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Chargement... The Reformer (1999)par S. M. Stirling, David Drake (Auteur)
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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 referred to as a Raj Whitehall novel, the 7th in the series, but it really isn't. Instead, the story has moved to a new planet, one that has fallen back to swords and slings. Raj and Center contact a young scholar via a meteorite that is kept as a ceremonial artifact, and start feeding him technology. With technology, a pair of brothers try to overthrow the existing Roman style empire and start the long progress toward spacetravel. Unfortunately, this book felt like a repeat of the previous 6, and really didn't offer anything new. Sample Chapters: http://webscriptions.net/chapters/067157860X/067157860X.htm aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieThe General (7)
After the collapse of the galactic Web, civilizations crumbled and chaos reigned on thousands of planets. Only on planet Bellevue was there a difference. There, a Fleet Battle Computer named Center had survived from the old civilization. When it found Raj Whitehall, the man who could execute its plan for reviving human civilization, he and Center started Bellevue back on the road leading to the stars; and when Bellevue reached that goal, Center sent copies of itself and Raj to the thousands of worlds still waiting for the light of civilization to dawn. On Hafardine, civilization had fallen further than most. That men came from the stars was not even a rumor of memory in Adrian Gellert's day. The Empire of Vanbret spread across the lands in a sterile splendor that could only end in another collapse, more ignominious and complete than the first. Adrian Gellert was a philosopher, a student whose greatest desire was a life of contemplation in the service of wisdom...until he touched the holy relic that contained the disincarnate minds of Raj Whitehall and Center. On that day, Adrian's search for wisdom would lead him to a life of action, from the law-courts of Vanbret to the pirate cities of the Archipelago -- and battlefields bloodier than anything in the history he'd learned. The prize was the future of humanity. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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What about other technologies that would have at least equal- albeit less blatant- advantages for a culture? Such as cooking tech? That has done at least as much to advance human culture as gunpowder et alia.
Our Heroes here- 1 is focused on a grudge, because when he was involved in an insurrection his beloved got killed. He has vowed revenge. OK... but the insurrection was what caused her death. No insurrection, she'd be alive. And since he was spearhaeading said insurre3ction- well the authors are not as far as i can see subtle enough to show his actual guilt as a motivation.
Also; NO GIRLS ALLOWED. I'm about halfway through, and there's one chick who might actually matter... but mostly, they're ignored. And one exception does not a presence make.
Boring.. And that's its better quality
I usually finish books I've started. I almost never stop in the middle. I am doing that here- it's just too tedious for words, and life's too short to read bad fiction.
Very much NOT recommended. ( )