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A carregar... Time's Eye (2004)por Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter
Biggest Disappointments (182) A carregar...
Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Great skills in marrative but a weak arc story. And as we read the characters are not developing in interesting ways rather deivem along by time and events. ( ) Kada vidite da neko postavlja jake masivne temelje od najkvalitetnijeg materijala, ocekujete od graditelja da na njih postavi monumentalno zdanje. Medjutim, kada umesto velebnog zdanja na njima iznikne obicna brvnara morate osetiti razocarenje. Upravo je u tome problem sa ovim Klarkovim romanom. Pocinje odlicno, prvih 100 strana najavljuje epski zaplet onako sa snaznom Zil Vernovskom aromom, ali onda sledi kontinuirani pad u kvalitetu pisanja, zapleta, opisa, razrade likova, raspleta...Oko 250-te strane vec tone u dosadu i nebulozu. Mocna reka u pocetku sada je samo obican plitki potocic, a ja kao citalac ne mogu a da se ne zapitam gde su se dele sve te propustene prilike za nesto zaista izuzetno veliko epskih razmera. Roman sam poceo da citam u jednom dahu a zavrsio sam ga u tri. Konacni utisak - onako. Moglo je to biti mnogo mnogo bolje. Ostaje da vidim da li ce nastavak ovog prvog dela trilogije "Vremenska Oiseja" biti bolji od svog ne bas reprezentativnog predhodnika. Konacna ocena 3 zvezdice. What can I expect from a title like that with hard-hitting authors like this? A little bit of the strengths of both and a few of their weaknesses, of course. Most of the characters feel like Clarke's inventions, but some of the odder characters kinda felt like Baxter. The real strength of this novel is the slicings of time and location, jaunting whole segments of the Earth's populace into mish-mashes quite like Riverworld. How do the armies of Genghis Kahn and Alexander the Great sound, clashing in an epic end? Good? WELCOME TO THIS NOVEL. :) Astronauts, AI phones, ravening hoards, gentlemen Greek explorers (HA), and modern Afganistan warriors and, for good measure, the missing link species for humanity. The mix is quite fun and the promise is there. Strong start, fun middle... but what happened to the end? Oh, wait, book one. Let's see where this goes. :) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Pertence a SérieA Time Odyssey (1)
For eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind-until they act. In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline. Instead, the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still? The answer may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037-three cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station, and three United Nations peacekeepers on a mission in Afghanistan-have detected radio signals: the only such signals on the planet, apart from their own. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenth-century British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. The astronauts, crash-landed in the steppes of Asia, join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. The two sides set out for Babylon, each determined to win the race for knowledge . . . and the power that lies within. Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting. . . . Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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