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The Klaatu Diskos #3
The Klaatu Terminus
National Book Award winner Pete Hautman weaves several diverging time streams into one satisfying masterwork in this stunning and revelatory series finale.
In a far distant future, Tucker Feye and the inscrutable Lia find themselves atop a crumbling pyramid in an abandoned city. In present-day Hopewell, Tucker’s uncle Kosh faces armed resistance and painful memories as he attempts to help a terrorized woman named Emma, who is being held captive by a violent man. And on a train platform in 1997, a seventeen-year-old Kosh is given an instruction that will change his life, and the lives of others, forever. Tucker, Lia, and Kosh must evade the pursuit of maggot-like Timesweeps, battle Master Gheen’s cult of Lambs, all while they puzzle out the enigmatic Boggsians as they search for one another and the secrets of the diskos. Who built them? Who is destroying them? Where — and when — will it all end?
In a far distant future, Tucker Feye and the inscrutable Lia find themselves atop a crumbling pyramid in an abandoned city. In present-day Hopewell, Tucker’s uncle Kosh faces armed resistance and painful memories as he attempts to help a terrorized woman named Emma, who is being held captive by a violent man. And on a train platform in 1997, a seventeen-year-old Kosh is given an instruction that will change his life, and the lives of others, forever. Tucker, Lia, and Kosh must evade the pursuit of maggot-like Timesweeps, battle Master Gheen’s cult of Lambs, all while they puzzle out the enigmatic Boggsians as they search for one another and the secrets of the diskos. Who built them? Who is destroying them? Where — and when — will it all end?
368 pages, Hardcover
First published April 8, 2014
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Pete Hautman
60 books357 followersPeter Murray Hautman is an American author best known for his novels for young adults. One of them, Godless, won the 2004 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The National Book Foundation summary is, "A teenage boy decides to invent a new religion with a new god."
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April 30, 2014
Originally reviewed at Minnesota Reads.
After watching Tucker and Lia jump back and forth through time and seeing the rise and fall of civilizations and religious zealots, in The Klaatu Terminus, the final book in the Klaatu Diskos trilogy by Pete Hautman, resolutions are finally, wonderfully revealed.
The last time we saw Tucker and Lia there were many questions. What happened to Tucker’s father and mother? Where is Uncle Kosh? Who built the diskos? What are the maggots? What will happen to Tucker and Lia? Will Tucker ever see his family again? And what will be the effect of all this time travel?
In Terminus, these questions and more are revealed and many secrets spill out with every answer.
This is a very hard book to write about, because if you haven’t read books one or two, you will think it sounds completely crazy. And don’t even attempt to read this book without having read the first two.
So because I don’t want to confuse those of you who haven’t a clue what I’d be talking about, let me just praise what I love about this whole series.
Most importantly, this is the most innovative, imaginative science fiction I’ve read in a long time. There are some traces of things you have read elsewhere, like dystopian societies, time travel changing the future and past, and new technologies, but the ways these things are dealt with are vastly different than anything that has come out of YA science fiction in years. I remain in awe of the world Pete Hautman has imagined. There are time-traveling diskos, maggots similar to diskos, ghost-like creatures, religious zealots who sacrifice children, wars between societies, futuristic weapons, a fear of numbers, a medical facility that can do amazing things, different streams in time, and so much more. I could continue to list all the fabulous things in this series, but besides the great science fiction, we also have great characters and relationships.
It’s no secret I have a major crush on Uncle Kosh. I was sad he was almost completely absent from book two, but I’m happy to say he’s back in full force in book three and we finally learn about the rift between him and Tucker’s father. My crush remains strong and in tact. But it’s more than Uncle Kosh. The relationships between Tucker and his family, Tucker and Lia, and Kosh and Emily are fantastic, complex, and took turns I didn’t always expect. I loved these people, the good and bad, and am sad to see their story end, but I feel utterly gratified with how their story ended, even if I did scream and cry at times.
Like the previous two books, there is a lot of back and forth in time, but here we get this both with people going back and forth and with the story going back and forth, like how we learn about Uncle Kosh in the present and when he was seventeen. I loved this back and forth and it was never confusing throughout the series. It’s clear where people are, what version of them we’re dealing with, and what has happened to them. It’s written so well, there’s never a question.
