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Carregando... Knight Movesde Walter Jon Williams
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Entertaining. Different. ( ) This is my favorite Walter Jon Williams book (and I have read several). I like it mostly because of the alien intelligences and the Centaurs (back on 'Earth'). Mr. Williams has his protagonist become a dentist in order to teach 'GMO' Centaurs to speak classical Greek (because he likes the way it deals with philosophical concepts). I found this book a fascinating read because of the science that is done, and the 'real' aliens that appear about 2/3 of the way through. It is also a great read. The first 50 pages of Knight Moves were excellent, it brought up and discussed themes that reminded me of a combination of Roger Zelazny's books "This Immortal" and "Lord of Light". The writing was a bit whimsical, the characters interesting. Then, the novel takes a turn into standard plot devices like romance and regret and forgets about all the interesting themes introducted in the first pages of the book. Then, at the end, he comes back to the themes and tries to salvage the whole soggy mess. If the author - Walter Jon Williams would rewrite this book and keep the major themes in mind - The earth depopulated and being investigated by an alien species - the impact of immortality on the human pysche - the effect of a diasporia on the human race, I would read that book in a second. I'm probably hard on the book by rating it 3 stars, but I can't get over the disappointment of what could have beens. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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A Philip K Dick Award-nominated novel. Eight hundred years ago Doran Falkner gave humanity the stars, and he now lives with his regrets on a depopulated Earth among tumbledown ruins and ancient dreams brought to life by modern technology. But word now comes that alien life has been discovered on a distant world, life so strange and impossible that the revelation of its secrets could change everything. A disillusioned knight on the chessboard of the gods, Doran must confront his own lost promise, his lost love, and his lost humanity, to make the move that will revive the fortunes both of humans and aliens . . .Knight Moves is an engrossing and evocative read, a tale of immortality and love and death rendered in a style that reminds me more than a little of the early Roger Zelazny. Williams' people are intriguing and sympathetic, and his portrait of an Earth left transformed and empty by a humanity gone to the stars, where aliens dig among ancient ruins for old comic books while the creatures of legends stir and walk again, will linger in my memory for a long time. Williams is a writer to watch, and- more importantly- to read.---George R.R. Martin, author of Game of ThronesKnight Moves uses an unmatched cast of characters, human and otherwise, to tell an intriguing story.--- Fred Saberhagen, author of the Book of Swords Trilogy. --Provided by publisher. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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