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Carregando... Gravity's Angels (original: 1991; edição: 2001)de Michael Swanwick
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These thirteen stories established Michael Swanwick as one of the brightest stars in the science-fiction firmament. Alongside its companion volume, Tales of Old Earth, Gravity's Angels showcases the very best of Swanwick's considerable talent, including the Sturgeon Award?winner ?The Edge of the World." Each story is a unique and engrossing exploration of character, conflict, and conscience. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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I think the standout story is one of the slighter ones: Foresight. The tale involves a man in a universe where memory has "flipped." One cannot "remember" the past but only the future. You are incapable of learning from your mistakes or successes but have almost perfect knowledge of what is going to happen (like real memory it gets hazier the farther away the horizon). The story of course goes on to explore the issues of determinism and fate. The tale has a disturbing Kafkaesque unbalancing effect that begins with the protagonists murder by lethal injection by the Reclamation Committee and proceeds backwards in time to a few days earlier. Of course, the protagonist has no idea why he is being killed, not being able to form any memories of the past, but understands it's inevitability right up to the point it occurs.
All in all a great collection. ( )