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For almost a hundred years, Hadrian Marlowe has served the Empire in its war against the Cielcin, a vicious alien race bent on humanity's destruction. Rumors of a new king amongst the Cielcin have reached the Imperial throne. This one is not like the others. It does not raid borderworld territories, preferring precise, strategic attacks on the humans' Empire. To make matters worse, a cult of personality has formed around Hadrian, spurred on by legends of his having defied death itself. Men call him Halfmortal. Hadrian's rise to prominence proves dangerous to himself and his team, as pressures within the Imperial government distrust or resent his new influence.Caught in the middle, Hadrian must contend with enemies before him--and behind. And above it all, there is the mystery of the Quiet. Hadrian did defy death. He did return. But the keys to the only place in the universe where Hadrian might find the answers he seeks lie in the hands of the Emperor himself.... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The best Space Operas like “Howling Dark” and “Demon in White” are frequently classed as SF but I'm not so sure; the boundary between both seems to be a bit of grey area. There are aspects of the characters' daily lives in Yevgeny Zamyatin's 'We' which were physically impossible then as they still are now, but the focus is the themes which drive the narrative. To me, that means the 'impossibility' to the reader of a fantastical future life isn't really that important, whereas the humanity of the story is absolutely central. I hope that I'm neither dismissing SF nor being a snob, but setting, in this sense, is more of a 'prop'. And “Demon in White” has got plenty of Humanity.
SF and heavy metal music are two genres where the people who create it and the people who consume it are just having a bloody good time, and largely don't care a stuff about what the critics think. And the critics really hate that...
SF = Speculative Fiction. ( )