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Bezig met laden... Colony Fleetdoor Susan R. Matthews
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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. On first read I loved this book, especially through the protagonist Chelbie's stay on the Deecee. The story is about a young woman denied her rightful place as an engineer and forced to a life of supposed drudgery as a mech by the inadvertent betrayal of her lover. Along the way she makes some discoveries that end up with her leaving the Deecee to be part of the crew on the scoutship that's headed to the fleet's first colony goal, along with her former lover. The scoutship crew divides along Engineer/Mech lines to the point where it jeopardizes the security of the future colony and Chelbie has to take drastic measures to make sure new data about the planet reaches the fleet. The characters are sometimes a little cartoonish in their attitudes, but overall I thought it was a good plot that happily strays from traditional good planet/bad planet stories, since this planet is colonizable but with a lot more work than anticipated. Perhaps on second reading the problems with Chelbie's lover will loom larger since I read this in one gulp, but for now I'll stick to 4 1/2 stars. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Four hundred years have passed since the leaders of an ecologically threatened Earth launched a great fleet of asteroid ships toward the stars. Five pristine planets were designated to be colonized by descendants of the first crews. Each new world would be inhabited by a homogenous mix of creators and facilitators, workers and intelligentsia. All would prosper in harmonious equality. But things have changed over the centuries...Hillbrane Harkover belongs to the Jneers, the privileged third of the tripartite class system that evolved during the voyage. Now, with the first world landing mere months away, she finds herself betrayed by one of her own, expelled from her caste, and exiled to the dangerous fringes of the fleet. Abandoned here, where lowly Mechs toil in unsafe, unhealthy conditions, Hillbrane no longer has a place in the cruel hierarchy she has always taken for granted. But a four-century-old dream is suddenly in dire jeopardy, doomed by custom, suspicion, and class hatred. And someone on the outside may be the only one who can save the first colony--and the fleet--from catastrophe. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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The concept is the well trodden generational colony ship fleet. Without ruining anything, things devolve over the years.
I kept expecting the story that develops, to explode into frantic action and meyhem, and it never does. It's so nice when it's not the absolute worst thing that can happen, that drives the novel forward.
For the most part people are people, not dazzling heros and horribly evil figureheads.
The characters are believable and relatable, the backdrop interesting, and the outcome likeable.
Sounds like damning with faint praise perhaps, but I did enjoy it. It was nice. ( )