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 | Devices and Desires by K. J. Parker | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner | |
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| Publisher: Orbit
http://www.orbitbooks.com ISBN: 1841492760 Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Sci-Fi Release date: April 2006 Format: Trade Pages: 576 Price: $12.99 | |||
| Due to its incredible industrial base using advanced technology, the Mezentine Republic is a superpower. Two neighboring people, the Vadani and the Eremians, resent their superiority. Whereas the Vandani leadership uses guile in its dealing with the powerful republic, the Eremians invade, only to be slaughtered by their foes, due to superior technological weaponry, especially the mechanical scorpions.
However, in the ruins of the slaughter, opportunity arises. Guild foreman and engineer Ziani Vaatzes has fled the republic to avoid execution for breaking the rules. He offers the Eremians his knowledge of weaponry for safety and the opportunity to see his beloved wife and daughter one last time. However, the Mezentines, realizing that Ziani may sell them out, attack the Eremians to insure they remain the sole superpower. The first book of the "Engineer Trilogy" is a fascinating look at power, mostly through the machinations of the scheming, lying Ziani, who manipulates people as he climbs the social pyramid to get the support to meet his obsessive goal. He does this in the backdrop of nations selling violence and control as the key to regional ownership of a global economy. Although the antihero Ziani’s skills are incredible, luck and coincidence help him stay alive while his plausibility index is somewhere over Everest and his ethics somewhere in hell, as he sacrifices innocent people to further his cause. Still this is an entertaining tale of one man who, to achieve his quest, requires himself to be Machiavelli and Rove. | |||
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