Jim Mitchell
Autor(a) de Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea [novelization]
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Obras por Jim Mitchell
Smile #1 2 exemplares
He Leadeth Me 1 exemplar
The Moon Seems Upside Down: Letters of love and war: The War Letters of Arthur Alan Mitchell from 1939 to 1945 (1995) 1 exemplar
Smile # 2 1 exemplar
Smile # 3 1 exemplar
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Membros
- 144
- Popularidade
- #143,281
- Avaliação
- 3.1
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
- Línguas
- 1
I got to talk to Sturgeon one-on-one in 1971 or so, and asked him about this book. What he remembered was being almost done but stuck trying to come up with a plausible replacement for the movie's Van Allen Belt catching on fire. He ended up calling Poul Anderson in the middle of the night and spending several hours on the phone working out something dimly plausible that would be consistent with the requirements of the plot.
That's what makes this book work. Sturgeon did his best to solve a multitude of problems with the script, both technical and human. He kept the skeleton but put all new muscles and flesh on the bones. In an interesting choice, Alvarez, the "mad man" the Seaview picks up on an ice floe who accepts everything as the will of God, is made a central figure but not seen on the page until nearly the end of the book.
This is not Sturgeon's best work, but neither is it his worst. Certain characters give multi-page speeches, mostly about human psychology. There's a disconcerting belief in the near-infallible great scientific mind. But I couldn't put it down and I enjoyed a great many set pieces.
Recommended, if you can find it.… (mais)