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Bezig met laden... Meeting Infinity (2015)door Jonathan Strahan (Redacteur)
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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. You can read this for free over at Uncanny. Once again, we return to the death of a mindship; this time the cause of death is a plague known as Blue Lily. I've often picked up a book and found, completely by chance, that it reflected what was going on in the real world in quite an uncanny way -- this story being found in Uncanny magazine in this time of a plague known as Covid-19. I think we could also do so much better if we could just give our diseases much nicer names -- like Aliette has with Blue Lily -- because Black Death, AIDS, SARS, MERS, EBOLA and now Covid-19 doesn't really help with people's mental health during these difficult, anxious and depressing times. The last thing people need is a disease that sounds like a violent street gang, MS-13, just got more nasty and is coming to get you, yes you, just you!!! Anyway, this was another story, like Starsong, in that as soon as i got to the end i went all the way back to the beginning and read it all again. I really didn't understand what had actually happened after the first time through. I'm not sure how much of this is Aliette portraying the effects of Blue Lily so well in her writing that i was as confused as someone coming into contact with a victim of this plague, or how much my mind kept on being taken away from this story and drawing certain parallels with Homo sapiens' current plague of Covid-19. Suffice it to say that a second reading in which i paid a lot more attention to what i was reading was much better. If you need your stories spoon fed to you then this most probably isn't for you as there's all kinds of temporal, spacial and virtual shifts going on and you really have to pay attention. However, pay attention and you'll be rewarded with a rather good sci-fi, plague story. And next up, we're going to be Crossing the Midday Gate. Merged review: You can read this for free over at Uncanny. Once again, we return to the death of a mindship; this time the cause of death is a plague known as Blue Lily. I've often picked up a book and found, completely by chance, that it reflected what was going on in the real world in quite an uncanny way -- this story being found in Uncanny magazine in this time of a plague known as Covid-19. I think we could also do so much better if we could just give our diseases much nicer names -- like Aliette has with Blue Lily -- because Black Death, AIDS, SARS, MERS, EBOLA and now Covid-19 doesn't really help with people's mental health during these difficult, anxious and depressing times. The last thing people need is a disease that sounds like a violent street gang, MS-13, just got more nasty and is coming to get you, yes you, just you!!! Anyway, this was another story, like Starsong, in that as soon as i got to the end i went all the way back to the beginning and read it all again. I really didn't understand what had actually happened after the first time through. I'm not sure how much of this is Aliette portraying the effects of Blue Lily so well in her writing that i was as confused as someone coming into contact with a victim of this plague, or how much my mind kept on being taken away from this story and drawing certain parallels with Homo sapiens' current plague of Covid-19. Suffice it to say that a second reading in which i paid a lot more attention to what i was reading was much better. If you need your stories spoon fed to you then this most probably isn't for you as there's all kinds of temporal, spacial and virtual shifts going on and you really have to pay attention. However, pay attention and you'll be rewarded with a rather good sci-fi, plague story. And next up, we're going to be Crossing the Midday Gate. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)The Infinity Project (Book 4) Prijzen
THE FUTURE IS OURSELVES The world is rapidly changing. We surf future-shock every day, as the progress of technology races ever on. Increasingly we are asking: how do we change to live in the world to come? Whether it's climate change, inundated coastlines and drowned cities; the cramped confines of a tin can hurtling through space to the outer reaches of our Solar System; or the rush of being uploaded into cyberspace, our minds and bodies are going to have to drastically alter. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us another incredible volume in his much praised science-fiction anthology series, featuring stories by Madeline Ashby, John Barnes, James S.A. Corey, Gregory Benford, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Simon Ings, Kameron Hurley, Nancy Kress, Gwyneth Jones, Yoon Ha Lee, Bruce Sterling, Sean Williams, Aliette de Bodard, Ramez Naam, An Owomoyela and Ian McDonald. Author bio: Jonathan Strahan is an editor and anthologist. He coedited The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology series in 1997 and 1998. He is also the reviews editor of Locus. He lives in Perth, Western Australia, with his wife and their two daughters. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Every anthology has stories that may not match a particular Person's tastes. This collection didn't much match my tastes, but I have to say technical quality was still above average, as is the value, having close to 400 pages for $4. Def ( )