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Chargement... 2312par Kim Stanley Robinson
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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. As someone who adores and has reread the MArs Trilogy multiple times, I'm so pleased that this exists. I will be rereading it for sure. I love the worldbuilding and the characters and just the whole thing makes me happy. ( ) I was forewarned that this book moves slowly, and I found that to be true. However, I was in a rare mood where that didn't bother me. My major take-away is that some themes were introduced and their implications left unexplored. (I can't say much more without straying into spoiler territory.) I most enjoyed the mega-engineering aspects of the story: colonizing the planets, moons, and asteroids throughout the Solar system. That's the sort of thing I fell in love with as a child of the Gemini/Apollo era. Robinson doesn't delve deep into the economic reasonableness of such activity, though, and the adult me thinks that is a bit of a cheat or sloppy oversight. If I were to recommend this book to a friend, I would include plenty of caveats and probably try to direct them to a similar book with better pacing. Overall: 5/10, Not worth the read. 2312 has a lot of really strong points. The diegesis (world) is extremely interesting, basically creating a very realistic look at colonizing our solar system and even its asteroids. All the politics and social challenges facing the solar system are clever and insightful, especially the socio-economic differences between the colonies and Earth. Lastly, intrapersonal identity is also explored, from gender to body modification and technological integration. However, all these brilliant components do not make engaging content. The main problem with the book is its story and structure, making it mostly worthless. In fact, I would encourage the author to rewrite the entire thing. The story is a really boring account of a terrorist attack. 20% of the book is spent with two characters walking through a tunnel. The minor story arc about an Earthing the main character saves does not end up having enough relevance to justify its inclusion. The common scifi device of explaining facts about the world through quoted books from the period is used, but is also done so poorly that it makes all those pages worthless. In the end, a lot of good material is wasted and bad content is stuffed into a never-ending book. There will be no rating. This book is a journey. There is a story too of course, but it is dissolved in the world this book walks in. And oh this world... there is no expression for it. It is transhuman but yet so close somehow, so really "what must be". This one is positive. Strange. Probably one of the most positive futures without been too bright. I skipped a lot. A really really lot. There was too much words for me. But every time I've done that I catched a thought that it is because of easiness to feel and believe, because of knowing what it is already... Really can't rate it. It's no use to rate someones future life. This book is a slog and the main character, Swan, is not very likeable. I really wanted to like this book. This future world with terraformed planets, asteroid terrariums, and modified humans was fascinating but I felt the book went off on too many tangents describing the world and not enough focus on moving the plot forward. I struggled to remain engaged in the story and I’ve decided not to finish. Not a decision that comes lightly. I don’t abandon books no matter how predictable or poorly written because I’m usually driven to see how a book ends. I gave 3 stars to be fair since I didn’t complete it. The writing is good but at the halfway point, I’ve read enough and don’t imagine the book will suddenly change style.
In his vibrant, often moving new novel, "2312," Robinson's extrapolation is hard-wired to a truly affecting personal love story. Kim Stanley Robinson's 17th novel is complex and sometimes bewildering, 500 pages crammed full of strange but decent characters whose actions play out against a vastly constructed utopian background. ... [Robinson's] boldest trip into all of the marvelous SF genres—ethnography, future shock, screed against capitalism, road to earth—and all of the ways to thrill and be thrilled. It's a future history that's so secure and comprehensive that it reads as an account of the past—a trick of craft that belongs almost exclusively to the supreme SF task force of Le Guin and Margaret Atwood. (Starred review) In a spectacularly depicted future of interplanetary colonization, humanity has spread across the entire solar system, from miniature biomes in hollowed-out asteroids to a moving city racing the fatal rays of the sun on Mercury. A small, clever novel obscured rather than enlightened by philosophy, synthesis, analysis and travelogue. Prix et récompensesDistinctions
"2312. Le système solaire a été colonisé après que la Terre a été ravagée par les effets de la pollution. L'humanité peut compter sur le qubes, ces ordinateurs quantiques miniaturisés et parfois greffés directement au cerveau, pour l'épauler dans ses efforts de survie. Des satellites sont terraformés, des astéroïdes forés pour y installer des terrariums et les transformer en vaisseaux spatiaux ; chacun peut choisir ou modifier son sexe ; les chercheurs repoussent chaque jour un peu plus les limites de la longévité. Sur Mercure, dans le cité mobile Terminateur, Swan, conceptrice de terrariums et artiste de l'extrême, est accablée par le décès soudain de sa grande-belle-mère Alex, un personnage très influent qui nourrissait pour l'humanité de vastes projets soigneusement tenus secrets de tous les réseaux qubiques. accompagnée de Wahram, un associé d'Alex, et de Genette, une inspectrice de la Police Interplanétaire, Swan part sur Io en quête de réponses aux interrogations soulevées par la mort suspecte de son aïeule. Elle qui faisait profession d'imaginer des mondes se retrouve bientôt au cœur d'une vaste conspiration visant à les détruire. Kim Stanley Robinson met son imagination sans limites au service de la description d'un univers d'une complétude et d'une véracité parfaites. Avec 2312, couronné du Nebula du meilleur roman, l'auteur de la Trilogie martienne nous livre son grand œuvre." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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