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Chargement... Sacrifice of Fools (1996)par Ian McDonald
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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. published in 1996 but set in Northern Ireland in the 2000s decade, this novel marries a story about technologically-advanced aliens choosing to settle on Earth to a tale about Andy Gillespie, an ex-con from Belfast who is drawn into the aliens' orbit. human law and Shian law clash after violence ensues, Gillespie sets out as a kind of advocate to investigate, and the law charges after him trying to pin the crime on him. the result, fictionally speaking, is an entertaining mix of genres: detective sf. McDonald is an important writer of sf, and this is for him a very different and intriguing offering that considers what cross-cultural traits might be common to two distinct species of hunters disparate in chemistry and anatomy, sexuality and views on violence. ( ) This would be a fairly standard first contact story, save for one thing; the author has set it in his adoptive homeland of Northern Ireland, presciently in the time of the Good Friday Agreement (which wasn't actually signed until two years after the novel was written). All the features are there; an uneasy peace, dissident terrorist groups persuing their own agendas, and a non-sectarian police force with its own uneasy past. McDonald even almost gets the name right ('Northern Ireland Police Service' vs. 'Police Service of Northern Ireland' - though that wasn't going to be difficult, let's be honest.) Using that backdrop adds to the human protagonists' motivations, conflicts and problems, and elevates what might have been an ordinary novel into something rather different. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The Shian arrive in 2001, seeking a world to colonize. In exchange for access to their technology, they are given rights to settle on Earth and now they live alongside humanity, outwardly similar but inwardly deeply different. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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