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98+ opere 2,114 membri 51 recensioni 1 preferito

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Fonte dell'immagine: Szymon Sokól (Worldcon 2005, Glasgow)

Serie

Opere di David Langford

The End of Harry Potter? (2006) 202 copie
The Space Eater (1982) 169 copie
The Leaky Establishment (1994) 164 copie
Earthdoom (1987) 51 copie
Guts: A Comedy of Manners (2001) 11 copie
Starcombing (2009) 7 copie
The net of Babel [short fiction] (1995) — Autore — 6 copie
The Limbo Files (2009) 6 copie
Analysing Talk (1994) 6 copie
BLIT (1988) 5 copie
The Lions In The Desert (1993) 4 copie
Platen Stories (1987) 4 copie
Leaks (1991) 3 copie
If Looks Could Kill (1992) 2 copie
Ellipses (1990) 2 copie
3.47 AM [short fiction] (1983) 2 copie
comp.basilisk FAQ (1999) 2 copie
Outbreak [short fiction] (1985) 1 copia
Wetware [short fiction] (1984) 1 copia
Sacrifice 1 copia
Irrational Numbers (1994) 1 copia
Heatwave [short fiction] (1975) 1 copia
Deepnet [short fiction] (1994) 1 copia
Training [short fiction] (1979) 1 copia
Ansible 1 copia

Opere correlate

The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (1993) — Collaboratore — 685 copie
The Time Traveller's Almanac (2013) — Collaboratore — 567 copie
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (1997) — Collaboratore — 513 copie
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) — Collaboratore — 510 copie
The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (1998) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni503 copie
Shadows Over Innsmouth (1994) — Collaboratore — 370 copie
The Hard SF Renaissance (2003) — Collaboratore — 345 copie
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999) — Collaboratore — 333 copie
Year's Best SF 6 (2001) — Collaboratore — 282 copie
Al suono di una musica aliena: i migliori racconti dell'anno (1999) — Collaboratore — 263 copie
Le trappole dell'ignoto (1997) — Collaboratore — 262 copie
Alien Emergencies (A Sector General Omnibus) (2002) — Introduzione — 235 copie
L' altra faccia della realtà: racconti fantastici (2006) — Collaboratore — 235 copie
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995) — Collaboratore — 217 copie
The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy (2001) — Collaboratore — 184 copie
The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy (2005) — Collaboratore — 180 copie
Terry Pratchett: Guilty Of Literature (2000) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni151 copie
Starlight 2 (1998) — Collaboratore — 137 copie
Year's Best SF 16 (2011) — Collaboratore — 128 copie
Futures from Nature (2007) — Collaboratore — 112 copie
The Best of Interzone (1997) — Collaboratore — 99 copie
Temps (1991) — Collaboratore — 98 copie
Thor's Hammer (1979) — Collaboratore — 92 copie
New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction (2003) — Collaboratore — 85 copie
Other Edens (1987) — Collaboratore — 83 copie
After War (1985) — Collaboratore — 79 copie
Witpunk (2003) — Autore — 73 copie
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998) — Collaboratore — 64 copie
Villains!: Book 1 (1992) — Collaboratore — 62 copie
Digital Dreams (1990) — Collaboratore — 61 copie
65 Great Tales of Horror (1981) — Collaboratore — 59 copie
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVIII (1990) — Collaboratore — 58 copie
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999) — Collaboratore — 54 copie
Eurotemps (1992) — Collaboratore — 54 copie
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 09 (1998) — Collaboratore — 54 copie
Is Anybody Out There? (2010) — Collaboratore — 53 copie
Interzone: The 3rd Anthology (1988) — Collaboratore — 50 copie
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XIII (1985) — Immagine di copertina — 50 copie
More Tales from the "Forbidden Planet" (1990) — Collaboratore — 49 copie
New Worlds 2 (1992) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
New Worlds 4 (1994) — Collaboratore — 46 copie
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1997) — Collaboratore — 46 copie
4 Novels (1984) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni45 copie
Arrows of Eros (1989) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
Fables from the Fountain (2011) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
New Writings in SF-27 (1977) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXII (1994) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
Interzone: The 4th Anthology (1983) — Collaboratore — 41 copie
Andromeda 3 (1978) — Collaboratore — 38 copie
The Fortune Teller (1997) — Collaboratore — 35 copie
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
The Weerde Book 2: The Book of the Ancients (1993) — Collaboratore — 31 copie
Andromeda 2 (1977) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
After Midnight (1986) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
The Big Book of Cyberpunk (2023) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
Drabble II: Double Century (1990) — Collaboratore — 25 copie
Book of Alien Monsters (1982) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
Drabble Project (1988) — Collaboratore — 17 copie
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 24, No. 9 [September 2000] (2000) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Interzone 259 (2015) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Alien Encounters (1982) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
White Dwarf 70 (1985) — A cura di — 8 copie
White Dwarf 63 (1985) — A cura di — 7 copie
Interzone 257 (2015) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
White Dwarf 74 (1986) — A cura di — 7 copie
Interzone 284 (2019) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
White Dwarf 60 (1984) — A cura di — 7 copie
White Dwarf 65 (1985) — A cura di — 6 copie
White Dwarf 77 (1986) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
White Dwarf 99 (1988) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
White Dwarf 67 (1985) — A cura di — 6 copie
White Dwarf 75 (1986) — A cura di — 6 copie
White Dwarf 56 (1984) — A cura di — 5 copie
White Dwarf 57 (1984) — A cura di — 5 copie
White Dwarf 59 (1984) — A cura di — 5 copie
White Dwarf 84 (1986) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
White Dwarf 39 (1983) — A cura di — 5 copie
White Dwarf 79 (1986) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
White Dwarf 44 (1983) — A cura di — 5 copie
White Dwarf 76 (1986) — A cura di — 4 copie
White Dwarf 48 (1983) — A cura di — 4 copie
White Dwarf 58 (1984) — A cura di — 4 copie
White Dwarf 83 (1986) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
White Dwarf 98 (1988) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
White Dwarf 87 (1987) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Interzone 271 (2017) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
White Dwarf 104 (1988) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
White Dwarf 97 (1988) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
White Dwarf 49 (1984) — A cura di — 3 copie
White Dwarf 51 (1984) — A cura di — 3 copie
White Dwarf 94 (1987) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
White Dwarf 96 (1987) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
White Dwarf 105 (1988) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
White Dwarf 93 (1987) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Fortean Times 89 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Fortean Times 92 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Fortean Times 95 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
White Dwarf 95 (1987) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Focus 72 (2021) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Focus 69 (2019) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Focus 67 (2017) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
White Dwarf 103 (1988) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Focus 71 (2020) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
White Dwarf 106 (1988) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Focus 68 (2018) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
New Writings in SF - Special 3 (1978) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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kat hamna i skåpet. Nu blir problemet att smuggla tillbaka den, vilket blir markant svårare av de nya detektorer som installerats och en ständig, pervers otur.

