Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956)
Auteur van Plutonia
Over de Auteur
Academician Vladimir Obruchev was an outstanding Soviet geologist and geographer, a famous explorer and investigator of Central Asia and Siberia, an indefatigable popularizer of scientific knowledge, who wrote thousands of scientific articles and a total of three science fiction novels
Werken van Vladimir Obruchev
Kesk-Aasia avarustes : aareteotsija märkmed 10 exemplaren
Kukushkin; a Geographer's Tales. with a Foreword by Peter Fleming. Translated and Edited by Vera Bowen (1961) 3 exemplaren
Plutonia / Zemlia Sannikova 3 exemplaren
Занимательная геология 2 exemplaren
Kukushkin, a geographer's tales 1 exemplaar
Goldsucher in der Wüste 1 exemplaar
" Puteshestvii͡a v proshloe i budushchee". 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Obruchev, Vladimir
- Officiële naam
- Obruchev, Vladimir Afanasyevich
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Обручев, Владимир Афанасьевич
- Geboortedatum
- 1863-09-28
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1956-06-19
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Russia
- Geboorteplaats
- Klepenino, Tver Region, Russian Empire
- Plaats van overlijden
- Zvenigorod, USSR
- Woonplaatsen
- St Petersburg, Russia
- Opleiding
- Petersburg Mining Institute
- Beroepen
- geologist
science fiction writer
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Besprekingen
Der Autor hat sich "Die Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde" von Jules Verne zum Vorbild genommen, und so langatmig und langweilig fällt auch seine Geschichte aus.
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Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 12
- Leden
- 122
- Populariteit
- #163,289
- Waardering
- 3.7
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 12
- Talen
- 3
However unlike Journey to the Center of the Earth this is a true Hollow Earth novel with all of the geological absurdity that that implies, which is one of the few interesting aspects of the work.
The other good points are that its russian which (on very rare occasions) makes it feel a little different. Also there's some decent repartee amongst our protagonists at times.
Finally there are a few moments of interest towards the end of the novel.
The other 80% or so is unfortunately pretty boring. The writing is basic, and it gets pretty repetitive. See interesting creature, shoot interesting creature, have creature for dinner, rinse, repeat.
Even our hero's actually get bored after a while, and if people are bored with dinosaurs then there's clearly something very wrong ;) .
Not well written enough compared to earlier works and not action packed enough to compare with the pulps.… (meer)