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T2: Rising Storm
Hunted for years, Sarah and John Connor have waged a grave battle to save humanity from destruction. They and they alone can keep the apocalyptic Judgment Day—the day when sentient machines move to destroy their human creators—from occurring. Aided by Dieter von Rossbach, an ex-counterterrorism operative who will eventually be used as the physical model for the T-101 Terminator units, the Connors have sabotaged the Cyberdyne research facility and stopped a deadly I-950 Infiltrator unit from completing her mission.
But the war is far from over, and now the heroes have been separated.
Severely injured—both mentally and physically—and recuperating under military surveillance, Sarah Connor must face her deepest fears...alone. Meanwhile, von Rossbach, hunted by both the CIA and his former allies, begins a delicate mission to recruit supporters and arms support for the coming battle.
Aided by a beautiful and brilliant MIT student, John Connor starts a desperate campaign across the United States and Central America to prepare an unsuspecting human race for the dark times ahead. For the original I-950 Infiltrator unit left a contingency plan—and, unbeknownst to our heroes, more Infiltrators have initiated their own clandestine operations, including the hunt to terminate the Connors. And this time, despite all their efforts, the brave heroes may not be able to stop the future war between human and machine.
Cyberdyne Corporation is not the only one with plans for the computer network, and hidden far away in a top secret military base, a fledgling Skynet takes its first steps toward sentience...and toward the rise of the machines and the termination of all human life.
But the war is far from over, and now the heroes have been separated.
Severely injured—both mentally and physically—and recuperating under military surveillance, Sarah Connor must face her deepest fears...alone. Meanwhile, von Rossbach, hunted by both the CIA and his former allies, begins a delicate mission to recruit supporters and arms support for the coming battle.
Aided by a beautiful and brilliant MIT student, John Connor starts a desperate campaign across the United States and Central America to prepare an unsuspecting human race for the dark times ahead. For the original I-950 Infiltrator unit left a contingency plan—and, unbeknownst to our heroes, more Infiltrators have initiated their own clandestine operations, including the hunt to terminate the Connors. And this time, despite all their efforts, the brave heroes may not be able to stop the future war between human and machine.
Cyberdyne Corporation is not the only one with plans for the computer network, and hidden far away in a top secret military base, a fledgling Skynet takes its first steps toward sentience...and toward the rise of the machines and the termination of all human life.
389 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 2002
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S.M. Stirling
170 books1,645 followersStephen Michael Stirling is a French-born Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author. Stirling is probably best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and the more recent time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse series.
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I’m a writer by trade, born in France but Canadian by origin and American by naturalization, living in New Mexico at present. My hobbies are mostly related to the craft. I love history, anthropology and archaeology, and am interested in the sciences. The martial arts are my main physical hobby.
MINI AUTO-BIOGRAPHY:
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I’m a writer by trade, born in France but Canadian by origin and American by naturalization, living in New Mexico at present. My hobbies are mostly related to the craft. I love history, anthropology and archaeology, and am interested in the sciences. The martial arts are my main physical hobby.
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August 3, 2015
10/9 - Thank goodness this was available at the library immediately following the conclusion of T2: Infiltrator. Unfortunately, I had to wait till this afternoon to actually get started because I had another, far less exciting book that had to be finished so I could return it to the library this morning. I got that finished last night, dropped it off after doing the shopping and now here I am with T2: Rising Storm and leftover meatball risoni for lunch. Sounds like a perfect afternoon break. To be continued...
Later on page 14 - Ooops! That's a pretty big mistake, calling Jordan Dyson Miles. To be continued...
Later on page 33 - Oh dear, another editing miss - I've now seen both 'maturity' and 'property' spelt with hyphens in the middle of the words, e.g. prop-erty and mat-urity. To be continued...
Later on page 45 - Another erroneously hyphenated word - pro-ject. I wonder if this is an Adobe Digital Editions formatting fail. Not that that would negate the author or publisher's need to check the editing before the okay was given to go ahead with releasing this eBook version, but it might be a plausible reason for why I'm seeing such strange editing problems that may not be apparent in paper copies. To be continued...
