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Chargement... Le Feu sacrépar Bruce Sterling
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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. Extraordinary and creative, full of ideas in a future world where little by little the old have extended their lifespan and control wealth and public policy. Our protagonist is one of these people, most of whom are women, and she takes a radical rejuvenation procedure. This makes her physically very young again as well as losing a lot of her personality and she falls in with young radicals bucking against the system ruled by the gerontocracy. Absolutely gorgeous at times, but also pretentious but overall highly recommended. While Reading: Struggling to find a character I can connect with. Maybe the dog. The "tech" of the science fiction is .. unique but being made to feel outdated, even by the story's standards. The whole story seems to be linked to an older brain, older generation. Maybe that's why I'm struggling. Will keep attempting for now... ----- I'm not 100% sure how I feel about this book. None of the characters grab me... except maybe the dog. And the dog disappears after a couple pages. It is a story about later parts of life and how things happen. It covers someone in their 90s realizing they're old. And wanting change. Maybe it doesn't set because I'm not nearing that age range or something... Definitely leaning toward a dud book on this one. A shame, the writing isn't bad, but the story line just isn't catching... The book moves so slow, that it takes 46 pages to get the first chapter complete and frankly, not much happens until the last four pages. I just can't find the energy to keep reading. Dropping this into the nice try pile and moving to my next book. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The 21st century is coming to a close, and the medical industrial complex dominates the world economy. It is a world of synthetic memory drugs, benevolent government surveillance, underground anarchists, and talking canine companions. Power is in the hands of conservative senior citizens who have watched their health and capital investments with equal care, gaining access to the latest advancements in life-extension technology. Meanwhile, the young live on the fringes of society, ekeing out a meagre survival on free, government-issued rations and a black market in stolen technological gadgetry from an earlier, less sophisticated age. Mia Ziemann is a 94-year-old medical economist who enjoys all the benefits of her position. But a deathbed visit with a long-ago ex-lover and a chance meeting with a young bohemian dress-designer brings Mia to an awful revelation. She has lived her life with such caution that it has been totally bereft of pleasure and adventure. She has one chance to do it all over. But first she must submit herself to a radical--and painful--experimental procedure which promises to make her young again. The procedure is not without risk and her second chance at life will not come without a price. But first she will have to escape her team of medical keepers. Hitching a ride on a plane to Europe, Mia sets out on a wild intercontinental quest in search of spiritual gratification, erotic revelation, and the thing she missed most of all: the holy fire of the creative experience. She joins a group of outlaw anarchists whose leader may be the man of her dreams...or her undoing. Worst of all, Mia will have to undergo one last radical procedure that could cost her a second life. In Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling once again creates a unique and provocative future that deals with such timeless topics of the human condition as love, memory, science, politics, and the meaning of death. Poginant, lyrical, humorous, and often shocking, Holy Fire offers a hard unsparing look into a world that could become our own. From the Paperback edition. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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