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S'està carregant… Antagonist (2008)de Gordon R. Dickson, David W. Wixon
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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. Do not care for Bleys as a character so books are boring. ( ) A book that sounded interesting when first heard about but one that did not live up to expectations. This is not a close to the Childe Cycle (that apparently will never be written) but rather another book about Bleys Ahrens. This one follows a similar timeline as the Final Encyclopedia but tells the story from Bleys point of view. This might have been a good addition to the series of books but unfortunately this book was finished after Gordon Dickson passed away and the story is very uneven. I would only recommend this to other fans of the series who might need a final Dickson fix. Kind of a let down... I was hoping to read to find out how it all worked out, but I didn't. This book & the preceding, [b:Other|263110|Other (Childe Cycle)|Gordon R. Dickson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173238986s/263110.jpg|650764], basically follow the same timeline as [b:The Final Encyclopedia|1634982|The Final Encyclopedia (Childe Cycle)|Gordon R. Dickson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1230853798s/1634982.jpg|7429901], but from Bleys Ahrens POV, instead of Hal Mayne's. So we learn a lot more about Bleys, who I never liked. Good ending, but if I hadn't read the last two books of this series (which I hadn't before) I really wouldn't have missed much. I just realized I missed reading 2 of the books in the series; #8 & 9 as listed below. Don't know how I messed that up. I have #8 & might read it in the future since I see it has Amanda in it. I've always liked all the Amandas. I think I'll pass on #9, though. I've had more than enough of Bleys. Childe Cycle 1. Dorsai! (1959) aka The Genetic General 2. Necromancer (1962) aka No Room for Man 3. Soldier, Ask Not (1967) 4. The Tactics of Mistake (1971) 5. The Spirit of Dorsai (1979) 6. Lost Dorsai (1980) 7. The Final Encyclopedia (1984) 8. The Chantry Guild (1988) 9. Young Bleys (1991) 10. Other (1994) 11. Antagonist (2007) (with David W Wixon) I don't think I'll be keeping this one. Brought out after the author's death with the help of his long-time assistant. A quick skim suggests that this is not up to the standard of the author's best work. I will, however, be looking for firsts of Dickson's classic early Dorsai novels like SOLDIER, ASK NOT and TACTICS OF MISTAKE> Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Pertany a aquestes sèriesChilde Cycle (11)
Gordon R. Dickson’s “Childe Cycle” of novels depicting the future of the human race has been one of the grand epics of science fiction. At the time of his death in 2001, Dickson was writing Antagonist, the tale of Bleys Ahrens’ turn toward darkness. Now Dickson’s assistant David W. Wixon has brilliantly finished the long-awaited book, working from Dickson’s copious notes. Antagonist is a fitting capstone to one of the most ambitious series in SF history. The Childe Cycle is the story of a new human evolution: the development of a real, hardwired sense of “responsibility” shared by all human beings. Donal Graeme was a Dorsai, a mercenary soldier, and also a mutant gifted with insight into the path forward for the human race. Through his gifts Donal would come to bend time and live three lifetimes—and, in the process, run into problems he had not expected: first, his own flaws, and second, the existence of another mutant, Bleys Ahrens. Following Young Bleys and Other, Antagonist advances the story of the formidably powerful Bleys Ahrens. Bleys is a man with a clear vision of the struggle in which he’s involved -- but an increasingly deficient sense of human values. He and his organization, the Others, are tracking down an elusive interplanetary opposition. Meanwhile, Bleys' own intricate conspiracies and devisings, and his quest for power, which began with the best of motives, have become something darker and fiercer. He's committed to his plans. They may bring about the advent of Homo superior. And they may destroy the human race. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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