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Any Other World Will Do por Alex Lubertozzi
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Any Other World Will Do (edição 2021)

por Alex Lubertozzi (Autor)

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"Escaping his guilt over the death of his father by trekking through Europe in the fall of 1986, 18-year-old Miles Townsend meets another man fleeing his troubles on a train from Paris to Spain. Vikram Bhat, an itinerant ex-academic living above the Hotel Kashmir in Barcelona, befriends Miles and invites him to visit his city, where Miles meets and falls in love with Vikram's roommate, Anna de Wit, a grad student with a genius for languages. While Miles pursues a romance with her (despite the presence of her current boyfriend, the insufferable but handsome Anders), Vikram's life is imploding. Arrested on a minor charge, Vikram is soon wanted by the police as a suspected terrorist. On the run, Vikram leaves a trail of breadcrumbs for Anna and Miles to follow, and they find him in Granada, where he plans to buy back a stolen case from the hotel's former desk clerk and Anders, Anna's now ex-boyfriend. Betrayed at the exchange for the case, Vikram must take drastic action, which inadvertently reveals his identity. Vikram's real name is Araviku, and he's not human, just a very convincing impostor. He comes from a distant planet the inhabitants call "Our World," which is dying from the effects of climate change, and the case contains a gene bank Vikram believes could save his planet. Grooming Anna for the time when he could ask her to accompany him back to his world as an ambassador from Earth (but putting it off because he doesn't really want to leave), he is forced to ask Anna and Miles to return with him after they're chased to Portugal by Anders, who turns out to be another alien in disguise. Ushered through a wormhole to Our World and Vikram's city of Danevesu, Anna and Miles meet the beautiful, bird-like people who've carved a technological marvel out of a cliff overlooking the sea on a denuded, flooded planet, where other nations struggle for survival. The aliens, sexually liberated by their lack of gender differences, are taken by Miles and Anna, but have ulterior motives for bringing them there. Vikram soon takes them away from Danevesu, however, and leads them to the island laboratory of his one-time colleague, Berejian, whom he's convinced can use the biological material in the recovered case to reverse Our World's ecological decline. But, collaborating with Anders and theocratic fanatics in the country of Bandary, Berejian designs a deadly pathogen to wipe out the remaining population of Our World. With Anders in possession of the pathogen, he travels to Danevesu to deliver the biological weapon, leaving Vikram, Miles, and Anna to die. They manage to escape the island but return to a Danevesu already hit by Berejian's pathogen. The leaders of Danevesu try to send Miles and Anna back to Earth and safety, but only Miles makes it through. In Danevesu, Anna witnesses a two-pronged attack by the Bandarians, as the citizens are laid low by disease while the city is bombarded from the sea. Miles, back in Barcelona, immediately regrets wanting to go back-fleeing the trouble on Our World just as he had run away from home after the death of his father. He runs into Anders at the Hotel Kashmir bar, back on Earth in human form to stay. While engaged in a destructive bar fight that Miles is losing badly, they're both arrested and thrown in jail. But a Bandarian victim of Anders's treachery finds Anders in his cell and takes him back to Bandary, sending Miles back to Danevesu at his request. Back in the alien city, Miles finds they have survived by a combination of resourcefulness and dumb luck-including the timely flooding of Bandary's capital-and now plot how to retaliate against Bandary. When Miles suggests they help the survivors stuck underwater in Bandary instead, the Danevesans have to decide if they should save their hated nemesis. Their choice to help Bandary decides the fates of Miles, Anna, Vikram, and all the inhabitants of Our World"--… (mais)
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Título:Any Other World Will Do
Autores:Alex Lubertozzi (Autor)
Informação:Top Five Books, LLC (2021), 350 pages
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Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing.
Not for me.
  dianeham | Dec 1, 2022 |
Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing.
The Publisher Says: In a chance encounter on the overnight train from Paris to Barcelona, Vikram Bhat stumbles across a promising new recruit.

Miles Townsend, an 18-year-old kid running away from a past he’d just as soon forget, is drawn to the older Indian man, dazzled by Barcelona, and smitten with the Hotel Kashmir’s bartender, Anna de Wit, a Surinamese grad student with a genius for languages and Vikram’s first recruit.

