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Sto caricando le informazioni... Flood (2008)di Stephen Baxter
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Enjoyably Good ( ) Interesting spin on an apocalypse theme with a few scientific stretches (the rising sea level is not entirely due to global warming!) and presented as a sprawling family saga. Baxter makes an admirable attempt at showing a drowning Earth from all angles---social, geopolitical, scientific, evolutionary---while deftly avoiding the usual sermons on evil reckless Capitalism or warm fuzzy Socialism. But the results are not quite riveting enough to warrant 480 pages. Edit, edit, EDIT! 2016: Otro verano pasado por agua. Pero esta vez, la barrera de contención del Támesis cede y el centro de Londres se convierte en una marisma. Las aguas se retiran y la economía empieza a recuperarse, pero en cuestión de dos años, Londres y Nueva York se verán sumergidas bajo el mar. El papa se dirigirá por última vez a los fieles desde el Vaticano; la Meca también desaparecerá bajo las olas. El mundo se ahoga. Comienza una desesperada carrera por averiguar qué ocurre. El nivel de las aguas no deja de subir y la humanidad se retira a los puntos más altos del planeta. Comenzarán las guerras por ver quién domina las montañas. ¿Ha llegado el momento de que la humanidad luche por la supervivencia? Focused on climate change and the danger the world is in if it isn't addressed, this book follows a few people as they struggle to cope with the oncoming crisis of biblical proportions. Water levels are rising and dry land is becoming a commodity for all remaining living people. A speculative fiction where the author imagines a dystopic future of migrant millions living in fear of rising flood waters which serve as a restoring agent to balance the world after humans have destroyed it. Some soapboxing but still action-filled.
In an engrossing, daring and occasionally overambitious novel, Baxter (Weaver) narrates the final 42 years of dry land on earth. Four political hostages are freed in Barcelona in 2016, and their stories through the years show the attempts to save the planet even as rapidly rising ocean levels wipe out major cities. USAF Capt. Lily Brooke works with billionaire Nathan Lammockson to build a haven, while oceanographer Thandie Jones attempts to determine the causes of the flooding. Baxter skips ahead years at a time, often eliding major conflict resolutions, character development and deaths; this choice disrupts the storytelling but smartly underscores the isolation in which the characters often operate. Readers who push through will be rewarded with a fascinating apocalyptic vision—but little resolution—a nice setup for a sequel. Most of the comments about Flood could have made about nearly any hard science fiction novel: cool science, mediocre characters. But anyone who has read a novel by Baxter (or Arthur C. Clarke, to whom he is often compared) will already be expecting these characteristics from the genre. Reviewers indicated that Flood was an engaging novel despite these expected limitations and that at times, it even overcame them. But when critics were left in awe, it was never from a character’s actions but from the setting, a world gradually coming to understand that it is doomed to drown. Baxter will continue this story in Ark, due out in 2009. Appartiene alle SerieFlood (1) Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioni
Four hostages are finally released, but they face a world suddenly inundated as vast amounts of water is released from the earth's mantle. As the world's cities and countries disappear under the rising seas, humanity faces unimaginable global disaster. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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