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Bezig met laden... Bangs and Whimpers: Stories About the End of the World (editie 1999)door James Frenkel (Redacteur), Isaac Asimov (Auteur), Arthur C. Clarke (Auteur), Philip K. Dick (Auteur), Neil Gaiman (Auteur) — 5 meer, Robert A. Heinlein (Auteur), Frederik Phol (Auteur), Robert Silverberg (Auteur), James Thurber (Auteur), James Tiptree (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkBangs and Whimpers: Stories about the End of the World door James Frenkel (Editor)
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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 collection of short stories from 19 luminaries of the science fiction world. Each story explores the end of the world, or of humanity, and they are in turns funny or tragic, mostly concerning the reaction the characters have to realizing what's happening. Maybe it's my general apathy towards short stories, but I found the group of very mixed success, although there are a few winners here. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Join some of this centuries-best science fiction writers in this anthology about the end of the world. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Of course, I still love long books, I just often don't have the time. The difficulty with short story anthologies is finding absolutely brilliant, thought-provoking ones that showcase both up-and-coming and established authors. It can be a bit of a gamble.
Bangs and Whimpers delivers on all fronts. Every time I've started to tell someone about this book, intending to tell them about just one short story in particular I think they would find of interest, I find myself saying something like, "Oh, yeah, and there was this other one that explored an end-of-the-world scenario where we planted the seeds to a new creation by . . . "
This book is amazing. Each short story approached the Ending of All Things from a different vantage point and perception. Where one author chose to think that the annihilation of life on earth meant the end of life forever, another author saw a thin thread of hope in the distant future. Where one author wrote with detached omniscience, another wrote in intimate first-person. Each story has a unique style and vision, but they all have one thing in common -- they are brilliantly, captivatingly written. This book should not be missed. ( )