Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956)
Auteur de Plutonia
A propos de l'auteur
Academician Vladimir Obruchev was an outstanding Soviet geologist and geographer, a famous explorer and investigator of Central Asia and Siberia, an indefatigable popularizer of scientific knowledge, who wrote thousands of scientific articles and a total of three science fiction novels
Œuvres de Vladimir Obruchev
Kesk-Aasia avarustes : aareteotsija märkmed 10 exemplaires
Kukushkin; a Geographer's Tales. with a Foreword by Peter Fleming. Translated and Edited by Vera Bowen (1961) 3 exemplaires
Plutonia / Zemlia Sannikova 3 exemplaires
Занимательная геология 2 exemplaires
Kukushkin, a geographer's tales 1 exemplaire
Goldsucher in der Wüste 1 exemplaire
" Puteshestvii͡a v proshloe i budushchee". 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Obruchev, Vladimir
- Nom légal
- Obruchev, Vladimir Afanasyevich
- Autres noms
- Обручев, Владимир Афанасьевич
- Date de naissance
- 1863-09-28
- Date de décès
- 1956-06-19
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Russia
- Lieu de naissance
- Klepenino, Tver Region, Russian Empire
- Lieu du décès
- Zvenigorod, USSR
- Lieux de résidence
- St Petersburg, Russia
- Études
- Petersburg Mining Institute
- Professions
- geologist
science fiction writer
Membres
Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Membres
- 122
- Popularité
- #163,289
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 12
- Langues
- 3
However unlike Journey to the Center of the Earth this is a true Hollow Earth novel with all of the geological absurdity that that implies, which is one of the few interesting aspects of the work.
The other good points are that its russian which (on very rare occasions) makes it feel a little different. Also there's some decent repartee amongst our protagonists at times.
Finally there are a few moments of interest towards the end of the novel.
The other 80% or so is unfortunately pretty boring. The writing is basic, and it gets pretty repetitive. See interesting creature, shoot interesting creature, have creature for dinner, rinse, repeat.
Even our hero's actually get bored after a while, and if people are bored with dinosaurs then there's clearly something very wrong ;) .
Not well written enough compared to earlier works and not action packed enough to compare with the pulps.… (plus d'informations)