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Lädt ... Phase Spacevon Stephen Baxter
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A collection of stories, for the most part connected with Baxter's 'Manifold' trilogy. Some are stories involving characters from one or another of the novels (not forgetting that the three novels in 'Manifold' depict different universes but have the same characters [sometimes]); others appear to be variant stories or even early thoughts on some of those novels. There are also a handful of stories that have been included because they seemed thematically appropriate, even if they don't fit the 'Manifold' sequence. I came to this book directly after reading the whole trilogy, but that meant that I'd already lived with different versions of the same characters in quite a few instances. I therefore found this to feel a bit 'samey' (and I wasn't reading it in extended reading sessions). I suspect this is more useful as a book to dip into, and I can see me doing this in future. (Well, in some futures.) The final story in the collection, though, is one I'd be unlikely to return to. 'The Twelfth Album' is an alternative reality story involving the Beatles. Whilst there were elements of the story I enjoyed (and I am a bit of a sucker for alternate histories), you would really have to be a Beatles fan to fully understand the somewhat anoraky references to different Beatles LPs. And I am not. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Tied in to Baxter's masterful Manifold trilogy, these thematically linked stories are drawn from the vast graph of possibilities across which the lives of hero Reid Malenfant have been scattered. It is the year 2025. Reid Malenfant is the commander of a NASA earth-orbiting science platform. The platform is intended to probe the planets of the nearest star system by bouncing laser pulses off them. But no echoes are returned... and Malenfant's reality begins to crumble around him. Huddling with his family, awaiting the end -- or an unknown new beginning -- Malenfant tells stories of other possibilities, other realities. The linked stories encompass the myriad possibilities that might govern our relationship with the universe: are we truly alone, or will we eventually meet other lifeforms? Perhaps intelligent species decide to turn their back on the stars, or maybe expansionist species are destined to fail. The final possibility -- that the Universe as we know it is in fact an elaborate illusion designed to protect us from the fearful reality -- is brilliantly explored in the tour de force novella that ends the volume. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Along with Neil Gaiman he is the best short story writer about these days. ( )