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Giant's Star Mass Market Paperback – June 12, 1981

by James P. Hogan (Author)
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  1. Language
    English
  2. Publisher
    Del Rey
  3. Publication date
    June 12, 1981
  4. ISBN-10
    0345287711
  5. ISBN-13
    978-0345287717
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Del Rey (June 12, 1981)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0345287711
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0345287717
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6 ounces
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4.5 out of 5 stars
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Matchrocket
5.0 out of 5 stars This is Book 3 of The Giants series. This series is in my top 10.
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2022
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This is Book 3 of The Giants series. You should most definitely listen to the whole series starting with Inherit the Stars. There's a copious amount of detective work in the first two books that will keep you locked in. The Third book continues with the development of the divergent human civilizations. I read it the first time in paperback. Listened to it last Summer in this audio book version and will replay it again this coming Summer. I take long walks and listen to audio books on the way. It's a wonderful pastime.
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NormR
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Story
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2020
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Hogan always tells a terrific story. But his Lunarian stories are the best!
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BG-expat
5.0 out of 5 stars What a Treat! Complete a trilogy that I started Waaay Back! Amazon does it again!
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2020
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What a delightful wrap-up to a Sci-Fi series that I started working offshore by in the 1980's! Happy Smiley Ending with Great Writing! A bit dated--and smoking breaks very noticeable. History does move on--
THNX! Wc
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WOODY
5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting read
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2015
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A very interesting read. I originally got the book from the library about twenty years ago but was not able to finish reading it at the time. Glad I purchased the book so I could read at my leisure.
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David Leffring
4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Sci-Fi
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2019
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The reader is excellent. James Hogan's Trilogy is excellent and this episode is as good or better than the first two.
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G. C. Levine
5.0 out of 5 stars It reads well
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2012
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The story outline is basically plausible. It presents an interesting problem and if proven could cause everything society wants to believe in (can believe in? Should believe in?) to find itself being thrown out an airlock.
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TheTimeRider
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2013
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Read this several years ago, then wanted to read it again, and I found it here. Condition was as stated.
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Chuck Grimmett
5.0 out of 5 stars Third book in the Giants Series. First of the series that I picked up. A hard science fiction classic.
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2018
Classic sci-fi is my guilty pleasure. I absolutely love it. So when a Praxis participant recommended James P. Hogan to me, I filed it away in my mind. A week or two later I was working in a coffee shop in Peekskill, NY, on a rainy Saturday afternoon with Amanda. When it was time to leave and get dinner, we decided to pop into a used bookstore that we hadn’t explored before. They had a giant classic sci-fi section, so I started scanning for interesting names and titles. I remember the Hogan recommendation and was excited to see one of his books on the shelf. It was Giants’ Star, which happened to be the third book in a series. I didn’t care. I had to read it.

I cracked it open later that night when we got home and was hooked from the beginning. In the first two books of the series, the human race discovered some fascinating news about its origins, met an ancient race of beings lost in space time due to a ship malfunction, then thought the beings were gone for good when they left abruptly after learning that their kind likely migrated a few solar systems away. Then mankind learned that it was being watched by a different set of beings orbiting a distant star. That is where this book picks up. I won’t ruin it for you! You must read it.

Hogan’s books are meticulously researched. He has an engineering background. The theories he uses and the logical jumps he makes are plausible and deeply rooted in established science. Isaac Asimov called it pure scientific fiction. I think this falls into the realm of what I call plausible sci-fi. The only thing far-fetched is the giant race of aliens, but the book wouldn’t be sci-fi without that!

This book stands on its own. It is better if you’ve read the first two (which I did after reading this one), but the prologue catches you up pretty well.
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Robert Mceachern
5.0 out of 5 stars And I have loved every one from Hogan
Reviewed in Canada on March 30, 2018
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I have over a dozen James P. Hogan books in my collection (over 630 novels). And I have loved every one from Hogan. He makes you believe in the sci-fi and physics he creates. This is a replacement copy. I forgot it in a machine at work and never saw again. It was the third in the series.
I was re-reading. The first two are "Inherit the Stars" and "Gentle Giants of Ganymede". They were awesome reads and once started I couldn't put them down. Item arrived in excellent condition. small creases in the cover and the worst damage coming from the bar code sticker placed on the spine and small area of the cover. I simply had to remove it but I am more concerned with the story inside than the outward appearance.
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Anita
5.0 out of 5 stars Best scifi ever - Read it!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2012
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With every book this series gets better and you're flabbergasted by the sheer scope of it all. Explains all my conspiracy theories in such a plausible way. I'm now reading it for the second time - and it's *even better now* Just love scifi with "proper" expalanations... Read it now!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Nice guys don't always come last
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 14, 2010
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In this humans provide the heroes & villains while the gentle giant benevolent aliens look on fearing for their survival
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Michael Geoghegan
4.0 out of 5 stars Old School Science Fiction
Reviewed in Canada on September 12, 2023
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The writing in this series gets better by this third book, but this is old school science fiction where the author pictured a world where we had bases on the moon and Mars and the year is 2029, lol, such optimism. So if you are into nostalgia trips where this science fiction author imagined an amazing future instead of the growing dystopia we have now then enjoy!
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Janet D
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in Canada on July 14, 2017
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Still reading this one - received in good condition......
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