Thread: Chung Kuo series by David Wingrove
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Old 04-21-2011, 10:21 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Book eight was the last book, richvalle... and the weakest of the series by far. Many people stopped at book seven--but only because book eight was rather hard to find in print at the time.

Wingrove knew how he wanted to end the series... but his publisher at the time pulled rank and said; "wrap it up now... in this book." So the author's plan was preempted.
Whoops, I meant to say book 6-7.

It was quite a while ago. I'm sure I didn't finish it. Hmmm, let me see if I can figure out how to do the spoiler thing.

Spoiler:

Ahh, got it.

Ok from what I remember the book ended with a guy that had become the main opponent for the Empire (dang... I tried to look up the series in Wikipedia to get the name but nothing I think he started as head of secret police or something?) launching an invasion. At one point you think he's dead but then it turns out the whole thing had been done with a clone while he sat off safe in an asteroid somewhere building up a clone army and getting ready to invade.

So everything with him up to that point had just been a 'test'. Instead of thinking that was cool I just felt robbed somehow.
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