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Chargement... Strange Musicpar Alan Dean Foster
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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. Pip and Flinx are back, this time investigating shenanigans on a world that is still mired in local conflicts and thus not yet eligible for Confederacy membership. Despite the government ban on advanced Confederacy technology, another human has smuggled some in and is causing trouble; Flinx investigates—and becomes hunted himself. Foster spends a lot of time describing the exotic flora and fauna he’s imagined; this mostly had nostalgia value for me. I received this ARC from NetGalley to read and review. Thanks to the author and publisher. This is the story of a young man and his companion, a poisonous minidragon, both empaths and their latest adventure to save a world. I was so excited to see a new Pip and Flinx book that I dived in the moment it downloaded. I discovered them in the late '70s and have been a fan since. After I finished it I admit to being puzzled on how to review it. Maybe my memory of previous books was faulty - it has been years since I read them. Off to the bookshelves I went, randomly pulling Mid-Flinx and Flinx in Flux out. Spent the past few days rereading them. OK, memory wasn't wrong. They were and still are books I enjoy. This new Flinx entry doesn't have the same lightness of style as the older books. It's as if the author received a synopsis of his characters without having known them and wrote the book. Not saying its a bad book, if you never read the early stuff it might be OK. For a fan though, OK is not enough. I can recall things in every other book that still bring a smile. Strange Music is all the problems and adventure, without any of the fun. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Unlikely duo Pip and Flinx return to right another wrong in this all-new sci-fi adventure from one of the genre's living legends. Fans of fun, fast-paced, imaginative science fiction adventure, rejoice! #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to his much-loved Commonwealth series with a new novel starring the indefatigable Flinx and his venomous minidrag, Pip. Facing danger and doing good is their business. provided the price is right. The unexpected return of an old friend draws Flinx and Pip to the backward planet of Largess, whose seal-like denizens' primitive technology and fractious clan politics have kept a wary Commonwealth from a profitable trade relationship. But now a rogue human employing forbidden advanced weaponry threatens to ignite a war among the Larians. And Flinx is just the man to stop it before it starts. But once on Largess, Flinx discovers his empathic abilities--usually his greatest asset--are rendered useless by the natives' unique language, which is sung rather than spoken. Worse, the abduction of a powerful chieftain's daughter has raised tensions to the boiling point. Now Flinx must depend on his own mettle--and of course Pip, the devoted minidrag with the deadly edge--to right wrongs, mend fences, and battle a cold-blooded adversary armed with enough firepower to blow them all away. and destroy the chance for peace in Largess forever. Advance praise for Strange Music "Adventure-loving readers new to the series, as well as old fans, will enjoy [Alan Dean] Foster's return to Commonwealth space."--Publishers Weekly"--
"Empathic Flinx and his minidrag Pip have saved the universe more times than they can count, but the return of an old friend pulls the duo from their retirement and plunges them into a story of intrigue and imagination. The planet of Largess has recently opened itself to trade with the human-dominated Commonwealth. But when the daughter of a powerful chieftan goes missing, authorities believe a covert agent to be the cause. They need someone to track down the princess and roust the troublemaker, and to do so without alerting the whole planet to their involvement. Can Pip and Flinx, perpetual fish out of water, save the day?"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Go off to find trouble.
I mean, this is a standard Flinx adventure, after all. And fortunately, his biggest asset is neutralized fairly well by this new planet of singing seal-like aliens. They can fool him as they sing! It makes for good times for his mighty empathic warning system.
There are intrigue and kidnapping and huge economic and technological disparity, and as is usual with these novels... battle. No complaints from me. It's everything you might expect out of the Flinx novels. It follows a formula. A well-done formula with truly fascinating aliens and fun situations, but I'll be honest: there's nothing really new here aside from a race of aliens that speak in metered song and we're given all of that as a treat.
Overall, this is a very comfortable SF adventure and I recommend it to anyone just wanting to unwind. It is, after all, about saying hi to an old friend and his deadly minidrag. :)
Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC! ( )