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Chargement... Red Dust (Cuban Science Fiction) (2004)par Yoss
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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. What can I say? I’ll read a Yoss book any day. Up to his usual fun, rollicking standards. A Chandler-esque delight, with aliens. ( ) This is a space opera with multiple allusions to Raymond Chandler and other mystery writers (and a big thanks to Asimov). An impossible hero fights impossible foes, with some help from a sidekick, all against impossible odds. With borrowed tropes and the humorous mixing of them, Yoss entertains us in an exemplary fashion. The bad guys are as bad as they can be, but the forces against them have a few tricks up their sleeve. With a bow to Japanese special attack units and a single-minded focus on revenge, most of the loose ends get tied up in the end. This is an anti-romantic tale without any of the obligatory love interest - if there had been one, it would have garnered five stars. Stellar. Absolutely loved this novel. Its Raymond Chandler by way of great science fiction. Murder mystery set in space by a synthetic positronic android robot, think Data from Star Trek, in world ruled by aliens who keep humans out of the greater space and economy beyond their own galaxy. The story is an obvious tribute to Raymond Chandler and it is really really good. So good. Read a Raymond Chandler book before or immediately after Red Dust and you will get it. Its dang good. Murder mystery that in the end - the solving of the crime and the threads that the crime unravels will foretell humanities place in space - humanities very future. Themes of politics and friendship and noir abound in heaving spoonfuls. The Santa Ana winds are blowing hard tonight; what else are you gonna do? Pick up a knife maybe?
The narrative . . is action-packed—literally jumping from one adventure to another—and the conclusion’s highly satisfying. No real thematic punch but a fast, furious, and genuinely fun read. Cuban sf writer Yoss adds a dash of detective noir to his latest space opera.... Yoss has created inventive and dimensional characters within a meticulously orchestrated, richly detailed, world-building mystery that will appeal to Terry Pratchett fans. Yoss plays the mix of sci-fi and square-jawed detective fiction for some big laughs while layering in loving allusions to the greats of both genres. Though the mile a minute plot briefly stalls for some late-night philosophizing between the heroes, it regains its footing and barrels into a cinematic shoot-out of a finale, complete with bullets, blasters, and samurai swords.
"From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals. On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the aliens, praying-mantis-like Grodos with pheromonal speech and gargantuan Collosaurs with a limited sense of humor, kindly allow them to do business through properly controlled channels. That's where our hero comes in, name of Raymond. As part of the android police force, this positronic robot detective navigates both worlds, human and alien, keeping order and evaporating wrongdoers. But nothing in his centuries of experience prepares him for Makrow 34, a fugitive Cetian perp with psi powers. Meaning he can alter the shape of the Gaussian bell curve of statistical probability--making it rain indoors, say, or causing a would-be captor to shoot himself in the face. Raymond will need all his training--and all his careful study of Chandler's hardbitten cops--to meet his match. As he did in his brilliantly funny and sharp science-fiction parables A Planet for Rent, Super Extra Grande, and Condomnauts, Yoss makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar in Red Dust, giving us an unforgettable half-human hero and a richly imagined universe where the bad guys are above the laws of physics."--Provided by publisher. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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