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Cargando... Navigator (Time's Tapestry) (edición 2008)por Stephen Baxter (Autor)
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HTML:The third novel in Stephen Baxter's Time's Tapestry series. “We’ve come to expect excellence from Stephen Baxter and that’s what we get it in Navigator.”—SciFiDimensions As William the Conqueror’s men attempt to stamp out the flames of rebellion, a prophecy is uttered. A bedraggled woman in a ruined chapel speaks of civilizations in conflict, armed by the engines of God… And that prophecy proves to be true as the fearsome war between Christianity and Islam leaves its mark across the land. In Spain, a rogue priest dreams of the final defeat of Islam, for he has found a rent in the tapestry of time, a point where agents from the future used diabolical weapons of destruction to change history. Centuries later, in 1492, as men of vision weary of the strife and are drawn to the unknown West, one such explorer seeks the funding for his voyage—while a mysterious Weaver plots to unravel the strands of time and stop him…. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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There is a price to pay for this, of course. Characterization begins to flag a little as we move quite rapidly through medieval Spain; I felt the characters in the last third of the book were not as well drawn as in the first two thirds, probably because Baxter specifically wanted to move the plot along. But the scenes, the history and the science are well-drawn, as are the torture scenes with the Spanish Inquisition (which I now understand rather better than I used to). ( )