Miles and Anna have no idea they’re being recruited. They have no idea that Vikram is neither an Indian nor a man, or that he’s a few thousand light-years from home. He has a lot of secrets, it turns out. But he means well. When a series of bad decisions reveals the fact that Vikram isn’t the only one light-years from home—and this other one does not mean well—Miles and Anna become unwitting ambassadors to Vikram’s world, a place where the locals haven’t got their shit together any better than the people of Earth.

A unique coming-of-age story, Any Other World Will Do is inventive, irreverent science fiction, a wry commentary on the primal urge to flee our troubles and the romantic way we remember the journey.

I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA NETGALLEY. THANK YOU.

My Review
: The problem with writing SF when you don't read it is that you rehash clichés that just won't fly anymore. Not to mention that the twenty-first century climate is such that having a literal alien masquerading as a South Asian and getting away with it is...troubling.

The other planet, the one that isn't Earth, to which the two kids are persuaded to travel, is a stock reimagining of Earth-plus-some-stuff. This is not in and of itself a bad thing. After all, is Earthlings are to survive on it, and if the Tonshu natives are going to travel here and survive, they need to be similar. But the 2020s don't really support serious (message-driven, not purely brain candy) SF with mysterious instantaneous transportation between planets.

The writing isn't awful. It isn't good, either. It's unfortunate that reviews of glowing, gasping praise for it lead one to expect a better-than-average reading experience that is not available. That said, I finished it, so clearly it wasn't dreadful. For the Kindle price, not-dreadful isn't all that bad a bargain. ( )
  richardderus | Jul 22, 2022 |
Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing.
Lubertozzi's book, Any Other World Will Do, has a lot of components that should have made it a great story, however, it was hard to get into. The character development felt stilted, and it was difficult to get invested in what was happening to them, and the choices they were making. The pacing of the book was also awkward. About halfway through when the three main characters travel to Our World, there is a long break where the focus is entirely on world building and the plot doesn't happen at all, which made it hard to remain interested. The idea and a lot of the component pieces were very compelling, but overall it didn't come together well.
  arcadia123 | Mar 16, 2022 |
Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing.
I got this for free from librarything.com in return for an unbiased review.

The story starts with 18-yo Miles, taking a gap year by bumming around Europe. On a train in France he meets a guy named Vikram, an older Indian man who fascinates Miles. He suggests to Miles that he should go to Barcelona, that he would like the city. So, having nothing better to do, Miles goes to Barcelona.

He again meets up with Vikram in the Hotel Kashmir, a transient hotel with a lot of students from around the world hanging out. Among them is the slightly older (a worldly 22) Anna, working as the Kashmir's bartender. Miles is immediately smitten with her. It turns out that she lives at the hotel with Vikram as her roommate. There's another guy, Anders, a beefy Scandinavian type, who is Anna's lover. Anders isn't very trustworthy and when he an Anna breakup, Miles is able to take his place with Anna.

So far, a pretty good coming-of-age story. Then it starts to get weird.

Turns out Vikram isn't actually human. He's from another planet that is having a serious environmental crisis. Vikram was sent to Earth to gather genome samples of Earth plant and wildlife in the hopes of reviving his planet's ecosystem. He's also supposed to bring back a human to be an ambassador and had chosen Anna but decides to bring back Miles as well.

Travel to Vikram's home world is simple, he's carrying around on his wrist a device that can open a wormhole back to home. OK, this is the single most unbelievable part of the story but get over it.

Vikram's people are humanoid but with feathers and are both male and female at the same time. Vikram was just wearing a human clone on earth but returns to his own body when he (they don't really have pronouns in Vikram's language but Miles and Anna decide, for no good reason, to refer to all the aliens as he) returns home with Anna and Miles.

Vikram's home world is a mess. Seas have risen flooding much of its civilization. Nothing can grow on the surface due to an invasive mold. It's hot and windy with terrible storms on the surface. Most of the population lives below ground. It's a technologically advanced civilization (they've got wrist controlled wormholes!) but technology isn't going to save them.

Much of the rest of the book is a thinly disguised indictment of our world and policies. Which is OK. Our world and its policies need indictment. It's also about how Anna and Miles bring a different mind set to the aliens which help them to survive. I don't want to give too much away. Especially about Anders.

