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Chargement... Rifteurs (2001)par Peter Watts
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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. That. Is. Still. Something. Else. ( ) This book was disappointing, even though I'd been warned that it was a totally different animal than Starfish. Now, I like a good apocalypse. I really like a good apocalypse, especially one borne on the back of a virus. So I was looking forward to this book, despite it being a radical change from Starfish. But... I was so blah on the characters. I dunno. We'd flip between POVs and I'd just..flip past. I quit when I realized I was skimming the pages around 40% of the way through. Maybe I should have persevered -- the end hadn't come yet -- but I was just so blah about it I didn't know if I'd pick up enough detail to be able to follow along once we did get to the action. Watts, Peter. Maelstrom. Tor, 2001. Rifters 2. If there is such a thing as biopunk, Peter Watts is its William Gibson. In Maelstrom, all the things that started to go wrong in Starfish (a much better book, by the way) continue to go wrong and get worse. An ancient computer virus threatens the biosphere as we know it, and corporate bosses use a nuke on it and cause a tidal wave. People continue to do terrible things to one another with the best of motives. Watts says that he is an optimist and that however bad things get, they are not the result of human perfidy. He doesn’t want the typical array of TV and movie villains. But that does not save us, because like one of his characters, “on some level he’d believed in the Collective Unconscious for years. He just hadn’t realized that the fucking thing had a death wish.” On rereading, I found the narrative arc as murky as ever, but 4 stars for invention. Two of the Rifters escape the nuclear explosion targeted to kill them and the competing extremophile lifeform that evolved in the undersea, geothermal abyss. Quarantines and mass murder follow as shadowy government agencies try to stop (or assist?) Lenie Clarke and the extinction microbe she is spreading. Why I picked it up: I'm all-in with this series. (Of course I am—bionic mermaids?) I'd intended to listen to this on Hoopla, but disliked the performer. As Watts has released the book via Creative Commons license, I ended up reading it via Open Library and the SimplyE app. Why I finished it: Watts' hard science and speculation is engaging, and the action keeps moving. Also, I had insomnia, so this kept me company. I'd give it to: You don't need to have read [Starfish] to read this, and while the abuse and trauma psychology still plays a role in the narrative, it's less raw than in the first book, and may be more palatable to some readers. 2.5/5 For better or worse, this book is a very bleak early 2000s techno-sf thriller. I had to struggle to get through the book, which was disappointing because I enjoyed Starfish a lot. Maybe it's that the characters are still all 'bad', or that the setting opened up too much while also lacking focus, but I just didn't connect to it well. Also, all the net-parts kinda suck. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieRifters Trilogy (Book 2) Prix et récompensesDistinctions
An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America. Is she a monster, or a goddess? One thing is for sure: all hell is breaking loose. This dark, fast-paced, hard SF novel returns to the story begun in Starfish: all human life is threatened by a disease (actually a primeval form of life) from the distant prehuman past. It survived only in the deep ocean rift where Clarke and her companions were stationed before the corporation that employed them tried to sterilize the threat with a secret underwater nuclear strike. But Clarke was far enough away that she was able to survive and tough enough to walk home, 300 miles across the ocean floor. She arrives carrying with her the potential death of the human race, and possessed by a desire for revenge. Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir by a writer whose narrative, says Robert Sheckley, "drives like a futuristic locomotive." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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