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Chargement... Star Riderpar Doris Piserchia
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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. Weird stuff. Took me a bit to get into it - the language is purposefully a bit odd, and the setting is (also purposefully) radically different from any usual setting for a mimetic piece of fiction. The author doesn't do infodumps, which is great but of course means you need to pick up pieces to build the picture of the world. Anyway, I ended by liking it a lot; I like the main character and her toughness and I like the endgame resolution which gives no ideological quarter but doesn't descend into a pitched bloody battle. When I see the Women's Press Science Fiction badge on a book I always reckon it's worth picking up, because they're always at least interesting, normally very good, and sometimes astounding.
Lone (re-named Jade, later on) and her mount Hinx roam the stars looking for the fabled planet of Doubleluck. She is a jak, a roving space girl with a pioneer spirit, bonded for life with her powerful, dimension warping, telepathic space dog/horse. This big, muscley, smart fourteen year old girl and her brave mount answer all questions, expose all hypocrisy, and save the entire universe from stagnation and death. What could be more satisfying?
Doubleluck...Home...with its streets of flowing gold, waterfalls of diamonds, lakes of perfume - and its deadly curse Jade is the one human with the will to challenge all odds and find the key to save her species. Fellow creatures fear her ability to dream. The powerful Rulon will exterminate all galactic life unless he can possess both Jade and the riches of Doubleluck. The brutal Dreens seek to mate with her to improve their inferior stock. Escape from each of them brings her one step closer to the perfect monument that is Doubleluck - a monument that covers a lonely grave. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The twists and turns of the story don’t seem to follow much logic and the text is occasionally embellished with unusual syntax which either I got used to as the novel progressed or, more likely given my attention to the minutiae of text, Piserchia tended to forget about. Neither are the characters very memorable; Piserchia’s focus is more on ongoing plot, with the occasional feminist aside. I would hazard Star Rider is not among the best SF from the 1970s. ( )