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A carregar... The Currents of Space (1952)por Isaac Asimov
![]() Books Read in 2016 (3,720) Books Read in 2018 (2,941) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. ![]() ![]() Abel said, “What is Florina to you?” Junz hesitated. He said, “I feel a kinship.” “But you are a Libairian. Or at least that is my impression.” “I am, but there lies the kinship. We are both extremes in a Galaxy of the average.” “Extremes? I don’t understand.” Junz said, “In skin pigmentation. They are unusually pale. We are unusually dark. It means something. It binds us together. It gives us something in common. It seems to me our ancestors must have had long histories of being different, even of being excluded from the social majority. We are unfortunate whites and darks, brothers in being different.” So some things have changed, but humanity is still up to its usual tricks, including shooting the messenger. The planet Florina is going to be destroyed, but when Rik brings the news he’s reduced to a vegetable by a psychic probe and dumps on the very planet with a time limit. Will he recover his memories in time to save everyone? This might sound a bit silly, but this is actually a very good novel with a serious intent. It’s about pressions of various kinds: oppression, repression. Florina is a conquered world, run on a feudal system with the natives reduced to serfdom. A situation closely analogous to England after the Norman invasion, though I don’t think Asimov has this particularly in mind. Other references put one in mind of the plantation economy of the southern US states or of political oppression generally. Either way, the Sarkites are repressing the Florinians in a variety of nasty ways, not least by suppressing education. Ultimately it’s their ignorance that keeps them in check. This is reflected in Rik’s condition. His knowledge has been suppressed. I suppose the point being that ignorance leads to to destruction. This is essentially a political thriller written like a mystery. The reader’s knowledge is also suppressed so your awareness of the plot plays out backwards. The novel has a number of flaws, but I think most can be winked at because there’s so much here that works. The most glaring is that it’s too short. This is not something I often say, but it could do with an extra hundred pages. I suppose sf was limited to about 200 pages at the time because of printing costs and Asimov does an excellent job of getting the essentials into such a short space. It’s efficient and economical and very well constructed. There are just some things that could do with being fleshed out for artistic reasons. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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The second book in the Galactic Empire series, the spectacular precursor to the classic Foundation series, by one of history's most influential writers of science fiction, Isaac Asimov Trantor had extended its rule over half the Galaxy, but the other half defied its authority, defending their corrupt fiefdoms with violence and repression. On the planet Florina, the natives labored as slaves for their arrogant masters on nearby Sark. But now both worlds were hurtling toward a cataclysmic doom, and only one man knew the truth--a slave unaware of the secret knowledge locked inside his own brain. Rik had once been a prominent scientist until a psychic probe erased all memories of his past. Now he was a humble laborer in the kyrt mills of Florina. Then the memories began to return, bringing with them the terrible truth about the future--a truth that his masters on Sark would kill to keep secret . . . even at the cost of their own survival. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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