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Contents 1 River God 2 The Quest 3 The Seventh Scroll 3.1 Expansion 3.2 disambiguation

[edit] River God

I added a description of the plot of River God. The writing is pretty bad and it probably misses some major plot points but it's very hard to compress such a huge book into a decent summary. Feel free to rewrite and expand, but at any rate my bad description is better than nothing. :) 82.71.7.193 17:02, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

No, it's a great start. I just beefed it up a little. I did the audiobooks about a year ago, so my memory isn't the best - you mentioned leaving Egypt and returning to Egypt - I thought that was Lower Kingdom vs. Upper Kingdom? Or am I confusing book 1 with book 3 (if you haven't read them yet, feel free to skip book 2). — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib Reverts} 18:43, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Actually I now realise I've left out the whole Lower Kingdom (where Taita et al come from) vs. Upper Kingdom and the 'false' pharaoh. The Hyksos actually take over both lower and upper kingdoms, forcing the main characters up the nile (towards it's source) and into Ethiopia. I've also left out the Lord Intef vs. Lord Harrab rivalry and it's affect on Tanus' plight. And somehow I've managed to not even mention Kratas at all... 82.71.7.193 20:13, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Quest

I wrote a very basic plot synopsis for The Quest. Great book, but very different from anything Smith's written before. If someone could patch up what I wrote, that would be great thanks. Razoroo 12:25, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Seventh Scroll

I'll try to do a summary for this soon - I've read it several times, but not for a year or two, I'm too rusty to do a decent one now, but when I've finished reading Blue Horizon I'll get onto the Seventh Scroll.Helmetlad 17:22, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion

In my opinion many of the books here deserve a far longer explanation due to the complexity of the plots, and becuase of just how excellent the books are. I have thought of doing some sort of character summary for the different sets of books - there are characters that stand forward predominantly and remain through each of the series'. In addition there was no mention of the newest Courtney novel, Triumph of the Sun, a milestone in that it combined both the Courtney and Ballantyne lines. I'll continue to update slowly. --Liquid121 21:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree. The books by Smith discusses some rather encompassing issues. I'll also do some editing and would add some more later on, and the updates may come slowly as there is a need to re-read some of the books by the author for its complexity. Modelwatcher 08:28, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I just finished Rage and can probably write the summary for that one. It means doing Rage before the summaries for the previous books in the series are done, but it can be edited in the future if need be. Only problem is I disagree that in Rage "the enmity between Shasa and Manfred explodes...". In this one they work very closely together, Shasa even joining Manfred's political party. They confide together to do nothing to stop the plotted assasination attempt of the Prime Minister (Shasa only acts because the attempt occurs right in front of him). And at the end when Manfred is revealed as White Sword, Shasa only requires him to resign as Minister of Police, he could have demanded a lot more considering White Sword's previous actions against his family. What do you think? FatDaks 02:46, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

It's biographical material the page really needs, that's what the article is mainly about. The books can be detailed on their own pages, for example River God is large enough to have its own article already. I've assessed it as a start class article - there's plenty on the books but only a paragraph or so on the subject, so it will need a great deal of expansion. Richard001 08:49, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] disambiguation

Could a logged-in user create a redirect Blue Horizon (novel) → Wilbur Smith (for now) and add this as another disambiguation to the Blue Horizon page? thanks 84.129.160.221 (talk) 14:09, 21 January 2008 (UTC)