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Bezig met laden... Impersonationsdoor Walter Jon Williams
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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.  StephenKimber | Mar 5, 2021 |   Impersonations is set between Conventions of War and The Accidental War. Lady Sula’s bosses, unwilling to share the limelight of the Praxis’ recent victory, transfer her to Earth, now a backwater planet that lost out in the wormhole lottery. Sula is a fan of Earth history and its artistic porcelain—though one wonders how any of her collection survives all the mayhem in which she participates. Her longstanding impersonation of an aristocrat is endangered when she receives a visit from someone she is supposed to have known at school. Then there are assassination plots and natural disasters, and a quiet hitch on a backwater planet is suddenly anything but quiet. Impersonations is a more lightly focused and shorter novel than the main numbers in the series. If you are in the series for the space battles, this is not the novel for you. But if you like the planetary adventure and palace intrigue, then enjoy. I did. (  ) Tom-e | Jan 25, 2021 | In the beginning. Once things start moving it gets much better. It simply takes a few chapters to move the players into position. It is not necessary to read the trilogy first in order to understand this novel. ( ) wildwily | May 28, 2020 | In the beginning. Once things start moving it gets much better. It simply takes a few chapters to move the players into position. It is not necessary to read the trilogy first in order to understand this novel. ( ) wildwily | May 28, 2020 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Having offended her superiors by winning a battle without permission, Caroline Sula has been posted to the planet Earth, a dismal backwater where careers go to die. But Sula has always been fascinated by Earth history, and she plans to reward herself with a long, happy vacation amid the ancient monuments of humanity's home world. Sula may be an Earth history buff, but there are aspects of her own history she doesn't want known. Exposure is threatened when an old acquaintance turns up unexpectedly. Someone seems to be forging evidence that would send her to prison. And all that is before someone tries to kill her. If she's going to survive, Sula has no choice but to make some history of her own. 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 1945-1999WaarderingGemiddelde: (3.52)
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I'm not sure that there is much to like in the character of Sula, but this is probably not what the author wants anyway. The plot is taut enough but I felt the story's context was a little too thin and that sometimes, in order to maintain the novella's momentum (and for it to remain a novella) too much was explained rather than shown. I find it hard, as well, to accept a future which is essentially feudal in its socio-political (aristocrats acting with impunity and a distinct hierarchy) construct: civilisations, I think, have moved beyond that. .. So it was hard to believe in this world. (