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Lost Millennium #3
Lost Days
A designer plague threatens every living thing on earth...and a desperate world sends two 21st-century soldiers back in time to win a war lost six thousand years ago. Now, in the thrilling follow-up to First Dawn and Second Fire, Lieutenant Launa O'Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear return from 4,000 B.C.-and discover a radically changed civilization, and a society infested with a different sort of plague...
First Dawn was a Locus Recommended Novel, hailed as a fine debut by the Salem Statesman Journal
Mike Moscoe is a major new talent.-Robert J. Sawyer, Nebula Award-winning author of Starplex
First Dawn was a Locus Recommended Novel, hailed as a fine debut by the Salem Statesman Journal
Mike Moscoe is a major new talent.-Robert J. Sawyer, Nebula Award-winning author of Starplex
316 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 1998
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November 18, 2019
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Finished the series. I liked the prequel the best. Very interesting ideas. Sort of like Saxon Andrew but a different premise.
Finished the series. I liked the prequel the best. Very interesting ideas. Sort of like Saxon Andrew but a different premise.
March 14, 2017
What a great trilogy! Maybe not of the scale of Lord of the Rings, but imaginative and well thought out. All of the characters are interesting, and well developed through the series. The author even manages to find a way to bypass conventional causality arguments about time travel. The series concludes neatly here, while still leaving the way open for future continuation.
My only criticism is typos - about one per chapter. Most are not simple spelling errors, but inappropriate, missing, or added words.
Caution: Although the book tells a good story on its own, you'll miss a lot if you don't read them in order.
My only criticism is typos - about one per chapter. Most are not simple spelling errors, but inappropriate, missing, or added words.
Caution: Although the book tells a good story on its own, you'll miss a lot if you don't read them in order.
January 12, 2015
Lost Days (Lost Millennium #3)
by Mike Moscoe, Mike Shepherd
In the third book of the series (my least favorite), Lt. Launa O'Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear are living in the future they created. Full of nonsensical examples to show the changes they made - like a Pope who prays to the Goddess…there wouldn’t be a Pope without the Catholic church and their wouldn’t be a Catholic church in this world. Maria (another person they knew in their world) speaks Spanish…a Latin language…which would exist without the brutal Roman Empire…At one point she finds out that her ‘grandmother’ only had two children so her father was never born. That makes sense except multiply that by 4000 years and there wouldn’t be anyone on the planet who had an analogue in the other universe. NOT ONE. Sigh, I’m just nit picking because many author who write these sorts of stories do this.
Back in the neolithic world they left behind, Antia carries on with the work Launa and Jack started, and the chapters alternate from the past to the ‘present’. A present that causes unease for both Launa and Jack. There is a constant undercurrent of something not right every where they go.
Judith gives them a quick history lesson, starting with 6000 years ago when the city states of the Danube River forced the Kurgen Horsemen to turn south and east. She then explains that “Speaker” Alexander the Great (OK, really?! He existed and he was Speaker for the Bull, a title from the old Europeans. How would he even exits?) fought and defeated the Persian Empire and it took them 2000 years to absorb the conquered people including freed slaves. Then when they came to the new world the Europeans made them ‘dependents’ which the native resented, of course. While they supposedly have a peaceful cooperative society, they have Guardians who have inherited the military training and attitude for 1000s of years after Laura and Jack first started their defence.
After the book Launa took back with her in the first trip is found at an archeological dig, there is a seriously confusing story line about making sure the book is there for them to find? I didn’t follow. Mostly they go back to fix the world, again. Sort of like that episode of Voyager wher the time lord kept resetting trying to find the right universe. It is a never ending cycle. You can change history but unlike the saying, hindsight is not 20/20 it is just guess work.
