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Cargando... The Fall of Chronopolis (1974)por Barrington J. Bayley
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. four stars for the conceit, and where he takes it. an important book, in fact, in sf time travel studies. 3 stars for the actual writing, which is... fusty, heavy, and not really equipped to make the sharp sudden turns his plotting requires. but never mind all that, go for it anyway. ( ) This is my second Bayley novel. I am getting the sense that he's not particularly an author you come to looking for deep characters or big ideas. On the basis of these two books his real strength seems to be taking an original idea and ruthlessly exploring its consequences to the bitter end. I thought this short novel was nicely paced and that there was an admirable urgency to the storytelling. Two thirds of the way through the book I was impressed with where the story seemed to be heading and had fairly high expectations for how it would end. But the last third sort of dissolved into an amorphous, implausible, arbitrary blob. Religion plays a key role in this story, but I'm not sure why. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The mighty ships of the Third Time Fleet relentlessly patrolled the Chronotic Empire's thousand-year frontier, blotting out an error of history here or there before swooping back to challenge other time-travelling civilisations far into the future.Captain Mond Aton had been proud to serve in such a fleet. But now, falsely convicted of cowardice and dereliction of duty, he had been given the cruellest of sentences: to be sent unprotected into time as a lone messenger between the cruising timeships. After such an inconceivable experience in the endless voids there was only one option left to him.To be allowed to die. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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