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Chargement... L'Empire du centurionpar Sean McMullen
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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. This novel postulates an interesting "what if?" A Roman Centurion stumbles on an opportunity to take advantage of a cryogenic technique and, after a fashion, travel through time. The book touches on a few interesting historical stops but the primary focus is on an imagined future 21st Century and the frantic efforts of our hero to simply stay alive in this future world. The book rambles, digresses, and seems to lose it's focus quite a lot but the story line is interesting enough to carry the reader through much of that. Should note that McMullen's imagined world of 2029, now only a dozen years away, is wildly off the mark. I was surprised, when I checked the publication date, that McMullen had set his future world such a short time away. The future he postulates would have been more convincing had it been set a couple of decades further out. . ( ) Minireview: In the first century CE, Roman Centurion Vitellan finds a way to freeze himself and sleep through the years without aging, travelling through time the slow way. After brief encounters with Vikings and the Hundred Years' War, the bulk of the plot is set in the 21st century, as Vitellan and other travellers like him become objects of adoration for cults. Although the book can drift a bit, its focus on the central character of Vitellan helps keep it from sprawling as badly as Souls in the Great Machine, the only other book by McMullen I've read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"In the year that Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, Vitellan set off for the twenty-first century as Imperial Rome's last human time machine. He killed an unfaithful lover by just letting her grow old, but her hate pursued him across seven centuries. Later in 1358 he stood with a few dozen knights against an army of nine thousand to defend the life of a beautiful countess...and earned a love that would conquer death." "Vitellan has awakened in the twenty-first century, a bewildered fugitive, betrayed and hunted in a world where minds and bodies are swapped and memories are bought, sold, and read like books. But worst of all, a deadly enemy from the fourteenth century is still very much alive - and closing in."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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