Gareth L. Powell
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(eng) Not to be confused with the author Gareth Powell who writes travel guides to Australia and New Zealand.
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Entropic Angel; Dear Colleague... 1 Exemplar
Brown Water 1 Exemplar
Jetsam 1 Exemplar
What Would Nicolas Cage Have Done? 1 Exemplar
Fallout (short story) 1 Exemplar
Entropic Angel 1 Exemplar
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (2015) — Mitwirkender — 176 Exemplare, 7 Rezensionen
Shine: An Anthology of Near-future, Optimistic Science Fiction (2010) — Mitwirkender — 138 Exemplare, 7 Rezensionen
Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction (2014) — Mitwirkender — 41 Exemplare, 6 Rezensionen
Solaris Rising 1.5: An Exclusive ebook of New Science Fiction (2012) — Mitwirkender — 15 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
StarShipSofa Stories Volume 3 — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Powell, Gareth Lyn
- Geburtstag
- 1970
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Wohnorte
- UK
- Kurzbiographie
- Gareth L Powell is a science fiction writer from the United Kingdom. He's a regular contributor to Interzone and winner of the Interzone Readers’ Poll for best short story of 2007. His work has been published all over the world, included in a number of anthologies, and translated into seven languages. His first collection of fiction, The Last Reef and Other Stories, is now available to buy in hardback and paperback from Elastic Press. His first novel, Silversands, will be available from Pendragon Press in 2010.
- Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
- Not to be confused with the author Gareth Powell who writes travel guides to Australia and New Zealand.
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Gareth Powell’s Continuance series is far-future space opera in the tradition of Iain M. Banks, Peter F. Hamilton, and Alastair Reynolds. The human survivors of an interstellar war live on a fleet of spacecraft protected by a few well-armed scouts. In the standalone Descendant Machine, Nicola Mafalda is the navigator of the sentient scout Frontier Chic. When the Frontier Chic is attacked, it saves Nicola’s life in a way she may not be able to forgive. Yet together, they uncover a plot that could, quite literally, destroy the universe.
Despite the high stakes, their snarky humor makes Nicola and the Chic easy to root for.… (mehr)
Despite the high stakes, their snarky humor makes Nicola and the Chic easy to root for.… (mehr)
The cigar-smoking, heavy-drinking intelligent monkey, fighting as a RAF pilot against ninja nazis is a very pulp concept, but it's not what the book is about. Perhaps more could have been done with that idea. The actual story is about copying and uploading people's personalities to synthetic bodies. A very science-fictional concept, but it is not treated in any deep way. It's mostly a quick, light read, a fun adventure. Entertaining but forgettable.
Este libro construye en muy pocas paginas un universo y una historia de amor que ya le gustaría a novelas mucho más largas. Creo que no le falta ni le sobra nada, como si al escribirlo lo hubiesen medido todo al milímetro.
Quizá, por sacarle la puntilla, me falta algo de representación queer y mas con los temas que trata el libro.
Quizá, por sacarle la puntilla, me falta algo de representación queer y mas con los temas que trata el libro.
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Fast forward seventy-five years and there’s a new threat on the verge of annihilating humanity and the fleet of starships they call home. (view spoiler)
My Review: Well, this was quite a fun space adventure. Stars and Bones incorporates a great deal of sci-fi tropes, such as mysterious alien creatures like in 2001: A Space Odyssey as well as rag-tag space crew adventures that are akin to Guardians of the Galaxy. It also pushes some interesting questions on the totality of humankind when the ‘angel’ suddenly strips humans of their home planet. The descriptions of the antagonist makes for great horror that you may find in films like The Thing and Event Horizon. But don’t worry, the more terrifying scenes are just long enough to impose the gravity of the threat, not a saturation of blood and gore.
With witty banter and striking plot twists, I must say that I was consistently surprised where the author took me. What I especially enjoyed about the novel was Eryn’s journey through each massive starship of the fleet as she and her crew tried to save the fleet. (view spoiler)
There is a wealth of imagery and philosophy to feast your mind in this sci-fi epic.
Three Words that Describe this Book: funny, scifi, thriller
Give This A Try if You Like… Old Man’s War, The Expanse Series, Childhood’s End, Orion, The Watchmen, Mickey7, Fallen Dragon, 2001: A Space Odyssey… (mehr)