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S'està carregant… Raiders from the Rings (1962 original; edició 1962)de Alan E Nourse (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. It's...not bad, not wonderful. An odd combination of pulpy SF and striving for human improvement - the Raiders are the people who have been driven away from Earth, and have to raid the planet to survive. Fearmongering on both sides has finally risen to the point of total war - and the Grays intervene (I wonder if this was the first/an early portrayal?), to persuade both sides that there's a better way. The magic belt reminds me rather of Lucky Starr, though its powers are much less; Joyce is pretty much a cipher, though she does speak up from time to time. Most of the story is Ben, with help from Tom. The limitations of their science are fascinating - null-grav engines that reduce the pressure of acceleration, but the ships are rockets; and the fastest way to get a message from Earth to Mars is via ship, radio (short-wave) won't cut it. I'm very glad I read it, it was fun, I doubt I'll read it again. My very first Sci-Fi book purchase, from Scholastic Book Club when I was in fifth grade (1965). Like others, it made a huge impact on me. I remember being very much infatuated with Jill (teen female kidnapped from earth) . Ah, those were the days! Book was--at the time--a sound Juvenile story reflecting the cold-war and the mindset of the times. During one of our twice yearly "Duck & Cover" drills I hid under my desk imagining the Raiders were coming after us! I hoped they would take away one of the girls I didn't like (I would save the girl I had a crush on and be the hero--in a reverse of the book!) Still a good read for nostalgia, but doubt of much value to anybody not of my generation. One of Nourse's juveniles and typical for the period. A mix of decent (albeit simple) science with mumbo-jumbo and a plot where kids save the universe -- well, Earth -- through pluck, perseverance, and good will. A major plot element that apparently condones the institutionalized kidnapping of women makes this hard to read this as anything more than an historical curiosity. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"We have watched your plants for millennia." The creature that spoke was barely three feet tall, with wrinkled gray skin and monstrous eyes . . . "Yours is a war of children. Only children would slaughter each other out of ignorance and fear. Only children would fail again and again to learn the lessons of their foolishness." It was true. The underground people of Earth were united in terror and desperation against what they considered a frightful threat from the skies. They had sent a mighty armada into space, rushing in lethal orbit toward Mars. The Spacers - still really Earthmen themselves - were poised for the counter-blow. The great fleet at Asteroid Central had sufficient warheads to reduce earth to a cinder. "But we also know the greatness of your spirit, the precious spark which we cannont allow you to extinguish." Now Ben Trefon understood that in the Black Belt of Power bequeathed to him by his father rested the final hope of the human race! No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)823.91Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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Disappointing's a good description. It's painfully bad--the very definition of a pulp novel. While the plot's more or less plausible, the resolution seems far too easy. And the editors should have forced Nourse to attach names to some of the book's characters.
I'd like to think I'd have spotted the flaws in 1959, but I likely didn't. ( )