The Amtrack Wars Comments
The Amtrack Wars (Patrick Tilley)
Ten centuries ago the Old Time ended when Earth's cities melted in the War of a Thousand Suns. Now the lethal high technology of the Amtrak Federation's underground stronghold is unleashed on Earth's other survivors - the surface-dwelling Mutes.
Phenomenal books. Action, love, adventure, magic. And a damn damn sweet plot. Thesee Fantasy Books are a bit old and maybe out of print, but if you can manage to get you hands on this six volume series, you're in for something special.
I struggled through this series until the book after the ironmasters. It kept promising but nothing really happens. Tilly dragged (what should have been) a 500 page idea, into 1000's of pages of drivell. The first novel showed so much potential.
Not true! Finished the series with a cliffhanger. In a letter dated 26 August 1991 Patrick Tilley confirmed that both the fans and publishers wanted additional novels to be published in the series and he was pursuing the matter, but only if he could "make it good enough."
Since then he mentioned again in 2007 that he may continue with a trilogy but nothing definite.
Either way, read this series! Read it when i was a kid and recently bought them again in a second hand book shop and they were just as awesome.
Don't read this series if you like any kind of endings whatsoever, as the series was cut tragically short about half way through and as far as I know, no more books were ever written.
This series should not be here, avoid it.