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Ladataan... Orbital DecayTekijä: Allen Steele
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Son los hombres y mujeres que están construyendo el futuro: los obreros de la construcción a gravedad cero, los pioneros que erigen la primera estación orbital del espacio en medio del hostil y a veces mortÃfero vacÃo. Un trabajo en el que cualquier momento de descuido puede significar una catástrofe. Pero lo más duro de su trabajo no está en la construcción en sÃ, sino luego. Porque, cuando la estación está terminada, es cuando surgen los problemas: aburrimiento, nostalgia y sobre todo los dolorosos recuerdos de la vida que dejaron allá abajo, en la Tierra. Eso, a los grandes jefes militares que presiden la operación, no les importa. Creen que tienen a sus hombres de ahà arriba completamente controlados. Creen que no representan ningún problema. Pero están equivocados… Con Descomposición Orbital, Allen Steele se sitúa en primera lÃnea de los actuales escritores de ciencia ficción hard, con una obra a veces divertida, a veces dramática, pero siempre apasionante, un auténtico homenaje a los hombres que, con todas sus miserias y debilidades, han sido, son y serán héroes. This took me a while to get through. It's not because it's bad, more like it just feels a bit dated. Basically, it's a circa 1990 story about just how boring life as a glorified construction worker in space could be. Basically, if you're into hard science fiction that doesn't glamorize space and all that involves, this could be your book. On the other hand, I'd personally recommend the Coyote Trilogy over this. That's really about all I have to say about Orbital Decay. So it goes. The story of blue collar misfit workers in space building an electricity generating satellite while led by a whacko. There are several characters who are developed very well and the reader gets to know them. The plot is cold war-ish but somehow did not hold my interest and I almost put it down in the middle. Additionally, the book contained long winded technical discussions of stuff that isn't yet built and made a few technical errors. The theme--big government is watching--is either prescient or ripped from Orwell's 1984. Overall..OK for Steele's first effort but not up to the Coyote series quality. Construction workers in space. Average Joes in vacuum and zero-G, building stuff. Neither scientists nor astronauts. That's the premise and Steele does a perfectly fine job of it, but the plots are very predictable, and you've seen all the characters before, and their backstories. Carries on the (early) Heinlein tradition, without the negatives, but doesn't really break through to another level. Readable. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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HTML:Winner of the Locus Award: Space-station workers discover a shocking global surveillance plot in this novel from "the master of science-fiction intrigue" (The Washington Post). Popeye Hooker knows that space isn't all it's cracked up to be. A former fisherman who takes a job building low orbital stations to escape a failed relationship, he finds that in space, construction work is still a grind. And when they aren't building the space stations that will usher humanity into the stars, Sam Sloane and the rest of the beamjacks get high, blast the Grateful Dead, and stare through telescopes at the world they left behind. But life in orbit is about to get much more interesting. Nestled among the life support equipment that keeps them alive and the entertainment systems that keep them happy, the beamjacks find something astonishing. Turns out, their home isn't just a space stationâ??it's a giant antenna designed to spy on every inhabitant of Earth. It's the greatest privacy invasion ever perpetrated, and the beamjacks won't stand for it. They may not be pioneers, but these roughnecks are about to become revolutionaries. Timelyâ??and with Orwellian undertones, Allen Steele's debut won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Perfect for fans of Robert Heinlein, Robert J. Sawyer, and Greg Bear, Orbital Decay blends fantasy and science fiction with a prescient attention paid to the dangers of government surveillance. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Lo spazio e' grande, ma Allen Steele spazia un po' troppo nel raccontare nulla.
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Lasciate che vi dica che cos'e' "la piu' grande delle scoperte". La sto guardando adesso, alta, al di sopra dell'orlo del crepaccio. E' lo spettacolo del sorgere della Terra, cosi' come lo videro Borman, Lovell e Anders per la prima volta alla vigilia di Natale del 1968, quando l'Apollo 8 sbuco' dal lato opposto della Luna. (363)
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