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Informazioni sull'operaTo Be Taught, If Fortunate di Becky Chambers
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book was really great... right up until the end. It's beautifully written, and it's a good book, but my personal preference is for less... ambiguous endings. I don't need EVERYTHING tied up in a neat bow, but I really don't like "Lady and the Tiger" endings. That's simply personal preference though. Otherwise the book was so great, that the ending was proportionally disappointing to me. Such a bingable and immersive story! This book really reminded me of why I love sci-fi so much: authors truly get the chance to stretch their imagination and come up with futures, planets, sciences, and all kinds of things that are unfamiliar or new to the reader. Add that to the coziness of this tightly knit crew and the result of one hell of a book. Just really what I wanted to read right now! Gripping near-future space exploration fiction for fans of Andy Weir and Carl Sagan. This novella follows four astronauts who are exploring a series of exoplanets, studying extraterrestrial life. Chambers captures the adventure of scientific discovery, the isolation of space travel, and the sense of mission that drives her explorers. Also, I loved the idea of citizen-funded space travel (which is apparently a real thing to which you can donate money). I did find the reveal near the end abrupt, and wish it had felt like a more organic part of the narrative. The book as a whole, for me, had an undercurrent of apoliticism/ahistoricism - it acknowledges the impact of climate change but leaves the details hazy. This gives it a timeless quality and makes for a good comfort read, but it does cause events back on Earth to feel a bit thin. On the subject of ahistoricism, this book ends with a question. Chambers leaves this question entirely open, trusting her reader to supply their own answer. That said, I've just been reading about the European legacy of disastrous first contact events, and so I would tend to frame the question very differently than this book's protagonist does. If you want a short read that makes you feel warm fuzzies about the scientific project, pick this one up.
There’s a quiet beauty to Chambers’ writing that envelops you in her story and holds you tight until the very end. Proof that a novel doesn’t have to have hundreds of pages to be impressive. With technical prowess and outstanding visceral imagery, Chambers (the Wayfarer Series) packs an immense amount of story into a novella worthy of full-length praise. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiÈ contenuto inPremi e riconoscimentiElenchi di rilievo
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HTML: "Extraordinary . . . A future sci-fi masterwork in a new and welcome tradition." â?? Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat A stand-alone science fiction novella from the award-winning, bestselling, critically-acclaimed author of the Wayfarer series. At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. They can produce antifreeze in subzero temperatures, absorb radiation and convert it for food, and conveniently adjust to the pull of different gravitational forces. With the fragility of the body no longer a limiting factor, human beings are at last able to journey to neighboring exoplanets long known to harbor life. A team of these explorers, Ariadne O'Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in a planetary system fifteen light-years from Sol, on a mission to ecologically survey four habitable worlds. But as Ariadne shifts through both form and time, the culture back on Earth has also been transformed. Faced with the possibility of returning to a planet that has forgotten those who have left, Ariadne begins to chronicle the story of the wonders and dangers of her mission, in the hope that someone back home might still be listening. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Cada novela suya me lleva por un mundo de emociones y esperanza. El modo en que explica una historia y construye a sus personajes me tiene fascinado.
Me lo he pasado pipa con esta novela corta. Quiero más de todo. ( )