About this title: Three hundred years have passed since the Conquest, and the Great Mage rules over all of humanity, even as cybernetic links connect the varied worlds of the empire. Vast Gates allow travel from one planet to another, across unimaginable distances. Choirs of chanting priests maintain order, their songs subtly shaping reality, while the armies of the empire have known nothing but total victory for centuries. But on the planet Aramen, where sentient trees keep human symbionts as slaves, a power has arisen that may rival that of the Great Mage himself. Hordes of unnatural creatures rampage across ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765305305ISBN:0765305305
Description: Very good in new dust jacket. Has remainders dot on top of book-no other marks or defects on book. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 400 p. Sci Fi Essential Books. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765305305ISBN:0765305305
Description: Very Good. Paperback Advance Uncorrected Proof! No cover art (plain black on white). Cover has slight shelf wear. Pages are clean & unmarked. read more
Edition: Advance Uncorrected Proof
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765305305ISBN:0765305305
Description: Fine. 5.5 x 8 trade paperback book. Black lettering on the white spine and cover. A gripping tale of magic, science, and an epic clash between god-like forces. 400 pages. Advance uncorrected proof. Clean with tight binding in Fine condition. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: TOR
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765305305ISBN:0765305305
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0765305305. First American edition, first printing. Published by TOR in 2006. Virtually no wear to the jacket! ! Jacket is NOT price clipped. The covers are clean and bright, edges are sharp. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. Pages are clean and white. Binding is straight and tight. Remainder dot. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765305305ISBN:0765305305
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765305305ISBN:0765305305
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765305305ISBN:0765305305
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo. Hardcover. Sound, clean & nice copy, light edgewear. Jacket is bright & clean, light to moderate rubbing/edgewear. Not price clipped. read more
Edition: First Edition, 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor / SciFi Essential Book, NY
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765305305ISBN:0765305305
Description: Grimsley, Jim. THE LAST GREEN TREE. NY: Tom Doherty Assoc., (2006). 400p, wraps, spots on back cover, vg. First Edition. Uncorrected proof. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Paper-covered Boards
Publisher: Tor, NY
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765305305ISBN:0765305305
Description: Donato. Fine. Fine Dj. 8vo. In the far future, humanity is now under the rule of The Great Mage but on the planet Aramen where sentient trees take human slaves as symbionts, hordes of unnatural creatures appear and rampage across the planet, challenging the Mage's rule. OUT OF PRINT. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books, New York
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780765305305ISBN:0765305305
Description: As New in As New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very little to no wear; miniscule bumping to the book's spine bottom. Quite clean. "Three hundred years have passed since the Conquest, and the Great Mage rules over all of humanity, even as cybernetic links connect the varied worlds of the empire. Vast Gates allow travel from one planet to another, across unimaginable distances. Choirs of chanting priests maintain order, their songs subtly shaping reality, while the armies of the empire have ... read more
"This story had a lot of interesting ideas, but I did not feel that it quite came together. Set 3 centuries after The Ordinary, and mostly on a different planet, I'm not sure that the story really pulled together. In some ways it did, but in a lot of ways it felt like yet another pre-story to a much larger tale.
"While I enjoyed the storyline of the book, I felt that the ending was too rushed. It reminded me of Hamlet, save there was no great discovery, no fatal flaw, everyone just died. Also at times I found the writing style to be disjointed and hard to understand. While I recognize that this was to represent the confusion of the characters, I felt that it distracted from the overall storyline."
"Sci-fi books usually don't grab and hold my attention much because they all seem the same. This book was a little different. And that's all I need ..."
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