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A carregar... The Margarets: A Novel (original 2007; edição 2007)por Sheri S. Tepper (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I love how she marries very complex plots with really engaging characters. This book is more complex than most but more delicately wrought than some of Tepper's previous work. ( ) 2019 reread: I love this book (as is obvious from my rating)! Tepper has very definite opinions on things and as I generally am of the same opinion, it isn't surprising that she is one of my favorite authors. One reason that I like this book so much is that in the end, The premise was interesting - following the alternate paths Margaret's life could have taken, kind of a grown up choose your own adventure. There was interesting world building as well. However the frequently preachy tone and the black and white depiction of alien species(some evil and unredeemable, some saintly) made me uncomfortable. That theme was also applied to humans, and came to a head with this remarkable sentence near the conclusion:
If you're looking for a hard science fiction novel with realistic political intrigues, The Margarets probably won't work for you. But if you're willing to suspend disbelief and enter the echoing realms of the psyche along with spaceships to distant planets, you'll find this novel supremely satisfying. As ever Tepper is unafraid to ask the hard questions about human nature, and to propose radical solutions to it. And she manages to bring magic into a story whose human characters feel as real as people you meet every day on this insane planet whose future is anything but certain.
Earth is in crisis, virtually destroyed by overpopulation, and mankind is teethering on the edge. ISTO - the Interstellar Trade Organization - had demanded man's extinction, for a living planet is more important than any race upon it, and was about to start 'reducing' mankind when Earthgov agreed its demands, to sell 90 per cent of Earth's inhabitants into bondage to alien races. When Margaret is six, she imagines herself as a spy, a healer, a queen, a warrior, even a boy, to amuse herself; when she is nine, and 12, and 20, at crisis points in her life, she feels like parts of her have split off - like the Margaret who decided to follow her lover to Tercis and the Margaret who said no. So now, as well as Margaret, she is Wilvia, learning to be a queen on B'yurngrad, and Ongamar, a spy on Cantardene, and Gretamara, a healer on Chottem, and even Naumi, a boy on Thairy, and she is many other Margarets besides. And all these Margarets hold the key to mankind's survival, if only they can survive and come together again as one Margaret, with all their different powers intact . . . Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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