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Ladataan... The Fledging of Az GabrielsonTekijä: Jay Amory
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Far in the future, mankind escaped from the ground to live in sky cities. Gradually they evolved to become the Airborn, still human but with wings and the ability to fly. The opening of this novel introduces us to Az, an Airborn who, unusually has no wings. He is fascinated by the history of his long-ago ancestors, the Groundlings, as he is more like them than his own kind. An encounter with a mysterious stranger soon finds him involved in a dangerous mission, as he realises that Groundlings may not be extinct as he was always taught to believe. A fantastic story, well written, and as this is clearly the start of a series there is hopefully more like this to come. I loved it! näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinSisältyy tähän:The Wingless Boy (tekijä: Jay Amory)
Az is one of the Airborn. With a stretch and a beat of their eight foot wings his people travel effortlessly around and between their cities, perched high above the clouds. Its a life of ease and airy beauty. Only Az has no wings, so in his glorious world of freedom and flight, he is a painful - and isolated - oddity. And then one day he is picked out for a job. A job below the clouds. The system of massive automated elevators which send up everything the Airborn need to survive, are breaking down - and threatening to take the Airborn society with them. Someone has to go down to the Ground to find out what has happened and Az, with his wingless similarity to the prehistoric Groundlings, looks to be perfect for the task of hunting for answers beneath the clouds. But on the Ground, in the vast shadows of the cities, Az finds more questions than answers: a benighted people who worship a dim notion of the Airborn and aspire to be like them. A people who fill elevators with tributes to their winged deities. A people who are beginning to think their way of life is part of a very un-natural order of things. And a girl called Cassie Grubdollar, who's definitely no angel . . . Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Fast-paced and furious action. Amory doesn't shy away from some fairly graphic details. Broken ribs, steam-pipe seared faces - things get pretty grizzly. Although there's some hope to the conclusion, this is very definitely a first book and having the second ready to hand would be a good idea, because you're going to want to read it. ( )