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Chargement... Alternatives (Futurama) (1945)par Fritz Leiber
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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. This is a forking path novel with a twist, set in the early days of atomic power. Leiber gives us a heavy dose of anti-totalitarianism intermixed with some interesting ideas about the downside of abundant cheap energy. This book might have been quite a bit better if he hadn't been forced to truncate it severely (including eliminating all female characters) for wartime serialization. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The primary action of Destiny Times Three takes place in a utopian far-future Earth. Poverty has been eliminated, everyone is well-educated and psychologically balanced, and the majority of humankind live in cities composed of single, enormously tall buildings, leaving most of the land to the wilderness. There is no war, no suffering, and no want; thanks in large part to a relatively new and virtually limitless energy source known as subtronics.
However, it seems all may not be well; or so believe our protagonists: Clawly, a member of the governing World Executive Committee, and Thorn, a scientist investigating the nature of dreams. They believe that an increasing incidence of nightmares, cryptic amnesia, and Capgras delusion point to some kind of intrusion of alien minds into their world. In fact, our heroes eventually discover what we would today refer to as parallel universes, each vastly different due to the way it used subtronics, and a plot by the government of one of these alternate Earths to take over utopia.
It’s an interesting premise, but unfortunately the execution is somewhat sloppy. Leiber’s biggest mistake is the inclusion of a character who exists solely as a plot device. For some reason he felt the need to explain why these parallel universes existed, and to that end has a chapter completely devoted to exposition on this subject. Furthermore, the climax of the novel is really little more than a deus ex machina and is consequently not very satisfying. Leiber would have been better off concentrating on the characterization of Clawly and Thorn – who are little more than vehicles through which the reader observes the several Earths of the novel – than focusing on creating a happy ending. ( )