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Indlæser... Moon Flights (udgave 2019)af Elizabeth Moon (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Some of these stories were lame. The several 'funny' ones about the woman soldiers could have been in a book by themselves (and then I could have avoided that book). The two about music were thoughtful and fairly intense. I really recommend Gravesite Revisited, about the effects of time-traveling anthropologists. ( ) A collection of short stories from Elizabeth Moon, author of the acclaimed [b:The Speed of Dark|96063|The Speed of Dark|Elizabeth Moon|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171309231s/96063.jpg|1128271] and the awful Paksenarrion series. Like her novels, this is a mixed bag of scifi, fantasy, and straight military tales; equally like her novels, the stories range from good to dreadful. The Ladies Aid and Armory Society stories (about a group of female guards) are funny, though one of them really bothered me. (Why on earth would courtly ladies in a medieval society be concerned with having perfect abs and muscled legs? If anything, shouldn't they be aiming for dimpled thighs and round wrists? Felt anachronistic in its reaffirmation of the "lean is the only beauty" bs of modern times.) I was impressed by the world-building in "Judgment". "Gravesite Revisited" was a cool look at ancient burial practices, from the perspectives of both the people burying and the people discovering the graves. Reminiscent of Kage Baker's Company series, or Connie Willis's [b:Doomsday Book|24983|Doomsday Book|Connie Willis|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167544945s/24983.jpg|2439628], [b:Firewatch|1123328|Firewatch|Cynthia Wall|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg|1110417] etc world. The nicest aspect of these stories is their focus. None of the main characters are the smartest, bravest, strongest person in the story. No one is a Chosen One. No one is royalty, not even secretly. Every single one of them are ordinary people who mostly pay attention to the mundane details of their lives--sometimes something extraordinary happens, but mostly it doesn't. It's a refreshing change, and in the hands of a better writer it would be truly wonderful. As it is, the "mundane details" are too often the entirety of the story. Noveller är inte sällan ett verkligt lackmustest på en författares berättarförmåga. Därför var det viss oro jag gav mig på den här antologin av Elizabeth Moon, men löftet om en avslutande novell i samma miljö som hennes fantastiska serie "Vatta's War" lockade verkligen. Resultatet är blandat. Här finns flera medelmåttiga eller rentav slätstrukna noveller som lämnar mig oberörd. Å andra sidan överraskades jag av "And Ladies of the Club", en humoristisk fantasypärla om medlemmarna av Ladies' Aid & Armor Society. Glädjen minskade inte av att antologin innehåller inte mindre än fyra noveller—samtliga som har publicerats—om dem. Över lag var det för många noveller utan skruv eller överraskningar för att ge samlingen ett riktigt bra betyg (ett lysande undantag är "Gravesite Revisited", som inte bara är tankeväckande vad det gäller vår syn på förhistoriska kulturer och arkeologiska fynd utan också verkligen överraskar läsaren och utnyttjar de unika möjligheter som novellgenren ger). Novellerna om LA&AS, den nämda "Gravesite Revisited" och den härliga avslutande "Say Cheese" (härligt underhållande om några av Ky Vattas släktingars första handelsresa och som definitivt sprider samma härliga vardagskänsla av familjehandelsimperium som Vatta's War-seren) gör trots det att samlingen lämnar en skön eftersmak. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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"Moon Flights, the definitive Elizabeth Moon short story collection, represents the highlights of an impressive career. Gathering together fifteen tales of fantasy, alternative history, and science fiction, Moon Flights features an original story, "Say Cheese," set in the Vatta's War cosmology, and an all-new introduction by Anne McCaffrey, legendary creator of the Dragonriders of Pern series. Ranging from humorous high fantasy tales of "The Ladies' Aid & Armor Society" to gritty, realistic chronicles of far-flung militaristic space opera, former marine Elizabeth Moon's storytelling mastery and eye for painstaking detail is evidenced in each of the tales contained herein. When honor, politics, and personal relationships clash against backdrops of explosive battles and larger-than-life action, the result is the breathtaking and astounding fiction found in Moon Flights" -- publisher website (April 2008). No library descriptions found. |
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