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Chargement... Hellflowerpar Eluki Bes Shahar
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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. I found Hellflower to be an interesting read. It took me about 1 week, so at 252 pages I covered about 30 pages a day. I read Honor Harrington books in a day to two, while textbooks take me months. There was alot of use of regional and slang dialect invented for the book. The main characters are Butterfly St. Cyr, a legal/illegal trader with her own small space ship, with police warrants and some tragic parts of her backstory. She has a friend and helper named Paladin which is a highly illegal AI computer. Her life becomes more complicated when she saves a hellflower warrior who she calls Tiggy Stardust. The three of them have a violent difficult time staying alive while taking the jobs that can keep her flying between the planets of the Phoenix Empire. Butterfly’s options become more and more limited as the powerful players around her close in and whose motivations she can’t figure out. Her secret weapons include a reckless moxie, the aid of Paladin and the nearly insane and honor bound hellflower. These secret advantages help her move through the story while keeping one step ahead of the closing noose of Imperial affairs. ( ) An action-packed space opera told from the point-of-view of a lower-class, female outcast teamed up with an equally outcast AI. The narrator's recklessness got on my nerves, but it's standard fare in this kind of adventure story. There are lots of interesting plot twists as the main characters try to figure out how they've become pawns in the machinations of the big houses. The characters are likable, and the plot moves along.
This was a very Andre Norton-esque adventure, filled with dead or dying civilizations, surprisingly affordable starflight, a draconian government somehow coexisting with powerful criminal organizations, and thrilling adventures narrated from the very bottom of the social heap. Not a bad debut novel. In fact, it was notable enough to get a three-in-one omnibus from the Science Fiction Book Club. The author's first SF novel and the first part of a proposed trilogy, this involves Butterfly St. Cyr, an interplanetary smuggler (her contraband ranges from philosophy texts to an undefined item called ``never-you-mind''p . 15 ). Butterfly's life goes askew when she finds herself entangled with Valijon Starbringer (or, as Butterfly calls him, ``Tiggy Stardust''), a young member of the alMayne (colloquially called ``hellflowers'') royalty. Butterfly is in possession of a sentient and illegal computer called a Library, named Paladin, whose existence she must go to great lengths to keep secret. Further, she has been coerced into doing a job involving a second Library, one not nearly so genteel as Paladin. There are some interesting uses of language (foreign word derivations like ``purdu'' and ``che-bai''),p.176, 13 and some funny bits (a chapter titled ``How to File for Moral Bankruptcy''p.180 ). But the alMayne are yet another race of large, temperamental, animalistic humanoids with a bizarre code of honor. And does the SF genrepk really need another sentient computer? Still, this is a breezy read with a good mix of humor, adventure and politics. (June) Est contenu dansContient un commentaire de texte de
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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