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Bezig met laden... The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965)door Samuel R. Delany
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Una de las primeras expediciones interestelares sufre un accidente cuyas causas se ignoran. La nave Beta-2 queda confinada en un lejano rincón de la galaxia, junto con la colonia humana que transportaba. Siglos después, Beta-2 y su Pueblo Estelar son ya leyenda. Los viejos lobos del espacio le cantan en Puertotierra, bajo los neones de las tabernas. Los profesores recogen los fragmentos de la antigua epopeya. Y los estudiantes se inclinan sobre ella para desentrañar la verdad de lo ocurrido. Delany, Samuel R. The Ballad of Beta-2. Orion, 1965. Gateway, 2012. Even in his earliest novels, Samuel R. Delany was always stretching the boundaries of science fiction. The Ballad of Beta-2 (1965) is more comfortably in the genre than Nova or Babel-17, but it, too, would really rather be something else—an invented myth or a future bardic epic. Here is the science fiction premise: in the far future, an anthropology student researching the meaning of an ancient ballad, originated on an early interstellar colony ship, visits its wreck, still traveling through space. To his surprise, he finds the wreck still inhabited by the much-changed descendants of its original crew. In the end, the reader may learn more from the ballad and its story than the graduate student does. It has always struck me as ironic that in his middle age Delany became a professor. I wonder if he would now look at the limitations of his protagonist more sympathetically than he did in his early 20s. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Centuries ago, the Star Folk had left Earth on twelve spaceships on a generations-long mission to colonize the distant stars. Ten of the ships had reached their destinations. Two had failed-and nobody, in the hundreds of years since the disaster, had the slightest inkling of what had happened. Joneny, a student of galactic anthropology, was assigned the problem. It had seemed routine to him. Just some faster-than-light travel to the two wrecked ships, a bit of poking around, and then writing up his findings. But he was ill-prepared for what he found in space at the site of the two ancient wrecks. One, the Sigma-9, was not subject to the laws of time-stasis (the only exception to a universal law), and it was covered entirely with a mysterious green fire that shimmered so much that it seemed alive! And the other ship, the Beta-2, was nowhere to be found. Only a fragment of a mysterious poem could possibly provide a clue. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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