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Sto caricando le informazioni... Alpha Centauridi William Barton, Michael Capobianco (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Excellent "hard" SF. i.e. no breaking of the laws of physics such as faster than light travel. ( ) A strangely memorable, but ultimately deeply unsatisfying book. An odd collection of spacefarers encounters a series of problems in what was supposed to be a round-trip visit our nearest stellar neighbor. As they explore the the Alpha Centauri system they come across and explore ruins from a couple of long dead alien societies. The book includes some interesting concepts, notably some technology ideas and the creatively conceived alien races (one of which became extinct because it thought too much and did too little). But, the plot meanders and fails to build any momentum. And what plot there is, is overwhelmed by excessive, gratuitous, perverse, and almost constant sex, which many readers would find highly objectionable. Much of the ingenuity that went into the book was focused on thinking about amazing ways for human fetishism to evolve. Too bad it wasn't focused elsewhere, for this had the potential to be a pretty decent read.
The word in the year 2239 is that the human race is doomed. With the Earth groaning beneath the weight of 200 billion people and with the limit of derivable scientific knowledge frighteningly close at hand, scientists believe the human race will crash, burn and vanish by the end of the twenty-third century. The last hope of humanity travels with Captain Virginia Vonzell Qing-an, her androgynous lover, and eleven other crew members aboard Earth's first starship, Mother Night, on a colonizing mission to Alpha Centauri - the closest, most likely place to find worlds suitable for human habitation. It is the adventure of a lifetime, but plagued from the onset by programming errors, structural damage and irresponsible death. But a different kind of plague could doom the assignment and, ultimately, the civilization that conceived it. A terrorist group, Indigo, has infiltrated the ship - single-minded true believers convinced that the only cure for their world's population problems is rampant, viral-induced, sexually transmitted sterilization. And the stakes are about to reach astronomical proportions. Because an artifact exists on a rocky moon called Atalanta, an impossibly ancient remnant of an alien race that offers possible solutions to humanity's gravest dilemma - and a hope and knowledge beyond present mortal comprehension --but only if Mother Night's besieged mission can somehow, miraculously, be salvaged. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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