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Ladataan... The Sunless Countries (vuoden 2009 painos)Tekijä: Karl Schroeder
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Overall, I have enjoyed the Virga series so far. But that said, I'm not much of a series-oriented reader; there are few that I follow to completion. While The Sunless Countries was good and provided more technical/scientific detail behind the "balloon world" of Virga, I think I've exhausted my interest in this universe. ( ) While it would probably have helped if I had read these books in a more timely fashion I'd be willing to argue that this is where the series went off the rails, in that instead of building on the dramatic crisis set at Candesce itself in the third book, one takes a side trip as a way for Schroeder to explicate on the deep history of Virga and the roots of the emergency facing its inhabitants. That said I like the character of Leal Maspeth and it would have been better if Schroeder had found a way to introduce her, say, in at least the second book. Most series tend to ossify into a predictable pattern, since readers and author find a comfortable niche from which there is little incentive to stray. The Virga series is an exception. Set inside a giant balloon, wooden human settlements float in oxygenated space. Previous books in this series have explored the conflicts between these and also suggested that Candesce, the biggest artificial sun in Virga, somehow protects humans from whatever is outside their space. A secret 'Home Guard' protects Virga from incursions from outside, from something known as 'Artificial life'. The focus of this installment shifts to Pacquaea, a nation with no Sun of its own. What is does have is a University, which employs Leal Maspeth as a History tutor, who has hopes of being a Lecturer. It also has a sect of 'Eternists' who deny Virga's history and take power with a view to eradicating all dissent. Leal finds herself at the epicentre of the storm, especially after Hayden Griffin, the famous 'Sunlighter' from earlier books arrives, just after a giant 'Voice' is heard from the exterior Wall and ships start vanishing...Leal is instrumental in finding out what is going on, combining her knowledge of ancient texts with encounters with entities that the Eternists deny. We learn more about Virga and its strange neighbours and the scene seems to be set for a larger conflict than just human squabbling... ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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HTML: The Sunless Countries is the fourth novel in the Virga series of hard science fiction space opera adventures In an ocean of weightless air where sunlight has never been seen, only the running lights of the city of Pacquaea glitter in the dark. One woman, Leal Hieronyma Maspeth, lives and dreams of love among the gaslit streets and cafés. And somewhere in the abyss of wind and twisted cloud through which Pacquaea eternally falls, a great voice has begun speaking. As its cold words reach from space to the city wallsâ??and as outlying towns and travelers' ships start to mysteriously disappearâ??only Leal has the courage to try to understand the message thundering from the distance. Even the city's most famous and exotic visitor, the sun lighter and hero named Hayden Griffin, refuses to turn aside from his commission to build a new sun for a foreign nation. He will not become the hero that Leal knows the city needs; so it is up to her to listen, and ultimately reply, to the voice of the worldwaspâ??because an astonishing disaster threatens Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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