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Chargement... The Winds of Altair [1983 expanded version]par Ben Bova
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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 usual, Bova adds the human element to this sci-fi thriller. Yes, it looks and feels a lot like the movie, "Avatar" and has the same moral lesson to be learned from the conundrum proposed. Also, the evil religious bishop reappears as in other Bova novels. I liked this one. It made me, as a reader, consider the answers to the hard questions. Earth is bursting with 17 billion people and the inevitable friction between that many people. A way out is presented to a lucky few who go off to colonise an alien plant around a distant star sponsored by the church. But the planet is inhospitable with unbreathable atmosphere and living creatures. The only hope is to terraform, but at the cost of wiping out all life on the planet. To help in the process, the scientists implant some of the higher order wildlife with devices that enable people to control the actions of the alien creatures. But they discover that they are not dumb brutes and the result is a struggle between the leaders of the mission and the scientists as to whether they should terraform, return to Earth or pursue some other course of action. Although written in the early 1970s, there are some parallels with the present situation. This is a good read, but not Ben Bova's best. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Earth is an old planet, and her teeming masses are running out of resources-and time. It is up to men such as Jeff Holman to discover a haven for Earth's millions. Altair VI is one such planet, and Holman is determined to transform this world into one where the human race can survive. Star probes long ago informed Earth that Altair VI had a flourishing ecology with one very tough beast at the top of the food chain, one that will have to be dealt with before the human colony ships arrive. The beast is not only tough, it is as smart as a man. Holman is faced with a soul-wrenching decision-for to make Altair VI habitable for humans, all native life must die. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I do enjoy Ben Bova's crisp narrative style and the characters are strong. And human, all too human. ( )