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Chargement... Farside (édition 2013)par Ben Bova
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Great premise and plot ruined by clumsy juvenile writing and astonishingly sexist portrayals of all of the female characters. ( ) Bova, Ben. Farside. Tor, 2013. Grand Tour 20. In Farside, Bova takes us back to the Moon, where the debate over nanotechnology continues. Could we use nanomachines to build an array of large telescope mirrors? His characters include a single-minded astrophysicist who only cares about his project. Because Bova cannot resist irony, he is blind but has limited vision using something like sonar artificially wired into his brain. The real work gets done by a young scientist named Trudy and a technician named Grant. Because Bova can’t resist an expected plot device, they are a romantic pair. There is also the usual skullduggery aimed at stopping the project. Bova always makes me wish GR allowed split grades—4 stars for ideas and plot. Three for characters. Rounds up to 4. I am a big fan of Ben Bova and have read quite a bit of his work, so although I did enjoy this book, I found it strangely lacking a sense of urgency. There was intrigue and danger, but little sense of real alarm among the characters. I liked the characters, and the moon setting was interesting, but if this had been a print book I might not have kept reading. Luckily, as I've said before, I'm less discerning with audiobooks because they generally accompany other tasks. This one is good SF, worth reading for some of the other aspects, but not a real page-turner. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: Farside, the side of the moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder. Telescopes on Earth have detected an Earth-sized planet circling a star some thirty light-years away. Now the race is on to get pictures of that distant world, photographs and spectra that show whether or not the planet is truly like Earthâ??and if it bears life. Farside observatory will have the largest optical telescope in the solar system as well as a vast array of radio antennas, the most sensitive radio telescope possible, insulated from the interference of Earth's radio chatter by a thousand kilometers of the moon's solid body. Building Farside is a complex, often dangerous task. On the airless surface of the moon, under constant bombardment by hard radiation and infalling micrometeoroids, builders must work in cumbersome spacesuits and use robotic machines as much as possible. Breakdownsâ??mechanical and emotionalâ??are commonplace. Accidents happen, some of them fatal. But what they ultimately find will stun everyone, and the human race will never be the s Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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