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Bezig met laden... The Cruel Stars: A Novel (editie 2019)door John Birmingham (Auteur)
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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. The characters and writing are pretty good. It mostly suffers at the setting and theme level: --The biggest problem is that the premise doesn't make sense. It is remarked multiple times that the Sturm are vastly inferior in technology. So how does a vastly inferior faction that doesn't even use the type of technology in question manage to make such an effective weapon for it? Doesn't make sense, especially since the ship AI called out the existence of malware, so why don't they have defenses against this type of attack? Especially if they just suffered something similar from the Javan. --Killing side characters to demonstrate the horrors of war gets old really, really fast. --The Sturm are inconsistent. D'ur saying he's going to go kill Alessia, but then seems to just disappear. Ji Yong for some reason NOT killing Alessia when she gets the chance despite acting like a cartoon villain in her last scene. In general the Sturm swing rather wildly between believable and silly evil. --Sturm Trooper is just eye-rolling. --Minor error: Lucinda claims she's not a lesbian, but in the first chapter she notes that she's had girlfriends in the past. Birmingham, John. The Cruel Stars. Cruel Stars No. 1. Del Rey, 2019. John Birmingham is a multi-genre writer from Australia, but he seems to be well versed in all the tropes of American military science fiction. Certainly, The Cruel Stars has a good time putting together a fast-paced action thriller that mashes up several familiar items. We have a young officer thrust into command when her captain’s implanted tech is hacked, driving him into a homicidal rage. Think Honor Harrington without a cat on her shoulder. The enemy are “space Nazis” called the Sturm who want to free the universe from aliens, cyborgs, bioengineering, and anything else that isn’t them. There is a plucky captive princess to rescue. There are an entertaining batch of warriors, including a retired Scots admiral, whose snarky repartee would be right at home in Guardians of the Galaxy. There is a strong AI who joins in the banter, and some consciousness uploading tech that seems off the shelf from Altered Carbon. Although all the ingredients are familiar, the mix makes an original scifi cocktail. The next installment of the trilogy is due out August 2020. I am looking forward to it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: With a ruthless sect of humanity intent on wiping out their species, five intrepid heroes must think like their enemies in this epic sci-fi adventure for fans of The Expanse and Battlestar Galactica. The galaxy was once terrorized by the Sturm, a group of "species purists" intent on destroying any human with genetic or cybernetic enhancements. Fashioning themselves as the one true "Human Republic," the Sturm cut a bloody swath across the stars, killing billions before finally being defeated and driven into the far reaches of Dark Space. Centuries of peace bred complacency. Everyone believed the Sturm had died out in the Dark. They were wrong. The enemy has returned and, with a brutal and decisive attack, knocks out almost all of humanity's defenses. Now on the brink of annihilation, humankind's only hope is a few brave souls who survived the initial attack: Commander Lucinda Hardy, thrust into uncertain command of the Royal Armadalen Navy's only surviving warship. Booker3, a soldier of Earth, sentenced to die for treason, whose time on death row is cut short when the Sturm attack his prison compound. Princess Alessia, a young royal of the Montanblanc Corporation, forced to flee when her home planet is overrun and her entire family executed. Sephina L'trel, the leader of an outlaw band who must call on all of her criminal skills to resist the invasion. And, finally, Admiral Frazer McLennan, the infamous hero of the first war with the Sturm hundreds of years ago, who hopes to rout his old foes once and for all-or die trying. These five flawed, reluctant heroes must band together to prevail against a relentless enemy and near-impossible odds. For if they fail, the future itself is doomed. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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