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Indlæser... The Crystal Empireaf L. Neil Smith
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All the world stood in awe of the might of the Sino-Aztecs' Crystal Empire. All but Sedrich Sedrichsohn. Charged with bringing to the Emperor his future bride, the beautiful and far-seeing Ayesha, Sedrich was an outcast, his life in ruins. Now he has a last chance at happiness--and revenge. A science fiction epic filled with verve, dash, and inventive characters.--Chattanooga Times. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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I wouldn't go so far. This isn't a five star book for me. But of the almost dozen books by Smith I've read, I'd say this is his best precisely because it doesn't read as libertarian propaganda. It's similar in premise to Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt but predates it by over a decade. In this timeline, the Black Plague proved even more disastrous than was the case in our own history, with 90 percent mortality rates that caused the collapse of Western civilization and Saracen-Jewish, Mughal-Arab and Sino-Aztec Empires arose to fill the vacuum. The first chapter especially was terrific, with a killer last line. Decades have passed since I first read this novel, and I still remembered that opening well and it still had impact. The next hundred or so pages I found a bit slow, but it picked up considerably once Sedrich Sedrichsohn meets damsel-in-distress Ayesha. Although I wouldn't put this novel up there with the very best of science fiction, it's a well-imagined alternate history and world and a good adventure yarn. ( )