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Cargando... Impossible Things (edición 1993)por Connie Willis
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. SF. Collection of short stories by one of my favorite SF authors Witty and wise, poignant and playful, this collection of Connie Willis' short stories blends a bit of science fiction, a pinch of speculative history, and a dash of satire and screwball comedy. All of the stories are beautifully written, and each is prefaced by a brief explanation of its history or origin---how Willis came up with the idea or what she hoped to achieve in the writing of it. Some of the stories made me laugh, a handful made me cry, and a couple of them made me wish I'd thought to pick up a degree in physics while I was busily chipping away at my BA. If you're looking for a superbly written short story or just some very smart science fiction, give Impossible Things a read. This rather thick story collection from Connie Willis plays primarily with the ideas she explores in more depth in work I've already read by her (comedies of errors, English literature, time travel, university settings, lighthearted exasperation with paperwork, bleakness of war). To my excitement, however, it also engages a few more ideas that are new to me (a world without dogs? alien extra terrestrials? linguistics?). "The Last of the Winnebagos" is my favorite piece of the collection, probably because it's serious and multilayered in its themes. The first few pages set us up for a rollicking and complex mystery as follows: On his way to a photoshoot of a zoo and the last Winnebago, our protagonist sees a jackal dead on the side of the road and is thrown into a flashback of the death of his dog in similar fashion; he reports the roadkill, and governmental wheels start to churn.... ★★★★½ "Even the Queen" is humorous fiction on 1992 "women's issues": when Perdita decides to become a Cyclist, the women in her family come together to talk her out of it. I'll admit to laughing a number of times here. ★★★★ "Schwarzschild Radius" says "war is bad". It is a bit excessive in hitting that theme for my taste, but it is a well-written and quite atmospheric story. ★★★★ "Ado" is too heavy handed for me. It's a satire of political correctness in education, and culminates with Hamlet being distilled to about 5 lines that could never get someone sued. ★★ "Spice Pogrom" is a whimsical tale of first alien contact, mistaken romance, and linguistic misunderstanding. I quite liked this one. It seemed different from what I've previously read by Willis, though still clearly hers. ★★★★ "Winter's Tale" is Connie Willis's fictional take on the mystery of Shakespearean authorship. It's a nice story, and for me I suspect it would have stood better without trying to tie into history -- but I was never an English major. I like her interpretation quite a lot, but I'd have liked it better in non-fiction or humorous blog form, I suspect.... ★★★ "Chance" "In the Late Cretaceous" "Time Out" "Jack" "At the Rialto" sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:Winner of six Nebula and two Hugo awards for her fiction, Connie Willis is acclaimed for her gifted imagination and bold invention. Here are eleven of her finest stories, surprising tales in which the impossible becomes real, the real becomes impossible, and strangeness lurks at every turn. The end of the world comes not with a bang but a series of whimpers over many years in "The Last of the Winnebagos." The terror of pain and dying gives birth to a startling truth about the nature of the stars, a principle known as the "Schwarzschild Radius." In "Spice Pogrom," an outrageous colony in outer space becomes the setting for a screwball comedy of bizarre complications, mistaken identities, far-too-friendly aliensâ??and even true lo No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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