Pikkukuvaa napsauttamalla pääset Google Booksiin.
Ladataan... The Van Rijn MethodTekijä: Poul Anderson
Books Read in 2023 (4,487) Ladataan...
Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. http://pro-libertate.net/20150524/263-read-van-rijn-method ( ) I found this collection to be a bit of a mixed bag. At times it offers clever ideas and at times it offers entertaining storytelling. Nicholas Van Rijn makes more sense to me as a character after reading the short novel The Man Who Counts. The blurb on the cover proclaims that "In Nick Van Rijn, Poul Anderson created one of the most memorable and popular characters in science fiction." Frankly, I have a hard time seeing how anyone could particularly like this character (who appears in several but not all of the stories in this collection). It's almost as if, at some long ago science fiction convention, a group of authors sat around a table playing a game in which they would each be required to come up with a protagonist who embodied various of the seven deadly sins, and Anderson drew Gluttony, Avarice, and Lust. We are often told that Van Rijn is brilliant but, in these stories at least, not given much compelling evidence. Besides making lots and lots of money, his principal occupation seems to be finding needy and/or gullible women who will trade sex for an opportunity to better their lot in life. ...The choice to present these stories in chronological rather than publication order means the reader frequently moves between various stages in Anderson’s development as a writer. Just the setting does not quite provide enough continuity to make this collection a coherent whole in my opinion. Still, there’s some pretty interesting short fiction here, if you can overcome an unsympathetic main character in some of them... Full Random Comments review näyttää 3/3 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinSisältää nämä:The Problem Of Pain (tekijä: Poul Anderson) Margin of Profit [novelette] (tekijä: Poul Anderson) A Sun Invisible [novelette] (tekijä: Poul Anderson) The Season of Forgiveness (tekijä: Poul Anderson) The Man Who Counts (tekijä: Poul Anderson) Esau [novelette] (tekijä: Poul Anderson) Hiding Place [short fiction] (tekijä: Poul Anderson) The Saturn Game [novella] (tekijä: Poul Anderson)
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
HTML: The Buck Starts Here! Think there's an unbridgeable gulf between human and alien thought Not so! There's a common tongue, all right â?? and Nicholas Van Rijn speaks it fluently: TRADE. For behind the buffoonish blarney and bawdy bonhomie of the Falstaffian Van Rijn is a man who gets things done. A born wheeler-dealer who usually leaves both sides better off in the bargain. (While pocketing a hefty cut of the profits himself, of course!) With The Man Who Counts and a passel of other tales included, this is the first of three volumes set to contain the complete cycle of "Polesotechnic League" books and stories by transcendently-gifted science fiction master (how does seven Hugos and three Nebula Awards strike you ) Poul Anderson â?? and starring Nicholas Van Rijn, his most famous character of all! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management) Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
Current Discussions-Suosituimmat kansikuvat
Google Books — Ladataan... LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Kongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo:
Oletko sinä tämä henkilö? |