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Cargando... Dark Orbit: A Novel (edición 2015)por Carolyn Ives Gilman (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. "I think friendship may be nothing but the ability to trust someone enough to put your happiness in their hands." p.41 "I reached for the floor, but it seemed miles away, then so close each grain was a mountain." p.210 Maybe having sight is what keeps HUmans from developing other senses, like ones that could perceive other dimensions. We are truly in Plato's cave. Gilman wrote a book that I love and I will be going on to read "Halfway Human." Once more, I have found an author who is a kindred soul. Dislike. This isn't science fiction so much as anti-science fiction. Might have been forgivable if plotting/writing were stronger. Le Guinean riff, infused with extra dollops of New Age/Quantum Mystic quackery. Chicago Nerd discussion notes here: http://positronchicago.blogspot.com/2015/08/chicago-nerds-dark-orbit.html I liked this more than I thought I would, rounding up to a 3.5 stars, but even though the big ideas were pretty interesting in themselves, it didn't quite reach the level I thought I wanted. These big ideas came pretty fast and furious after a certain point, which I have no problems with. The novel begins with solid characterization, fairly interesting first-contact scenarios including the normal fish-out-of-water plots on both sides of the glass. There's dark matter and interesting gravitational effects, but lest we get complacent with our word play, the most interesting part of this novel was the whole society of the sightless. Orbits. As in Orbital Sockets. Pretty funny. Is the world-building interesting and complete? Sort-of. Perhaps I'd have preferred a bit more in-depth exploration of the possibilities rather than just rolling around the surface of the blindness. The traversing of Branes was definitely interesting, but I don't know. Something about the novel felt too glitz and glam, relying on the surface of the ideas rather than the depth of the consequences. There is a lot that happens on the idea side, though. Don't get me wrong. The novel isn't a slouch in that area. It's just that something didn't quite click with me on the sheer *story* side. It didn't wow me the way I was beginning to feel it might. Some of the conclusions were rather interesting, but it felt more like a rehashing of the old idea that certain senses or strengthened when a big one is lacking. Maybe I just wanted a little bit more. Overall, I kept feeling like the novel kept coming closer to something really great, but it just missed that one little ingredient to push it there. On that idea, I'm more than happy to check out the author's other books. She has certain strengths that I feel are kind of lacking in our modern SF. She's trying to make great characters and situations mesh with the great Idea realm that SF has always been known for. I can't deny that it's a great goal to strive for. Set on a dimensionally unstable exoplanet in the very far future, this story features some technologies that will probably always be impossible and neglects to explain how the exoplanet can harbor native humans despite being newly discovered. But I found my disbelief to be willingly suspended thanks to the highly original and enjoyable plot and its deep exploration of the true (?) power of perception and consciousness. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"From Nebula and Hugo Award-nominated Carolyn Ives Gilman comes Dark Orbit, a compelling novel featuring alien contact, mystery, and murder. Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate. Thora was once a member of the interplanetary elite, but since her prophetic delusions helped mobilize a revolt on Orem, she's been banished to the farthest reaches of space, because of the risk that her very presence could revive unrest.Upon arrival, the team finds an extraordinary crystalline planet, laden with dark matter. Then a crew member is murdered and Thora mysteriously disappears. Thought to be uninhabited, the planet is in fact home to a blind, sentient species whose members navigate their world with a bizarre vocabulary and extrasensory perceptions.Lost in the deep crevasses of the planet among these people, Thora must battle her demons and learn to comprehend the native inhabitants in order to find her crewmates and warn them of an impending danger. But her most difficult task may lie in persuading the crew that some powers lie beyond the boundaries of science. "-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Indeed.
“That’s what buzzwords are. Tranquilizers.”
“Thought suppressants, you mean.” (p33)
Insightful. ( )