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A review by odin45mp
The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2 by Greg Cox
2.0
The premise and promise set up by the first book are sadly let down here. Greg Cox tried too hard to hold himself to our timeline of events, thus burying the Eugenics War underneath terrorist plots and back room deals. I expected a WAR, with Khan calling the shots and rallying ordinary people as well as genetically engineered supermen to his cause. Or at least taking on the entire world with a smug sense of superiority.
The author suffered from a bad case of fanwank, and tried to squeeze every single time travel episode or historical event into his novel, and it suffered for it. One or two, I can understand. But he tried his hardest to force every last event into his story. Furthermore, it makes no sense that the entire framing device, Kirk reading Gary Seven's exploits as historical fact, even exists. Gary Seven worked behind the scenes, undercover, there is no reason for his exploits to be recounted in such great detail unless he or Roberta wrote a biography.
The novel failed to deliver an epic story on the foundation laid by the first book in the Eugenics War miniseries.
The author suffered from a bad case of fanwank, and tried to squeeze every single time travel episode or historical event into his novel, and it suffered for it. One or two, I can understand. But he tried his hardest to force every last event into his story. Furthermore, it makes no sense that the entire framing device, Kirk reading Gary Seven's exploits as historical fact, even exists. Gary Seven worked behind the scenes, undercover, there is no reason for his exploits to be recounted in such great detail unless he or Roberta wrote a biography.
The novel failed to deliver an epic story on the foundation laid by the first book in the Eugenics War miniseries.