Adam Browne
Auteur de Pyrotechnicon
Œuvres de Adam Browne
Neverland Blues (in Dreaming Again - DANN) 2 exemplaires
An Account of An Experiment 2 exemplaires
Honeymoon 2 exemplaires
Schrodinger's Catamaran 1 exemplaire
Freelance 1 exemplaire
Rococo Cola 1 exemplaire
The Sun King 1 exemplaire
Ad Nauseam 1 exemplaire
Heart of Saturday Night 1 exemplaire
Postdiluvian 1 exemplaire
Space Operetta 1 exemplaire
The Weatherboard Spaceship 1 exemplaire
The Nativity Plague 1 exemplaire
Bladderwrack 1 exemplaire
Exterminator Rex 1 exemplaire
Account Dracula 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume 4 (2008) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 20
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 38
- Popularité
- #383,442
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 5
The book tells the story of Cyrano de Bergerac's travels among the stars to win back his love Roxane, who has been abducted by the Master of Secrets, a malign alien being. On the way, Cyrano is assisted by Fritillary, an orang-utan with a lamp for a head, and Louis XVI, who has succeeded God and lives in a palace that is a life-size model of the universe.
This is fantasy written in the proto-science fiction style of the 19th century (e.g. Jules Verne). Browne dreams up houses made out of birds, a planet consisting entirely of mathematics, a ship propelled by nothing (because nothing is faster than light) and a host of other ideas. And that's my problem with this book. The language is florid, there are endless little puns, and Browne is more concerned with showing off his ideas than constructing a solid plot. His Cyrano is a pretty one-dimensional character as well, so I eventually got tired of the whole thing.… (plus d'informations)