Later on page 71 - I'm pleased to notice that an irritation with the constant announcing of the date with each POV change has been fixed. It's like Stirling heard my complaint from yesterday and changed the way/frequency in which he announced the date. Now the date is only noted if it's different from the previous chapter or POV, for example if a couple of months have passed or we're watching a flashback to the future, much less repetitive and annoying. Readers aren't stupid, we're going to assume that it's roughly the same date as the last paragraph unless you tell us, so, glad to see Stirling no longer thinks we need to be told that it's the 'present day' for a hundred pages straight.
At the moment I'm feeling a bit impatient to read more Sarah and more John and Dieter chapters. The other ancillary characters' chapters are a little bit slow, my heart rate and excitement pick up whenever Sarah or John and Dieter are mentioned. So, lets fast forward through Clea's learning process, and Ron Labane's campaign for a less convenient and less machine driven world, and Colvin and Warren's currently slightly boring meetings regarding the progress of the third secret underground facility, and get to John's plans on what to do about that third Cyberdyne facility and Sarah's escape (or release) from the clutches of Pescadero. To be continued...
Another thought that has always bothered me from watching the movies, and continues now with this series of books. Why doesn't Skynet send a whole army of T-101s back to around the same time as when the first terminator was sent back? Why do they only send one at a time? Skynet is supposed to be this all-knowing and understanding of the human race sentient machine but they constantly underestimate a human's drive to stay alive and their/our ingenuity to achieve that feat. I don't think Skynet could ever achieve its goal of killing Sarah, before John is born, or the both of them after he's born if they keep sending only one terminator at a time. Amass an army and send them back all at once, Sarah, and or John, might be able to survive one Terminator at a time, but they'd never be able to escape a horde of them mowing down everything in sight. That little piece of illogicality from such a coldly intelligent computer has always bothered, because if I can see that solution why can't it. Not that I'm not on the Connors' side and don't enjoy watching them tear the T-101s apart and outsmart the more intelligent terminator leaders. I just like stuff to make sense and I don't think that failure on Skynet's part makes sense. To be continued...
Later on page 109 - First there's a horse called Linda, now there's a deck hand called Arnie who, hilariously enough, is currently on board with two Arnie lookalikes. LOL, I wonder if Arnie is going to get killed by his namesake. To be continued...
11/9 On page 185 - There's going to be chaos with massive amounts of gunfire when everyone realises that there are two Dieters. Despite bringing the added benefit of extra guns, I really doubt the gun runners or the Sector agents are going to be of any help once they realise what the second Dieter is. They'll likely be paralysed with fear or confusion giving the terminator the time to terminate them before dealing with Dieter and John, although maybe their presence will be enough to distract it while Dieter and John destroy it. To be continued...
SPOILERS AHEAD!!
12/9 On page 324 - I have a bad feeling about Wendy's virus/program thing that's going to stop Skynet from becoming sentient and the fact that we just found out that Clea suddenly doesn't have the ability to make it sentient. Plus the fact that we haven't heard from Alissa in ages and that the last thing we did hear was that she was going go through the next growth spurt. What if...Wendy is growth-spurted Alissa? And she's gotten to John and his mum was right and they're gonna have to kill her and OH GOD, THAT WOULD JUST BE TOO TRAGIC!
John's turned into a really nice boy, despite his hoodlum past and uncertain future. In fact, I reckon the actor, Edward Furlong, would rather live his most famous character's life than his own - he's an ex-husband, ex-father (he is no longer allowed to see his child), ex-actor (the last notable part he had was playing a continuing character in CSI), ex-prisoner, drug addict - things have not gone well for Edward. Despite the looming war and death-filled future that awaits John, no matter what he does, he's a pretty well-adjusted 18-year-old (just with a few extra abilities that most 18-year-olds can't claim). To be continued...
SPOILERS AHEAD
Later on page 332 - Phew! I'm glad to say that theory has been smashed, but I am still a little worried that whatever Wendy's program thing is meant to do it'll somehow end up doing the opposite, giving Clea the ability to sentientise Skynet when she couldn't previously. To be continued...
Later on page 340 - Oh dear! I think I guessed right. Clea just admitted that Skynet's sentience was an accident, and what more surprising accident than someone trying to sabotage Skynet and stop it from becoming sentient only to accidentally awaken it. To be continued...
Later on page 346 - Attached instead of attacked.
"...which she’d used to take stitches in John’s torn face.
