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Chōhei Kambayashi

Autor(a) de Yukikaze

42+ Works 256 Membros 7 Críticas

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Séries

Obras por Chōhei Kambayashi

Yukikaze (1984) — Autor — 134 exemplares
Good Luck, Yukikaze (2001) 64 exemplares
言壺 (ハヤカワ文庫JA) (2000) 2 exemplares
麦撃機の飛ぶ空 (2004) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

ヴィジョンズ — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
異常論文 — Posfácio — 2 exemplares
2010年代SF傑作選 1 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Kambayashi, Chōhei
Nome legal
神林, 長平
Data de nascimento
1953-07-10
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Japan
Local de nascimento
Niigata, Japan
Educação
Nagaoka University of Technology
Organizações
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan

Membros

Críticas

Story: 5.5 / 10
Characters: 5
Setting: 8
Prose: 6.5
 
Assinalado
MXMLLN | 5 outras críticas | Jan 12, 2024 |
A deceptive book, that starts out as a story about hot-shot pilots fighting an alien menace that turns into a meditation on war, humanity, and what enmity between humans and nonhumans might actually look like.

Fun, well translated, and fast paced military SF.
 
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JimDR | 5 outras críticas | Dec 7, 2022 |
Golden seal of approval.
 
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bloodrizer | 5 outras críticas | Nov 19, 2015 |
Not so much a story, but a story behind the story.

This is a translated copy, so I can't speak to the quality of the prose other than to say it was sufficiently invisible that the storytelling itself was not disrupted. As a Military Sc-Fi story there were technical passages on the nature of combat aircraft and flying. These made little sense to me, but I went with the mood and made up my own pictures in my head like a good reader should :->

This novel covers the war between humans and invading aliens that takes place on the staging planet of Faery. Through the eyes of combat pilot Rei, the story covers the nature of humanity. As the arms race between to two civilisations escalates, technology takes over pushing humanity further into obsolescence. Humans and Aliens themselves struggle to perceive each other, and most of the interaction between species takes place through their technologies. as further contrast, Rei himself is one of a specially selected few pilots chosen for his cool detached emotions and ability to observe the bloodshed from a distance in a surveillance only role. Rei's strongest connection is with his technically advanced fighter plane Yukikaze, which he personifies in his mind more a lover than machine. It is through this relationship that he questions the nature of humanity.

The novel is split into sections, each section dealing with a specific scenario, and one that is not touched upon in other sections. This was somewhat frustrating when revelations are not built upon and further explored - more like reading series of short stories than a A to B narrative. Each section does advance the overall narrative of the war, but it felt more like a series of manga episodes strung together. An interesting approach, but one which took some getting used to.
Like I said, the real story is more the arc behind the story as the technology supercedes humnaity and the basis of the war itself is questioned.

Despite the grand scale of the premise, it's actually a "closed room" type of story. There are very few characters and very few locations. The main protaganist of Rei is emotionally detached and the other great character is Yukikaze itself. The concepts are interesting but only ever scratch the surface, which was a shame.

The way Rei, increasingly emotionally isolated, shambles along against the background of a war remind me of the bleak mood of [b:The Forever War|21611|The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)|Joe Haldeman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386852511s/21611.jpg|423].


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StaticBlaq | 5 outras críticas | Apr 26, 2015 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
42
Also by
4
Membros
256
Popularidade
#89,547
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Críticas
7
ISBN
50
Línguas
1

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