av Orson Scott Card
Xenocide bygger på 'Enders spel' och 'Speaker for the dead'. Efter 'Xenocide' kommer 'Children of the mind'. Detta förklarar jag endast eftersom jag själv tycker det blir lätt förvirrande med trilogier som innefattar fler böcker än tre...
Jag önskar jag kunde förklara vad det är som är så bra med "Ender-böckerna". Mitt försök till det blir när jag rabblar upp följande adjektiv: fantasifullt, spännande, sagoliknande, gripande, fascinerande.
/Helena
Recensioner
"As a storyteller, Card exels in portraying the quiet drama of wars fought not on battlefields but in the hearts and minds of his characters. Above all, Card is a thinker - and this meaty, graceful, and thought-provoking sequel to 'Enders Game' and 'Speaker for the dead' stands as a brilliant testimony to his thoughtfulness. A priority purchase." (Library Journal)
"There are perils and challenges aplenty - threats that could result in the destruction of the planet Lusitania, or the abolition of all humankind, and attempts at grandiose scientific achievements." (Locus)
"'Xenocide' is easily the most ambitious, important, gripping, and frustrating science fiction novel I've read this year. We already know another book is coming to finish off the series; hopefully it won't take too long." (Amazing Stories)
"An undeniable heavyweight... This book combines Card's quirky style with his hard ethical dilemmas and sharply drawn portraits." (New York Daily News)
"Hugo and Nebula award winner Orson Scott Card demonstrates again that he belongs in the company of such older masters of science fiction as Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, and Ursula K Le Guin... In telling this story, Card unfolds a fascinating universe. Although the novels in this series are rightly labeled science fiction, they offer all the best qualities of mainstream fiction." (Magill Book Reviews)
"This has my vote as the best science fiction novel of the year." (Nashville Banner)
Baksidestext
'Ender's Game' and 'Speaker for the dead' were two of the giant SF novels of the eighties. Now, after a wait of five years, comes the entralling 'Xenocide'.
Ender and Valentine Wiggin: brother and sister of genius. Their lives have shaped history. Valentine is "Demosthenes", whose subversive writings fight the monstrous power of Starways Congress, the masters of the Hundred Worlds. And Ender... As a child, Ender brilliantly commanded the human warfleet that wiped out a planet. The triumph of his life is his perpetual fight to stop it happening again.
It may be his tragedy that he cannot. For Congress has sent a warfleet to Lusitania, home to Ender and his family, two alien species - and the deadliest virus ever known. The warfleet Carries an order to destroy the planet. To commit xenocide.
Orson Scott Card combines the vast mysteries of space with very real portraits of men and women caught in epoch-making events. Rich, long, brilliant, Xenocide is a towering novel, classic SF of the highest order.
Betyg:
ISBN:
0-7126-4774-0
Antal sidor:
463
Förlag:
Legend
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Böcker av
Orson Scott Card:
Children of the mind
Ender's shadow
Enders spel
First Meetings
Lost boys
Lovelock
Speaker for the dead
Treasure box
Xenocide
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