Not sure 'take' is the right word here. To be continued...
Later on page 356 - Aha! I knew he wasn't dead! Now he just has to work out how to get out and make his way to the base, on foot with no weapons or outer clothing or goggles. He might still have the knife, maybe he could butterfly one of the seals and wear it as a cloak (kinda Empire Strikes Back-like). To be continued...
Later on page 359 - He's eating raw seal blubber? Ick! I definitely think I'd rather be stuffed inside a tauntaun than eat raw seal. Blargh! I can practically taste the fatty fishiness on its second go round over my tastebuds. To be continued...
13/9 on page 372 - “If only Antarctica had polar bears!” The idea of homicidal seals is bad enough, homicidal polar bears would have been almost as unstoppable as terminators. Plus they would have made a serious dent in the penguin population of Antarctica and they're just too cute to see getting eaten by evil polar bears. To be continued...
14/9 - So, I worked out the main points of the ending, just not the exact journey taken to get there, although I was pleased to find myself right. This got a little slow in the middle, compared with Infiltrator, so I can't rate it quite as highly as I did that one. The loss of was quite upsetting and I feel that it wasn't absolutely necessary to kill just to force John to grow into a man. He was turning into such a nice young man, now he's going to be moody, unwilling to trust, and so much harder in the third book - what a shame. I'm looking forward to starting T2: The Future War (T2, #3) in the next day or so. I currently own that book and I've got a number of other library books that need to be read first due to them being due soon. Infiltrator and Rising Storm were complete impulse reads, I was simply checking the library catalogue to see if I would be able to borrow them when the time came, and then when I saw that they were eBooks I requested them on a whim, only to find out after that you only get six days to read an eBook, compared to three weeks for physical books - how weird is that? - and so had to read them pretty quickly, and now my other (rather large pile of) library books have gone by the wayside and coming due too quickly for my liking. Okay sorry, I'm waffling and this isn't germane to my review of the book, so here are my final thoughts: despite not quite making 4.5-5 stars I really enjoyed this and would highly recommend it to any fan of the movies. Lots more books awaiting my attention, talk to you all later :)
Later on page 14 - Ooops! That's a pretty big mistake, calling Jordan Dyson Miles. To be continued...
Later on page 33 - Oh dear, another editing miss - I've now seen both 'maturity' and 'property' spelt with hyphens in the middle of the words, e.g. prop-erty and mat-urity. To be continued...
Later on page 45 - Another erroneously hyphenated word - pro-ject. I wonder if this is an Adobe Digital Editions formatting fail. Not that that would negate the author or publisher's need to check the editing before the okay was given to go ahead with releasing this eBook version, but it might be a plausible reason for why I'm seeing such strange editing problems that may not be apparent in paper copies. To be continued...
Later on page 71 - I'm pleased to notice that an irritation with the constant announcing of the date with each POV change has been fixed. It's like Stirling heard my complaint from yesterday and changed the way/frequency in which he announced the date. Now the date is only noted if it's different from the previous chapter or POV, for example if a couple of months have passed or we're watching a flashback to the future, much less repetitive and annoying. Readers aren't stupid, we're going to assume that it's roughly the same date as the last paragraph unless you tell us, so, glad to see Stirling no longer thinks we need to be told that it's the 'present day' for a hundred pages straight.
At the moment I'm feeling a bit impatient to read more Sarah and more John and Dieter chapters. The other ancillary characters' chapters are a little bit slow, my heart rate and excitement pick up whenever Sarah or John and Dieter are mentioned. So, lets fast forward through Clea's learning process, and Ron Labane's campaign for a less convenient and less machine driven world, and Colvin and Warren's currently slightly boring meetings regarding the progress of the third secret underground facility, and get to John's plans on what to do about that third Cyberdyne facility and Sarah's escape (or release) from the clutches of Pescadero. To be continued...