This is just a really great series with a satisfying ending. It’s different. It’s daring. It’s dazzling. I loved it.
After watching Tucker and Lia jump back and forth through time and seeing the rise and fall of civilizations and religious zealots, in The Klaatu Terminus, the final book in the Klaatu Diskos trilogy by Pete Hautman, resolutions are finally, wonderfully revealed.
The last time we saw Tucker and Lia there were many questions. What happened to Tucker’s father and mother? Where is Uncle Kosh? Who built the diskos? What are the maggots? What will happen to Tucker and Lia? Will Tucker ever see his family again? And what will be the effect of all this time travel?
In Terminus, these questions and more are revealed and many secrets spill out with every answer.
This is a very hard book to write about, because if you haven’t read books one or two, you will think it sounds completely crazy. And don’t even attempt to read this book without having read the first two.
So because I don’t want to confuse those of you who haven’t a clue what I’d be talking about, let me just praise what I love about this whole series.
Most importantly, this is the most innovative, imaginative science fiction I’ve read in a long time. There are some traces of things you have read elsewhere, like dystopian societies, time travel changing the future and past, and new technologies, but the ways these things are dealt with are vastly different than anything that has come out of YA science fiction in years. I remain in awe of the world Pete Hautman has imagined. There are time-traveling diskos, maggots similar to diskos, ghost-like creatures, religious zealots who sacrifice children, wars between societies, futuristic weapons, a fear of numbers, a medical facility that can do amazing things, different streams in time, and so much more. I could continue to list all the fabulous things in this series, but besides the great science fiction, we also have great characters and relationships.
It’s no secret I have a major crush on Uncle Kosh. I was sad he was almost completely absent from book two, but I’m happy to say he’s back in full force in book three and we finally learn about the rift between him and Tucker’s father. My crush remains strong and in tact. But it’s more than Uncle Kosh. The relationships between Tucker and his family, Tucker and Lia, and Kosh and Emily are fantastic, complex, and took turns I didn’t always expect. I loved these people, the good and bad, and am sad to see their story end, but I feel utterly gratified with how their story ended, even if I did scream and cry at times.
Like the previous two books, there is a lot of back and forth in time, but here we get this both with people going back and forth and with the story going back and forth, like how we learn about Uncle Kosh in the present and when he was seventeen. I loved this back and forth and it was never confusing throughout the series. It’s clear where people are, what version of them we’re dealing with, and what has happened to them. It’s written so well, there’s never a question.
This is just a really great series with a satisfying ending. It’s different. It’s daring. It’s dazzling. I loved it.
June 14, 2014
The last in the Klaatu Diskos series, its not quite as exciting as the first two. But still a good read.
Tucker and Lia have finally found each other and are now stuck in a place where the diskos continue to disappear. The timesweeps have been sent to fix the time streams and all sorts of unintended consequences are happening because of it.
This book is much more relationship based than the first two. We learn a great deal about Kosh's past, we follow Lia and Tucker as they try to make sense of what is happening, though they don't have any great sense of what they are supposed to be doing. They are really only doing the one thing they can do. Find others and see what happens. But it never gets too stagnant. We meet some new players… a glimpse of what a future, 7000+ years in the future might look like should everyone eschew technology and embrace a primitive lifestyle again.
It's an interesting element of the book that through all the events in time that Tucker and Lia experience, we as the reader can see a definite swing of the pendulum effect on the various societies he encounters. It makes sense that after what came to be known as The Digital Plague that a religion would develop that branded not just technology, but numbers themselves as the source of evil. One extreme to the other, over and over again. And a theme, for me, eventually emerges (among the other themes more obviously explored in the story) and that is "moderation" - relying too much on digital technology leads to a host of insurmountable problems, but denying their benefits entirely and relying only on faith does the same thing.
From the perspective on an atheist I appreciated Hautmans treatment of religion and faith, as well as the consequences of extreme logic and scientific achievement, in the series. I never felt he was didactic about it at all. He tells the story in a very personal way and the characters deal with their faith and beliefs in ways completely believable to their character. Even though it is technically a YA novel I never felt talked down to or that these themes were over simplified.
Tucker and Lia have finally found each other and are now stuck in a place where the diskos continue to disappear. The timesweeps have been sent to fix the time streams and all sorts of unintended consequences are happening because of it.