Det hela är en ganska klassisk brittisk fars, med ständigt nya komplikationer, chefer som ständigt sparkar neråt och en huvudperson som tar till allt vildare planer och allt grövre lögner för att klara sig ur de situationer som de leder till, eller bara de tämligen oberoende klavertramp som kommer av ett alltför utvecklat sinne för sarkasm. Det är kanske inte en direkt vidräkning med allt som har med atomvapen att göra, även om man inte direkt känner sig säker med att någon av personerna där borde få syssla med sådant.

Mitt största problem med boken vara snarast att jag hade svårt för Tappen: visst känner jag igen mig och en del kollegor i vissa drag, men den typ av konstant humoristiskt överhetstrots och hybris som tillsammans med överdriver alkoholberoende tycks vara hans främsta kännetecken må vara nödvändiga för handlingen, men de fungerar bättre som drag hos bifigurer än protagonister. Komedin är vanligen välfunnen, men snarare i de små scenerna snarare än den stora farsen, och det känns som denna hade behövts skruvats upp något varv till innan klimax.

Nåväl, nukleära komedier är inte alltför vanliga, och jag skall nog i alla fall höra med kollegor om det är någon som är intresserad. I alla fall de jag kan känna mig säker på inte skulle bli alltför inspirerade …
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andejons | 5 altre recensioni | Jul 14, 2023 |
Many times, and quite effusively, Terry Pratchett mentions this book in his sort of autobiography, "A Slip of the Keyboard." In addition, Terry Pratchett wrote the forward to this edition of this book. And having read both of those as well as this book, it is clear that Sir Terry Pratchett is a very British writer. This book is a very British take on the activities of workers at a nuclear research station in England during the 1960s. It is not that the activities of the workers could only have happened in Britain, but rather, things like the emphasis on which activities are important and which trivial, and definitely which are humorous, could only have been chosen by a very British writer.… (altro)
 
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mlsestak | 5 altre recensioni | Dec 9, 2022 |
This was OK for me, but no more. There are two SFnal gimmicks needed to drive the plot and that was enough to make the result seem contrived to me. First, Earth has apparently been involved in international warfare so long that a special set of troops has been developed to endure and even enjoy being violently killed and reborn. Next, there is a wormhole technology but it turns out using it causes stars to go nova all over the place. So now our hero is selected to be sent through a really tiny (1.934 cm) wormhole to a colony in order to convince them to stop using the technology. Somehow they have a way to squeeze him through that hole, fatally hence why they pick him, but reconstructibly. I couldn't figure out how that worked. Then eventually his talents are needed again for the big climax. Oh, and there's a nascent love interest who goes through the same process but she remained a cypher for me for the entire book. So much detail is spent on the physics at several points that I assume some of it must make sense, but it bogs down the narrative.

OK, and recommended if space opera mixed with a bit of angst is your thing.
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½
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ChrisRiesbeck | 3 altre recensioni | Oct 26, 2021 |

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Utenti
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Voto
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ISBN
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