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Carregando... The Fortress at the End of Timede Joe M. McDermott
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Written as a confessional tale of a man guilty of a horrible crime whose nature is not disclosed or even apparent until near the end. Humanity has spread across the stars thanks to instantaneous transmission of information, but not matter, by Ansible. At some point in the past a massive war against some completely unknown and powerful enemy was fought, and so military officers are trained on Earth and then copies of them are transmitted to distant bases. Success in a posting means that someone's skills might be valuable enough for them to be copied elsewhere, probably a more desirable location, and certainly insuring better things for the next copy. Or maybe there was no war and its just a way to convince people to copy themselves to horrible locations they wouldn't otherwise go to in order to provide labor and genetic diversity for marginal colonies. In any case Ronaldo Aldo starts off as a naive and moderately qualified pilot and junior officer sent to a forward base/backwater colony/dumping ground for military misfits, where his diligent efforts to do a proper job rather than fit in to the nihilistic culture of the base earn him nothing but enmity from the officers and enlisted, and from most of the colonists and the religious leaders on the planet the base orbits. All of which leads to his own breakdown and eventual unforgivable crime. Joe McDermott tries to explore what extreme isolation, knowing there is another "you" living a presumably better life, and that your society disposed of you and neglected you because it could, not because it needed to, will do to a person and to a group. He does a moderately good job of telling the story, but not an especially engaging one. I read the novel over the course of several weeks of lunch-hours but was never especially engaged and finished it out of habit as much as anything. The 70s movie Dark Star does nihilist-exiles in space better, and The Sparrow does crime/confessor/religion in space better. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
One of the Verge's Best Books of 2017 Captain Ronaldo Aldo has committed an unforgivable crime. He will ask for forgiveness all the same: from you, from God, even from himself. Connected by ansible, humanity has spread across galaxies and fought a war against an enemy that remains a mystery. At the edge of human space sits the Citadel--a relic of the war and a listening station for the enemy's return. For a young Ensign Aldo, fresh from the academy and newly cloned across the ansible line, it's a prison from which he may never escape. Deplorable work conditions and deafening silence from the blackness of space have left morale on the station low and tensions high. Aldo's only hope of transcending his station, and cloning a piece of his soul somewhere new is both his triumph and his terrible crime. The Fortress at the End of Time is a new science fiction novel from Joe M. McDermott. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Also I don;t think the author knows how military ranks work ( )