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Sto caricando le informazioni... Balance of Powerdi Brian M. Stableford
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The Deadalus continues is mission, this time heading to the world named Attica where a human colony on the Gamma continent is fighting for its survival. As the colony has grown, the imported plants which formed the basis for the sustainability of the colony have suffered and rather than a bounty grown by a few to feed the colony, simple subsistence farming has become the norm. With a trend towards complete self-sufficiency, the colony is on a dangerous path - a path towards fragmentation and ultimately disintegration of the colony. Unless... Unless there is a cause - a grand plan - around which the colony can rally, the colony is doomed. With in mind, our intrepid ecologist, Alex Alexander, sets sail from the Gamma continent to the Delta continent - already inhabited by aliens. And so begins the fifth of the Daedalus Missions... I actually had a bet with a friend of mine that Stableford would pull a play out of his old playbook and use the "unknown third party manipulating the two enemy factions" plotline again. But he didn't. I actually thought this was a superior book to the first of the Daedalus books. There's more action, for one thing. And the plight of the Verheyden family is interesting and its tragic demise rang true. While the final end may have been a little too tidy, it seemed quite plausible and in-character. One far flung planet, two continents. On the first: a human colony, finally being visited on a check-up from the UN survey team after well over a hundred years. The other, on the far side of a sea that has yet to be crossed, are the native people of the planet, with their own hopes and dreams that don't necessarily synch with the colonists.Manifest Destiny, socio-religious political manoeuvring and plain old superstition combat the patient, yet persistent Daedalus scientists as they try to set the planet on a more stable course. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The planet Attica has two continents: Lambda and Delta. The indigenous alien population being restricted to Delta, Earth's colony was planted on Lambda. Before the arrival of the Daedalus, two sailing ships had set out from Lambda to cross the ocean separating the two continents, and neither had returned. Now a third is on its way, and Mariel Valory and Alex Alexander of the Daedalus have hitched a lift, in order that Mariel might use her talent to try to make contact with the aliens. Unfortunately, it turns out that contact has already been made, and that the aliens are building an empire with the aid of borrowed Terran technology-an empire that's beginning to crack under its internal strains and eternal challenges. And when Alex and Mariel are marooned by their reluctant hosts, things start to go from very bad too much worse.... Daedalus Mission, Book Five. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Stableford skips the usual landfall and "what kind of situation do we have with this colony" discussion. The book starts on a ocean voyage on a sailing ship from the human colony to another landmass inhabited by furry humanoid felines. (Eventually there's an unconvincing explanation for why this mode of transport rather than simply going by spaceship.) The book sticks mostly to an action plot throughout, avoiding the serious derailment of The City of the Sun. But other than a mysterious epidemic, mostly off-stage, there's no SF puzzle solving, and no furthering of the big question about whether colonization is a viable option for Earth. The SF elements are the furry aliens, who act just like us, and a character worrying about what will happen to her somewhat telepathic abilities. Don't hold your breath for much of an answer. At the end, I still had no idea why Stableford wanted to tell this story. ( )