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Chargement... Star Guard (1955)par Andre Norton
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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. A blast from my junior high past. This page turner almost 50 years ago. I have been inserting my old sci-fi in my reading stream now they are out of the sore room and onto my library shelf. Great adventure story with a positive forward looking spin for mankind. Well described alien sense of place with 2D characters but that was OK. These are not character studies. People get into trouble on alien worlds, usually due to heinous aliens and/or their human collaborators, and then they get out. A little stilted in places but a surprisingly dense read that gould have doubled in length. ( ) Set in a somewhat different strand of Norton's future history stories, this boos is set approximately three hundred years after Terrans have made it into space. Not as masters of their own destiny, however, but as the barbarians of the star lanes, forced to become mercenaries in the wars of alien beings, either to open up trade routes for the merchants of the older races of Central Command, or in the dynastic squabbles of less developed races that wanted the prestige of having offworld mercenaries spearheading their forces. Karr finds himself involved in such a dispute on the primitive world of Fronn, where his Horde of mercenaries are attempting to put a pretender on the local throne. But their mission goes down the tubes when their employer is killed by an offworld flamer. Highly illegal for combat on Fronn and the Horde realise they are in real trouble when their commanders are murdered in a parley to arrange their expatriation. The remnants have to fight their way to a place of safety in a world where (almost) every hand is turned against them. But how deep does the plotting go that would allow advanced tech be used on a low tech planet? Karr finds out as he makes a dangerous journey into the underworld of Terra! This is a return to more traditional science fiction themes than I have read of Andre Norton's books most recently and there's little in it to really date the book when compared to modern times. One of my favorite books of all time. The main character is duty bound, but thrown into a world of political and universal intrigue. I thought his character was very well fleshed out. A young soldier put into a world of deceit and danger a universe away from home. Cool plot to overthrow the system. Great book. Andre Norton was one of my favorite authors when I was a pre-teen and teenager. The small sized Ace paperbacks were among my favorite things to read. This one is an oldie from 1955 in a 1961 paperback edition. I was a little slow to warm to the story of a young recruit just out of training who is sent on his first military mission. Earthmen are mercenaries for the galaxy - not by choice really, but they have been forced into that role by "Central Control" once humans first went into interstellar space. The focal point of our story, young Kana Karr is a mixed race human whose identity bracelet marks him as Australian-Malay-Hawaiian, age eighteen. He's smart and observant and the team he is with makes some startling discoveries. This is clearly an adventure story aimed at younger boys, but it has a lot of intrigue in it which broadens the appeal. I don't think there is a single female character in the entire book despite this being written by a woman! That struck me as really strange. Norton does a really good job I think in describing the alien world the soldiers find themselves involved in. The cultural and political stuff wasn't exactly the clearest and the ending was abrupt and should have been handled better. There are one or two additional novels that follow from this story. I may read them. Overall the story was interesting enough for me to read but I don't think if I had read this back when I was 13 or 14 or so I would have thought it one of Norton's better works. It does seem to have aged better than many other books I've read from the mid 50's. Still, I'm a little disappointed this wasn't better. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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