This book is much more relationship based than the first two. We learn a great deal about Kosh's past, we follow Lia and Tucker as they try to make sense of what is happening, though they don't have any great sense of what they are supposed to be doing. They are really only doing the one thing they can do. Find others and see what happens. But it never gets too stagnant. We meet some new players… a glimpse of what a future, 7000+ years in the future might look like should everyone eschew technology and embrace a primitive lifestyle again.
It's an interesting element of the book that through all the events in time that Tucker and Lia experience, we as the reader can see a definite swing of the pendulum effect on the various societies he encounters. It makes sense that after what came to be known as The Digital Plague that a religion would develop that branded not just technology, but numbers themselves as the source of evil. One extreme to the other, over and over again. And a theme, for me, eventually emerges (among the other themes more obviously explored in the story) and that is "moderation" - relying too much on digital technology leads to a host of insurmountable problems, but denying their benefits entirely and relying only on faith does the same thing.
From the perspective on an atheist I appreciated Hautmans treatment of religion and faith, as well as the consequences of extreme logic and scientific achievement, in the series. I never felt he was didactic about it at all. He tells the story in a very personal way and the characters deal with their faith and beliefs in ways completely believable to their character. Even though it is technically a YA novel I never felt talked down to or that these themes were over simplified.
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July 14, 2020It’s sad to me that this book has under 350 ratings. How did so few people make it through to book three? I don’t understand it, but I’d say this is a top notch YA scifi series.
July 4, 2018
I felt that the series was quite meh, overall. The idea was good, the worldbuilding was ok, the writing was solid, but something just didn't speak to me.
Perhaps it's best to deal with this thematically.
- Religion plays a huge part in this series. You can't fault it - Adrian, Tucker's father, is religious and part of the first book deals with a lot with Adrian's loss of faith. Lambs of September are also based on Christianity because .
At the same time, I'm not sure where the religious text of the Lambs of September originated - it seems to have been started by , but I can't really get a sense of progression or motivation. It feels like the characters (and villains, in the case of Master Gheen) were there to make the plot move.
(Although, what is it with fathers? .)
- Memory - we deal with this in several ways.
First, Kosh's flashbacks as we learn about his relationship with Adrian and Emily. To be honest, this sideplot felt entirely unnecessary and it felt like it cheapened the relationship between the characters. I did love all the cooking scenes, though. Those added a nice touch of domesticity. Though Kosh .
Second, the revelation of the clones - i.e. . The revelations at the end did make the portals a little circular.
Third, the Klaatu - in a way, they're held together by memory.
Fourth, the narrative doesn't really explain how people forget and remember. Why did Tom Krause get forgotten? What's the triggering event?
- Medicine and Technology - the medical worlds felt a lot like a get-out-of-free card. To be fair, since there is a Greater Power manipulating everything (), it makes sense that people are deposited in the appropriate time to move the story.
We don't actually see how the technology works, though - we're just told it does. To be fair, this is a valid attitude on the part of the protagonists. But it also ends up feeling like the protagonists are buffeted between scenes, with limited control over their actions.
I was also unimpressed by the explanation for the Plague.
- Characters - I didn't really like them. I don't know why Lia and Tucker liked each other. And what happened to Tom in the end? It sounds really sucky that he had to . In a way, they felt flat - they exist to move the plot along, but there's not much thought for their internal motivations.
It's not a bad series, it just... could be more.
Perhaps it's best to deal with this thematically.
- Religion plays a huge part in this series. You can't fault it - Adrian, Tucker's father, is religious and part of the first book deals with a lot with Adrian's loss of faith. Lambs of September are also based on Christianity because .
At the same time, I'm not sure where the religious text of the Lambs of September originated - it seems to have been started by , but I can't really get a sense of progression or motivation. It feels like the characters (and villains, in the case of Master Gheen) were there to make the plot move.
(Although, what is it with fathers? .)
- Memory - we deal with this in several ways.
First, Kosh's flashbacks as we learn about his relationship with Adrian and Emily. To be honest, this sideplot felt entirely unnecessary and it felt like it cheapened the relationship between the characters. I did love all the cooking scenes, though. Those added a nice touch of domesticity. Though Kosh .
Second, the revelation of the clones - i.e. . The revelations at the end did make the portals a little circular.
