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Lädt ... Rainbow Mars (1999. Auflage)von Larry Niven (Autor)
Werk-InformationenRainbow Mars. von Larry Niven
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Rainbow Mars is more about Svetz the time traveller…see if you can identify the sources within this tale. There are 3 of the Svetz short stories (included in other volumes) but it's Rainbow Mars that is the meat. The main tale gives us more detail and development of a decent plot line and deserves a bit more credit that "okay", but certainly a bit less than the "Draco Tavern" stories. The short stories are cute fluff, but "Rainbow Mars" is a real story with action, blood and love. Still not on the level of "Ringworld" but worth the read anyway. Each of the stories in this book, some of which were previously published as shorts in magazines, centers on a xenophobic and somewhat reluctant time traveler being sent through time to find things to appease/entertain the ruler and/or encourage funding for the time travel agency he works for. But unbeknownst to him or his agency, he is being sent not just backwards and forwards in time but sideways to parallel universes populated with creatures from myth and fiction. The concept is interesting and it could have made for a very whimsical series of tales. Somehow it falls short. The potential isn’t realized. Niven, a highly competent science fiction writer, was apparently trying to stretch himself to write fantasy after meeting with Terry Pratchett but Niven simply does not have Pratchett’s skill with words and ideas necessary to pull this off. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Beinhaltet
Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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At about 20% of the way through the book, I gave up on it. ( )