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The Giants Novels (Inherit the Stars, The Gentle Giants of Ganymede, and Giants' Star) Paperback – May 1, 1994

by James P. Hogan (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
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Discover the first three books in the ground-breaking 21st century hard-science fiction saga by James P. Hogan:
INHERIT THE STARS
The skeletal remains of a human body are found on the moon. His corpse is 50,000 years old, and nobody knows who he was, how he got there, or what killed him.
THE GENTLE GIANTS OF GANYMEDE
A long-ago wrecked ship of alien giants is discovered by Earth's scientists on a frozen satellite of Jupiter. Then, spinning out of the vastness of space, a ship of the same strange, humanoid giants has returned....
GIANTS' STAR
Humans finally thought they comprehended their place in the universe...until Earth found itself in the middle of a power struggle between a benevolent alien empire and a cunning race of upstart humans who hated Earth!
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  1. Print length
    704 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Del Rey
  4. Publication date
    May 1, 1994
  5. Dimensions
    4.5 x 1.25 x 7 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0345388852
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0345388858
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first three books in the ground-breaking 21st century hard-science fiction saga by James P. Hogan:
INHERIT THE STARS
The skeletal remains of a human body are found on the moon. His corpse is 50,000 years old, and nobody knows who he was, how he got there, or what killed him.
THE GENTLE GIANTS OF GANYMEDE
A long-ago wrecked ship of alien giants is discovered by Earth's scientists on a frozen satellite of Jupiter. Then, spinning out of the vastness of space, a ship of the same strange, humanoid giants has returned....
GIANTS' STAR
Humans finally thought they comprehended their place in the universe...until Earth found itself in the middle of a power struggle between a benevolent alien empire and a cunning race of upstart humans who hated Earth!

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Del Rey (May 1, 1994)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 704 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0345388852
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0345388858
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.5 x 1.25 x 7 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 83 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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Jasper Blom
5.0 out of 5 stars Best sify with world altering vieuw.s. Try it!!!
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024
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Classic in the best way. Timeless
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2023
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SF story. The Fist book is the best! Sorry the say the others tail off explaining lose ends. But overall a fine set. Written in the 70s and that does show through, but it is more interesting than contemporaries such as Ringworld and more fun to read than Dune.
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John Hedberg
5.0 out of 5 stars The first two books of the Giants series are a lot of fun
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2013
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The story is interesting as the mystery unfolds, and it showcases a constructive approach to critical thinking that's liable to influence a lot of impressionable readers. I like this vision of humanity's future.

The book was in very good condition, with quick arrival. No problems whatsoever.
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Duncan B.
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent scifi series--the first book alone is worth the price of admission.
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2016
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The first novel in this compendium, Inherit the Stars, is arguably one of the greatest Science Fiction books ever written. It also functions as a cracking good mystery. Thoughtful, intelligent, thought-provoking and entertaining.
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Brad Daniels
4.0 out of 5 stars Old School SF - Bad binding on my copy
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2002
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Before I get into my somewhat lengthy list of complaints, I'd like to make it clear that for all ths books' faults, the Giants novels really are classic, solid science fiction. The ideas are really the main characters here, and they take you on a fun ride through a well-conceived speculative vision of our future and our past.
That said, I have a few issues that might concern other prospective readers:
In these novels, James P. Hogan writes a lot like Heinlein, only with a bit more science behind his fiction. He offers a very Utopian view of the future of earth, at least where men are concerned. Where women are concerned, though... Well, again he writes a lot like Heinlein. To be fair to Mr. Hogan, most of his later works are better on this score, but they're not under discussion here.
In "Inherit the Stars" (the first of the 3 novels in this edition), for example, there is only one woman mentioned by name, and she's some kind of assistant. Her biggest contribution in the few pages of the novel where she appears, is to recognize that some alien writing is probably a calendar because it's in something the "looks like a diary". That's right, he introduced a woman to recognize the diary because it's obviously a "woman thing". Her reward for her contribution is a condescending smile of acknowledgment from one of the men who did the "real" work. Ugh. He also consistently refers to women as girls.
The trend continues through the second novel ("The Gentle Giants of Ganymede"), though by "Giants' Star" (the last and best of the three) there are signs that Hogan has been thoroughly taken to task for his poor treatment of women in his novels, and he makes a certain amount of effort to redress the problem. That is not to say that he fully succeeds, but at least a couple of the main characters in "Giants' Star" are women who are more than just appendages to men, and one of the villains is partly identifiable as such because of his beastly treatment of women.
Still, though, most of the women I know would have a great deal of difficulty enjoying the first two of the three novels because Hogan's writing is so aggressively chauvinistic in them.
Also, my copy of this edition had a bad binding. Pages kept falling out, till by the end, I was left with a stack of loose ages and a separate cover. I don't know whether that's just a problem with my copy, or whether the whole printing has that flaw.
My last complaint is that in "Inherit the Stars", the basic conclusions of the novel become blindingly obvious by about page 90, yet a massive organization of scientific geniuses then takes the next 90 pages to figure it out.
Hogan's vision of the future is, as I mentioned, a sort of Utopian projection of 1960s Britain. Everybody smokes (even on spaceships - at one point, everyone's having brandy and cigars after dinner on a space outpost), cheap energy and a clean version of the atomic bomb have somehow made everybody stop hating each other (though "Giants' Star" does make some effort to make that plotline more plausible), and the world has become one big happy place, apart from a few bad apples who must of course be summarily dealt with. Just go with it. It mostly worked for Gene Roddenberry, so why can't Hogan do the same?
If you can work past these issues, though, this some really solid "old school", almost-hard science fiction.
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Chad McCarley
5.0 out of 5 stars good stuff
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2021
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liked them very much
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5.0 out of 5 stars Item exactly as described and arrived quickly.
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2021
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Item exactly as described and arrived quickly.
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spm
5.0 out of 5 stars read this book in High School
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2020
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It was good to read it again!
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Andy Birtwistle
5.0 out of 5 stars Inherit the Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2002
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The most memorable sci fi novel I have ever read.I first picked it up over 20 years ago and I have re-read it and lent it to friends until it literally fell apart.The storyline grips you from the first paragraph and weaves its way to a stupendous and thought provoking finale that questions man's whole existence.Simply superb.
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