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Cargando... Catástrofe en el Espacio (1976)por Harry Harrison
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I liked this book as a fairly quick read and written a few years after the OPEC oil crisis so the answer is harvesting the energy of the sun through a satellite launched to collect the energy and beam it down to the Earth. The characters are quite stereotyped... the astronaut team is 3 men/2 women... 3 Russians/2 Americans... and one of the women is a Black American substituted for a sick doctor at the last minute. So Harrison touches on gender issues, issues of color and Russian/American issues which seem to be quite cordial... then again when it comes to space flight in general there seems to be good co-operation in reality. There are issues of devious mildly corrupt politicians on both sides. So Harrison touches all bases but does not investigate them too seriously. I liked the book. It has its faults technically but so does "Alas Babylon" By Pat Frank in his novel about an atomic attack on the USA. The book is a bit on the juvenile side but still worth a read IMHO sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The largest spaceship ever made is hurtling overhead, falling Six people are trapped inside with no escape. If it strikes the Earth it will explode with the force of an atomic bomb what can be done?The mighty 2,000-tonne Prometheus is the largest piece of space hardware ever launched - a joint Soviet-American project to harness solar energy before the power resources of the world run out. But politically and technically the project is doomed, and the nerve-racking predicament of the crew of six shrinks to nothing beside the horrifying destruction which threatens hundreds of thousands of people if no way can be found to move the satellite from it's ever-decreasing orbit towards Earth . . .Skyfall is a tale of incredible terror, giving a foresight of the global disaster which could one day become reality. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It's a lot like Arthur C. Clarke's early books in that it deals mostly with things that may be possible in the near future. This story is a good one and a good idea but I practically skimmed the first 100 pages trying to find reasons to finish it. Eventually it got better and I became interested.
As with many of Harrison's books he gets a little preachy about whatever social ills he was concerned with when writing. This was a 1970s book so he makes lots strong references to racial and sex discrimination that are right out of the 60s-70s. These don't ring true in the 21st century. Nobody looks sideways at a woman or black person in a pilots seat or a lab jacket. Harry assumes that 20-50 years in his future nothing will have changed.
"Make Room Make Room" was a much better book and for fun reading try "The Stainless Steel Rat" ( )