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La planète géante (1951)

par Jack Vance

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Charley Lysidder, the Bajarnum of Beaujolais, was ruthlessly expanding his empire on the Big Planet. The objective of the mission from Earth was to ensure that the whole world didn¿t fall under the domination of the tyrant. But, when sabotage brought down the spacecraft carrying the mission, the priority changed. The survivors of the crash faced an epic 40,000 mile trek to deftly, across the vast and unknown surface of the planet, harassed by monsters and the native people, and by each other.… (plus d'informations)
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En el fabuloso marco del planeta Gigante, una de las mejores y más imaginativas creaciones de Vance, Claude Glystra, enviado especial de Central Tierra, vivirá una apasionante aventura y tendrá ocasión de conocer cuanto de bueno y malo encierra la naturaleza humana.
  Natt90 | Nov 11, 2022 |
Jack Vance, una delle firme più apprezzate dai nostri lettori, e a ragione, torna gli onori della ribalta. Per questa sua Odissea di Glystra, la fantasia dell'autore ha creato un affascinante pianeta, sconvolgente per la sua immensità, misterioso e terribile per la complessità della sua natura e dei suoi abitanti. Ha dato vita a un simpatico personaggio, il terrestre Claude Glystra, vivo e vero con le sue debolezze, i suoi errori, il suo prudente coraggio. Cosa fareste voi, trovandovi a dover affrontare un mondo sconosciuto ma che sapete pericoloso e ostile? Cosa fareste, rendendovi improvvisamente conto che fra i vostri compagni di avventura si nasconde un traditore al quale non sapete però dare un nome e un volto? Sul Pianeta Gigante, Glystra si trova esattamente in queste condizioni, e deve affrontarle da solo perchè non può più tornare indietro, perchè la Terra è ormai troppo lontana, perchè la Colonia Terrestre, l'unico posto dal quale gli potrebbero arrivare aiuti, si trova sull'altro emisfero del pianeta ed è all'oscuro di tutto, e lui non ha modo di informarla. La maniera in cui Jack Vance sviluppa e conduce la trama del suo romanzo è fra le più abili e le più convincenti. E alla fine della lettura, molti sogneranno di poter vivere in una città simile alla favolosa Kirstendale del Pianeta Gigante.

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LE GRANDI CAVERNE - 4° puntata - Storie di pianeti
The Martian Way and other stories

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LE FRONTIERE DEL CIELO - Curiosità scientifiche
  M.Antonia | Mar 11, 2021 |
It was a pleasure to find a Jack Vance book which I hadn't read before. This is a famous planetary romance, set on the eponymous Big Planet. This world is huge, lacking in metal, and filled with disparate wacky cultures and individuals self-exiled from Earth. But Earth maintains a watchful presence there nevertheless, watchful for tyrants like the Bajarnum of Beaujolais. A party of Earthmen set out to correct the behaviour of this Bajarnum, only to crash land due to treachery forty-thousand miles from their destination.

The characters in the Earth party are led by Claude Glystra. All are rather briefly sketched; more attention is paid to the landscapes, piquant places and golden sunsets of the Big Planet.

This book reminded me of Vance's Planet of Adventure which shares similar themes and is the superior of the two in my opinion. However Big Planet was a moderately enjoyable read with many memorable encounters. ( )
1 voter questbird | Mar 20, 2015 |
Uno dei primissimi romanzi di Vance, e si vede: non è certo uno dei migliori, acerbo e troppo frettoloso, ma lo stile unico già si riconosce. Godibile ma modesto. ( )
  senio | Jan 10, 2015 |
Not sure where I heard about this one; maybe Damon Knight's "In Search of Wonder." I thought it sounded interesting and I finally found a copy.

It's a quick read. It strikes me as a proto-Ringworld - the planet it takes place on is literally a big planet (maybe Jupiter size or larger), and the descendants of the colonists have formed different societies, and there are nomads and lawless bands and so on. There is little or no metal in the planet itself, so metal from offworlders carries immense value.

It begins with a ship crash, and the survivors needing to get to the one place where Earth has a presence. So they travel through various territories, and then the plot takes a twist and gets resolved neatly and quickly. I'm not a huge fan of the abrupt ending; on the other hand, if this had been written today, I could see where you could stretch it into a huge series of 'Song of Ice and Fire'-length tomes.

There are some troubling racial undertones (not particularly surprising, and not too prominent). I think there was room for Vance to stretch it out a little bit, but all in all it's a fun read and I'm curious to read the follow-up (which stands on its own as it only shares the setting of Big Planet). ( )
1 voter wjohnston | Nov 9, 2013 |
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Like Cabell, Vance in this book (and of course others) declined the chance at world-building, preferring instead to construct scenarios which the reader is forced to accept purely on their own terms. ... Well, that was OK, I guess, quite fun in places, but, er, so what?
 
Instead of a thinly rationalized displacement of the opulent East or some other mundane historical epoch to an extraterrestrial setting, Big Planet was fully thought through, its ecology, economics, technology, and political organization carefully formulated, so much so that the conviction persists that it is not the characters who serve as the book's protagonists, but rather Big Planet itself. ... Within larger contexts of idealism radically challenged and the powerful rendered powerless, Vance makes many telling points as his richly dramatic adventure story unfolds.
 

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Charley Lysidder, the Bajarnum of Beaujolais, was ruthlessly expanding his empire on the Big Planet. The objective of the mission from Earth was to ensure that the whole world didn¿t fall under the domination of the tyrant. But, when sabotage brought down the spacecraft carrying the mission, the priority changed. The survivors of the crash faced an epic 40,000 mile trek to deftly, across the vast and unknown surface of the planet, harassed by monsters and the native people, and by each other.

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