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Chargement... Second Star (Star Svensdotter #1) (édition 2011)par Dana Stabenow
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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. I bought this book because I'm going through withdrawal after having finished the twenty books in Dana Stabenow's Kate Shugak series and because I was curious to see how Dana Stabenow, would handle Science Fiction. On her website, Dana Stabenow says she wrote "Second Star" "in response to the Challenger blowing up, a story about a space program that worked. Rage is a great motivator. " The result is a book, in the tradition of Heinlein and Niven, that is in love with the dream of space exploration and believes that it can be brought about by courage, ingenuity, a strong will and an absolute refusal to accept bullshit. "Second Star" follows Star Svendotter in the final weeks of her project to build a space habitat at Lagrange 5. Svendotter is an indomitable Alaskan woman who leads from the front and is willing to act as judge, jury and executioner when necessary. She is practical, demanding, manipulative when necessary, goal-focused and completely enthralled by getting the science to work. This is the opposite to the NASA management culture reported by the Rogers commission where Feynman concluded that "For a successful technology reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." In other words, when management thinking goes up against physics, physics always wins. Star Svendotter embodies this idea and made me cheer her on. "Second Star" is a good piece of science fiction that leans towards the hard science end of the genre and expects its readers to enjoy speculative science and to be familiar with Star Trek, Heinlein, and Asimov. There are points in the story that suffer from just little too much info-dumping but it mostly flows along just fine. For a book that is now twenty five years old, it's pleasing to see that the ideas still feel relevant and current. According to Dana Stabenow's website "Second Star" is available free as an ebook from the following places, so, if I've piqued your curiosity, you have to spend nothing but time and a little imagination to satisfy yourself Second Star is now available as an absolutely free ebook! (Or as near to it as Amazon and B&N will let us get). On Stabenow.com1, a FREE (and DRM-free) mobi and ePub On Amazon2, for your Kindle. On Barnes & Noble3, for your Nook. On iTunes, for your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch. This is a good solid sci-fi read. There are lots of fun sections with descriptions of how things are and how the people act out in the space frontier building a habitat for humans. The usual life is enough in itself, but there are a couple of things going on in human relations, political intrigue, and more. Star is still alive at the end of it and I'll look for her in other books. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieStar Svensdotter (1)
When the Betelgeuse message was detected, it changed a lot of things on Earth. We began to look seriously outward, not with the heady optimism of the early days, but with deliberate calculation. We knew that Someone was out there, and that eventually, they'd be coming. If Earth didn't occupy the High Frontier, it could be ours to lose. Esther "Star" Svensdotter's job is overseeing the completion of the American Alliance's first O'Neill cylinder -- a massive space hub capable of supporting thousands of colonists. It's just weeks away from commissioning, and she'll be damned if Luddite terrorists, squabbling bureaucrats, military takeovers or rogue AIs will stand in the way. Frontier justice on Ellfive sometimes involves an airlock -- you don't want to be on the wrong side of justice. Or the wrong side of Star Svensdotter. The first in Dana Stabenow's Star Svensdotter trilogy, Second Star is a tale of first contact, declarations of independence, and new frontiers. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Although I'm a great admirer of NASA and think we need to do more with space exploration, reading sci-fi tends to shut down my brain for some reason. Is it because I just don't know that much about space flight, the solar system, etc to know what's "real" and what's not? Could be. I'm also not a fan of magical realism so perhaps I just like my novels grounded in 'reality.' I do, curiously, like horror. Hmm. Anyway, I do want to explore the genre and intend to read more sci-fi in 2012.
I enjoyed the characters in Second Star and may eventually pick up the other two novels in the trilogy. There are definite similarities between some of the characters/ideas in Second Star and the Kate Shugak series, which I found appealing rather than distracting. The writing/flow of the novel is a bit uneven, but not enough to take away from the reading experience. This is, after all, Stabenow's first published novel and I do think it's a quality story. I may have just noticed some unevenness from being familiar with Stabenow's more recent, experienced writing.
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