Third, the Klaatu - in a way, they're held together by memory.
Fourth, the narrative doesn't really explain how people forget and remember. Why did Tom Krause get forgotten? What's the triggering event?
- Medicine and Technology - the medical worlds felt a lot like a get-out-of-free card. To be fair, since there is a Greater Power manipulating everything (), it makes sense that people are deposited in the appropriate time to move the story.
We don't actually see how the technology works, though - we're just told it does. To be fair, this is a valid attitude on the part of the protagonists. But it also ends up feeling like the protagonists are buffeted between scenes, with limited control over their actions.
I was also unimpressed by the explanation for the Plague.
- Characters - I didn't really like them. I don't know why Lia and Tucker liked each other. And what happened to Tom in the end? It sounds really sucky that he had to . In a way, they felt flat - they exist to move the plot along, but there's not much thought for their internal motivations.
It's not a bad series, it just... could be more.
March 2, 2015
In this third and final novel of the series, Tucker and Lia continue their time-travelling adventure while being pursed by timesweeps, the Lambs, and Klaatu.
There was much I liked about this novel...it was full of action, had a lot of character development (especially for Kosh and Lia), and it answered a lot of questions about the Klaatu, diskos, etc.
On the other hand, it is a somewhat confusing mess with characters constantly jumping across time. It is very hard to keep track of what is what, and often times things just didn't make much sense. Also, many of the characters turned out to be rather flat (Master Gheen, Father September, etc.).
But for someone who has invested in the first two books, the third one here is more of the same and a rather fitting end to the series. The ending is quite satisfying with closure for almost all the characters.
Overall, an enjoyable read, but perhaps with a bit too much time-jumping going on.
NOTE: I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review.This review was originally posted on MichaelSciFan
There was much I liked about this novel...it was full of action, had a lot of character development (especially for Kosh and Lia), and it answered a lot of questions about the Klaatu, diskos, etc.
On the other hand, it is a somewhat confusing mess with characters constantly jumping across time. It is very hard to keep track of what is what, and often times things just didn't make much sense. Also, many of the characters turned out to be rather flat (Master Gheen, Father September, etc.).
But for someone who has invested in the first two books, the third one here is more of the same and a rather fitting end to the series. The ending is quite satisfying with closure for almost all the characters.
Overall, an enjoyable read, but perhaps with a bit too much time-jumping going on.
NOTE: I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review.This review was originally posted on MichaelSciFan
July 16, 2014
This volume gets out of the mental-illness and religion sideplots and gets into the question of what the world should be. Obvioulsy, not everyone's answer is the same, but there's value in just asking the question.
I'm pretty much begging Natasha daily to read this series.
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I'm pretty much begging Natasha daily to read this series.
Library copy
March 8, 2015
Time travel books are difficult for me so to work my way through a trilogy says much. And this third one ties it all up in a most satisfying way. Good for you Tucker Feye, Lia, Kosh, and Emma. Well worth the wait.
April 29, 2014
Just WOW
July 9, 2017
**Minor Spoilers**
Nonstop action. Crazy impossible fight/escape scenes. A love story.
Sounds like a book for me.
Yes, and no, as Awn would say.
I can't bump my stars up to a 4 because:
1. Tucker and Lia had no chemistry.
2. It was just assumed that Tom made it home. Taking maybe one extra chapter showing him safe and sound with his family would have been great.
3. It almost doesn't seem right, for all these random people, thrown together by the portals, to all live on a small farm in the end.
4. I wasn't satisfied with the abrupt ending of the series.
Nonstop action. Crazy impossible fight/escape scenes. A love story.
Sounds like a book for me.
Yes, and no, as Awn would say.
I can't bump my stars up to a 4 because:
1. Tucker and Lia had no chemistry.
2. It was just assumed that Tom made it home. Taking maybe one extra chapter showing him safe and sound with his family would have been great.
3. It almost doesn't seem right, for all these random people, thrown together by the portals, to all live on a small farm in the end.
4. I wasn't satisfied with the abrupt ending of the series.
May 17, 2018
So Tucker finds out that Kosh is his father in the end when his mother the one who created the diskos so she can remember her past and watch her son Tucker grow up and now the diskos are being dismantled and all the people who were affected by the diskos will return to the time when they weren't affected by the diskos and so they can start their lives over again and they will still have memories of what has happened and they will live happily ever after at the end of the book when the diskos has been dismantled.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 25, 2017
This is more like a 3.5 stars. I just really wanted to finish the series.
