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Cargando... Golden Witchbreed (1983)por Mary Gentle
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As awful as the cover of this book is, the actual story it tells is pretty good. Less than a generation after humans discovers faster-than-light travel, they have found over 100,000 planets inhabited by intelligent life, and Earth is strained to send even the most inexperienced emissaries to most of them. Lynne Christie is one such emissary, sent to a planet that appears at first glance to be in a Medieval period, complete with a fallen pseudo-Roman civilization in the planet's history. However, soon the Machiavellian politics and alien aspects of life on this planet begin to complicate the envoy's life and then the story really gets going. Words I learned in this book: batrachian - amphibian, froglike crepuscular - of or like twilight eidetic - of visual imagery that is extremely accurate, such as a photographic memory nictitating - generally blinking, specifically the movement of the "third eyelid" in animals that feature that additional membrane. tenebrious - dark, gloomy, or difficult to understand tersion - the act of rubbing something off
There is action, intrigue, and, surprisingly, a full-scale murder mystery... It's one of these ultrasatisfying lo-o-o-ong novels, packed with detail and based in an alien culture thatt after a time the reader starts to live in. Pertenece a las seriesOrthe (1) Witchbreed (1) Pertenece a las series editorialesGallimard, Folio SF (33) Contenido enPremios
The distant world of Orthe is littered with spectacular remnants of the Golden Empire, an ancient yet advanced civilisation extinct some 2000 years. Envoy Lynne de Lisle Christie arrives on Orthe to find a now technophobic society. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I did like the relationships, the way the natives were different and the history of the world. ( )