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Cargando... Paradox Men (1953 original; edición 1976)por Charles Leonard Harness (Autor)
Información de la obraLos Hombres Paradójicos por Charles L. Harness (1953)
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) Karlstar | Nov 17, 2023 |  The book is set on Earth in the next couple of hundred years; the nations of Earth have coalesced into a handful of continental blocs and the threat of nuclear war is ever-present. The story is set in the capital city of the Western Empire (North and South America) which is a fascist tyranny that is now a slave-owning society. The government is opposed by a group calling themselves Thieves - they rob the wealthy and use the proceeds to purchase slaves from the charnel houses (where they are sold to for reprocessing once there is no further use for them). Some 5 years previously, a space-ship crashed into the Ohio River. Oddly familiar, the only living being on board was a curious tarsier-like creature. Next day, an amnesiac was found on the banks of the river clutching the log-book of a spacecraft in the process of being built. Taken in by the Thieves, the man exhibited super-human physiology. Called Alar, the man turns into the lead actor in the struggle to overthrow the government. Unlike The Ring of Ritornel, the main female character does have agency and the story does feature a person with disabilities (which also includes the main female character towards the end of the story). Highly recommended. 1  Maddz | Aug 30, 2018 |  )1 br77rino | Aug 31, 2011 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Set after the Third Great War, North and South America are united into one country: Imperial America. A slave state run by a small noble elite who flaunt their wealth by using, and abusing, the one commodity that only the rich can have: human labour. But working underground, persecuted by the police, is an organization dedicated to the overthrow of government and the existing way of life and the establishment of freedom.The Society of Thieves was the only organization that flouted authority in America Imperial: they robbed the rich to buy freedom for the slaves. They were well equipped and trained for their job and had friends and informers in high places ready to reveal where the wealth of the nobles was hidden. And Alar was the best Thief of them all - for he had senses not found in ordinary men, senses that accurately warned him when danger was near. But Alar had amnesia and did not know his true identity though sometimes he sensed that there was a purpose in his actions that was not entirely his own volition. When Keiris, wife of the Imperial Chancellor saw him, she sensed that he was something special and helped him to elude pursuit even though it put her own life in danger. And in trips to the Moon and even the Sun itself, Alar begins to see what part he is destined to play in the struggle for men's freedom. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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