Agent of the Imperium: A Story of the Traveller Universe By Marc W. Miller
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The type of problems he encounters should be the most interesting part But we come in at the tail end and it s quickly resolved So not interesting This is a terrible book And not even a terrible gamers writing fiction where you can hear the dice roll way But in a I don t care about this character and nothing interesting happens to him way I wonder if the author is trying to imitate old school military science fiction Niven Heinlein Pournelle I ve read lots of these guys and I don t recognize the style at all An essential theme of the book is that someone the Agent must make terrible decisions for the sake of the galaxy Usually along the lines of That Planet has a Plague so we Must Destroy it to the bedrock or the plaque will destroy the Galaxy But the setup hurts the book a lot The Agent comes in at the last minute and makes these drastic decisions What was the criteria for deciding to wake him up If all the facts are known.
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Docked at the highport while Rens and Truul ventured to the surface They returned the next day and we left immediately Our new destination was Othsekuu in Lishun the tropiods homeworld It would take us perhaps half a year Somehow he partner doesn t find this prospect interminably dull I don t understand why not I certainly do Later the Agent gives her a gun and then gives some Republican BS about how a gun is an evolutionary advantage In page 117 the Agent whom his partner automagically falls in love with he s in her lover s body after all gives another speech that amounts to The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one. Book agent of the imperium review after his partner goes through his diaries and reads about all the people he s killed He goes on to say that only in escapist fiction must there have been a better way Fair enough and not an invalid point And not a complaint that this story is not escapist But simply that this story makes that decision far black and white than it really would be in a universe where the laws of physics have been repeatedly broken In other words.
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But doesn t simple curiosity compel you to investigate Are we really certain that this lame brain scheme of rebooting this guy whenever someone decides something is seriously a threat works for EVERY threat Couldn t there be dozens of other planets with robot builders that he s missing There s a certain amount of willing suspension of disbelieve that ALL science fiction requires But this is not passing the smell test. Book agent of the imperium of man Coincidentally I just read Shannon Applegate s review of Agent of the Imperium and he loves the book So it s quite possible that I just didn t get this book I gave up trying to describe the events that happen in this book In addition to being stuffed with technobabble that is never defined and I m a 40 year fan of Traveller the events are so disconnected from anything that came before and uninteresting in and of itself that they just aren t worth describing SPOILER Page 95 a duchess assassinates the Emperor.
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Screw you If this had not been a fairly expensive gift and worse yet a gift that I had suggested I don t think I would have finished it I can t for the life of me figure out who this novel was for besides Traveller fanatics such as myself and what if anything it was trying to say After the story ends there is a good 69 pages of Traveller material that will be entirely familiar to any long time Traveller fan As to how the story ends Lets just say that the Agent makes a major change in history for no discernible reason and then I think has a law or doctrine or suggestion to the ruling Elite so that it will never happen again Maybe that s what happened I m just going to have to concede that I do not get this novel Yet I did read it and I know there was no one interesting in it.
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It was an interesting book but I feel it suffered with too many problems for me to really enjoy it. Ebook agent of the imperium pdf I have been a fan of the SF Role Playing Game Traveller since the late 1970s The idea of a novel from the game s creator interested me as I hoped there would be insights into the universe of Traveller Unfortunately if there were they were insights that seemed to fly in the face of Traveller as I grew to know it over the last 30 years Not that all the insights were that way the author s explanations of the idea of the need for a organization to control outbreaks through quarantine the expansion and contraction of empires and how control of fusion plus technology was a major part of the rise of the Third Imperium were enlightening but others were much less so. Kindle agent of the imperium pdf Traveller as practiced by the vast majority of gamers is a game of ordinary people often working at the margins of society The late lamented TV show Firefly is a good approximation of your average Traveller group ordinary folks making a living and feeding their wanderlust This book almost ever touches that world This is a epic SF of the mighty Admirals nobles and Emperors on a timescale like Asimov s Foundation than Serenity Not a deal killer but unhelpful from a game standpoint. Book agent of the imperium pdf Taken on it s own AotI does not stand up well While there are several good bits the growth of one character into her new life on the spaceways is good work many of the characters remain two dimensional at best Part of that is intensional the protagonist is a being seeing the world in month long experiences of usually high crisis which would lead to a bit of tunnel vision but it makes the book suffer The protagonist s trips to Dreamland which is never named or adequately explained provide backstory but leave questions than answers While I was interested in the story I rarely felt truly engaged by it. Book agent of the imperium of man In the interest of full disclosure one personal bugbear of mine is the X Files secret cabal interpretation of history This is where the Great Man theory runs amuck and puts forth the idea that there is someone s behind all the major happenings in civilization Being a student of history I realize how many things impact history and how little any person even the mighty have on current events In this book it is revealed the protagonist becomes the ghost within the imperial