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Lädt ... Slow Apocalypse (2012)von John Varley
   Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.   ) freixas | Mar 31, 2023 |  Got very tired of the painstaking LA geography exposition since I am not familiar. I did appreciate the many times the main characters helped their fellow man, that was touching. Go Addison, you were the best of the characters. Glad that Ranger ended up as more than a piece of baggage. Got close to the end and started thinking there can’t possibly be a happy ending. I didn’t find the ending believable or satisfying. I think I should read Oryx and Crake again. 1  KaterinaBead | Feb 16, 2019 | The clue is in the title. The pace of the novel is slow, and has no satisfying resolution, there is too much emphasis on the geography of Los Angeles (though might be useful for touring the city in the event of peak oil/earthquake and wildfire occurring simultaneously). Only if you really need another post apocalypse tale. ( ) orkydd | Feb 2, 2017 | I like post-apocalyptic science fiction, and always find it interesting to see how the author outfits his characters, and what they do in their restructured world. For example, in Pfeffer's The Last Survivors series the characters rush to do laundry every time power is briefly restored. In Varley, there's a lot of description of objects (ammunition, hay, canned food) and some preoccupation with not using up food, but surprisingly little concern about using up gasoline, which is a central aspect of the book. (  ) OshoOsho | Mar 30, 2013 |  ) iBeth | Mar 23, 2013 | keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"John Varley has won multiple awards for his "imaginative and engaging"* novels. Now the author of Millennium, Steel Beach, and Rolling Thunder speculates how people would survive in a world suddenly stripped of the fuel that makes it run... Despite wars with Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as 9/11, the United States' dependence on foreign oil has kept the nation tied to the Middle East. A scientist has developed a cure for America's addiction--a slow-acting virus that feeds on petroleum, turning it solid. But he didn't consider that his contagion of an Iraqi oil field could spread to infect the fuel supply of the entire world... In Los Angeles, screenwriter Dave Marshall heard this scenario from a retired US marine and government insider who acted as a consultant on Dave's last film. It sounded as implausible as many of his scripts, but the reality is much more frightening than anything he could have envisioned. An ordinary guy armed with extraordinary information, Dave hopes his survivor's instinct will kick in so he can protect his wife and daughter from the coming apocalypse that will alter the future of Earth--and humanity... *San Francisco Chronicle"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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