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Chargement... Millennium (original 1983; édition 1988)par John Varley (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreMillennium par John Varley (1983) Unshelved Book Clubs (216) Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Back in the early 1990s I fell into the habit of reading the novels which were being adapted into movies. This was a bad habit as I read a lot of rubbish, including "Millennium". In the present, a plane crash investigator realises something odd is happening with the passengers, and, of all the possible reasons for the oddness, it turns out that its people 50 000 years in the future taking the passengers moments before the crash and sending them back to the future to help populate Earth. The sentence I just wrote actually makes the book sound more interesting than it is. The book opens as the investigation into the tragic collision of two jumbo jets near Oakland is commencing. Sections relating the details of the investigation are interspersed with sections set in a time hundreds of years in the future in which people travel back in time to incidents in which everyone is killed (i.e. plane crashes), stun the passengers, send them to the future, and replace them with already dead bodies from the future, just before the crash. But why? As the present day investigation proceeds various anomalies are discovered and can't be explained. The future is also changing, as the result of errors the team sending people from the past into the future may have made. This is the first book by Varley that I've read, and it was a good one. It was very logical and real--there were no, "I can't suspend my disbelief for this," moment, and I was kept turning the pages. Recommended. 3 stars aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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John Varley is the author of the Gaean Trilogy (Titan, Wizard, and Demon), Steel Beach, The Golden Globe, Red Thunder, and Mammoth. He has won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards for his work. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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In the end I guess the whole universe was just too unremittingly depressing for me to like it. Not shocking repulsive, just repetitively dull and dreary, especially the ending. The light at the end of the tunnel was too small, too far away and too dim to brighten it up at all. ( )