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Lädt ... Star Winds (Original 1978; 1978. Auflage)von Barrington J. Bayley (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Hey! For all I know, Barrington J. Bayley's really a very nice interesting guy who just writes these bks to make a living & might write some really brilliant stuff under a different name. SO, excuse me, Barrington, for using yr bks as an excuse for short shrift. ( ) So you’re an SF fan. You want all the crazy, swashbuckling action of Dan Dare and the Intergalactic Squid Invasion but the intellectual challenge of A Canticle for St. Squidbert. Oh yeah, and the outlandish fantasy of The Unicorn Chronicles Part XLIV. Whatcha gonna do, read The Economist? How about you try Barrington Bayley, the best-kept secret of SF. http://fireandsword.blogspot.com/2007/06/star-winds-by-barrington-bayley-so.html What an absolutely delightful, SF flavored fantasy. It's a Vance styled "sailing ships in space" picaresque, with Alchemy as the "science" that propels the story. A wonderfully plotted little novel, it unfolds and expands nicely, is loaded with interesting and inventive details in it's less than 200 page length, and comes to a cosmic yet emotionally satisfying ending. One of Bayley's best. ****1/2 Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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The sails were the product of the Old Technology, lost long ago in the depleted Earth, and they were priceless. For with those fantastic sheets of etheric material, ships could sail the sky and even brave the radiant tides between worlds and stars. The alchemists who had replaced scientists still sough the ancient secrets, and Rachad, apprentice to such a would-be wizard, learned that the key to his quest lay in a book abandoned in a Martian colonial ruin long, long ago. But how to get to Mars? There was one way left - take a sea vessel, caulk it airtight, steal new sails and fly the star winds in the way of the ancient windjammers. Here is an intriguing, unusual and colourful novel of ships that sail the stars riding before the solar breeze that blows between worlds. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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