I liked:
- the awesome time travel/entwined plot strands/twisty stuff
- everything was explained in the end
- Kosh was in this book far more than the other one which I approve of
I didn't like:
- the end had so many "startling twists" that were really unnecessary
- this book was really confusing and I haven't read the previous ones for like a year so yikes
- there was basically no character development
I liked:
- the awesome time travel/entwined plot strands/twisty stuff
- everything was explained in the end
- Kosh was in this book far more than the other one which I approve of
I didn't like:
- the end had so many "startling twists" that were really unnecessary
- this book was really confusing and I haven't read the previous ones for like a year so yikes
- there was basically no character development
June 16, 2018
The last part of this wonderful and gripping trilogy ties everything up together and re-unites the time travelling heroes together. It also has some unexpected twists and revelations at the end. The writing of all three books is so masterful- there are chapters and paragraphs that are so clever and compelling. These books were loved by my 15 year old son and myself, and we are both looking forward to reading more from this incredibly talented writer.
June 18, 2018
Learning about Kosh's past was nice, but nothing particularly shocking was revealed for Tucker and Lia. Almost feels like the entire trilogy should have been in a single book. 2.5/5
September 5, 2018
This was a great series!!!! I think that you all should read it
January 6, 2021
A great ending to a great series. Loved the way everything came together in the end.
April 10, 2024
glad the series are over... i didn't relly find this installment as entertaining as the first one.
March 30, 2018
The Klaatu Terminus
The Klaatu Terminus is a science fiction book written by Pete Hautman. It conveys ideas about time travel and the effects it can lead to. It also depicts how history repeats itself and how you get to choose your own destiny. It starts in Romelas in 3000 CE. Romelas is a place in the future where the book starts, but since this is the last book in the series, the other books should be read to understand all that is happening. I think others will really enjoy this book.
This book starts with the main characters, Tucker and Lia, on top of a pyramid, in a foreign time for Tucker, but home for Lia. The place is destroyed and they have to figure out how they are going to survive. This book depicts a great adventure through time as Tucker and Lia face many challenges through their adventure. This not only makes them stronger as friends but also stronger in their minds. As they are on their adventure, the story then goes to the life of Kosh Feye.
Kosh Feye is Tucker’s uncle, and has many similarities. They are both reckless and clumsy, but only have good intentions. This book goes into detail about how Kosh started liking his brother’s girlfriend, and how he had discovered diskos, or magical portals that teleport you to different times. Kosh then goes through a disko after he had been hurt really bad and starts his own adventure trying to rescue a girl who looked very much like his brother’s girlfriend that he had fallen in love with.
At the end of this book, Hautman does a good job intertwining each of the characters stories into one place, the Terminus. After all of their adventures, Kosh, Tucker, Lia, and a few others they picked up while journeying all met up in the Terminus, the ending point of the diskos. Once there, they cannot escape, so they start a new life there. This is where Tucker realizes that Kosh is his dad and that this is where he was meant to be. They all start to rebuild the human civilization and Tucker and Lia have a baby.
I recommend this book to anyone that is looking for a good read and that has a sense for adventure. This book entails much love and hate all in one adventure that connects many different people. I also recommend this book because it has many plot twists and it is and to predict what comes next. I think many others will enjoy this book.
The Klaatu Terminus is a science fiction book written by Pete Hautman. It conveys ideas about time travel and the effects it can lead to. It also depicts how history repeats itself and how you get to choose your own destiny. It starts in Romelas in 3000 CE. Romelas is a place in the future where the book starts, but since this is the last book in the series, the other books should be read to understand all that is happening. I think others will really enjoy this book.
This book starts with the main characters, Tucker and Lia, on top of a pyramid, in a foreign time for Tucker, but home for Lia. The place is destroyed and they have to figure out how they are going to survive. This book depicts a great adventure through time as Tucker and Lia face many challenges through their adventure. This not only makes them stronger as friends but also stronger in their minds. As they are on their adventure, the story then goes to the life of Kosh Feye.
