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Founding of the Clans #3
BattleTech: Land of Dreams
Return in Triumph... or Not at All...
Two thousand light years from Terra , two brothers leave behind the shattered dreams of their Father, the great General Aleksandr Kerensky. For a second time, war drives them into the dark, cold void as raging conflict engulfs the Pentagon Worlds and the nascent Star League-in-Exile.
For nearly fifteen years on the world of Strana Mechty - the land of dreams - Andery Kerensky has watched his elder brother Nicholas shape an all-new society of warriors that follows their ilKhan with near religious fanaticism. And despite the costs already paid in blood for that transformation, Andery knows the worst is yet to come. For Nicholas will stop at nothing to mold his followers into something never seen in human history. And all with one singular goal: to return to the Pentagon Worlds and punish those that destroyed their father's dream.
Can Andery continue to be his brother's conscience, even as Nicholas' final hammer blows forge the Clans into the great and terrible society it is poised to become? Or will the titanic assault of Operation Klondike and the Clans' return to the Pentagon Worlds shatter what Nicholas has built entirely? And just how far will Andery let Nicholas go to pursue his zealous quest of united Clan Homeworlds...
Two thousand light years from Terra , two brothers leave behind the shattered dreams of their Father, the great General Aleksandr Kerensky. For a second time, war drives them into the dark, cold void as raging conflict engulfs the Pentagon Worlds and the nascent Star League-in-Exile.
For nearly fifteen years on the world of Strana Mechty - the land of dreams - Andery Kerensky has watched his elder brother Nicholas shape an all-new society of warriors that follows their ilKhan with near religious fanaticism. And despite the costs already paid in blood for that transformation, Andery knows the worst is yet to come. For Nicholas will stop at nothing to mold his followers into something never seen in human history. And all with one singular goal: to return to the Pentagon Worlds and punish those that destroyed their father's dream.
Can Andery continue to be his brother's conscience, even as Nicholas' final hammer blows forge the Clans into the great and terrible society it is poised to become? Or will the titanic assault of Operation Klondike and the Clans' return to the Pentagon Worlds shatter what Nicholas has built entirely? And just how far will Andery let Nicholas go to pursue his zealous quest of united Clan Homeworlds...
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361 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 18, 2022
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April 16, 2025
A high 3.
Andrey remains a deeply negative and uninteresting presence. Introspection doesn't introduce character depth when its essentially circular; Andrey spends a rather long trilogy mostly stalled in place as events pass him by.
However, things improve here in 3 ways:
- Andrey does become more proactive to some degree in this work
- Events actually happen, and more than in passing- the clans are founded, Klondike is prepared for and executed. In prior books, important events happened almost in passing for Andrey. Here, hes finally right in the centre of things.
- The second half of the book uses multiple POVs. Most of the time we aren't with Andrey. We get a good view as to how a wide range of soldiers fit into the clans and and an on the ground view of Klondike. Its by far the strongest part of the trilogy.
Andrey remains a deeply negative and uninteresting presence. Introspection doesn't introduce character depth when its essentially circular; Andrey spends a rather long trilogy mostly stalled in place as events pass him by.
However, things improve here in 3 ways:
- Andrey does become more proactive to some degree in this work
- Events actually happen, and more than in passing- the clans are founded, Klondike is prepared for and executed. In prior books, important events happened almost in passing for Andrey. Here, hes finally right in the centre of things.
- The second half of the book uses multiple POVs. Most of the time we aren't with Andrey. We get a good view as to how a wide range of soldiers fit into the clans and and an on the ground view of Klondike. Its by far the strongest part of the trilogy.
September 22, 2022
Good read into the founding of the Clans
Good read into the founding of the Clans and the continued Machiavellian machinations of Nicholas Kerensky in the formation of his Clan vision as seen by his brother Andery Kerensky . With the back drop of the final years of the Clans forming on Strana Mechty and the return to the Pentagon worlds and the fate of some of the founding Khans.
Good read into the founding of the Clans and the continued Machiavellian machinations of Nicholas Kerensky in the formation of his Clan vision as seen by his brother Andery Kerensky . With the back drop of the final years of the Clans forming on Strana Mechty and the return to the Pentagon worlds and the fate of some of the founding Khans.
August 15, 2022
Thank God he's dead
With the Battletech saga running out for us old readers this history is necessary. It was unfortunate that one of the Great Founders was a whiny bitch, at least he made his end like a True Clanner.
With the Battletech saga running out for us old readers this history is necessary. It was unfortunate that one of the Great Founders was a whiny bitch, at least he made his end like a True Clanner.
September 1, 2022
Actually quite a good conclusion to what was a bit of a slow burning trilogy, for me at least.
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