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S'està carregant… The Adversary (1984)de Julian May
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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. All time favourite fantasy series, feel in love with this when 15, and the only book series I have ready multiple times. ( ) Los tres primeros volúmenes de la Saga del Exilio del Plioceno, La Tierra Multicolor, El Torque de Oro y El Rey Nonato, narraban las aventuras de los viajeros temporales del sofisticado Medio Galáctico del siglo XXI a la Europa del plioceno, en busca del Jardín del Edén. Lo que encontraron a cambio fue la esclavitud bajo los Tanu, una raza que se había exiliado también a la Tierra procedente de una remota galaxia. Liberados de su opresión por Aiken Drum, el reinado de éste sobre la Tierra Multicolor se ve pronto amenazado por los Firbulag, que pretenden desencadenar finalmente contra humanos y Tanu el Gotterdɤmmerung que habían pospuesto desde su exilio a la Tierra del plioceno. Een groep menselijke tijdreizigers uit de 22ste eeuw laat zich via een tijdpoort terugbrengen naar het Plioceen, in de hoop daar een Hof van Eden aan te zullen treffen. In plaats daarvan wachten hen twee elkaar bestrijdende buitenaardse rassen - de Tanu en de Firvulag - en ze worden tot slaven gemaakt. Een van de leden van de groep - de bedrieglijke avonturier Aiken Drum - weet de Tanutroon te veroveren, maar zijn bewind wordt al spoedig bedreigd door de Firvulag, die vastbesloten zijn zowel de mensen als de Tanu uit te roeien. Maar deze bedreiging lijkt een bijkomstigheid vergeleken met de komst van een ander menselijk wezen dat over metafychische vermogens beschikt die die van Aiken Drum zelf verre overtreffen. Het is Marc Remillard, de aanstichter van de metafysische opstand die bijna Het Bestel veroverde, en die na te zijn verslagen door de tijdpoort is gevlucht. THE ADVERSARY follows the interwoven relationships of people from each of the five groups, plus the reluctant arbiter of them all, Elizabeth Orme. Elizabeth supports the aims of King Aiken and his Tanu, Howler, and human followers. Aiken, with his enlightened despotism, seems the best ruler available. Certainly not King Sharn-Mes of the Firvulag, who plans to exterminate all Tanu and humans. Certainly not Marc Remillard, whose cold, cruel mind is the only one stronger than Aiken’s. The other groups have no ambition to rule. The Lowlives, outlaw humans, cooperate with Aiken when they feel like it. The children of Marc Remillard and his followers want only to build a time gate to take them to Earth’s twenty-second century A.D., where their parents came from. The maneuvering to build the time gate is the main plot of THE ADVERSARY. The title character, the Adversary himself, is Marc Remillard. His driving urge is the urge for dominance: humans over other species, himself over humans, his descendants mutated into forms which will allow them to dominate their universe. But Marc’s methods thus far have been so draconic that his children find them – and him – repugnant. One of his son Hagan’s goals in returning to Elder Earth and the government of the Galactic Milieu is to help the Milieu find and destroy his father. So when Marc starts visiting Elizabeth and helping her heal children, all anyone can think of is the terrifying power Marc is developing: learning to jump instantaneously anywhere in the universe, carrying along anything he chooses to bring. Everyone knows that soon Marc will be able to stop the building of the time gate. The 4th in the Pliocene Era saga, this is space opera before the term was really coined. I loved it when I first read it, and definitely liked it now, but can see it's age. It's not as sophisticated in it's relationships as I recalled, and while I loved Marc, I found his relationship with Elizabeth less convincing. But these are minor quibbles because there is such a broad tapestry here and so many characters to find and love. And Aiken Drum is a great character to spend time with and he didn't age at all. PS I hate the cover art on the edition I got and changed it to this much more pleasing look. Bad cover art can really impact a book! Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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The fourth and culminating volume in Julian May's dazzling quartet of science-fiction novels brings to a climax the struggle for the Many-Colored Land--the Earth six million years ago--and completes the series that has become an international best-seller and multiple award nominee. Human time-travelers from the sophisticated Galactic Milieu of the twenty-second century came to the Pliocene Epoch seeking a Garden of Eden. What they found was slavery under the knightly Tanu race, who had been exiled to Earth from a far galaxy. Freed by the usurper Aiken Drum, the humans enjoy a brief period of dominance. But now King Aiken's rule is threatened by the dwarfish Firvulag, who scheme to destroy both humans and Tanu in the nightfall War, a ritual Gotterdammerung that had been postponed when Tanu and Firvulag were banished to Pliocene Earth. This menace becomes almost incidental when Aiken discovers that his realm is about to be invaded by another human who possesses metapsychic powers even greater than Aiken's own. He is Marc Remillard, the Adversary, instigator of the Metapsychic Rebellion, who nearly conquered the Milieu, and then fled through the time-gate after his defeat. Marc and his surviving followers come against Aiken when it seems that a new time-gate is about to be built--one that will provide a two-way portal between the Many-Colored Land and the future world of the Milieu. "The Adversary, "like its predecessors "(The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Tore, "and "The Nonborn King), "combines science and fantastic imagery with rousing adventure, humor, and an optimistic view of the human character as it contends against mental and physical perils. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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