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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Wordy As Hell... 's GateBy DrPatIf multiple universes could exist, they might intersect. If magic was a reality in at least one of them, there might also be another world with people of supernatural ability. And given that magic-practicing humans in each would want to expand into the adjacent worlds of their respective multiverses, eventually they would meet. If they did, a war of magics might erupt.That's a lot of "ifs," and the authors take an uncomfortably long time setting the scene. It doesn't help that neither human civilization uses names, military ranks, gods, or countries anything like our own common usage.The reader is left to wallow in that welter of the unfamiliar, trying to set two different imaginary worlds into place mentally, before the story can truly commence. The only help is that one group of humans use "Talents" (ESP-like magical gifts), and supplement them with mechanisms like trains, artillery pieces, and dynamite. The other group uses "Gifts" (spell-magic talents they can use themselves, or code into personal crystalsmdash;"PCs"mdash;for use by the non-Gifted), as well as modified organisms like dragons.Oh, yes, and there are sentient apes and cetaceans in one of the multiverses. Sigh.Previous writers who took on the multiverse concept left one side to the familiar. Think of H. Beam Piper with "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen" (Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (Kalvan series)), or Wen Spencer's "Tinker" (Tinker (Elfhome Book 1)) in the Elfhome novels. Eric Flint's Ring of Fire novels started with a single town swapped into an unfamiliar alternate time and place in "1632" (1632 (Ring of Fire Series)).In the Weber/Evans "Hell's Gate" series, we have to stretch to encompass good and bad guys for both sides of the conflict in a totally alien battlefield. Furthermore, the geography of each multiverse is the same as our own mundane Earth. It makes the battleground and home worlds in which these two cultures contend eerily familiar, but just different enough to delay and defeat the reader's attempt to assign places to a familiar globe.If the novel shares a common failing with other Weber tales, it is the black-and white nature of the various opponents: good guys are not only good, but stellar (even holy!); bad guys are not simply mistaken, but married to evil. Yet as with the "Honor Harrington" and "Safehold" oeuvres, there are enough of each on both sides of the conflict to keep it real.More real than this is the "fog of war" that develops when these two civilizations meet. Although each had the firm intention to keep any eventual encounter peaceful, that intent does not survive the actual contact. "Guns" begin to blaze, people die on both sides, and it doesn't even need conspiracies of disinformation and propaganda from both civilizations to spin the conflict out of control: "Once hostility begins to grow, simple clarity of communication isn't enough to make it magically disappear. If two nations have a tradition of dislike, if they treat one another to public displays of discourtesy or petulance, if they get into the habit of denigrating one another in efforts to sway international diplomatic opinion to favor their side in some dispute, misunderstandings and flares of temper can occur quickly, particularly during times of increased stress."This is the opening of a new series, so we should not expect the good guys to tidily win before the end. Even so, there is an appalling number of characters in whom we have invested interest who die in horrific waysmdash;some of them before the tale is really underway.Yet despite its complexities, clumsy phrasing, and slight stereotyping, despite all the discomforts and delays, the story itself is compelling. We see how the misunderstandings contribute to disaster. We want the Prince to defeat the plans of his evil father-in-law, we want the Talented couple to survive as POWs, we really want the evil general and his sadistic minions to pay for their crimes.And we're dying to know what the whales plan to do!Liner Notes:I found several things helpful in keeping the two civilizations straight in my mind:*The group with ESP Talents (the "mechanicals" as I call them) give their veterans the right to use the honorific "chan" in their names. The other civilization (or "magics") has a cultural group that includes the honorific "vos" in their surnames, but it isn't a reliable way to spot them in the narrative, especially since these folks may be hiding their Gifts.*"Dragoons" belong to the mechanicals, "Dragons" to the magics.*A couple of blank projection-maps helped me keep the geography of the two groups straight. Since the mineral wealth is common from one universe to another, silver and gold lodes and oilfields help site the places discussed. Obvious geographic landmarks like Gibraltar, the Mediterranean and Black Seas, Niagara Falls, gulfs and straits and island continents, all help to position the alien location-names on an understandable map.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The publisher (and ) need to pay more attention to quality control.By David M.I'm a long time user of various Kindle apps on multiple devices. My wife and I have purchased hundreds of books from . I move from reading on one device while commuting on public transportation (iPhone) to a Google tablet when reading at home. This has worked flawlessly for at least a hundred books over the last couple of years. But with this book when I arrived at the end of chapter one, the book refused to move any further. Instead, an advertisement is displayed offering to sell me Audible Narration. After a couple of fruitless troubleshooting sessions with support taking close to 2 hours involving numerous attempts at reloading the book and the application on multiple devices I was finally told the book was flawed and it was going to be returned to the publisher. I was given a refund by .So who knows if the book was great or not? I've read the Honor Harrington and Safehold series by Mr. Weber and enjoyed them immensely. But the fact that neither nor the publisher have adequate quality control in place to ensure the product is usable.is quite disappointing. I expect better quality from . If I were Mr. Weber I would be annoyed that neither can deliver his product with a reliable result.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good readBy Kindle CustomerThis is an interesting take on the concept of parallel universes and traveling through them. It is also a great view of the human mind's bent toward violence, and the paranoid wariness that drowns out the voices of more open minded people. It also shows that, even though we fear the unknown, commonality will win over differences eventually.

They thought they knew how the universes worked. They were wrong! In the almost two centuries since the discovery of the first interuniversal portal, Arcana has explored scores of other worlds - all of them duplicates of their own. Multiple Earths, virgin planets with a twist, because the ''explorers'' already know where to find all of their vast, untapped natural resources. Worlds beyond worlds, effectively infinite living space and mineral wealth. And in all that time, they have never encountered another intelligent species. No cities, no vast empires, no civilizations, and no equivalent of their own dragons, gryphons, spells, and wizards. But all of that is about to change. It seems there is intelligent life elsewhere in the multiverse. Other human intelligent life, with terrifying new weapons and powers of the mind...and wizards who go by the strange title of ''scientist''.

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