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A carregar... In the Company of Others (original 2001; edição 2001)por Julie E Czerneda (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This was only an ok book. I think the main reason I didn't care for it was the pacing which was way too slow. It took way too long to get to the main destination and too many side plots were thrown in. The romance between the main characters felt contrived and was wholly unnecessary. ( ) It took time to get into the crowded confusing world of the overpopulated space station, but once it got going, the story was a lot of fun. Earth's terraforming projects have gone disastrously awry and too many people have been waiting on space stations - no safe planets to emigrate to and Earth won't take them back. 20 odd years later, an ambitious scientist shows up, ready to save humanity, but she must first deal with station culture and politics. The romance does get a bit goofy by the end, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. Really great book! I would have given it 4.5 stars if possible, just because a few things felt a little contrived (the love story was a little weird and I felt like the revelation of the 'siders on the space station was kind of confusing - like, so what about it? The mystery/combustible nature of that secret was not clear to me for quite a while, I just couldn't understand why it was such a secret/revelation). But overall, this was just a really solidly written SF story. The characters are clearly drawn and sympathetic despite their diverging goals. Czerneda does a great job slowly unravelling various mysteries throughout. Lots of great action, especially toward the end. A satisfying conclusion. So glad I found this author! Trapped in an alien condition, on an overcrowded and dying space station, Aaron Pardell is hunted down by the xenobiologist Dr. Smith who thinks he might be the key to the solution to the until now fatal infestation of Quill. Is he? While a slow read initially the story picks up motion when the Earther scientist tries to leave the space station without losing what she came there for, and the last 3-400 pages just flew by. The ending, while slightly anticlimactic, was satisfying. After all, when the dust have settled, it's nice if at least someone survives ;-) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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When the terraforming crews introduced the alien Quill to worlds where they did not belong, they saw them only as a mindless form of fungal life. But the Quill multiplied and mutated until they were no longer harmless. In the ensuing chaos, many stations failed. For the survivors, their only hope rests in finding a way to wipe out the Quill... Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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