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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Dancer From Atlantis (1971)di Poul Anderson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Four individuals from various eras are swept back in time to the age of Theseus, the Minotaur, and Atlantis. One of the things I liked about this story was that even though Reid, the most modern of the travelers, is fairly well-versed in both history and mythology, he still doubts his knowledge because he realizes that stories passed down thousands of years will change, and that recorded history may not be accurate in the first place. ( ) While on a scientific mission to view the past, a far-future Earth time vehicle crashes on a strange shore. In doing so, it pulls with it people from different ages - a man from the 1950's, a Hun, a Russian trader from the 11th century and a young girl from Atlantis. Another time anomaly takes them back to ancient Greece, just before the destruction of Knossos - the Atlantis of legend. They must now try to prevent the tragedy and attract the attention of time watchers who will return them to their proper times. Unfortunately, Mr. Anderson choose to confuse the nature of time and have the young bull Dancer from Atlantis and Duncan, the 20th century American, remember being in love with each other and repeat the process. Isn't that creating an infinite loop? To make it worse, the returned to the past woman and her younger self meet each other, repeatedly! Not bad, but confusing. I was initially pretty skeptical about the underlying idea of this book, but it proved to offer the potential for a surprisingly decent time travel paradox yarn, complete with a concept that Dan Simmons would later use effectively in one of my all time favorite series, the Hyperion Cantos. It is one of those books which can take you in a entertaining direction, but only if you are willing to suspend asking questions about whether any of the major plot turns actually make any sense whatsoever. The books biggest problem is the characters and their relationships. Half of our time travelling quartet is barely sketched, and the other half grows less sympathetic and less believable as the story progresses. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A mesmerizing tale of adventure and romance: An anomaly of time transports a twentieth-century man backward through history toward the greatest catastrophe the world has ever known Looking out over the Pacific Ocean from the deck of a luxury cruise liner, American architect Duncan Reid is suddenly caught up in an inexplicable event--and when he awakens he is somewhere . . . different. Duncan has inadvertently fallen victim to a fatally malfunctioning time machine from the future, along with three equally startled companions from vastly different epochs and civilizations, and now he stands with them on the rocky Mediterranean coast of Egypt in the year 4000 BCE. With the aid of miraculous technology supplied by the dying time machine, the displaced four are able to communicate and share their stories, the most startling being the tale told by the one woman among them, the bewitching Erissa. Only decades removed from her actual time, she claims to be a priestess from Atlantis who views Duncan as a god, and she represents perhaps their only hope of returning to their rightful eras. But to do so will entail immersing themselves in the savage turmoil of an ancient world and placing themselves in harm's way on the eve of the most terrible devastation in human history. A true giant of twentieth-century fantasy and science fiction, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner Poul Anderson astounds once more with a powerful adventure through history and legend that set a towering standard for time travel fiction. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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