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S'està carregant… Smoke Ring (edició 1988)de Larry Niven (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Worth reading, with a few more ideas of this amazing construct explored, but ultimately lost me. ( ) This book is set in the fascinating world of the Smoke Ring, a free fall environment that is able to support life. In the distant past, a group of humans settled there and adapted to the rich and varied environment. World building is the strength of this novels. The world of the Smoke Ring and the Integral Trees (massive plants within the smoke ring) is fascinating. The character development was okay -- really, pretty decent by sci-fi standards. However, I was less happy with the pacing of the plot. The novel book seemed intent on making up for the rushed plot in The Integral Trees that by having an amount of plot that seemed thin given the time spent on it. But overall, it was an enjoyable read. Mediocre conclusion to a mediocre trilogy. The idea of huge trees in space, and an extremely-long duration mostly-failed empire, could be good, but the actual stories and characters were bad to mediocre throughout. Niven is great at coming up with concepts behind worlds (Ringworld even more so than The State), but bad downstream from that. Skip. (Also a pretty bad audiobook; narrator speaks words quickly but with large gaps between words, so it isn't as intelligible at 2x as many others at 3x.)
Een aardse expeditie is eeuwen geleden gestrand in een vreemdsoortig zonnestelsel. Rond een neutronenster bevindt zich een gastorus; het binnenste deel daarvan, de 'Rookkring', heeft een aardse atmosfeer. Daar zweven de 'integraalbomen': enorme bomen van tientallen kilometers lengte in de vorm van het integraalteken uit de wiskunde met aan beide uiteinden een kruin, waarin de nakomelingen van de kolonisten wonen. Het eerste deel, De integraalbomen (a.i. 86-05-145-8) beschrijft hoe de bewoners van een boom zich in veiligheid brengen als hun boom sterft. In dit - niet zelfstandig leesbare - vervolg wordt verteld hoe ze in contact komen met een veel verder gevorderde beschaving in de Rookkring. Fascinerende wetenschappelijk-technologische science fiction. Een derde deel is in de VS aangekondigd. (NBD|Biblion recensie, J.A. Dautzenberg.) Pertany a aquestes sèriesSmoke Ring (2) Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsBastei Science Fiction-Special (24121) Science Fiction Book Club (11496) Contingut a
In the free-fall environment of the Smoke Ring, the descendants of the crew of the Discipline no longer remembered their Earth roots-or the existence of sharls Davis Kendy, the computer-program despot of the ship. Until Kendy initiated contact once more. Fourteen years later, only Jeffer, the Citizens Tree Scientist, knew that Kendy was still watching-and waiting. Then the Citizens Tree people rescued a family of loggers and learned for the first time of the Admiralty, a large society living in free fall amid the floating debris called the Clump. And it was likely that the Admiralty had maintained, intact, Dicipline's original computer library. Exploration was a temptation neither Jeffer nor Kendy could resist, and neither citizens Tree nor Sharls Davis Kendy would ever be the same again. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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