#1

Vedi gli stati taggati nella comunità locale BookWyrm.it

ha recensito Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories di Michael Moorcock (Elric of Melniboné (Gollancz edition), #1)

Michael Moorcock: Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories (EBook, 2014, Gollancz)

Elric of Melniboné is the classic fantasy antihero who transformed the genre, an evil emperor …

Bel romanzo principale, paratesti disastrati

Premetto che ho iniziato Elric of Melniboné and Other Stories a Novembre 2017, l'ho interrotto a metà e l'ho ricominciato da capo oggi, 28 Agosto 2018 – e me lo sono finito tutto d'un fiato. Ho dovuto fruirlo così perché Moorcock e il personale della Gollancz si sono chiaramente fatti di acidi e hanno usato questo volume come discarica in cui stampare tutti i saggi miscellanei che avevano in archivio: fra prefazioni e postfazioni ci ritroviamo a leggere una dopo l'altra introduzioni multiple alla vita e all'opera di Moorcock, introduzioni al genere sword & sorcery in generale e alla saga di Elric in particolare, saggi di critica letteraria scritti da Moorcock, la prefazione a una specifica edizione di uno specifico testo, persino quello che sembra essere il trascritto di una conferenza, e infine un saggio lungo che è stato diviso in più parti per spalmarlo su tutti i sei volumi …

ha recensito The Ghost Brigades di John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)

John Scalzi: The Ghost Brigades (EBook, 2007, Tor)

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created …

Where's John Perry?

Found as EN "boxed set" and read the trilogy (with Old Man's War & The Last Colony) in less than a week (nights mainly). Less entertaining than #1 IMHO, but "needed" to jump into #3

ha recensito Salvation Lost di Peter F. Hamilton (Salvation Sequence, #2)

Enjoyable, although the sex is weird

Book 1 I was surprised but pleased the sex had toned down a bit. It's back again, although I'd concede it's I guess-sort-of-plot-relevant. I read this while unable to sleep so I struggled a lot with the far-future sci-fi gobbledegook. Reading it during the day might have been easier! Much like the Void books, once the sci-fi gets this far ahead it feels a bit comic fantasy.

Still enjoyable, still keen to read the last one.

ha recensito Pandora's star di Peter F. Hamilton

Peter F. Hamilton: Pandora's star (2004, Del Rey/Ballantine Books)

Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas …

Horny sci-fi opera

After a break of reading PFH, I've started reading some of his books again. I still absolutely love Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. I really liked his previous long space opera (Night's Dawn) but this universe feels a bit more fleshed out. Cars and trains (oh, the trains) have models and people clearly have preferences. There's discussions about sports and brands and TV and paying attention to some of it now rewards later on, but not in a major way.

The action is good, the science is fun, but unlike his next trilogy in this universe, it doesn't feel cartoonish. The Void Trilogy to me feels like a lot of technobabble and deus ex machina. Book 1 here starts well.

But it's difficult to ignore the sex. Everyone is constantly horny and having sex with at least one other person. In fact it is stated in the book …