I liked the book. I might have given it a higher rating except it dragged in parts. For example there's the part where they are on a submarine that gets coated with some sort of marine slime animal which went on for far too long and didn't add much to the story. Miles was a little to woe-begotten early on and takes almost to the end of the story to grow some backbone. The Anna character was good. Although the story is mostly about Miles we learn some of her background.

I'd recommend the book. ( )
  capewood | Nov 15, 2021 |
Esta crítica foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Críticos do LibraryThing.
I got this book free as an ARC through librarything.com in return for a review.

As a science fiction reader, I did enjoy this book. I was immediately drawn into the novel. Well written but not great. ( )
  cweller | Sep 30, 2021 |
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"Escaping his guilt over the death of his father by trekking through Europe in the fall of 1986, 18-year-old Miles Townsend meets another man fleeing his troubles on a train from Paris to Spain. Vikram Bhat, an itinerant ex-academic living above the Hotel Kashmir in Barcelona, befriends Miles and invites him to visit his city, where Miles meets and falls in love with Vikram's roommate, Anna de Wit, a grad student with a genius for languages. While Miles pursues a romance with her (despite the presence of her current boyfriend, the insufferable but handsome Anders), Vikram's life is imploding. Arrested on a minor charge, Vikram is soon wanted by the police as a suspected terrorist. On the run, Vikram leaves a trail of breadcrumbs for Anna and Miles to follow, and they find him in Granada, where he plans to buy back a stolen case from the hotel's former desk clerk and Anders, Anna's now ex-boyfriend. Betrayed at the exchange for the case, Vikram must take drastic action, which inadvertently reveals his identity. Vikram's real name is Araviku, and he's not human, just a very convincing impostor. He comes from a distant planet the inhabitants call "Our World," which is dying from the effects of climate change, and the case contains a gene bank Vikram believes could save his planet. Grooming Anna for the time when he could ask her to accompany him back to his world as an ambassador from Earth (but putting it off because he doesn't really want to leave), he is forced to ask Anna and Miles to return with him after they're chased to Portugal by Anders, who turns out to be another alien in disguise. Ushered through a wormhole to Our World and Vikram's city of Danevesu, Anna and Miles meet the beautiful, bird-like people who've carved a technological marvel out of a cliff overlooking the sea on a denuded, flooded planet, where other nations struggle for survival. The aliens, sexually liberated by their lack of gender differences, are taken by Miles and Anna, but have ulterior motives for bringing them there. Vikram soon takes them away from Danevesu, however, and leads them to the island laboratory of his one-time colleague, Berejian, whom he's convinced can use the biological material in the recovered case to reverse Our World's ecological decline. But, collaborating with Anders and theocratic fanatics in the country of Bandary, Berejian designs a deadly pathogen to wipe out the remaining population of Our World. With Anders in possession of the pathogen, he travels to Danevesu to deliver the biological weapon, leaving Vikram, Miles, and Anna to die. They manage to escape the island but return to a Danevesu already hit by Berejian's pathogen. The leaders of Danevesu try to send Miles and Anna back to Earth and safety, but only Miles makes it through. In Danevesu, Anna witnesses a two-pronged attack by the Bandarians, as the citizens are laid low by disease while the city is bombarded from the sea. Miles, back in Barcelona, immediately regrets wanting to go back-fleeing the trouble on Our World just as he had run away from home after the death of his father. He runs into Anders at the Hotel Kashmir bar, back on Earth in human form to stay. While engaged in a destructive bar fight that Miles is losing badly, they're both arrested and thrown in jail. But a Bandarian victim of Anders's treachery finds Anders in his cell and takes him back to Bandary, sending Miles back to Danevesu at his request. Back in the alien city, Miles finds they have survived by a combination of resourcefulness and dumb luck-including the timely flooding of Bandary's capital-and now plot how to retaliate against Bandary. When Miles suggests they help the survivors stuck underwater in Bandary instead, the Danevesans have to decide if they should save their hated nemesis. Their choice to help Bandary decides the fates of Miles, Anna, Vikram, and all the inhabitants of Our World"--

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