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Bezig met laden... Planeten te koop (1965)door A. E. Van Vogt, E. Mayne Hull (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. A novel constructed from a string of stories about Artur Blord, originally published in Astounding SF (1943-46) under the pen-name E. Mayne Hull (the name of his first wife, later credited as co-author). Classic pulp stuff, in which attractive yet resourceful females do the bidding of a calm and powerful tycoon in his rivalries with unpleasant thugs and slave-traffickers, and interplanetary businesses are equipped with typewriters and metal filing cabinets. This is the kind of book in which the hero snarls "Go to hell" at a reptilian alien, while the woman he has just rescued finds time to do something to her hair. MB 18-vii-2007 Information credit: A. E. van Vogt Information Site http://www.home.earthlink.net/~icshi/index.html geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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van Vogt's heroes also have superpowers, not only can Blord hypnotise people within moments, he can also perform fantastic feats of physics-bending awesomeness like this, when, trapped in a powerless spaceship ('Lorelei', the dark star off the port bow, is doing unexplained, but not unexpected, energy sucky things to his ship's nuclear pile) Blord plays his emergency Get Out of Jail Free card:
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'He began to turn a wheel that shoved at a bigger wheel, which shoved at a still bigger wheel, until, under the control dais, a ten-foot wheel with an Earth weight of fifteen tons was spinning at approximately thirty revolutions a minute. At the proper moment, Blord pushed in a clutch, and an electric dynamo began to operate. It was literally an emergency power plant. Electricity was too course an energy to be powerfully affected by the Lorelei [star].'
....which makes you wonder why he didn't just take a couple of batteries with him or even crank the bloody generator himself! I've no idea how to do the maths but just how much 'shoving' would one man have to do to get ten foot (Diameter? Radius? Circumference? Hight?), 15 ton, wheel spinning at 30 rpm?
I once joked that van Vogt so loved secret tunnels that he probably wrote them into spaceships when he could. Turns out I was right, for, having got his emergency power supply going, our hero then moves his ship's pilot seat aside to reveal a secret tunnel leading to a second control room where he sits and listens in on the plot-point dropping conversations of the space pirates who then board his ship. (They have a newly developed super-secret anti-energy sucky thing device on their ship.) ( )