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Sto caricando le informazioni... In the Courts of the Crimson Kingsdi S. M. Stirling
  
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.   ) Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |  A great read. (  ) JohnFair | Jan 4, 2015 | Striling has some fun with his iteration of the Martian language . These injected some humor for the careful reader. The exploration of biological technology was interesting to a point but its been done before in the Martian Chronicles. Also why is Mars always portrayed as as a dying culture? Yet the idea of a culture dying because of a lack of resources was explored in a meaningful way. The love story was nice but not spectacular. In short a nice summer read but not worth owning (  ) Cataloger623 | Nov 8, 2014 | CarriePalmer | May 2, 2014 | ) Guide2 | Sep 4, 2012 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieThe Lords of Creation (Book 2)
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
In this parallel universe, established by humans 2000 years ago, the absence of natural resources has resulted in a technologically advanced society. Here an anthropologist from Earth, in the story called Terra, falls in love with a mercenary on Mars, who soon must fight to protect the Ruby Throne. Todd McLaren adopts the tone of an objective but interested reporter, deftly presenting long passages of explication without lagging. Excerpts from the Encyclopedia Britannica that head chapters stay properly in the background. In understated tones, McLaren makes the formal, sometimes stilted speech of the Martians sound like natural speech. He also creates well-differentiated accents for a number of the Terrans. J.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine.
HTML: In the parallel world first introduced in S. M. Stirlingâ??s The Sky People, aliens terraformed Mars (and Venus) 200 million years ago, seeding them with life-forms from Earth. Humans didnâ??t suspect this until the twentieth century, but when the first probes landed on our sister worlds and found life---intelligent life, at that---things changed with a vengeance. By the year 2000, America, Russia, and the other great powers of Earth were all contending for influence and power amid the newly discovered inhabitants of our sister planets. Venus is a primitive world. But on Mars, early hominids evolved civilization earlier than their earthly cousins, driven by the needs of a harsh world growing still harsher as the initial terraforming ran down. Without coal, oil, or uranium, their technology was forced onto different paths, and the genetic wizardry of the Crimson Dynasty united a world for more than 20,000 years. Now, in a new stand-alone adventure set in this worldâ??s 2000 AD, Jeremy Wainman is an archaeologist who has achieved a lifelong dream: to travel to Mars and explore the dead cities of the Deep Beyond, searching for the secrets of the Kings Beneath the Mountain and the fallen empire they ruled. Teyud Zha-Zhalt is the Martian mercenary the Terrans hire as guide and captain of the landship Intrepid Traveller. A secret links her to the deadly intrigues of Dvor il-Adazar, the City That Is A Mountain, where the last aging descendant of the Tollamune Emperors clings to the remnants of his powerâ?¦and secrets that may trace their origin to the enigmatic Ancients, the Lords of Creation who reshaped the Solar System in the time of the dinosaurs. When these three meet, the foundations of reality will be shaken---from the lost city of Rema-Dza to the courts of the Crimson Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia: (3.7)
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