machine that creates at least two major events in history If this type of plot is not a problem you may find it a better work. Book agent of the imperium pdf Finally it suffers too much from trying to link it with the Traveller game mostly in a non useful way The back contains pages of game universe history most of it lifted from the game books Some of it is new and interesting such as the lectures on imperial history but most of it is not useful unless you play the game and if you do you already have most of this data. Kindle agent of the imperium series To sum up this is a book that will appeal mostly to die hard fans of the game universe Unfortunately it does not really work as either a stand alone novel or as a introduction to the game as it is usually played 304 Painfully dry hard to follow and boring 304 Full review here reshare Thank you 304 A neat look at the various worlds and cultures of the Traveler RPG universe The Agent storyline was interesting but ultimately didn t go anywhere The end of the book was very disappointing almost like the author ran out of steam but they seem to be Really Bad Situations He has to ask his own name each time so I presume he inhabits someone else s body What happens to them Are their personalities completely suppressed Do they survive the process Hell if I know He wakes up asks who is here to brief him And then starts shoving his weight around while he analyzes the situation Shooting anyone who questions his authority He can make the hard calls and wipes out planets with impunity When the crisis is over he is I don t know put to sleep again It s pretty fuzzy on that as well At one time be gets revenge by ruining the family of the man who didn t fulfill his all his wishes with regards to his tombstone They still bury people I think he even gets an assistant to get killed and go through the dying and waking up process with him because likes him as an assistant but I m not really sure about that either. Book agent of the imperium of man I m a huge Traveller fan from the beginning and have nearly everything ever published for the game I also have an almost complete collection of Traveller based fiction so this book was a must to try out I am finding it painful to read For many reasons Here are a few The main character I don t think he has a name if he has I ve missed it is virtually a blank slate No real personality Just a very efficient bureaucrat who the Empire figured they could use after his death He s efficient and ruthless but only in that officer worker kind of way And since that s what he s brought around for it s not really an impressive character trait Also the problems that he finds are often vaguely described Maybe we re supposed to infer what the problem is but half the time I don t understand And really story wise the problem is or less investigated before he is called on So when awakened they just tell him what it is he does a little research or rather makes someone else do a little research and makes a decision To me why wake him up at all surely someone else can make the decision without him Also how does he know they re right He goes through a fact checking process in a couple of days after he is woken but. Agents of the imperium models Even if he is absolutely correct It s not very interesting for him to just pop in blow up a planet and then go back to sleep No even remotely looking for other solutions No real thought that what if he makes the final solution and it s already too late The plague has already gotten out Is he infallible Certainly the plague could do some damage but it doesn t mean that everyone on the planet would have gotten it right 81 page is nothing like that is considered But so the people he orders to destroy the planet will also taste the pain of what they have done they will all have a finger cut off the loss will stay with you forever as your cost in achieving this mission of great value WTF Maybe Heinlein could get away with something like this but this book doesn t And of course if you question the Agents wisdom he just orders someone to shoot you dead Which they do Cause military The next mission he goes to a planet whose star is going to go nova in six months Wait That s undetectable until 6 months away Oh kay This time he ll try to save as many lives as possible He will choose who to save at random Unless they interfere or try to jump the line or ask too many questions or fart in pubic Then he ll kill them Around page 95 though the book has an interesting twist I m still not positive how the personality wafer think works exactly the writing is unclear but I know that the Agent gets activated to inhabit someone else in an emergency but in a new chapter when the point of view suddenly and without notice changes again something goes wrong Now our hero finds himself in a romantic relationship he did not expect It took about five pages for the author to explain what the sex of one of the participant s is The Agent continues to leave her and the reader in the dark about what s going on The Agent and his new partner go traipsing across the galaxy like he owns the place He does They give him a ship and they bop from planet to plant Here s a quote Strangely our time at Vland was short and unremarkable We remained in orbit if the author had sold that there was no other way it would be a point But since the Agent is a jerk and his decision comes after about a day of examining the problem it doesn t seem at all plausible More like a final solution. Agent of the imperium epub free Later the Agent becomes a Baron while in the body of a nobody geek who was only promoted so that it wouldn t look stupid that he was made a Baron While meeting some of his fellow royalty this happens We spoke about the economy trade politics trends in society We sparred with each other gently feeling out what the other believed revealing some but not too much THANK GOD THERE WAS FINALLY AN INTERESTING CONVERSION IN THE BOOK AND THE AUTHOR SPARED US FROM HAVING TO READ IT Kind of weird how the Agent wakes up in the body of a guy whose dead and the partner of the dead guy spends a few months with him and totally falls in love with him When everyone else should be able to see that he s a total ahole. Book agent of the imperium pdf Finally around p 148 a ship the Agent is on jumps into Zhodani space accidentally This could be interesting The Zhodani are rather psychic Klingons in the Traveller universe Page 163 appears to start a new mission where the Agent pops up next year next month next millennia because they found a dead planet where