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Ladataan... The Galaxy Game (2014)Tekijä: Karen Lord
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This is my first DNF of 2015. I give up. This book is all over the place and confusing. Maybe it's me. But I'm not interested in continuing. ( ) Maybe I should have read the prequel first, maybe this just isn't for me, idk: I spent the vast majority of the book trying to figure out what the shape of the story was and how what I was reading fitted into it. There is a vast, detailed, galaxy full of complex politics and technological advancement! History happens! The main character grows up! But... I have no handle on who has agency in any of this, if anyone, or whether seeking for an agent is completely missing the whole point, or what. It started, it continued, it stopped, and I have no idea what any of it meant. I'm going to be honest from the very beginning: writing a plot summary for this book is really challenging. The reason is that any sort of synopsis I can come up with doesn't do justice to the unique and dynamic story that is contained within these pages. Karen Lord has a masterful way of world building and character development that a reviewer like me just cannot capture in a few short paragraphs. I'll use the book's blurb instead, because even though I feel like there's more to this story than is reflected there, at least it's the publisher's approved copy and not my mangled attempt to summarize this for you: For years, Rafi Delarua saw his family suffer under his father's unethical use of psionic power. Now the government has Rafi under close watch, but, hating their crude attempts to analyse his brain, he escapes to the planet Punartam, where his abilities are the norm, not the exception. Punartam is also the centre for his favourite sport, wallrunning - and thanks to his best friend, he has found a way to train with the elite. But Rafi soon realises he's playing quite a different game, for the galaxy is changing; unrest is spreading and the Zhinuvian cartels are plotting, making the stars a far more dangerous place to aim. There may yet be one solution - involving interstellar travel, galactic power and the love of a beautiful game. The story does take a bit to get going--there's some lead-up and background that doesn't seem entirely necessary in the early stages but comes back around to be very important to understanding the world in which these characters live. The personalities, cultural dynamics, and themes of family, success, integrity, and survival are well-represented and very natural to the flow of the story. This was the first book I've read by Karen Lord, but I definitely see myself seeking out more. I loved this book. It was very much a continuation of The Best of All Possible Worlds but in a way I totally did not expect. I'm hoping this is not the end this series. I liked this every bit as much as TBOAPW if not more. Rafi and his friends were fun to follow along. The politics felt organic and real. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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"Karen Lord is one of today's most brilliant young talents. Her science fiction, like that of predecessors Ursula K. Le Guin and China Mieville, combines star-spanning plots, deeply felt characters, and incisive social commentary. With The Galaxy Game, Lord presents a gripping adventure that showcases her dazzling imagination as never before. On the verge of adulthood, Rafi attends the Lyceum, a school for the psionically gifted. Rafi possesses mental abilities that might benefit people. or control them. Some wish to help Rafi wield his powers responsibly; others see him as a threat to be contained. Rafi's only freedom at the Lyceum is Wallrunning: a game of speed and agility played on vast vertical surfaces riddled with variable gravity fields. Serendipity and Ntenman are also students at the Lyceum, but unlike Rafi they come from communities where such abilities are valued. Serendipity finds the Lyceum as much a prison as a school, and she yearns for a meaningful life beyond its gates. Ntenman, with his quick tongue, quicker mind, and a willingness to bend if not break the rules, has no problem fitting in. But he too has his reasons for wanting to escape. Now the three friends are about to experience a moment of violent change as seething tensions between rival star-faring civilizations come to a head. For Serendipity, it will challenge her ideas of community and self. For Ntenman, it will open new opportunities and new dangers. And for Rafi, given a chance to train with some of the best Wallrunners in the galaxy, it will lead to the discovery that there is more to Wallrunning than he ever suspected. and more to himself than he ever dreamed"--
"In this new novel, Rafi, a student at a school for super-human psychic abilities, travels the universe with an intergalactic sports team, encountering strange new worlds and alien cultures. Lord's bold new vision of 21st-century science fiction has appeal to both devoted genre fans and readers of literary fiction"-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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