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Indlæser... Child of Venus (udgave 2002)af Pamela Sargent
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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. The beginning was a little slow for me, but probably only because I was reading book 3 without book 1 or 2. Some of the background was obviously meant to be calling back to people and events from those books. Once I got rolling with Mahala's story for real, I enjoyed it. Towards the end, we drop back from a very personal viewpoint to a more distant one, and it makes sense why, but I missed the feeling of connection. It was still alright, but it was less satisfying. ( ) This was good. Not as engrossing as the first two books in Sargent’s Venus Trilogy (Venus of Dreams and Venus of Shadows) but still well worth reading. I liked how she completed the series with a number of unknowns that places you in the experience of the characters themselves. It doesn’t bring complete closure, but this is often the way with real life - we often have to continue living without the answers to all of our questions. Sargent’s point is not to leave readers hanging but rather to create a reading experience in which the reader is able to understand what the characters are experiencing. I liked this very much. I like this rating system by ashleytylerjohn of LibraryThing (https://www.librarything.com/profile/ashleytylerjohn) that I have also adopted: (Note: 5 stars = rare and amazing, 4 = quite good book, 3 = a decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful.) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Belongs to SeriesVenus Project (3)
The Nebula Award-winning author's "masterful SF trilogy" of human colonists terraforming the second planet from the sun comes to a stunning conclusion (Publishers Weekly). Often compared to Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy, the three novels in the Venus saga--Venus of Dreams, Venus of Shadows, and Child of Venus--further establish the Nebula and Locus Award-winning author of The Shore of Women as "one of the genre's best writers" (The Washington Post). The Venus Project--making the planet's atmosphere habitable for humans--spans centuries and determines the fate of multiple generations. The great task has already survived the ravages of civil war and continues unabated, overseen by two distinct rival factions: the "Cytherian" human colonists in enclosed settlements on the planet's surface and the "Habbers," cybernetically enhanced human dwellers living in a mobile asteroid orbiting above the planet. Mahala Liangharad is a true child of Venus, conceived from the genetic material of rebels who died long before her birth. Chained to the Project her forebears began centuries earlier, she is restless and dissatisfied with the prospect of spending her entire existence inside a sealed dome. But her life is changed forever when the Habbers receive alien radio signals from six hundred light years away. With all work on Venus abruptly halted, Mahala now faces the most momentous decision of her young life. She can remain behind on the unfinished planet, or leave everything she's ever known and loved to pursue her destiny--and humankind's--to the far reaches of the universe . . . No library descriptions found. |
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