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A carregar... The Grand Wheel (1977)por Barrington J. Bayley
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. There’s no way that this book should have entertained me as much as it did. I’m no mathematician nor am I a gamer or gambler, so any tale predicated on an understanding of probability and game theory should have been a non-starter. Add in a ludicrous plot, and wafer-thin characters and it gets worse. - But I found it a surprisingly engaging read that drew me in enough to want to know the outcome of the final game. ( ) I wasn't expecting much from a book with the premise of intergalactic card players. Typically of Bayley, however, many strange and fascinating ideas flow out of this basic concept. The end result is an adventure that begins with a gambler with a (for once not self-induced) drug problem and finishes by discussing the philosophy of luck and the link to super novas and the origins of life, in a tent on a tiny asteroid in a galactic gap called 'The Cave' in a far off galaxy. The usual suspects of new wave space opera are met on the way: mysterious alien artefact - check; gung-ho hero with a taste for fast women - check; extinct alien race who can be contacted through time - check; five legged cybernetic male albino chimp called Susan - no, I made that one up. But there are definite traits to this kind of SF and Bayley is a master of them, whilst exposing the obvious limitations of stereotyped characters and wooden dialogue. It doesn't really matter though when the story is this exciting. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Cheyne Scarne was a gambler... and he took the big plunge when he bet his life to get to the inner circle of the Grand Wheel. Because the Wheel was the ultimate Syndicate - the final Mafia - that controlled all that was illegal in all the planets under human control.But Cheyne was not to know whether he had won or lost when he gained his point. Because the Wheel had plans for him. And they made him the historic offer he could not refuse.There was, it seemed, a similar gambling combine in the rest of the galaxy, bigger by far than the little group of stars held by Earthlings. And the Wheel wanted a cut in this. So Cheyne Scarne found himself selected to be humanity's own player in a game in which nobody knew the value of the cards and the rules of the game were infinitely variable! Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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