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Carregando... The Falling Torch (edição: 1972)de Algis Budrys
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Dismal, ridiculous guerilla warfare, annoying main character. BUT, still interesting as a reflection of Budry's angst and experiences. ( ) This is the only book I can ever remember reading which, immediately after finishing it, I felt the need to go back and reread the book from page one. Budrys gives us a story which includes much more psychological rumination than action sequence, a book filled with surprises (despite the fact that the prologue more or less tells us how it's going to end), a book in which each chapter seems to head off in a completely new direction. I can see that The Falling Torch wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I liked it quite a bit. At first glance the novel seems to promise straightforward adolescent wish fulfillment (along the lines of “Earth has been conquered by evil aliens, and it’s time for heroic young freedom fighters to kick some alien butt”), but we almost immediately begin to run up against evidence that life is not so simple, that the bad guys are not so bad and the good guys are not so good. Our protagonist ends up spending much of the book trying to come to grips with the apparent reality that the simple moral code of right and wrong which he has previously accepted at face value is neither true nor perhaps more importantly particularly practical. In the end we’re given a not particularly comforting view of the world, and the sense that it’s up to each of us to make of it what we will. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Twenty years after Earth is conquered by invaders from space, the exiled US government has a chance to reclaim their lost planet 2513 AD. For the past generation, since Earth was taken over by the Invaders, the US president and his cabinet have lived in exile on a planet in orbit around faraway Alpha Centauri. The Centaurian colony has become the center of the human race, reducing Earth to a backwater region in a sprawling foreign domain. But the banished American leaders still have a powerful yearning to return home. Now, President Ralph Wireman and his government finally have the financial aid and weaponry needed to retake their native planet. Wireman's son, Michael, is parachuted to Earth as a Free Terrestrial, where the military-trained warrior is thrust into battle not between human and alien, but among factions of outlaw earthlings who demand nothing less than his total surrender. A novel about war, politics, and assimilation, Falling Torch also presents an incisive portrait of one man's aspirations of greatness and leadership. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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