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The galaxy's inhabited planets are held together by the repressive Eron Company, the apparent holder of the secret to faster-than-light travel through the Tubes, the network linking the scattered worlds together. Mysterious parties have hired the adventurer Horn to assassinate the company's general manager, Garth Kohlnar. Horn completes his mission, and in the ensuing manhunt encounters Wendre Kohlnar, the daughter and now possibly the heir of the dead man. Escaping through a transdimensional Tube, Horn finds himself on the planet Eron, a world consumed by the Eron Company. There he encounters a corrupt aristocracy, a brewing power struggle over the succession, a covert revolution, and the mystery of who actually knows the secret of the Tubes. James Gunn and Jack Williamson'sStar Bridgemarks the return of a classic, high-concept space opera by two SF Grand Masters… (meer)
This is a classic 50's space opera with the typical plot of lone, independent (but not really) gunslinger takes on an evil empire and wins. The characters are a bit 2-dimensional and the only female character is quite stereotyped. The plot has a couple of interesting twists and there is lots of action. ( )
1950s SF with the overblown portentiousness and beginning-of-chapter aphorisms of 1950s SF. But if successfully convinces you that it's as racist as 1950s SF often is, and then successfully subverts that assumption it only a little, so it's not wholly predictable. ( )
This book starts slow with an assassination of a leader by Horn who later leads to a revolution with slaves rising up and overthrowing their masters at Enron. The chinese wiseman and his parrot are interesting and come in/out of the plot.
It is rather dated, 1950.s style of writing but not objectionably so. ( )
Reprint of a 1955 novel in which one man takes on the oppressive regime of a pan-galactic corporation. Solid adventure with a good dose of philosophy mixed in. ( )
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Prologue "A Historian is not just a chronicler of what has been,' the Historian said. "The fruit of his labors is a series of terms from which the future can be extrapolated. "His significant function is not bookkeeping but prediction." Swiftly then, in flowing characters, he began to write:
The flaming wheel of the sun had passed teh apogee of its journey across the sky.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
"Some men are intereted only in means; some work for immediate goals like freedom; a few are concerned with results far in the future."
The galaxy's inhabited planets are held together by the repressive Eron Company, the apparent holder of the secret to faster-than-light travel through the Tubes, the network linking the scattered worlds together. Mysterious parties have hired the adventurer Horn to assassinate the company's general manager, Garth Kohlnar. Horn completes his mission, and in the ensuing manhunt encounters Wendre Kohlnar, the daughter and now possibly the heir of the dead man. Escaping through a transdimensional Tube, Horn finds himself on the planet Eron, a world consumed by the Eron Company. There he encounters a corrupt aristocracy, a brewing power struggle over the succession, a covert revolution, and the mystery of who actually knows the secret of the Tubes. James Gunn and Jack Williamson'sStar Bridgemarks the return of a classic, high-concept space opera by two SF Grand Masters
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