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Bezig met laden... Cowl (origineel 2004; editie 2005)door Neal Asher
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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. 291 43. aldar afsprengi mannkyns hafa skipst í 2 fylkingar og tekist á ógurlegum átökum. Mannverurnar hafa þróað sig og breytt bæði ásýnd og getu auk þess sem þeim tekst að uppgötva tímaferðalag. Slíkt útheimtir mikla orku en ein veran, Cowl, nær að flýja til upphafspunktar lífs á jörðinni þaðan sem hún ætlar sér að eyða andstæðingum sínum. Cowl sendir skrýmsli á sínum vegum til að merkja fólk á mismunandi tímaskeiðum sem sendist þá í tímastökkum aftur á bak í tímann allt til Cowls sem nýtir sér fórnarlömbin til gagnaöflunar við hernað sinn. Asher nostrar ekki mikið við persónusköpun en helsti kostur sögunnar er tímaflakkið og hvernig hann vinnur úr þeim spurningum sem vakna upp við það. Asher, Neal. Cowl. Tor, 2004. Neal Asher, an English science fiction writer who cites Roger Zelazny’s Amber series as a major inspiration, is right at home in a complex far-future universe. In his Polity books he detailed a multispecies interstellar war. In Cowl, he has two near-future humans get caught up in a time war waged by two far-future posthuman societies—the Heliothane and the Umbrathane, make what you like of the symbolic names. His humans are Tack, a genetically altered covert ops agent, and Polly, a young drug-addicted prostitute. The time travel technology is creatively nonintuitive, as it takes more energy to travel back centuries than it does weeks. The catch is that the further back you travel, the less probable you and your timeline become. The more unlikely you become, the harder it is to travel in time. At least, I think the way it works, but I stand ready to be corrected. I found the characters from the far future less engaging than Polly and Tack. But there is much action and the plot rolls along at a good pace. Of course, your mind is always engaged in trying to decipher the technologies and social structures into which you become immersed. 4 stars. An amusing time-travel novel, based on the "many-worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics (an interpretation for which there is no evidence or requirement). Asher has the wit to steal Heinlein's answer to the question, "How come I end up in the same place on Earth when I time-travel, despite the Earth's orbit, rotation etc?" and modify it only slightly. It is also fun to get away from Asher's "Polity" setting in this novel: may his publishers allow him to do so more often!
Après L’écorcheur, un premier roman prometteur, qui avait soulevé l’intérêt de la critique et du public, la collection Rendez-Vous Ailleurs nous propose un nouveau roman de Neal Asher, écrivain au flegme et à l’humour so british. Autant le dire tout de suite : l’enthousiasme suscité par la lecture de L’écorcheur ne suffira peut-être pas pour convaincre à nouveau, encore faudrait-il que l’auteur ait gommé toutes les petites faiblesses qui entachaient sa première œuvre. Prijzen
In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion is triumphant in the solar system, after a bitter war with their Umbrathane progenitors. But some of the enemy have escaped into the past, intent on wreaking havoc across time. the worst of these is Cowl, an artificially forced advance in human evolution but one who is no longer human. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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