It's a pretty amazing cycle, exotic and poetic with a palpable atmosphere.
Key themes of this trilogy to very supportive volumes:
-The Contact between different species and diplomatic resulting reports and the very practical consequences to deep and structural natures of species in contact, which often interfere with the plot.
-The Theme captured soldier and subjugated by the enemy, with the themes "corollaries" of voluntary servitude or psychology of submission, even the Stockholm syndrome at a turning point of the intrigue? ..
-Of Biospheres and definitely foreign lifestyles that result from biological exo contingencies or simply cultural ..
The style is remarkable because it's really well written, well built, with a steady pace and a complex intrigue and entirely in shades.
A pleasure scenery ..
The reader is holding its breath all along because of a very pregnant strangeness, also because of the large presence of the characters that play various affects and occasionally to the facets, intense or mysterious.
There is a certain sense of decorum in this very measured text.
A great moment of science fiction altogether in what is done best on the theme of the conflict, contact and mediation between species ..
Themes too often marred by ridicule and ease ...
The pitch: Two companies, including a human, large expansion areas, make contact and things do happen nor evil nor good, but the contact is objectively difficult and fatally dangerous, and highly tangent anxiety for some characters .. .
A third species dedicated to the war is at risk and on the verge of extinction will try to survive.
There is something classic in this deliciously "pitch" tasty as epic and classic inspiration (in the ancient sense of the word).
The aliens, I found them, in terms of Réguls, staggering because of other characteristics that are excessively detailed with a timeliness to the relevance exquisite. In terms of Mriis there was instead a clear and a soft focus, which envelop them constantly and that is disturbing and very pleasant and this contrasts with the presentation of Reguls. In a way the author offers two treatments, subtly different, the theme of the Alien.
This is my favorite aliens, I think (smiles), especially Reguls.
If you appreciate the cycle of Chai (among others) .. I think we can be quite sensitive to this trilogy.
I definitely want to convey something of the tone of this cycle and the style of this trilogy.
So two things to do this:
-The Faded south is a superb title and think its French translation, quite near, Sun death. There is in this contrast, this appropriation, something that can smell the aroma of the original!
-Otherwise The back cover of the French edition also to get an idea:
KESRITH is the first side of the triangle; the story of three characters: Sten Duncan, fighter of the human species; Niun, last champion of mri, enemies of humanity; Melein, priestess-queen of the ultimate bastion of mri.
KESRITH is also the story of two races, humans and regul fighting for control of a galaxy.
Sten Duncan had saved the lives of two enemies of humanity. This happened during the making Kesrith and now Sten felt responsible for the future of Niun and Melein. Although they were brother and saeur, both mri symbolized distinct castes: Niun, the last samurai, Melein last priestess-queen. Combat and danger had created straightening ties and brotherhood sealed in blood Ie drove straight to strange contradictions. Came the time when the roads of destiny would lead the protagonists of the drama to a legendary lost planet where mri find perhaps a new chance
