization, the Ildaran Empire. The empire helps the refugees--by now the several-generations-later offspring of the original voyagers--settle in suitable situations and sends diplomats with a few of them to Earth to establish commerce and other connections. This book nimbly skips between one or another of the refugees' various new homes and Earth. Some emigres get in dire straits, others go native in their new environments with wondrous results. Meanwhile, both Earth and Ildaran authorities bring hidden agendas to their first-contact discussions. Anderson opts for comics as the vehicle for the prequel to his prose-novel series, the Saga of Seven Suns (Hidden Empire [2002], A Forest of Stars [2003], and Horizon Storms, forthcoming), and primary artist Robert Teranishi makes it look like the several million bucks it would cost as a movie. This is Star Wars stuff, maybe a little smarter. Ray Olson.