Another thought that has always bothered me from watching the movies, and continues now with this series of books. Why doesn't Skynet send a whole army of T-101s back to around the same time as when the first terminator was sent back? Why do they only send one at a time? Skynet is supposed to be this all-knowing and understanding of the human race sentient machine but they constantly underestimate a human's drive to stay alive and their/our ingenuity to achieve that feat. I don't think Skynet could ever achieve its goal of killing Sarah, before John is born, or the both of them after he's born if they keep sending only one terminator at a time. Amass an army and send them back all at once, Sarah, and or John, might be able to survive one Terminator at a time, but they'd never be able to escape a horde of them mowing down everything in sight. That little piece of illogicality from such a coldly intelligent computer has always bothered, because if I can see that solution why can't it. Not that I'm not on the Connors' side and don't enjoy watching them tear the T-101s apart and outsmart the more intelligent terminator leaders. I just like stuff to make sense and I don't think that failure on Skynet's part makes sense. To be continued...
Later on page 109 - First there's a horse called Linda, now there's a deck hand called Arnie who, hilariously enough, is currently on board with two Arnie lookalikes. LOL, I wonder if Arnie is going to get killed by his namesake. To be continued...
11/9 On page 185 - There's going to be chaos with massive amounts of gunfire when everyone realises that there are two Dieters. Despite bringing the added benefit of extra guns, I really doubt the gun runners or the Sector agents are going to be of any help once they realise what the second Dieter is. They'll likely be paralysed with fear or confusion giving the terminator the time to terminate them before dealing with Dieter and John, although maybe their presence will be enough to distract it while Dieter and John destroy it. To be continued...
SPOILERS AHEAD!!
12/9 On page 324 - I have a bad feeling about Wendy's virus/program thing that's going to stop Skynet from becoming sentient and the fact that we just found out that Clea suddenly doesn't have the ability to make it sentient. Plus the fact that we haven't heard from Alissa in ages and that the last thing we did hear was that she was going go through the next growth spurt. What if...Wendy is growth-spurted Alissa? And she's gotten to John and his mum was right and they're gonna have to kill her and OH GOD, THAT WOULD JUST BE TOO TRAGIC!
John's turned into a really nice boy, despite his hoodlum past and uncertain future. In fact, I reckon the actor, Edward Furlong, would rather live his most famous character's life than his own - he's an ex-husband, ex-father (he is no longer allowed to see his child), ex-actor (the last notable part he had was playing a continuing character in CSI), ex-prisoner, drug addict - things have not gone well for Edward. Despite the looming war and death-filled future that awaits John, no matter what he does, he's a pretty well-adjusted 18-year-old (just with a few extra abilities that most 18-year-olds can't claim). To be continued...
SPOILERS AHEAD
Later on page 332 - Phew! I'm glad to say that theory has been smashed, but I am still a little worried that whatever Wendy's program thing is meant to do it'll somehow end up doing the opposite, giving Clea the ability to sentientise Skynet when she couldn't previously. To be continued...
Later on page 340 - Oh dear! I think I guessed right. Clea just admitted that Skynet's sentience was an accident, and what more surprising accident than someone trying to sabotage Skynet and stop it from becoming sentient only to accidentally awaken it. To be continued...
Later on page 346 - Attached instead of attacked.
"...which she’d used to take stitches in John’s torn face.
Not sure 'take' is the right word here. To be continued...
Later on page 356 - Aha! I knew he wasn't dead! Now he just has to work out how to get out and make his way to the base, on foot with no weapons or outer clothing or goggles. He might still have the knife, maybe he could butterfly one of the seals and wear it as a cloak (kinda Empire Strikes Back-like). To be continued...
Later on page 359 - He's eating raw seal blubber? Ick! I definitely think I'd rather be stuffed inside a tauntaun than eat raw seal. Blargh! I can practically taste the fatty fishiness on its second go round over my tastebuds. To be continued...
13/9 on page 372 - “If only Antarctica had polar bears!” The idea of homicidal seals is bad enough, homicidal polar bears would have been almost as unstoppable as terminators. Plus they would have made a serious dent in the penguin population of Antarctica and they're just too cute to see getting eaten by evil polar bears. To be continued...
