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Lädt ... The Martian Way and Other Stories (1955)von Isaac Asimov
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Four short stories, a mixture of hard and soft sci-fi (that is, some more 'hard sciencey' and more 'soft sciencey'). I enjoyed it; it's typically event-based, but Asimov does a good job of painting characters in a few broad strokes and titbits. They've aged somewhat, partly by including elements like smoking and certain technologies that seem laughable now. Hard-copy-only photos that are kept in a safe, for example. Other elements seem obvious or 'done' these days, especially social ideas and things about alien society, but I suspect a lot of that is because since 1964 they've been written about again. When they came out, they were probably fresh and novel. One story, "Youth", has a twist ending I saw coming miles away, but then I've read a lot of Asimov before. "Sucker Bait" is interesting, depicting a time when specialists focus exclusively on their own field, with no time or interest for learning other disciplines - something you can imagine already with the sheer volume of knowledge there is. You know the kid everyone igores is going to solve the problem, but it's still interesting. One complaint: the edition I have (Panther) has massively over-explanatory blurb, which manages to give away too much about every story in only four lines each. I hope the editor responsible moved into academic abstracting. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The martian way. Isolationists on Earth were cutting off supplies to the colonies, and there was no earthly way the Spacers could survive without water. But young Ted Long had an idea--a real long shot...Youth. Red and Slim figured they'd joing the circus with the two small, strange animals they'd found. They didn't realize that their fathers were waiting anxiously for alien emissaries, now overdue...The deep. Roi's mission was vital to the very survival of his alien species. But to succeed, he must face an ordeal his race considered obscene--mothering...Sucker bait. The planet Troas seemed a paraidse, but is was a killer. The Confederation sent a team of scientists--and a strange teenager with a perfect memory--to unravel the planet's mystery before it could kill again... Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Las dos narraciones largas son particularmente sólidas y merecen figurar entre las obras más destacadas de Asimov. Planteando un cierto grado de expansión de la humanidad por el sistema solar, A lo marciano describe la crisis que padece una colonia afincada precariamente en Marte como consecuencia de los intereses políticos conservadores de un mandatario terresrtre; es una reflexión sobre las condiciones necesarias y los problemas implicados en la carrera espacial, al tiempo que un lamento sobre el derroche energético…, veinte años antes del advenimiento de la crisis de la energía. Engañabobos se centra en el estudio que lleva a cabo una expedición científica de los restos de una colonia afincada en un planeta bellísimo, que ha sucumbido a los efectos mortales de una misteriosa enfermedad; a la fascinación del poder llegar a conocer los posibles escenarios del universo y las virtudes de una trama impecable, hay que añadir el examen a fondo sobre las supuestas virtudes del conocimiento especializado.