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Bezig met laden... Hestiadoor C. J. Cherryh
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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 colony, far from the Earth and desperate to survive, finds itself fighting against a native populace. The natives turn out to be more intelligent and resourceful than thought, and start to figure out how to turn the more advanced settlers' tools against them. Interesting premise, worthy of a read, but not C.J. Cherryh at her best. ( ) I'm a little out of patience with the protagonist of this book. He's supposed to build a dam? and the world is inhospitable? He (and the author) don't know what they're talking about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo The Blackfly Song on YouTube tells about surveying for a dam in REALLY inhospitable country - northern Canada. The settlers can't get supplies from Earth? So sad. If the settlers of medieval Greenland had had Hestia's one ship every seven years (OR if they hadn't had to cope with the Little Ice Age and its encroaching glaciers), they probably would have made it. New France had a climate nearly as horrible - far better than Hestia's - and slightly better (although highly unreliable) supply lines, and thrived. TL/DR: More attention to worldbuilding would have resulted in a more believable novel. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
After a hundred pioneer years, the colony on Hestia seemed to be nearing its end. Its holdings on that green and fertile planet were still limited to a single river in one valley. Everywhere else hostile fauna hedged them in. A dam could break the deadlock, and they needed an engineer to build it for them. Sam Merrit was the man who came in answer to their S.O.S. -- and he wanted out as soon as he landed. But once down on Hestia, it was live or die within the colony. So Sam stayed -- to discover certain anomalies that the hardscrabble colonists had thrust from their minds. 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 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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