Timeline for Why didn't the Omnius wipe out free humans before Tio Holtzman and Sorceresses of Rossak developed the means to defend/attack?
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| Apr 6, 2011 at 14:31 | comment | added | Beofett | @DVK - I love the world and the cultures (both alien and human) in Seven Suns, but I find the characters a little inconsistent (some I love, some I find boring, and some I find to act erratically), and I have trouble with the way he rehashes past events over and over. Although if you read it in small chunks, the rehashing would probably be more helpful than annoying. I made it about halfway through, then took a break for some other books. | |
| Apr 6, 2011 at 13:37 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @Beofett - Hmmm... I kinda enjoyed Seven Suns but read it in small chunks so didn't really concentrate. I might post this as a Q :) | |
| Apr 6, 2011 at 12:02 | comment | added | Beofett | @DVK - I agree. This is one of the big problems I had with just about every Brian Herbert/Kevin Anderson book I've read. The authors (Anderson in particular, since you can see it through his Seven Suns series, as well) are quick to "fudge" logical decisions in favor of maintaining storyline. | |
| Apr 6, 2011 at 6:36 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | @Dima - Omnius should have been able to factor in the human inventiveness as far as new science/technology. Its mechanism may have been opaque to the machines, but the results shouldn't have been given available historical data. | |
| Apr 6, 2011 at 0:05 | comment | added | Dima | You can just as easily turn this around: before the Holtzman shields the free humans posed no real threat to Omnius. Wiping them out would have been a waste of resources. | |
| Apr 5, 2011 at 19:57 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | Yeah, but the risk/reward calculation seems kinda wrong here... | |
| Apr 5, 2011 at 19:30 | history | edited | Dima | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Apr 5, 2011 at 19:25 | history | answered | Dima | CC BY-SA 2.5 |