14/9 - So, I worked out the main points of the ending, just not the exact journey taken to get there, although I was pleased to find myself right. This got a little slow in the middle, compared with Infiltrator, so I can't rate it quite as highly as I did that one. The loss of was quite upsetting and I feel that it wasn't absolutely necessary to kill just to force John to grow into a man. He was turning into such a nice young man, now he's going to be moody, unwilling to trust, and so much harder in the third book - what a shame. I'm looking forward to starting T2: The Future War (T2, #3) in the next day or so. I currently own that book and I've got a number of other library books that need to be read first due to them being due soon. Infiltrator and Rising Storm were complete impulse reads, I was simply checking the library catalogue to see if I would be able to borrow them when the time came, and then when I saw that they were eBooks I requested them on a whim, only to find out after that you only get six days to read an eBook, compared to three weeks for physical books - how weird is that? - and so had to read them pretty quickly, and now my other (rather large pile of) library books have gone by the wayside and coming due too quickly for my liking. Okay sorry, I'm waffling and this isn't germane to my review of the book, so here are my final thoughts: despite not quite making 4.5-5 stars I really enjoyed this and would highly recommend it to any fan of the movies. Lots more books awaiting my attention, talk to you all later :)
January 14, 2014
This is not as strong as the first one...it's a little strange, in that the antagonists seem to have plots, but the protagonists seem to just be wandering about/have vignettes instead. Wendy is poorly handled as a character (certainly John's relationship with her develops in a way that is impossible to believe). Ron Labane's whole plot thread seems to go nowhere; I guess it has *A* purpose but that purpose does not meaningfully contribute to the story. More importantly, Ron's timeline does not match the other characters' timelines at all - he seems to have several extra years pass in there somehow, whereas John's age caps the series at only a few years.
June 8, 2017
The war between man and machine begins, but you don’t need to wait till the apocalypse to rock to your favorite jams.
As not-seen-on-tv, Harper Entertainment presents a special 2002 throwback collection: all the greatest hits of the Terminator saga all in one place! T2: Rising Storm features the best in contemporary junk sci-fi with hits from S.M. Stirling, and homage paid back to James Cameron and William Wisher, key-masters of the Terminator universe!
Bringing back hits from the 80′s and 90′s, T2: Rising Storm includes classics such as:
* No fate but that we make.
* You sent your dad from the Future to save your mom and impregnate her before dying so you can be born so you can send your dad back into the past to impregnate your mom….. how does that work again?
* Run Run Run Run Run, Locate bigger firepower! Run Run….
* Your face is blown halfway off, and I can see your metal skull
* Life is like a dark highway..
Also included are new and improved Terminator universe hits, remastered and returned to the public in high definition:
* Your voice sounds like someone I know but I shouldn’t trust you because you might be a robot.
* My mother’s in a psych-ward and I’m chillin’ with Conan the Barbarian.
* I hang out with my mom a lot not because I want to but because I don’t have any friends.
But that’s not all. There’s more! New material is available. New, never before released and right at your finger tips in this collected masterwork:
* John Connor gets a girlfriend and Mom doesn’t like her.
* Oh NOES! Robot controlled killer seals!
* And more!
Don’t pass this deal by!
Order now while supplies last! The first five hundred orders will include a home Terminator in your choice of three different colors. (Introductory participation plan expires in 2002, Check local laws and statutes regarding ownership of future robotic hunter/killer devices.
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As not-seen-on-tv, Harper Entertainment presents a special 2002 throwback collection: all the greatest hits of the Terminator saga all in one place! T2: Rising Storm features the best in contemporary junk sci-fi with hits from S.M. Stirling, and homage paid back to James Cameron and William Wisher, key-masters of the Terminator universe!
Bringing back hits from the 80′s and 90′s, T2: Rising Storm includes classics such as:
* No fate but that we make.
* You sent your dad from the Future to save your mom and impregnate her before dying so you can be born so you can send your dad back into the past to impregnate your mom….. how does that work again?
* Run Run Run Run Run, Locate bigger firepower! Run Run….
* Your face is blown halfway off, and I can see your metal skull
* Life is like a dark highway..
Also included are new and improved Terminator universe hits, remastered and returned to the public in high definition:
* Your voice sounds like someone I know but I shouldn’t trust you because you might be a robot.
* My mother’s in a psych-ward and I’m chillin’ with Conan the Barbarian.
* I hang out with my mom a lot not because I want to but because I don’t have any friends.
But that’s not all. There’s more! New material is available. New, never before released and right at your finger tips in this collected masterwork:
* John Connor gets a girlfriend and Mom doesn’t like her.
* Oh NOES! Robot controlled killer seals!
* And more!
Don’t pass this deal by!
