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Michael Shaara (1928–1988)

Teoksen The Killer Angels tekijä

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Michael Shaara was a novelist, short story writer, and educator. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on June 23, 1928. Shaara earned a B.S. from Rutgers University and did graduate work at Columbia University and the University of Vermont. Shaara spent two years in the service, worked as a näytä lisää policeman and a sailor, and became associate professor at Florida State University in 1961. From 1961 to 1965 he wrote, produced, and performed in a show for educational television. Shaara published a novel in 1974 titled, The Killer Angels. The novel told the story of the Battle of Gettysburg from the point of view of the men fighting it. It received the Pulitzer Prize in 1975. In 1993, the novel was the basis for the motion picture Gettysburg. Shaara also published more than 70 short stories that appeared in several U.S. and foreign publications and wrote several more novels. Shaara died on May 5, 1988. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Tekijän teokset

The Killer Angels (1974) 8,745 kappaletta
For Love of the Game (1991) 236 kappaletta
Soldier Boy (1982) 48 kappaletta
The Herald (1981) 27 kappaletta
The Broken Place (1981) 17 kappaletta
Conquest Over Time (2010) 10 kappaletta
2066 Election Day (1956) 9 kappaletta
Wainer (2011) 7 kappaletta
The Book (2011) 6 kappaletta
Orphans of the Void (2016) 4 kappaletta

Associated Works

The Science Fiction Century (1997) — Avustaja — 529 kappaletta
Galactic Empires, Volume One (1976) — Avustaja — 408 kappaletta
Gettysburg (1993) — Original book — 352 kappaletta
The World Turned Upside Down (2005) — Avustaja — 219 kappaletta
Science Fiction Stories (1991) — Avustaja — 182 kappaletta
The Fourth Galaxy Reader (1959) — Avustaja — 129 kappaletta
Galactic Empires {complete} (1976) — Avustaja — 124 kappaletta
Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction, Volume 8: Monsters (1988) — Tekijä, eräät painokset68 kappaletta
Best SF Three (1958) — Avustaja — 56 kappaletta
Alpha 7 (1977) — Avustaja — 46 kappaletta
Alpha 9 (1978) — Avustaja — 37 kappaletta
Science Fiction Thinking Machines (1954) — Avustaja — 37 kappaletta
The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels: Ninth Series (1956) — Avustaja — 34 kappaletta
Peter Davison's Book of Alien Planets (1983) — Avustaja — 31 kappaletta
World Zero Minus: An SF Anthology (1971) — Avustaja — 18 kappaletta
Political science fiction;: An introductory reader (1974) — Avustaja — 13 kappaletta
Titan XVIII (1976) — Avustaja, eräät painokset8 kappaletta
Galaxy Science Fiction 1959 August, Vol. 17, No. 6 (1959) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta

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A very satisfying and engaging page-turner.

This novel has great characters and descriptions of the battle without getting too bogged down for non-military readers. I found myself wanting a bit more detail on the tactics and strategy, as well as the basic events of the battle that were taking place away from the main characters, but the characters and engagements that received focus were extremely well presented.

I enjoyed the literary device of each chapter being in the voice and inner thoughts of a different character, which provided more insight than was possible in the movie Gettysburg. For example, in the movie Chamberlain is talking to Kilrain and brings up the quote from Hamlet, "how like an angel" and Kilrain retorts "killer angel". In the book, it was a memory of his days as a student studying Shakespeare and he had written a speech about this quote and shared it with his father, who retorted "murderous angel" and he had then revised his speech around that idea and gave the speech with great success, and his father was very proud of him. Later he feels this same sense of pride after his actions on Little Round Top on Day 2.

The novel also does so much than the movie can to show the inner anguish of Longstreet.

There are other notable differences with the film, which makes it seem like Reynolds and the 1st Corps were already well on their way on June 30th to support Buford, when the book makes it clear no one is coming until Buford sends urgent messages, and another officer besides Reynolds might have not hurried so quickly which would have led to an entirely different outcome of the battle.

A very satisfying read.
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bballard74 | 188 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 29, 2024 |
Gettysburg novel, very good.
 
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derailer | 188 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 25, 2024 |
A free short sci-fi classic originally published in Galaxy in 1953, Michael Shaara presents a hellish vision of heaven, or is that a heavenly vision of hell? Which you see probably reflects more about you than the story.

I confess it didn't really work for me, but it might for you. It's a quick read freely available from Gutennburg, and well worth it if you enjoy classic sci fi short stories.
 
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