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Cargando... Archangel (edición 2015)por (Novelist) Marguerite Reed
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Marguerite Reed's debut novel, Archangel, is an amazing testament to the power of a woman with a story to tell and the determination to bring an entire WORLD to life - between the covers of a book! Speculative fiction is not a genre I read on a regular basis; that having been said, Archangel represents Book One of the Chronicles of Ubastis; I'm (very much) looking forward to Book Two! Fast paced, a strong story line and a very strong female lead - you can't go wrong with that combination! My "no spoilers" rule (as it applies to reviews) is limiting . . let it suffice to say that I highly recommend Archangel to any (and all!) who enjoy compelling protagonists, a story line that leaves the reader begging for more and a view of the human condition that could easily be seen as a view of the future of our world as we know it! The audiobook version of Archangel was a gift from the author . . thank you, Marguerite Reed. Archangel lends itself, very well, to the audiobook format. The narrator, Dina Pearlman, did an amazing job around bringing the plethora of characters to LIFE via her voice. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The Earth is dying, and our hopes are pinned on Ubastis, an untamed paradise at the edge of colonized space. But such an influx of people threatens the planet's unstudied ecosystem -- a tenuous research colony must complete its analysis, lest humanity abandon one planet only to die on another. The Ubasti colonists barely get by on their own. To acquire the tools they need, they are relegated to selling whatever they can to outside investors. For xenobiologist Vashti Loren, this means bringing Offworlders on safari to hunt the specimens she and her fellow biologists so desperately need to study. Haunted by the violent death of her husband, the heroic and celebrated Lasse Undset, Vashti must balance the needs of Ubastis against the swelling crush of settlers. Vashti struggles in her role as one of the few colonists licensed to carry deadly weapons, just as she struggles with her history of using them. And when she discovers a genetically engineered soldier smuggled onto the surface, Vashti must face the nightmare of her husband's murder all over again. Standing at the threshold of humanity's greatest hope, she alone understands the darkness of guarding paradise. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I saw strong resemblances between this and [book:The Dispossessed|13651]. Not direct borrowing, but more a general sense that Reed wanted to explore some of the same ideas Le Guin explored in that book in a different setting.
All in all, I'm cautiously optimistic for the release of the second novel. ( )