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Bezig met laden... Starfarersdoor Poul Anderson
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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. I found Starfarer by Poul Anderson to be a well paced story about space exploration and settlements. In particular, this story considers the social impact sub light travel would have on distant colonists. The decades that go by between arrival of new ships, do not keep pace with the evolving social dynamics of the planetary systems. In this milieu, remote traces of sub light traveling sentients pushes the Earth to send a party on a 10,000 year round trip to the location of the signals. Ship board the time is only a few years, but 5,000 years roll by on Earth. The arrival in the remote system and the sentients they encounter reveal as much about the challenges of colonization in a sub light traveling technology among the sentients as it does about those far flung colonists from Earth. I have read other books by Poul before, and thoroughly enjoyed this one. I read half this book and quit. There are too many characters. They have weird names that I am having difficulty remembering. Now, I love Dune. That book has lots of characters, too. However, for some reason, this book's characters are completely unmemorable. There are too many storylines. I can't keep it all straight and I've discovered that I don't even care to try at this point. I've heard so many great things about Poul Anderson. Maybe I chose the wrong book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Courageous space explorers embark on a mission to make contact with alien races light years away, while the Earth they leave behind ages twelve hundred centuries. It's the most exciting discovery since humankind first began watching the skies: SETI scientists detect starship "trails" in a galaxy many light years from Earth, and at long last the dream of human-to-alien contact is attainable. But the courageous crew of starfarers assembled to take on the monumental endeavor must sacrifice the only lives they've ever known and the people they love; the Earth will have aged many thousands of years when - and if - they are finally able to return. Still, their hunger for knowledge of the universe and the extraterrestrial races that inhabit it is too great to deny, and the Envoy rockets off into the vast unknown. It's a perilous mission that will profoundly change everyone it touches - even as the passing millennia transform the Earth in ways no one could ever have imagined. Of all the science fiction extrapolators to emerge in the twentieth century, none were more visionary and few as prolific as the great Poul Anderson. Starfarers, his ingeniously imagined space exploration adventure, still stands tall among the most intelligent, enthralling, and unforgettable science fiction novels ever written. This ebook includes the bonus stories "Ghetto" and "The Horn of Time the Hunter." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The story follows two major lines: the characters' adventures as they meet the aliens, and how civilization changes while they were gone. Anderson postulates that our civilizatization, like the alien civilization, will give up on space travel--I think he must have felt the decline of the certainty that used to be characteristic of the West, and assumed that we would lose the idea of progress. It's an interesting read that way, a haunting portrayal of a civilization that used to be greater than it is now. The space travelers are the only ones who remember it like it used to be.
I am skeptical that the idea of progress will be lost, if for no other reason than progress is so enormously profitable. But nevertheless it's an idea worth exploring. ( )