So about 60 % through the book, the couple is returned to the past just as they left it. Their trip to the future serving to give them a course correction. Most of the rest of the book is training, battles, weapons fabrication, fortification…lots and lots of it. After an enormous battle, Launa finally decide that war isn’t the answer. They need to be able to fend off the horsemen in the short term but some sort of peace is the only long term answer. So they offer the horseman (those left) a place in the society but only if they take up the way of the Goddess. Some do and some don’t.
by Mike Moscoe, Mike Shepherd
In the third book of the series (my least favorite), Lt. Launa O'Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear are living in the future they created. Full of nonsensical examples to show the changes they made - like a Pope who prays to the Goddess…there wouldn’t be a Pope without the Catholic church and their wouldn’t be a Catholic church in this world. Maria (another person they knew in their world) speaks Spanish…a Latin language…which would exist without the brutal Roman Empire…At one point she finds out that her ‘grandmother’ only had two children so her father was never born. That makes sense except multiply that by 4000 years and there wouldn’t be anyone on the planet who had an analogue in the other universe. NOT ONE. Sigh, I’m just nit picking because many author who write these sorts of stories do this.
Back in the neolithic world they left behind, Antia carries on with the work Launa and Jack started, and the chapters alternate from the past to the ‘present’. A present that causes unease for both Launa and Jack. There is a constant undercurrent of something not right every where they go.
Judith gives them a quick history lesson, starting with 6000 years ago when the city states of the Danube River forced the Kurgen Horsemen to turn south and east. She then explains that “Speaker” Alexander the Great (OK, really?! He existed and he was Speaker for the Bull, a title from the old Europeans. How would he even exits?) fought and defeated the Persian Empire and it took them 2000 years to absorb the conquered people including freed slaves. Then when they came to the new world the Europeans made them ‘dependents’ which the native resented, of course. While they supposedly have a peaceful cooperative society, they have Guardians who have inherited the military training and attitude for 1000s of years after Laura and Jack first started their defence.
After the book Launa took back with her in the first trip is found at an archeological dig, there is a seriously confusing story line about making sure the book is there for them to find? I didn’t follow. Mostly they go back to fix the world, again. Sort of like that episode of Voyager wher the time lord kept resetting trying to find the right universe. It is a never ending cycle. You can change history but unlike the saying, hindsight is not 20/20 it is just guess work.
So about 60 % through the book, the couple is returned to the past just as they left it. Their trip to the future serving to give them a course correction. Most of the rest of the book is training, battles, weapons fabrication, fortification…lots and lots of it. After an enormous battle, Launa finally decide that war isn’t the answer. They need to be able to fend off the horsemen in the short term but some sort of peace is the only long term answer. So they offer the horseman (those left) a place in the society but only if they take up the way of the Goddess. Some do and some don’t.
March 18, 2013
Enjoyed this book and the previous two. Had to order one from the US and was surprised to get an autographed unread copy with the autograph date 4 April 1998. It has been sitting somewhere for a long time unloved.
The book brings to a conclusion the story of the clash between a horse culture and an agricultural culture with some good balanced outcomes. It starts in a modern day setting with a difference and ends back in the world the first books were set. The outcome was great, the battles were clear and well worked.
The book obviously offers an opportunity for a continuation which I would gladly read.
The book brings to a conclusion the story of the clash between a horse culture and an agricultural culture with some good balanced outcomes. It starts in a modern day setting with a difference and ends back in the world the first books were set. The outcome was great, the battles were clear and well worked.
The book obviously offers an opportunity for a continuation which I would gladly read.
July 23, 2019
5/2016 - Besides the first book that sets up the whole premise, this last one is probably my favorite of the series because Launa and Jack get to see how what they've done in the past has changed the world some, but not enough. And so they are given the chance to go back to the past again to try to make the better world they've been striving for.
7/2019 - Yes! Great ending to a series! Though the ending leaves you wondering what other adventures Jack and Launa are off getting up to....
7/2019 - Yes! Great ending to a series! Though the ending leaves you wondering what other adventures Jack and Launa are off getting up to....
July 9, 2014
Great series! I do not know how this slipped past me back in 97. Tons of good battle parts, just enough time travel stuff. Even a little sex and romance thrown in (and not just gratuitous. I highly recommend the trilogy.
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