Sorry to have to add to the dismal 1 star review.I read this many, many years ago and wanted to revisit as I couldn't remember anything about this other than the fact it was science fiction which is a big change for Pauline Gedge who is a historical fiction queen (as far as I am concerned).I found the first 1/3 (that's as far as I got) of Stargate to be incomprehensible for the most part. There are gods that are in charge of several separate and varied worlds with mortals on each world. The worlds were once open to each other and gods and mortals could travel between, but now because of something that happened to the Worldmaker (übergod, I presume), who is also called Unmaker on occasion (I think) the gates between the worlds are closing and the gods are succumbing to some sort of evil that was brought on by something in a book that is somehow making it's way around between all of the gods. There are also beings called traders that move between the worlds selling goods.I had trouble keeping the characters and which worlds they belonged to straight and I really had trouble making the physical layout of the worlds cohesive in my mind.Also, I was not a big fan of the writing style and voice. I found it florid and overdone in a big way. I can't remember if I liked it the first time around, but this time definitely my tastes have changed.Sorry, Pauline... this was one bad one amongst the very many good...
