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| Plot Summary of Empire's End - Sten 8 |
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"This is the last of the "Sten" series, featuring the story of Sten leading
a revolt to overthrow the government of the Eternal Emperor. In the process he discovers
the secret of the Emperor's energy source, AM2, and more about what the Emperor is all
about and where he comes from."
Steve, Resident Scholar
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"Sten decides to overthrow the Eternal Emperor and with his friends, sets off on a hunt for the hidden source of Anti-Matter 2, the fuel on which the empire runs and the location of which is known only to the Emperor. He eventually ends up in an alternate universe in a life and death struggle with the emperor. While there, he discovers the secret of the Emperor's immortality."
Mike McGowan, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Empire's End - Sten 8 |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 30%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 20%
Tone of book
- cynical or dry-wit
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Political power play
Yes
Political plotlets
- overthrowing govt/kingdom
Tech./$$$/Info hunt
Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying
- power source
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- navy soldier
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
- clone
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- dictator
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
- deluded
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Genius (really!)
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Setting
Terrain
- Forests
- Space, need spacesuit
- Asteroid
Spaceship setting:
- futuristic human warship
- really, really giant spaceship/station
- one or two man fighter/scoutship
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:
- humans in a futuristic society
- inhabited by friendly aliens
- unfriendly aliens
- neutral aliens
Planet outside solar system?
Yes
Takes place in spaceship?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only)
- none/very little science jargon needed
- some scientific explanation
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
How much dialogue?
- significantly more dialog than descript
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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