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A far-future tale of marooned space travelers, a near-immortal hero, and a universe-spanning love from a multiple Nebula Award-winning author. In a far-future era, death is virtually no more, banished except in the case of severe, violent trauma, enabling mankind to spend what were once entire lifetimes exploring the farthest reaches of the vast universe. When the interstellar vessel Meteor is dispatched to investigate a distant orb circling a giant red sun, an error in calculations sends the ship crashing into a different world altogether, casting its surviving crew into the heart of a savage, planetwide war of primitive alien tribes. With no means of escape and hostiles on every side, the situation appears hopeless for Captain Felip Argens. But for the mission's true leader--crewman, adventurer, and ship's bard Hugh Valland--impossible is not an option. If necessary, he will alter destiny to end the terrible conflict and bring his men safely back home, even if it takes decades, or centuries, or longer--for a remarkable love patiently awaits Valland's return to Earth. It is she who sustains him, who inspires his actions, his courage, his song, with a love that is a miracle, a memory, a tragedy, and a dream. One of the most thoughtful and lyrical works by the incomparable Poul Anderson--winner of seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards over the course of his acclaimed career--World without Stars is a thrilling deep-space adventure and a magnificent feat of world building by a luminary of science fiction's golden age.… (altro)
This one would have been brilliant if it had been about three times as long. As it is, it is a good read that just has too much packed into too small a space. ( )
A far-future tale of marooned space travelers, a near-immortal hero, and a universe-spanning love from a multiple Nebula Award-winning author. In a far-future era, death is virtually no more, banished except in the case of severe, violent trauma, enabling mankind to spend what were once entire lifetimes exploring the farthest reaches of the vast universe. When the interstellar vessel Meteor is dispatched to investigate a distant orb circling a giant red sun, an error in calculations sends the ship crashing into a different world altogether, casting its surviving crew into the heart of a savage, planetwide war of primitive alien tribes. With no means of escape and hostiles on every side, the situation appears hopeless for Captain Felip Argens. But for the mission's true leader--crewman, adventurer, and ship's bard Hugh Valland--impossible is not an option. If necessary, he will alter destiny to end the terrible conflict and bring his men safely back home, even if it takes decades, or centuries, or longer--for a remarkable love patiently awaits Valland's return to Earth. It is she who sustains him, who inspires his actions, his courage, his song, with a love that is a miracle, a memory, a tragedy, and a dream. One of the most thoughtful and lyrical works by the incomparable Poul Anderson--winner of seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards over the course of his acclaimed career--World without Stars is a thrilling deep-space adventure and a magnificent feat of world building by a luminary of science fiction's golden age.
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Ben prima che alla TV e nelle foto della NASA, ben prima del primo Sputnik e del primo Explorer, i lettori di Urania hanno visto la Terra levarsi sull'orizzonte lunare. E hanno visto sui più lontani pianeti sorgere soli doppi, tramontare molteplici lune, ruotare costellazioni sconosciute. Ma oggi li aspetta qualcosa di più. Oggi, da un'astronave finita fuori dalla via Lattea, potranno assistere alla più sbalorditiva delle "ante-prime": quella di un cielo notturno senza neppure una stella e dove ciò che sorge e s'alza lenta sull'orizzonte non è una luna, ma - logicamente, inaspettatamente, gigantescamente - l'intera e terrificante spirale della Galassia. *Ristampa del n. 529
INDICE CANTI DI GUERRA Songs of War (1981) KIT REED