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Cargando... A Gift From Earth (Ballantine Science Fiction, No. 72113) (edición 1968)por Larry Niven, Illustrated by Cover Art (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Excellent idea, well realised. Great pace as always. ( ) I'm not really being fair. The book was written in 1969 and Larry Niven's later world building in Known Space and Ringworld was so enthralling that perhaps I expect too much. This was a re-read (or so my partner tells me) but I remembered very little about it. My main problem is not that it has dated badly because it hasn't. The problem is with the writing and structure. Most of the book feels like it is about people getting from A to B or to the end of the corridor and back and it's just not very interesting. If that had been pruned out it might have made a good shorter story. Niven has created a society , a police state which is heavily dependant on organ transplants for treating even trivial ailments. the rewards of the system are almost entirely lavished on the police, with small rewards for their collaborators. A mutant, with curious mental powers and the arrival of a cargo ship, upset the applecart. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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A solitary mountain rises from the searing, toxic blackness of the planet. Forty miles below, the atmosphere is sixty times as thick as Earth's, and hot enough to melt lead. The organ banks are the centre of this world. To them the subservient colonists contribute living limbs. And from them the overlords obtain the vital parts that keep them alive... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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