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A carregar... The Dragon Never Sleeps (1988)por Glen Cook
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) Eclipse777 | Jun 27, 2021 |  Title: The Dragon Never Sleeps Series: ---------- Author: Glen Cook Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars Genre: SF Pages: 449 Format: Digital edition Synopsis: Humanity rules their part of space, The Canon. With the unstoppable force of the Guardships behind them, Canon forces enforce peace, their peace, whereever they go. One House wants to stop that. One alien wants to stop that. One other branch of Humanity wants to stop that. But that House is ruled by a megolomaniac who wants to live forever through his forbidden clones. But that alien lives by a code of honor that is unbreakable. But that branch of humanity is enslaved to psychic mind leeches. On the Guardship side of things, you have insane Guardships. You have nascent sentient Guardships. You have humans who live their lives over and over through cloning without ever remembering their past. You have a Humanity that is stagnating and possibling beginning the long road to its twilight. And the stories take place with all of those characters and characteristics. Greed, War, Peace and Survival. My Thoughts: I had no idea of the background for 99/100ths of the time. I really enjoyed my time, but if you try to figure out the backstory or the history, you're sunk. It doesn't exist except in Cook's mind and he doesn't let slip hardly anything. This is a very “here and now” kind of story, even while taking years in story time. I thoroughly enjoyed myself while reading this. I didn't feel like I had to understand anything. I just sat back, let the story unfold and let it roll over me. It was extremely complicated but since I wasn't trying to disentangle anything, it was actually rather simple. I was along for the ride. If I had been in an investigative mood I'm sure this would have driven me bonkers. But I wasn't, so it didn't. I don't know that I could have told you that this was the same Glen Cooke who wrote the Black Company novels. It was a standalone book and even its style seemed standalone. I will say that it was dense and while it claims to be only 449 pages, it felt like the longest 449 pages I've ever read. Not a bad thing, but it was a long read. ★★★☆½ (  )1  BookstoogeLT | Nov 25, 2017 | ) Kathy_Dyer | Jul 27, 2015 | This is really the story of the missions of One of the Guardships, the VII-Gemina, and her crew: a Crew that has been its crew for so long, recreated/reborn over and over such that they don't even know of any time BEFORE they were crew. The Story starts off with a focus-- but halfway thru the book and several outrageous plot characters too many and you are just taking the ride through a very colorful universe where ancient superships maintain a Law that No-one remembers who first imposed it, fighting against ancient alien rebels who never die. The Plot just kinda spirals off into dark and there's no point in chasing it. That's the main negative of this book. And then you hit the part where it seems that the Superships have minds of their own, mixed in with the uploaded consciousnesses of dead commanders-- and the whispered thought that NO LAWS govern them in the end. A Weird, Strange future that I found entrancing to contemplate. If only the author had been disciplined to stay inside a more cohesive plot structure. ( ) Caragen87 | Jan 13, 2012 | I can understand why authors want to write a stand alone novel, but this book should have been at least two or three books. I loved the characters. I loved the premise and the plot, but the action was sometimes too fast and furious and sometimes much slower. If the book(s) had been longer, many of the passages that were rushed over in the first half would have been made much clearer. (  ) kd9 | May 22, 2011 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Glen Cook (The Black Company, The Dread Empire) delivers a masterpiece of galaxy spanning space opera! For four thousand years, the Guardships ruled Canon Space with an iron fist. Immortal ships with an immortal crew roaming the galaxy, dealing swiftly and harshly with any mercantile houses or alien races that threatened the status quo. But now the House Tregesser believes they have an edge; a force from outside Canon Space offers them the resources to throw off Guardship rule. Their initial gambits precipitate an avalanche of unexpected outcomes, the most unpredicted of which is the emergence of Kez Maefele, one of the few remaining generals of the Ku Warrior race -- the only race to ever seriously threaten Guardship hegemony. Kez Maefele and a motley group of mysterious aliens, biological constructs, and scheming aristocrats find themselves at the center of the conflict. Maefele must choose which side he will support; the Guardships, who defeated and destroyed his race, or the unknown forces from outside Canon Space that promise more death and destruction. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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