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Cargando... All the Colors of Darkness (1963 original; edición 1963)por Lloyd Biggle Jr. (Autor)
Información de la obraAll the Colors of Darkness por Jr. Lloyd Biggle (1963)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This might not be one of my all-time favourite books but it's still right up there. Written in the early 60s (it's older than me!), it's set in the then future of the 1980s. When a tech start up determines that there has been sabotage of their technology demonstrators their CTO calls in his best friend and private investigator Jan Darzek to look into it. What Jan finds out is that the saboteurs are in fact aliens rather than Earthbound miscreants. It appears that there is a galactic federation that has a watch station in the Solar System making sure that Earth doesn't develop transmitter technology, along with a number of other things. When Universal Transmitting goes operational, an inexperienced team leader panics and authorises the acts of sabotage and disappearances that had attracted Darzek's attention. Following a suspect through one of UT's transmitters he finds himself on the moon and in a fit of panic he destroys much of the alien base, leaving the observers and himself stuck in a cargo bay with limited life support. As they all prepare to meet death in their own fashion Darzek gains a deeper understanding of the aliens (not that he really understands it - they are alien after all!). All this is brought to a head when a Transmitter equipped moon base is established in the crater where the alien base had been and Darzek has to persuade the aliens that they can all get out of their situation without revealing themselves to the humans. Inevitably bits of the book now sound dated but we're more than 30 years after the proposed date of the action, not to mention over 50 from when it was written! Unfortunately, many of the attitudes it goes in to are still problems these days In my quest to review Classic SF I've discovered some pretty good writers with whom I was not familiar. Lloyd Biggle Jr. is one. This book is decent 60s SF. I enjoyed it more then I expected. It's my first Biggle book and I will look for more. I give average books three stars. This one gets 4 because the author surprised me with a couple of good twist. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: When the Universal Transmitting Company finally perfected a matter transmitter capable of sending a person instantly from terminals scattered throughout the United States to any major city in foreign countries, it seemed like man's ultimate conquest of time. Opening day in New York City was a tremendous success, with throngs of travelers crowding into the terminal. But on the second day of operations, two women failed to arrive at their destinations and could not be traced. The UTC called in private detective Jan Darzek. What Darzek discovers sends him on a trail of extraterrestrial adventure and gripping suspense...on which hinges the fate of all mankind! .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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