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Información de la obraThe Dry Salvages por Caitlín R. Kiernan (2004)
![]() Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() ![]() This short novel is an excellent choice if you're looking for good science fiction horror. The story is a bit of a slow-burn, building dread gradually, page by page, then culminating in an uncanny and horrific revelation. Kiernan was able to create a convincing and eerie future Earth with a minimum of words, which I often find more effective than extensive world-building. I highly recommend this. A re-read. I think I appreciated this more, the second time around. A small ground of scientists is sent to join a research team already at a remote moon. When they arrive, they discover that something has gone horribly wrong: the humans are missing or insane, and the humanoid robots are the only ones keeping the mission afloat. Told by a surviving member of the mission, looking back on the events from a distance of many years, the story explores some interesting and complex aspects of what it means to be human, with synthetic, 'normal' and genetically-modified characters, and no easy answers provided. It also serves up some good old-fashioned Lovecraftian horror. First read - Sept 2008 (or earlier) A novella of sci-fi horror - not bad! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Award-winning author Caitlmn R. Kiernan, best known for her contemporary settings, gothnoir tales of pain and wonder, and atmospheric stories of Lovecraftian terror, was first published as an author of dark science fiction. Now she returns to sf with a masterful thirty-thousand word novella, The Dry Salvages.Three centuries in the future, though much of Earth has been crippled by war, pollution, and catastrophic climatic change, man has at last traveled to the stars and even found evidence of at least one extraterrestrial civilization. In a bleak and frozen Paris, at the dawn of the 22nd Century, an old woman is forced to confront the consequences of her part in these discoveries and the ghosts that have haunted her for almost fifty years. The last surviving member of the crew of the starship Montelius, exopaleontologist Dr. Audrey Cather struggles to remember what she's spent so long trying to forget -- the nightmare she once faced almost ninety trillion miles from Earth. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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