D. F. Jones (1) (1918–1981)
Autor(a) de Colossus
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D. F. Jones (1) foi considerado como pseudónimo de Dennis Feltham Jones.
Séries
Obras por D. F. Jones
Foram atribuídas obras ao autor também conhecido como Dennis Feltham Jones.
Colossus Trilogy: A Twenty Fifth Anniversary Omnibus Edition/ Colossus, Fall of Colossus and Colossus and the Crab (1992) 6 exemplares
Coffee Break 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Foram atribuídas obras ao autor também conhecido como Dennis Feltham Jones.
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Jones, Dennis Feltham
- Data de nascimento
- 1918-07-15
- Data de falecimento
- 1981-04-01
- Sexo
- male
- Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Cornwall, England, UK
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 1,088
- Popularidade
- #23,609
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Críticas
- 16
- ISBN
- 50
- Línguas
- 2
Briefly, Doctor Cleo Markham has now married Professor Forbin and they have a young son. She seems to still be working - in that she has an office - but there is no clue as to what scientific work she is doing because the author has no interest in that. Instead, she is a sort of mother figure to Forbin who has become almost totally spaced out, infantalised and disconnected from reality. In her spare time, Cleo is a leader in the resistance movement, alongside Blake, a friend of Forbin's from the first book. One day she takes her son to the beach with a radio and a message comes through from the Martians who offer to help defeat Colossus which is a threat to them too - this then provides the driver for the whole story.
The premise that humans are unable, without help from aliens, to overturn the Big Brother rule of the enhanced Colossus - a supercomputer built by the initial Colossus - which now runs everything from a totally demolished Isle of Wight - weakens all the characters and introduces yet another element for which disbelief must be suspended. But the real car crash in the book is the extremely misogynistic subplot involving experiments by Colossus into human emotion which it cannot understand - specifically love. Centres exist where abducted humans are tested against various premises - such as would an art lover sacrifice himself to save a world famous great work of art or would two lovers throw each other over in exchange for better job prospects and potential partners. One centre has been set up to test whether the Roman legend of the Rape of the Sabine Women (where rape victims came to love and identify with the men who abducted them) is true or not. The sections where the victim in question develops Stockholm Syndrome when repeatedly raped by a brutal, ignorant and violent man, are absolutely awful with the author informing us that this is true fulfilment for women. And this is despite the author also telling the reader that women are supposedly equal in this imagined future.
The characters from book 1 are all unrecognisable. Blake is an unpleasant misogynist himself, Forbin seems to have had a lobotomy and what happens to Cleo is truly unbelievable. People drink alcohol constantly to a point where they must all be late stage alcoholics. Given all this I could only rate this book at 1 star as I didn't enjoy it at all.… (mais)