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Cargando... Nova Swingpor M. John Harrison
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I realised about quarter of the way through that this novel was basically an extended love letter to the Strugastky's Roadside Picnic. So I read it as such. It's also crossed with Chandler esque noir vibes that work much of the time but fail occasionally. Harrison's prose is as stylised and pleasing as in Light. ( ) This is set in the same universe as Light, a space opera that was really not my cup of tea. Nova Swing is not space opera though, but noir mixed with No Exit. The anomalous physics of the Kefahuchi Tract have touched ground, leading to a strange dreamlike area where those who enter rarely return and those that do bring back objects that can have deadly effects. For this reason, it's a crime to enter or to be a tour guide (aka travel agent) like Vic Serotonin. The book starts when a dame walks into a bar. Then it kind of sits there for most of the novel. Like an existentialist play, various characters talk without communicating, and not much happens until the required big shootout at the end. That's the part lost me. Vic Serotonin is the center of everything but he's a cipher who does almost nothing. The writing is full of wonderfully descriptive passages but it's all dream logic, sex without feeling, and constant gloom. The book ends with an extended denouement that is oddly peaceful and sweet. M John Harrison is too good a writer to not recommend, but I wish I liked what he wrote better. https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/half-life-shelley-jackson-end-of-the-world-blues... I found Nova Swing unmemorable and uninteresting. A lot of people rave about Harrison’s work, but I find him pretty unreadable. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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It is some time after Ed Chianese's trip into the Kefahuchi Tract. A major industry of the Halo is now tourism. The Tract has begun to expand and change, but, more problematically, parts of it have also begun to fall to earth, piecemeal, on the Beach planets. We are in a city called Raintown, perhaps on New Venusport or Motel Splendido: next to the city is the event site, the zone, from out of which pour new, inexplicable artefacts, organisms and escapes of living algorithm - the wrong physics loose in the universe. They can cause plague and change. An entire department of the local police, Site Crime, exists to stop them being imported into the city by adventurers, entradistas, and the men known as 'travel agents', profiteers who can manage - or think they can manage -the bad physics, skewed geographies and psychic onslaughts of the event site. But now a new class of semi-biological artefact is finding its way out of the site, and this may be more than anyone can handle. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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