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Chargement... Fire Time (1974)par Poul Anderson
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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 one of Anderson's more satisfying novels for me. It involves a system in which a "demon star" periodically moves through the region of a planet which usually has a fairly normal earthlike climate. This disrupts the lives of a militant nomadic culture of aliens --usually they just suffer, but this time they have a strong capable leader of the Genghis Khan type (though they are not horse archers) who is leading his people to invade the more settled lands and escape the worst effects of the demon star. The settled aliens have good relations with the local human colony, some of whose small military decide to help their friends despite Terran laws against it. Spoiler warning: My favorite moment is when the nomad leader is heroically killed but has a death vision of leading both races in war against the demon star. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In this classic science fiction adventure, a fiery doomsday threatens an alien world--and the human colonists who have made it their home. Firetime is coming to Ishtar. This once-in-a-millennium event occurs when one of the planet's three suns encroaches on Ishtar's surface, to disastrous effect. The nightmare rapidly approaching, barbaric tribes have declared war on their more civilized brethren in hopes of avoiding a natural extermination. Standing between the opposing forces are the colonists who settled on Ishtar after abandoning their home planet, Earth. But in this time of chaos and destruction, there is little the humans can do to aid their Ishtarian allies in the desperate fight for survival. The Terran powers, engaged in their own terrible conflict with a hostile alien race, will offer no help to the endangered planet. With a fiery doomsday on the way, the humans can do nothing but watch and wait--and pray for a miracle that will forestall the inevitable apocalypse. A stunning work of speculative invention from one of the all-time masters of science fiction and fantasy, Poul Anderson's classic Fire Time is a richly imagined tale of war, alien contact, and environmental catastrophe that brilliantly questions the concepts of right and wrong, good and evil, and heroism and villainy. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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La parte norte del planeta siempre era la más afectada. Sus habitantes, los bárbaros tassui, habían decidido no volver a ser las víctimas del Tiempo de Fuego y en consecuencia se lanzaron a la conquista de mejores territorios, amenazando acabar con la civilización.