Kosh Feye is Tucker’s uncle, and has many similarities. They are both reckless and clumsy, but only have good intentions. This book goes into detail about how Kosh started liking his brother’s girlfriend, and how he had discovered diskos, or magical portals that teleport you to different times. Kosh then goes through a disko after he had been hurt really bad and starts his own adventure trying to rescue a girl who looked very much like his brother’s girlfriend that he had fallen in love with.
At the end of this book, Hautman does a good job intertwining each of the characters stories into one place, the Terminus. After all of their adventures, Kosh, Tucker, Lia, and a few others they picked up while journeying all met up in the Terminus, the ending point of the diskos. Once there, they cannot escape, so they start a new life there. This is where Tucker realizes that Kosh is his dad and that this is where he was meant to be. They all start to rebuild the human civilization and Tucker and Lia have a baby.
I recommend this book to anyone that is looking for a good read and that has a sense for adventure. This book entails much love and hate all in one adventure that connects many different people. I also recommend this book because it has many plot twists and it is and to predict what comes next. I think many others will enjoy this book.
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January 13, 2015 The Klaatu Terminus is the third and final book in the trilogy written by Pete Hautman. The book follows the journey of a teenage boy named Tucker Feye, who travels through time using ‘diskos’ which appear randomly. Tucker journeys through time where he finds a religious future of what used to be called home. Although he entered accidental, a man named ‘Father September’ has showed up in his current time, and Father September has traveled from the future to present day to preach, and shenanigans start when people start disappearing.
The trilogy is very fascinating because the book brings to attention the subject known as time travel, and the possible outcomes of traveling to the past and changing something. Hautman used show don’t tell in the plot when he describes the the future setting that Tucker Feye finds himself in. It is a realistic place, and one can really picture how it looks like. This book reminds me of the book, The Reluctant Assassin, by Eoin Colfer, because both include the process of time travel. The main character, Riley, has been pulled into the twenty first century from the Victorian times. Both stories include and antagonist who works against the main characters, and both stories include an explanation of time travel for the reader. The Klaatu Terminus brings up the issue of religion, because in the future of Tucker Feye’s world, religion takes over the government. Priests are the rulers and human sacrifices occur. The worst part about the future in the book were the constant wars that broke out between religious preachers and those against it who strongly believe in science. This relates to our current world because we already have religious wars breaking out. Al-Qaeda, an Islamic extremist group, have been trying to take over parts of the world using violence and bloodshed. Eventually, the present day world could become what the future is like in the book. The Klaatu Terminus is a very action filled book, however, I’d recommend reading the first two books for the full, big plot.
The trilogy is very fascinating because the book brings to attention the subject known as time travel, and the possible outcomes of traveling to the past and changing something. Hautman used show don’t tell in the plot when he describes the the future setting that Tucker Feye finds himself in. It is a realistic place, and one can really picture how it looks like. This book reminds me of the book, The Reluctant Assassin, by Eoin Colfer, because both include the process of time travel. The main character, Riley, has been pulled into the twenty first century from the Victorian times. Both stories include and antagonist who works against the main characters, and both stories include an explanation of time travel for the reader. The Klaatu Terminus brings up the issue of religion, because in the future of Tucker Feye’s world, religion takes over the government. Priests are the rulers and human sacrifices occur. The worst part about the future in the book were the constant wars that broke out between religious preachers and those against it who strongly believe in science. This relates to our current world because we already have religious wars breaking out. Al-Qaeda, an Islamic extremist group, have been trying to take over parts of the world using violence and bloodshed. Eventually, the present day world could become what the future is like in the book. The Klaatu Terminus is a very action filled book, however, I’d recommend reading the first two books for the full, big plot.
April 28, 2014
This series is amazing. If you like time travel stories, are a Whovian, or love the idea of being able to experience other times (including revisiting moments of your own life), this book is for you.
The ending had a few "holy crap" moments that cleared up some things that were quite confusing throughout the story. So if you find yourself reading it and thinking "this makes no sense whatsoever," just roll with it because everything makes sense after this book.
Also, I mentioned before that Whovians would like this book, and I mentioned in my review of book two that there were a few Doctor Who references. This one is chock-full of them. Seriously, this dude knows his Who. If you can understand the events around the Ponds and the Pandorica/Big Bang, this book will make sense to you and will completely entertain you. If those episodes confused you, good luck with this book, because it's more complex than that.
