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Chargement... Romance on Four Worlds: A Casanova Quartet (édition 2016)par Tom Purdom (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreRomance on Four Worlds: A Casanova Quartet par Tom Purdom
Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  reading_fox | Feb 23, 2022 |    Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.The themes: the rapturous duets of lovers, the pursuit of love, and the technological discordances that threaten both. From the forests of a Mercury habitat to the Kuiper Belt, Joe Baske devotes his life, like his 18th idol Giacomo Casanova, to the pursuit of women. Not merely the physically beautiful, but the competent, the intelligent, the graceful for beauty has many manifestations. The thrill of Joe’s consummation may last only 45 minutes … or years, but a fleeting emotion of such power is still a real emotion. His secret, he tells one of the many men who asks about it, is not the sex he offers. It is the talk, the companionship, his concentration and fascination, treating his lovers as real women with “desires and needs of their own”. But things are getting harder for Baske. He’s a 1998 product of random genes and a time of “parental whims and biochemical accidents”. But the women he woos across the 21st century are increasingly the result of checkbox genetic selection and personality modification. Can the pursuit of love survive in a world where one can choose to dampen the call of sex? The growing gulf between the ramshackle and slow mind of Baske and the engineered brilliance of the women he pursues? The criminal opportunities of modeling and manipulating personalities? The angry psychosis of men thwarted, by superior rivals, in the ancient, powerful search for love and sex? When humans become instruments tuned to self-chosen desires, how long can they -- and will they -- sound together in the harmony of romantic love? Other themes besides the old ones of sex and love sound in the background. Economies where necessities are provided now have more time for struggles for status and the control of others. Not only does Baske have plenty of opportunity to play his beloved Bach, he also practices his other talent, escape and evasion, in the various tactical combat puzzles of each story when his amorous pursuits are threatened. (  )3  RandyStafford | Jun 2, 2015 | Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.I like to finish books that I receive for free, so I can give accurate reviews and honest ones. However, this is the first time that I was no able to even finish the first chapter. I just couldn't get into the book. This is not my cup of tea and I'm sure if it is someone else's, they will love it. (  ) dndizzle | Apr 9, 2015 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The Moon. Phobos. The Kuiper Belt. A giant globe-circling habitat on Mercury. Joseph Louis Baske roams the Solar System in the same way the great 18th century adventurer, Giacomo Casanova, roamed across Europe--and gets in trouble for the same reason. Romance is the glory of his days. It never lasts, but every episode is an adventure. "I have loved architects, engineers, musicians, politicians, geologists, surgeons, athletes, economists, and women who approached activities like diving and mountaineering with the same passion I have lavished on the central concern of my life," Joe writes. "From all of them I have learned something. The shortest route to someone's affections is to listen."Analog reviewer Don Sakers summed up Tom Purdom's first collection Lovers and Fighters, Starships and Dragons as "a perfect blend of really cool ideas and believable, sympathetic characters." Purdom's Casanova Quartet applies the same formula to a happy, freewheeling vision of the future awaiting mankind. "...delightful... a surprising amount of depth and sympathy... These deeply human post-human romances exemplify a new and exciting way of combining romance and SF, and they are a pleasure from beginning to end." --Publishers Weekly starred review"This whole moderately transhuman milieu of the initial adventure... Illustrates Purdom's ability and desire to write the best postmodern SF that he can.... it's not any off-the-shelf inhabited Solar System scenario, but a clever fleshing out of trends visible in our present day.... Purdom succeeds in fashioning some farcical yet genuinely speculative and authentic romps along themes that are noticeably and regrettably absent from so much SF." --Paul Di Filippo, Locus"One can't help but fall for the charm of Joseph Louis Baske.... I got increasingly excited by Baske's adventures as I went through, and I particularly enjoyed a subtle mellowing-out of the writing in the later stories, a humor from Purdom that made Baske even more likable. Overall, the collection is a fun read with some depth, excellent world-building, and some interesting character building that makes the reader wonder what character even is. These are a strong bunch of stories that are even better together--definitely worth a look." --Colleen Chen, Tangent Online"...a delightful little book chronicling the travels of a future Casanova.... These are classic picaresque tales, modern comedies of manners in which Baske gets himself into and out of trouble in the most amusing ways. That the characters are engaging and believable goes without saying--Purdom writes great people--but the four societies depicted are also a lot of fun." --Don Sakers, Analog Science Fiction and Fact Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Our Cassanova having had a share of affairs, elects not to do this. He's aware he is more powerfully attracted to certain people than is normal, and that such conquests fade over time, from days to a few years, but the highs experiences compensate for any of the trouble it bring him. But what makes this very different, is that there's almost no physical contact, he enjoys such acts, but the allure of the chase, the connection of tow souls across the ether is what he finds so special. Spending vast fortunes on a few fleeting moments of honesty with such partners is worth any price - and of course in the future it's not exactly hard work to earn more. Each novella covers a different scenario and time in his life - another man's wife kidnapped on the moon; a politician's earnest desire to vote against competing family pressures, an attempted scam (this was very clever) and finally an bitter and jealous 'rival' who has misunderstood everything cassanova stands for.
This could have been crass and/or course, and manages to be neither, elevated instead with a deft touch and a light imagination of possibilities. I'm not normally a romance reader, and don't generally like the novella format, but linked together in this manner it was really quite enjoyable - perhaps partly by novelty but worthy of note nonetheless. (