robots are building a spaceship Easy he decides Destroy them Cause that s what he ALWAYS decides I much interesting book could have been written on why and how these robots are building a spaceship But it s not this one He congratulates himself for wiping out the robot before their threat because they could destroy entire worlds But of course he never bothers to find out anything about them like who built them and why Now I m certainly not one of those bleeding heart robot lovers which may have been the plant that the Agent has been counting down to and preparing for but that s been pretty vague and f all knows why Doesn t matter anyway because without any particular feeling about either the Agent or the Emperor it s not liking I m rooting for either side Around p 208 we are told that the Agent is depressed because his goals are going to take a long time to achieve I thought his goal was helping to assassinate the current emperor Guess not Increasingly often during the book the Agent mentions Rules As in Rule 1 Rule 3 Rule 4 Rule 5 Here s a quote I depended on her and thus felt a need to be thoughtful Rule 3 Rule 4 I also paid her enough to carry her forward until our next meeting Rule 5 Now as far as I can tell these rules are never defined It reminds me of the Space Jews in Star Trek But at least they told you what the rules are This is only one of the annoying things about the book The Agent s sex changes constantly but the first person narrative never does Or maybe it s not the agent but the girlfriend of the guy who s body he took over Who knows. Agent of the imperium marc miller So the Agent is immortal infinitely wealthy and has all the powers of the Emperor of the Universe Yeah sounds like a typical Traveller campaign Well there was a big space fight because there was a body snatching parasite causing people to change sides This should have been exciting but wasn t And of course once the Agent found out that people were being infected by aliens he had a solution Scrub the planet The same solution he has for every problem Around page 275 he finally decides after 400 years there might be another method of fixing a problem than sterilizing a planet It still involves murder of course. Pdf agent of the imperium download An amazing amount of this novel depends on anyone being told Yeah this guy who works for the Emperor do anything he says And not a single person every says nothing interesting happened and what was there was told by a variety of nondescript narrators that were completely featureless robots The first person narrative that didn t vary no matter who the narrator was certainly didn t help But read other reviews if you think I might be off I m certainly going to I give this one star and will would donate it to a local library if it weren t for those last 69 pages They ll at least be good for my Traveller collection 304 Given that this is a book based on a table top game written by a first time author it really exceeded expectations The premise was very cool and ended up letting the book do some of the fun oh they re referencing something I already read about stuff that usually only works in a long series Definitely worth a read 304 Miller creates a compelling narrative Jonathan Bland exists intermittently as a recorded personality overlaid upon a human host only during emergencies and these powerful focused vignettes somehow weave together into a larger story as circumstance and accident allow him a slight wiggle room that the reader can follow across the larger Imperium It is written concisely and without flourish as befits the first person narration of a singularly focused individual. Book agent of the imperium pdf Some threads appear to trail into oblivion potential sequel material and the whole eventually crashes into an unexpected and poignant conclusion 304 Surprisingly good book by a first time novelist An innovative premise lets us travel to a number of iconic places and events in the history of the Traveller Universe in a way that makes sense Episodic at first some plot threads develop to tie things together as the story goes on. Entertainment agent of the imperium of rome There are some major threads dangling at the end of the book including what is arguably the main plot thread so hopefully there will be a follow on volume at some point Highly recommended for any fan of the setting and I think it could be an interesting read even for someone new to the Traveller Universe extensive appendices should help with most questions that might come up although they could be problematic to reference in e book format 304 As a longtime RPG player I m always on the lookout for fiction set in milieux in which I ve played IMHO there is a serious lack of this for some reason information about a setting makes it much easier to play in it Traveller suffers than most so when I heard that its inventor Marc Miller was writing a novel set in Charted Space I immediately found and backed the Kickstarter campaign The resulting novel doesn t really have much in common with a regular Traveller campaign at least not the low powered variety I was usually involved in but it provides a good amount of environmental and atmospheric background Space is a vast and unpredictable place with multifarious agents visible and invisible all looking out for themselves Running an interstellar empire is a brutal business and many difficult choices have to be made often with a significant cost in lives. Book agent of the imperium book The reservations I have are not significant so I gave this novel the full five stars Read it even if you re not a Traveller fan 304 Marc Miller s Agent of the Imperium is a decent sci fi novel and given that it is by design tightly tied to a TTRPG universe created by the same author the book is considerably better than it needs to be By that I mean that since Miller has a built in audience of Traveller players he could easily have gotten away with a slapdash effort but to his credit he has not gone down that easy route. Kindle agent of the imperium pdf That said there is a certain amount of repetition in the narrative as the titular Agent is invoked multiple times to handle roughly similar challenges Given that each challenge plays out in a very similar sequence of events the second half of the book is a bit of a slog made worse by the fact that none of the characters save Enna Plant Lagash are really developed in any way. 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But the rest of the book was good 304 There is no problem so big that you can t blow up the planet it s on