Order now while supplies last! The first five hundred orders will include a home Terminator in your choice of three different colors. (Introductory participation plan expires in 2002, Check local laws and statutes regarding ownership of future robotic hunter/killer devices.
--
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July 25, 2011
The 2nd part of a trilogy set 6 years after the events of the T2 film, and ignoring the T3 story, this is about John Connor, now 16, and his mentor Dieter - the human model for the future Terminators - trying to stop Skynet from being created. I haven't read books 1& 3 but have ordered them on the strength of this as it was pretty good, and is faithful to the storylines of the original 2 films.
April 15, 2007
For anyone who enjoys sci-fi set in the T2 universe this trilogy is a good read. This book talks about how skynet becomes self-aware, and the quest of the other 2 infiltrators from the first book, "Infiltrator" are on a quest to insure that this does happen, by any means necessary. It's definitely a good read as it talks about some of John Connors background from living in South America during his travels with his mother. I'm normally not a S.M. Sterling fan, but this book as well as the others in the trilogy were quite well written. Definitely worth the read.
August 3, 2011
I gave it four stars because I love the Terminator story, but I debated on giving it three. The second book in the T2 series, this one was a little slower than the first one. I couldn't get into it as much. I also thought some of the things that happened were overly far-fetched so that was a bit of a turn off. But some major things happen in this book, so you can't skip it as part of the series. It ends with a major cliff hanger... so be sure you have book 3 ready to start reading right away.
August 14, 2019
Infiltrator started really good and got kinda silly as it went. It ended somewhat believably, but still kinda silly.
This book...i don't know what stirling was smoking, but it goes into almost full on camp. Add to that too many contrived random plot strings...just skip it. I mean, antarctic seal hacked by a terminator. That's all u need to know
This book...i don't know what stirling was smoking, but it goes into almost full on camp. Add to that too many contrived random plot strings...just skip it. I mean, antarctic seal hacked by a terminator. That's all u need to know
December 24, 2012
Second of three in Stirling's Terminator series. Not nearly as good as the first novel. Lots of jumps in logic in this one (why are they returning to their house in South America? That is the most obvious place that the authorities would be looking... DUH!!) Will not be reading the third novel.
July 6, 2021
Terminator: Rising Storm by S.M. Stirling is a movie tie-in novel based on movie “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”, and the second book of the “T2” book trilogy. Twice Sarah Connor and her son John have been able to prevent Judgment Day, the time when Skynet becomes sentient and declares war on its creators the human race. After the last attack on Cyberdyne, the company that was started to create the Skynet program, the American government took the project away from the independent contractor and placed it in the hands of scientists hidden away in a top secret installation in Antarctica. One of the scientists on the base is an Infiltrator, an I-950 organic computer in human form that wants to make sure that Skynet will come into existence. John and Sarah Connor and their ally and good friend, ex-CIA Dieter Von Rossbach have put into place a group of people who will be ready to fight when Judgment day arrives and the machines try to annihilate humanity. When the Connors and Dieter learn about the base in Antarctica, they prepare themselves to once more go up against an enemy determined to destroy them. T2: RISING STORM stays true to the story line developed in the Terminator movies and takes the plot one step closer to the day the Skynet computer becomes sentient. Although this is an exciting action-adventure thriller, it is also human relationship drama. The mother-son bond between Sarah and John is beautiful to witness and the audience truly feels sorry for the lives they must lead if they want to prevent the extinction of mankind.
September 1, 2023
This was a fairly entertaining book! I do really enjoy S. M. Stirling's T2 series, they're very fun and take an interesting look at the world. My biggest complaint is how everything just seems so convenient. Every time they need to convince someone to help them a terminator shows up and after they finally have proof, these people are willing to literally drop everything to help them join their cause and it happens constantly! Many things seem to happen simply to wrap up plot points like the death of Ron or Wendy's own fate. I do like the twist of John being the one to actually accidentally create skynet though and the reveal that his facial scars came about as a result of a seal attack was very fun. Overall this was a fun book and an interesting installation of the series.
July 24, 2021
More bad Terminator
I like Terminator 3. Yet many only like the first two movies and keep trying to make a "good" third entry. This ain't it. The first book in this trilogy was good setup, but this just repeated it. It forgot about characters and storylines. Why have all those Ton chapters for no reason? What about Dyson? Wendy is terrible. Kate Brewster was better in every way. Then there was the plot armor. Terminator stories kill heroic characters, except in this series. A waste of time and money.
