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Lords of the Starship (1967)

par Mark S. Geston

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The ship was to be seven miles long, a third of a mile in diameter and have a wing-spread of three and a half miles. It would take two and a half centuries to construct. Its announced purpose: to carry humanity away from its ruined world, from the world that had become a perpetual purgatory.To build this vast ship would require the undivided activity of an entire nation and would mean carrying out a ruthless program of war and conquest, of annihilation and reconstruction, and of education and rediscovery.But was this starship really what it was claimed to be? Or was there a greater secret behind its incredible cost - a secret so strange that no man dared reveal it?… (plus d'informations)
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A work that possibly serves as an excellent beginning to a trilogy, but which still functions as an interesting standalone work for the most part. The book opens with a plan being set forth to renew the human spirit which has atrophied in the hellish setting of the book. Though at first we are only told that the setting is hellish, later chapters show that this is the case. Grand ruins of lost civilizations, mutants, and mysterious powers inhabit this landscape and manipulate it to their own ends. The ending raises a potential spiritual element to the world as well, though not with much clarity. At first it seemed that the book was illustrating the maxim that man is its own worst enemy, but the ending does not bear that interpretation out.

In general this book was good at letting the reader piece together what is going on instead of hitting him over the head with it, but by the end of this volume I do not believe that it is possible to say with certainty what was going on at the macro level and which side, if either, was in the right.

A weakness of the story was that characters were introduced solely to move the plot forward, and so they felt insubstantial and not particularly sympathetic. To see a book manage to pull off characters more adeptly in a similar narrative structure check out The Carpet Makers by Eschbach.

A decent read, although being the first of a trilogy means that it feels only somewhat complete. ( )
  BayardUS | Dec 10, 2014 |
I love this book for its complete nihilism. A desperate group of colonists create a plan to construct a starship to escape a planet that's over-exploited. The ship is actually under construction when events overtake the whole plan. I'm doing the best I can to operate without spoilers, so i'll quit. Note the rating and act accordingly. ( )
  DinadansFriend | Aug 2, 2014 |
They decide to build a starship to bring the world out of terminal decline. But there are layers and layers. Lots of twists. ( )
  gregandlarry | Nov 23, 2013 |
An interesting little SF book set in a post-apocalyptic world. Its written almost like a kind of future history about the attempt of a small feudal post-technological state to try and build a starship as a way to inspire a defeated and demotivated populace. If I'm not mistaken there are shades of post-war Empire-less British angst woven in these pages. ( )
  iftyzaidi | Jan 6, 2012 |
Great Book, great cover (by John Schoenherr) ( )
  Cochituate | Sep 8, 2009 |
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The ship was to be seven miles long, a third of a mile in diameter and have a wing-spread of three and a half miles. It would take two and a half centuries to construct. Its announced purpose: to carry humanity away from its ruined world, from the world that had become a perpetual purgatory.To build this vast ship would require the undivided activity of an entire nation and would mean carrying out a ruthless program of war and conquest, of annihilation and reconstruction, and of education and rediscovery.But was this starship really what it was claimed to be? Or was there a greater secret behind its incredible cost - a secret so strange that no man dared reveal it?

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