I would definitely recommend this series, especially now that it's complete--reading this as the books came out and having to wait between books was really rough, because remembering the ins and outs of the story line was really hard to do.
The ending had a few "holy crap" moments that cleared up some things that were quite confusing throughout the story. So if you find yourself reading it and thinking "this makes no sense whatsoever," just roll with it because everything makes sense after this book.
Also, I mentioned before that Whovians would like this book, and I mentioned in my review of book two that there were a few Doctor Who references. This one is chock-full of them. Seriously, this dude knows his Who. If you can understand the events around the Ponds and the Pandorica/Big Bang, this book will make sense to you and will completely entertain you. If those episodes confused you, good luck with this book, because it's more complex than that.
I would definitely recommend this series, especially now that it's complete--reading this as the books came out and having to wait between books was really rough, because remembering the ins and outs of the story line was really hard to do.
July 3, 2014
To begin with, this is NOT a stand-alone title. There are a LOT of story threads going on, and while some of them are straight forward enough, most of them require some background knowledge- at the very least, so you would know the vocabulary being tossed around- like klaatu or disko. That being said, I still have to admit, I LIKED the book. It's a head- scratcher, don't get me wrong. This is not for the faint of heart or reluctant reader! But for those willing to wade into the mucky waters of philosophy, it was really pretty interesting! The author didn't write over your head, there was a ton of action to keep things moving, and the ending really tied it all together so you are left feeling satisfied, rather than lost. Fortunately we don't have to summarize anymore, because aside from stating that this is a time-travel book, I wouldn't know where to start! Another word of warning- while not overly graphic, the action can be fairly intense, so it is not for the squeamish. Overall- I say dive in- but just know that you may have to stick with it for a while before it all starts clicking!
January 30, 2015
Okay this series FINALLY got good. Ha. Finally, final book, terminus...
Anyway, things really start to come together. There was more action and I was glad the focus remained on Tucker. The back story for Kosh and Adrian and Emily was, interesting, if not obvious. And as much as I like Kosh, I really hated him and Emily for what they did to his BROTHER Adrian, who raised him, while he was away on a religious pilgrimage no less! Ugh.
But the story finally started to come together and loops started to close, questions were answered, and the story became more singular. Time-travel is MESSY! There still wasn't really a POINT to the series, but was instead more of an exploration of time deviations and watching as a single boy tries to find those he loves in the wild tangle of diskos. I wanted a more tangible purpose for the series, but it turned out okay.
Oh! And you finally realize what the E3 inclusions are all about. In the epilogue. Which didn't ruin the series but instead offered a hopeful end.
Anyway, things really start to come together. There was more action and I was glad the focus remained on Tucker. The back story for Kosh and Adrian and Emily was, interesting, if not obvious. And as much as I like Kosh, I really hated him and Emily for what they did to his BROTHER Adrian, who raised him, while he was away on a religious pilgrimage no less! Ugh.
But the story finally started to come together and loops started to close, questions were answered, and the story became more singular. Time-travel is MESSY! There still wasn't really a POINT to the series, but was instead more of an exploration of time deviations and watching as a single boy tries to find those he loves in the wild tangle of diskos. I wanted a more tangible purpose for the series, but it turned out okay.
Oh! And you finally realize what the E3 inclusions are all about. In the epilogue. Which didn't ruin the series but instead offered a hopeful end.
April 6, 2014
Tucker Feye and Lia continue their adventures through the Klaatu Diskos. The Diskos appear to be not so random anymore and the pair, along with a few others, keep jumping into them willingly and are sucked into the Timesweeps along the way. Is there anything special about these individuals? Why are the Diskos centered on Hopewell? Their journey takes them into the recent past, the present and the distant future. If you did not read books 1 and 2, don’t even think about jumping into this book. Readers who have already finished the first parts of this series will not be disappointed in the action, relationship exploration and truths revealed. Hautman weaves the many time streams that have popped up into a finale which will delight the reader. Many questions previously left unanswered will all be explored in this final volume in the series. The ending is worth the wait and only a few (not me) will figure out the why to it all.
