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Bezig met laden... The Stars Are Legiondoor Kameron Hurley
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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. Very unique book in terms of worldbuilding - I really appreciated the biological-based technology & the various communities, all of which were quite different than what we see in the real world. This book is told from the points of view of Zan & Jayd - I preferred the segments with Zan, & thought she was stronger as a character. But I enjoyed the story overall. This was fascinating to read. The world building is amazing and so detailed. Massive living world ships whose inhabitants are separated by levels (both literal and hierarchical) like the rings of an everlasting jaw breaker candy. Layers of memory and relationships throughout the story too. Completely immersive reading experience that transported me when I was reading it. Not for the squeamish though, those living world ships are aging and deteriorating and breading down like all living things do and it is not pretty. This book was okay, but it’s being marketed as space opera, and it’s really an odyssey through a “sufficiently advanced technology” fantasy land, combined with the angst of self-discovery and betrayal, so I had a fair amount of whiplash compared to what I’d expected. The space opera bits are peripheral and not really developed. The tech is largely biological which gives it an unusual - sometimes disgusting - feel. As a story it’s decent, although the sort of “building oneself up from abject nothingness” tales seem to of necessity involve a bunch of flailing around plotwise. That main characters’s arc has a couple of surprises, yet the ultimate destination seems pretty clear early on. There’s a strong Wizard of Oz feel to it which might be deliberate. The elements of the story I most enjoyed - the conflict among the different worlds - reminded me strongly of Karl Schroeder’s Virga series, so if that’s what you enjoyed most about Stars, then I recommend that series to you. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Set within a system of decaying world-ships travelling through deep space, this breakout novel of epic science fiction follows a pair of sisters who must wrest control of their war-torn legion of worlds--and may have to destroy everything they know in order to survive. On the outer rim of the universe, a galactic war has been waged for centuries upon hundreds of world-ships. But these worlds will continue to die through decay and constant war unless a desperate plan succeeds. Anat, leader of the Katazyrna world-ship and the most fearsome raiding force on the Outer Rim, wants peace. To do so she offers the hand of her daughter, Jayd, to her rival. Jayd has dreamed about leading her mother's armies to victory her whole life--but she has a unique ability, and that makes her leverage, not a leader. As Anat convinces her to spend the rest of her life wed to her family's greatest enemy, it is up to Jayd's sister Zan--with no stomach for war--to lead the cast off warriors she has banded together to victory and rescue Jayd. But the war does not go at all as planned... In the tradition of The Fall of Hyperion and Dune, The Stars are Legion is an epic and thrilling tale about familial love, revenge, and war as imagined by one of the genre's most imaginative new writers"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Quizá porque la ambientación es diferente a la que estoy acostumbrado y se me hacia muy dificil visualizar según que en mi mente, sobretodo las distancias y proporciones de ese pequeño pedazo de universo.
Aún así, tiene un ritmo vertiginoso y la capacidad de conectar con la protagonista por como esta narrado es excelente. La exploración que compone gran parte del libro dan forma a un viaje que te sorprende a cada giro.
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