Hidden Empire (Saga of Seven Suns #1) – Kevin J Anderson
Simon & Schuster Pocket Books, 2005
662 pages
RRP: AU$18.95
ISBN: 978-0-7434-3065-4

A Forest of Stars (Saga of Seven Suns #2) – Kevin J. Anderson
Simon & Schuster Pocket Books, 2004
696 pages
RRP: AU$19.95
ISBN: 978-0-7434-3066-1

Reviewed by Lev Lafayette

To say the least, Kevin J. Anderson is an extremely prolific author. With dozens of published novels, his tales include works for Star Wars, Dune, The X-Files and even a co-authored piece with L. Ron Hubbard. His biggest claim to fame to date was The X-Files novel Ground Zero, which was voted Best SF Novel of the Year by SFX Magazine. He has also written several novels with original settings, including the Gamearth Trilogy. The Saga of the Seven Suns series is perhaps his most ambitious work to date, spanning seven novels, each several hundred pages long, along with a graphic novel prequel. To date, The Saga of the Seven Suns consists of Veiled Alliances (prequel, 2004), Hidden Empire (2002), A Forest of Stars (2003), Horizon Suns (2005), Of Fire and Night (2006), Metal Swarm (2007) and The Ashes of Worlds (2008). This review covers the first two novels which have been recently re-released by Simon and Schuster under the Pocket Books imprint.

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