I like Terminator 3. Yet many only like the first two movies and keep trying to make a "good" third entry. This ain't it. The first book in this trilogy was good setup, but this just repeated it. It forgot about characters and storylines. Why have all those Ton chapters for no reason? What about Dyson? Wendy is terrible. Kate Brewster was better in every way. Then there was the plot armor. Terminator stories kill heroic characters, except in this series. A waste of time and money.
April 1, 2022
15 pages in and i would have assumed the story would have progressed more than what it has. It would have helped the story a lot if Stirling would have done a story recap because I feel like im starting this story right in the middle, not knowing where its been and not knowing why its going where. The first book was better.
October 12, 2019
Pretty good.
Pretty good read. Seemed a little slow at first. It got better toward the end. Still has at least one in answered question. I can't reveal it without giving too much away.
Pretty good read. Seemed a little slow at first. It got better toward the end. Still has at least one in answered question. I can't reveal it without giving too much away.
November 4, 2020
This is strange. Stirling is usually a wonderful writer. This, from 1991, is a little weak. I like the universe, and the continuation from Terminator 2. But he is a much better writer today. Still, good characters, suspense, etc. I'll read book 3.
July 20, 2017
Entertaining. Hollywood style heroes and adventures.
July 8, 2023
Wendy... gah!!!
August 19, 2024
Enjoyable enough.
March 31, 2025
I absolutely love anything Terminator so I was excited to read this series! This one wasn't as good as Infiltrator, but i still liked it fine.
May 25, 2025
loving this series but God the romance I just can't.
November 5, 2020
Following on from the end of T2: Infiltrator, this novel continues the story started in that novel. The infiltrator of the previous novel may have been destroyed, but she has left behind 2 clones who continue her work, while Sarah Connor recuperates in military hospital from the wounds she received destroying it.
For the first portion of the story, then, John is out on his own with Dieter von Rossbach, rather than working with his mother. This allows the character to grow and mature somewhat, while it also provides the opportunity to bring back some other faces from the film in the Sarah Connor portion of the story, most noticeably in Dr Silbermann (the psychiatrist from T1 and T2).
The novel also takes to opportunity to further explore the paradoxical timeline of the world, with one key scene in particular towards the end showing how Skynet became sentient.
For the first portion of the story, then, John is out on his own with Dieter von Rossbach, rather than working with his mother. This allows the character to grow and mature somewhat, while it also provides the opportunity to bring back some other faces from the film in the Sarah Connor portion of the story, most noticeably in Dr Silbermann (the psychiatrist from T1 and T2).
The novel also takes to opportunity to further explore the paradoxical timeline of the world, with one key scene in particular towards the end showing how Skynet became sentient.
April 22, 2015
Not very well written. Story is only interesting at all if you're a Terminator fan. John and Sarah don't really feel like John and Sarah. Every part of the plot is based on extremely unlikely coincidences. Also pretty similar to T2: Infiltrator. Both books could have easily been combined into one without missing anything.
November 19, 2019
Anyone who loved the movie T2 and the Terminator universe will love this series. This is what the Terminator movies should have been like after T2. The story follows John Connor and Sarah Connor in their skirmishes with Skynet's minions over the years before it becomes self-aware. Then the fun really begins!
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June 10, 2010
This trilogy should have been the T3 movie (or probably another series of movies) instead of the crap they actually filmed. I love this series, and have read it before. I've recently gotten back into T2, and wanted to read the series again. SO much better than T3!!
February 2, 2009
An excellent read for anyone who loves the Terminator franchise. This is book #2 in a trilogy.
January 25, 2011
A really good series for the Terminator Fan.
September 1, 2012
Worth reading.
July 14, 2013
Bought: July 14, 2013
Location: Fully Booked BHS
Price: P50
Location: Fully Booked BHS
Price: P50
July 27, 2017
Excellent story and great read. I am an avid terminator fan so my opinion is bias. However, I believe this is a great story for an alternate universe
July 11, 2015
An interesting continuation of the Terminator story. John and Sarah Conner continue their struggle with Cyberdyne/Skynet. Very enjoyable.
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