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Sto caricando le informazioni... Against Infinity (1983)di Gregory Benford
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Ganímedes: una de las lunas de Júpiter, un mundo de hielo y roca, de ríos de amoníaco y restos de meteoritos profundamente enterrados, ricos en minerales. Un mundo sin aire, hostil al hombre, pero que éste quiere conquistar a toda costa. En este entorno, se desarrolla la vida de un puñado de valientes, pioneros en todos los sentidos de la palabra, que extienden sus asentamientos herméticos y vencen todas las dificultades, día a día, kilómetro a kilómetro, con sus mutados animales y las criaturas creadas por la bioingeniería para transformar la biosfera. Benford, Gregory. Against Infinity. 1983. Jupiter Project No. 2. Pocket, 1984. The project that Gregory Benford set for himself in Against Infinity is ambitious, to say the least. He takes a classic coming of age story by William Faulkner, “The Bear,” and moves it from the nineteenth-century Mississippi wilderness to the frozen moons of Jupiter. At the same time, Benford wants to keep the science believable. It is thus a much more serious and fully developed story than the first Jupiter Project novel. Manuel, the son of a labor boss called the Colonel, learns to hunt the mutant animals that are preying on the genetically modified animals that are being used in his father’s terraforming project. Along the way, he learns the sad lessons of adulthood and faces a choice between the wilderness and the domed society humans are creating. The final confrontation with a beast that would be a match for anything in the Alien-Predator movies is fully satisfying, and the style at times reaches almost Faulknerian heights. In the end, this is a coming of age story that is aimed at adults, and it gets five stars from me. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A gripping, masterfully written adventure set against the violent beauty of a planet in the throes of cataclysmic transformation, Against Infinity is Gregory Benford's timeless portrait of a young man's coming of age. -- On the icelands of Ganymede, a man and a boy hunt for the Aleph-an alien artifact that ruled Ganymede for countless millenia, Infinitely dangerous, the Aleph haunts men's dreams and destroys all efforts to terraform Ganymede into a habitable planet. Now an ancient struggle is joined, as a boy seeks manhood, a man seeks enlightenment, and a society seeks to survive. Reviews of Against Infinity "Likely to be considered one of the best SF novels of the year...a powerfully evocative book."-Algis Budrys "Benford is a rarity: a scientist who writes with verve and insight not only about black holes and cosmic strings, but about human desires and fears."-The New York Times Book Review "Typical Benford virtues...a gritty, three-dimensional future, a believable hero, a real flair for the alien."-Publishers Weekly "A confident grasp of the workings and consequences of bio technics, a gift for action scenes and an ability to conceive of a creature as awesome and wondrous as his Aleph. A worthy successor to Timescape."-Booklist Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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