June 11, 2014
The Klaatu Terminus is the final installment in the Klaatu Diskos trilogy. Tucker and Lia are trying to avoid the Timesweeps while looking for each other throughout time. In the meantime(s), Tucker's uncle Kosh is experiencing some very strange circumstances himself. This is certainly a book that requires the reader to have read the first two books of the series to have any clue as to what's going on. And there's a lot going on. It took all my mental abilities to follow the various time frames and piece together the action from all three books. Questions are, for the most part, answered and events from the previous two books will start making more sense. The world building in this series is fantastic; it's definitely the thinking-person's time-travel/sci-fi trilogy.
May 24, 2014
You know how stupid the ending of Lost was, where nothing was resolved and all the weird shit that happened in previous seasons was left unexplained?
This book is not like that.
It's pretty clear from the Klaatu Terminus that Hautman had a plan from page one of The Obsidian Blade. Or if he didn't, then he somehow found a way to make it all work together anyhow. This was a very satisfying conclusion with some really cool plotting and a huge dose of the weird shit that made the other two books so enjoyable.
This book is not like that.
It's pretty clear from the Klaatu Terminus that Hautman had a plan from page one of The Obsidian Blade. Or if he didn't, then he somehow found a way to make it all work together anyhow. This was a very satisfying conclusion with some really cool plotting and a huge dose of the weird shit that made the other two books so enjoyable.
September 6, 2015
I'm probably going to regret later that I sped through this book the way I did, but I enjoyed it. The final chapter of the trilogy where all the pieces come together, I though the first book was pretty good but this one was light years better. The split storyline felt more natural and made more sense, the characters were familiar and I wanted to know what would happen to them. I got attached. This finale was full of action, enough that I'll likely want to read the series again to experience it a second time.
May 6, 2015
In the third book all the pieces are finally put together. I was pretty close in guessing what the clues in the previous books meant, but there were some surprises.
So that's what Iyl Rayn was trying to do with the diskos. It had some rather huge side effects, though. Yet everything concernihg our protagonists is tied up neatly, maybe even too neatly.
I am a little surprised this trilogy is not better known. I stumbled on it by accident, having never heard of this author before. This is a time travel puzzle that plays pretty fairly with the rules the author sets for himself.
So that's what Iyl Rayn was trying to do with the diskos. It had some rather huge side effects, though. Yet everything concernihg our protagonists is tied up neatly, maybe even too neatly.
I am a little surprised this trilogy is not better known. I stumbled on it by accident, having never heard of this author before. This is a time travel puzzle that plays pretty fairly with the rules the author sets for himself.
June 6, 2014
I enjoyed the tying up of the many, many loose ends for this series! That said, I would have preferred to read all 3 books in close succession so that I wouldn't have felt quite so lost when I made it to this one.
Anyone interested in this series, MUST read them in order or you will have NO idea what is going on!
I enjoy Pete Hautman's work and look forward to reading some of his other series and standalones.
Anyone interested in this series, MUST read them in order or you will have NO idea what is going on!
I enjoy Pete Hautman's work and look forward to reading some of his other series and standalones.
June 1, 2014
We finally find out who Iyl Rayn and Awn are. Along with time travel and portals being explored further. I liked this one much better than book 2 as it added a lot more plot. The time travel is so complex, I'd need a map to check it all worked. But it appears to make sense.
Luckily, I read the three books within a decent proximity to each other. If I hadn't, I'd need a review of who/what/when.
Luckily, I read the three books within a decent proximity to each other. If I hadn't, I'd need a review of who/what/when.
May 18, 2014
Definitely science fiction. If there was any doubt in your mind that the Klaatu Diskos is science fiction, this book confirms it. Time travel fans, rejoice! The conclusion of this trilogy is the book for you. This book offers you parallel universes and other time travel paradoxes. Join Tucker, Lia, Kosh, Emily, Awn, Iyl Ryan and more as they continue to travel through the diskos to their destiny (or is it?)
June 18, 2015
Kosh, Adrian's brother, was terrified but leaving Emma with Gheen was unthinkable. "It's not courage if you have no choice." So continues the story and our characters jump in and out of discs to the distant future and the long gone past to an ending you can sort of, but not quite, see coming. The third of the Klaatu Diskos series continues with its philosophical banter. Mr. Hautman's convoluted reasoning would make him an interesting member of philosophy classes.
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