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Cargando... Braking Day (edición 2022)por Adam Oyebanji (Autor)
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On a generation ship bound for a distant star, one engineer-in-training must discover the secrets at the heart of the voyage in this new sci-fi novel. It's been over a century since three generation ships escaped an Earth dominated by artificial intelligence in pursuit of a life on a distant planet orbiting Tau Ceti. Now, it's nearly Braking Day, when the ships will begin their long-awaited descent to their new home. Born on the lower decks of the Archimedes, Ravi Macleod is an engineer-in-training, set to be the first of his family to become an officer in the stratified hierarchy aboard the ship. While on a routine inspection, Ravi sees the impossible: a young woman floating, helmetless, out in space. And he's the only one who can see her. As his visions of the girl grow more frequent, Ravi is faced with a choice: secure his family's place among the elite members of Archimedes' crew or risk it all by pursuing the mystery of the floating girl. With the help of his cousin, Boz, and her illegally constructed AI, Ravi must investigate the source of these strange visions and uncovers the truth of the Archimedes' departure from Earth before Braking Day arrives and changes everything about life as they know it. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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One hundred and thirty-two years ago three massive space ships (Archimedes, Bohr and Chandrasekhar) set out to cross space to reach Tau Ceti. Each ship was designed to hold ten thousand people and provide everything they needed for their multi-generation voyage. All of the people aboard are connected to the ship's communication system through implants in their brains. Now they are getting near to Tau Ceti, the Destination Star. The drives which have been shut down for much of the voyage will be firing up again to bring the ships to a stop. It's the job of the engineers aboard each ship to make sure everything will function when they do so. Trainee engineer Ravinder MacLeod on the Archimedes is sent down to the drive compartment to check things over. As he is deep inside the drive hold he hears a banging from outside of the vessel. He thinks it might be his friend, Ansimov, or maybe his cousin, Boz, who have suited up and gone outside the ship to trick him into thinking there is an alien causing the noise. What he sees when he gets to a place where he can see outside is a blonde-haired girl with no space suit hovering outside the hull. He knows that people cannot exist in space without suits but he worries that he is having some kind of breakdown. That concern is exacerbated when he starts having strange dreams with this same woman in them. Although Macleod and Ansimov are training to become officers, they are from working class (or worse) families and thus are excluded by the rest of their classmates. However, Sofia Ibori, related to the Captain and the Chief Navigator, approaches Ravi for help with homework and they become friends. Sofia has a boyfriend so Ravi knows there isn't any hope of more but that doesn't stop him wishing. Interestingly, Sofia's boyfriend is part of a faction on the ship that doesn't want to land on the Tau Ceti planets. Ravi is probably closest to his cousin Roberta/Boz MacLeod but that sometimes gets him in trouble because Boz, while brilliant, is continually flouting the rules. Nevertheless, it is Boz he turns to when the unsettling dreams turn out to be actual messages from someone on another generation ship, the Newton, that left Earth at the same time but her crew had a plague outbreak and the other three refused them help. Since then Newton has been following the same course as the other three but far enough away that they can't be detected. The girl from Newton, Lisette, warns Ravi that her ship has weapons that they intend to use against the other three once they are braking and she is worried that the other three will retailiate with weapons of their own. She wants Ravi to help her prevent war. No big thing, right?
This story hinges on the concept that Lisette is able to communicate telepathically with Ravi across huge distances of space. It's a little far-fetched for me although I find the brain implants that allow instant communication between the people aboard Archimedes easier to accept. It's interesting that these implants are anathema for the people on Newton but they have artificial intelligence beings whereas the people on Archimedes, Bohr and Chandrasekhar left earth to get away from such creatures and have strict rules against using them. I guess "one man's meat is another's poison" applies in deep space as well. ( )