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Cargando... Shiva In Steel (1998)por Fred Saberhagen
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book was all right, but I had a hard time getting in to it at the front of the book. It seemed to pick up about half way through, and then got real exciting. Unfortunately, the end wasn’t what I hoped it would be: Shiva, the berserker that was the subject of the book was left quite unresolved—you don’t know whether it survived or not. Endings left open like that annoy me when you know there isn’t a continuation of the story. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In a sector of the galaxy occupied by Earth-descended people, one berserker computer has suddenly and mysteriously developed a tactical strategy unlike anything the human opposition has seen before. Shiva, like the Hindu god of destruction after which it was named, annihilates entire colonies with the help of its fiendish subordinates. Commander Claire Normandy struggles to prepare for Shiva's attacks, while Pilot Harry Silver realizes that he must deal with his own demons in order to help her. When a decision is made to destroy the destroyer, neither side is prepared for the incredible risks that emerge as the attack becomes imminent. Can either side face the possibility that something wholly unexpected and eerily familiar lies gnarled within the steel? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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The concept is one that has been touched on by other big names in the genre. Master builders release machines of destruction to stop their enemy in war then the machines turn on them to destroy all life as they know it. The "twist" with the machines having AI that could ponder things as humans do, though without the emotional baggage, not that big a deal to me. Its what AI should do.
The plot moved as a snail until the last few chapters, but even then the hill was short and rounded. I felt no real climax to the book. It just ended. Too often the author inserted himself into the writing which distracted from the otherwise ho hum writing. While the list of characters seemed small, the jumps between the points of view left one dizzy at times as they tryed to figure out who the author refered to as "He" in the beginning of the next segment.
Definitely not a book I'd offer to others. ( )