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Cowboys & Aliens

door Joan D. Vinge

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Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford.
1875, New Mexico Territory
A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde. It's a town that lives in fear.
But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.
Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella, he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents-townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors-all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.
Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures/Reliance - Entertainment present in association with Relativity Media an Imagine Entertainment/K/O Paper Products/Fairview Entertainment/Platinum Studios production. A Jon Favreau film; Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, "Cowboys & Aliens", Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, Noah Ringer. Music by Harry Gregson-Williams; Visual effects and animation by Industrial Light & Magic. Costume Designer Mary Zophres; Edited by Dan Lebental ACE; Production Designer Scott Chambliss; Director of Photography Matthew Libatique ASC; Executive Producers Steven Spielberg, Jon Favreau, Denis L. Stewart, Bobby Cohen, Randy Greenberg, Ryan Kavanaugh; Produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg; Based on Platinum Studios' "Cowboys and Aliens" by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. Screen Story by Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Steve Oedekerk. Screenplay by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby. Directed by Jon Favreau. A Universal Picture. www.cowboysandaliensmovie.com © 2011 Universal Studios and DreamWorks II Dist. Cowboys & Aliens � & © Universal Studios and DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing LLC. All Rights Reserved. Book by Joan D. Ving
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
Cowboys and Aliens is a dry read with a lack of voice, several switching viewpoints in which the story is told, and lack of character development. What few interesting points are a difficult to read due to the switching of whom’s viewpoint is being used if anyone’s at all. ( )
  Preston.Kringle | Nov 23, 2018 |
I obviously wasn't looking for a serious read when I picked this book up to listen to. I thought it might be silly and fun, and since I never saw the movie, I'd at least know the plot then. The problem is that I didn't realize that it is a novel based on the screenplay for the movie, as opposed to the book the screenplay is based on. Thus, it reads just as a movie would play out and any of the additional depth that makes a book preferable to the screen is missing.

While I the occasional shadows of important themes pop up, not a single one is ever explored or expanded on. The book is action-packed, but not much else. All-in-all, there wasn't much to recommend it. At least the movie had some cool actors in it; all this had was an overly breathy, over-acted voice. (I had an audio edition.) Meh ( )
  SadieSForsythe | Feb 24, 2016 |
I read this, as i did "Return to Oz", because I like Vinge's writing and there's not enough of it! And while I'm not sorry I read these, They are not as good as her original works.

As a novelization, I think this is the better of the two. It did read more like a novel than a novelization, and gave a lot of background and context that I think would have been impossible in the movie. (Note: I have not seen the movie, nor do I plan to.)

If one is a fan of the movie, I think this would be an excellent read that would increase the appreciation. However, as a novel in and of itself, it's a bit heavy-handed, especially in terms of plot. Plus, I still cannot see how it makes sense for aliens to come all the way here for basic resources, when they can- with their advanced tech- just MAKE whatever they need. Most Earth lifeforms have a innate policy of doing as little as possible to get the results they want; I can see why this would be selected for; and I do not see why aliens would follow a wildly different, more complex, and far more fragile evolutionary path. But hey- it's most a plot in which Humans Triumph and Virtue Is Rewarded, not actual science fiction; more a morality play with sf garnishes.
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  cissa | Feb 15, 2014 |
I'm not sure why Vinge, a good writer, agreed to novelize this. It's an uphill slog. The history appears to be that there was a 1980's screenplay, which was turned into a graphic novel, and then again into a graphic novel, and then a screenplay and film (with multiple writers), and then a novelization. I haven't seen the graphic novels or the movie, so I only have the novel to go on, and that novel is formulaic and boring. This is not at all what I expect from Vinge, so I have to assume that a big part of the problem is that she's stuck with having to be true to the movie (and possibly to previous incarnations of the story) rather than getting to add her own changes and interpretations.

Here's the thing: No good explanation is given for Jake's shackle/bracelet. Yes, he got it by somehow not being quite as susceptible as every other human to the aliens' pulsing hypnosis light, so therefore he could lash out at the alien commencing to dissect him, and it just happens that on the instrument tray is an alien tool/weapon that reads human impulses as well as the aliens', and can be turned against the aliens? And this happens to snap itself onto his wrist when he happens to be the one guy who can fight the mind control? And the humans' ability to repel the aliens relies on Jake's lone shackle staving them off until dynamite and the shackle's self-destruct sequence can blow up the ship? That is weak by any plot construction standards. And if you were in Jake's shoes, wouldn't you look for more of these shackle/tool/weapons when you were in the dissection chamber?

The story as novelized is humorless and pretty boring. I assume Vinge was going for a "standard Western novel" feel, but instead created poor genre fiction. The fights are particularly badly rendered in wordy, non-urgent prose. In dialogue, what may be intended as laconic is instead flat. Again, she was probably stuck with the movie script's dialogue and action, which are not great even when read in a loud and pressured delivery by the audiobook's narrator.

IMDB has identified a number of anachronisms in the film that also appear in the book. These include the use of cardboard matchboxes and the name of the town now called Puerto Vallarta. To this I add that Vinge's use of the word "actinic," which, while accurately descriptive, seems like a jump from a character-centered limited-omniscient narration to an authorial one. "Actinic" was in use at the time (1844, says the OED), but I doubt it would be in Jake's or most other characters' vocabulary or conceptual/educational experience. This criticism highlights a writing problem that belongs to Vinge: Point of view shifts inconsistently between characters, sometimes confusingly. This detracts from whatever capacity the reader has to remain at the level of the story rather than needing to back up to figure out when and where the perspective shifted. This story needs all the breaks it can get, so it is not served by jumps in narrative stance. ( )
  OshoOsho | Mar 30, 2013 |
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Fiction. Literature. Science Fiction. Western. HTML:

Now a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford.
1875, New Mexico Territory
A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde. It's a town that lives in fear.
But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.
Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella, he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents-townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors-all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.
Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures/Reliance - Entertainment present in association with Relativity Media an Imagine Entertainment/K/O Paper Products/Fairview Entertainment/Platinum Studios production. A Jon Favreau film; Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, "Cowboys & Aliens", Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, Noah Ringer. Music by Harry Gregson-Williams; Visual effects and animation by Industrial Light & Magic. Costume Designer Mary Zophres; Edited by Dan Lebental ACE; Production Designer Scott Chambliss; Director of Photography Matthew Libatique ASC; Executive Producers Steven Spielberg, Jon Favreau, Denis L. Stewart, Bobby Cohen, Randy Greenberg, Ryan Kavanaugh; Produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg; Based on Platinum Studios' "Cowboys and Aliens" by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. Screen Story by Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Steve Oedekerk. Screenplay by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby. Directed by Jon Favreau. A Universal Picture. www.cowboysandaliensmovie.com © 2011 Universal Studios and DreamWorks II Dist. Cowboys & Aliens � & © Universal Studios and DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing LLC. All Rights Reserved. Book by Joan D. Ving

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