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Chargement... Æstival Tide (1992)par Elizabeth Hand
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Appartient à la sérieWinterlong (2) Prix et récompenses
Elizabeth Hand's Winterlong trilogy continues: Welcome to Araboth In Aestival Tide,Elizabeth Hand returns to the extraordinary Winterlong universe. In Araboth--the majestic, domed, multi-tiered city of the Ascendants--obsession with beauty and power vents in haunting, horrific ways. The resurrected Margalis Tast'annin has become the Aviator Imperator of the Ascendants, enslaved by his former lover and exiled to the debauched city of Araboth. And the city that was once home to an advanced society is now a shadow of its former self. Now, as the once-in-a-decade Aestival Tide approaches, the formerly great dome teeters on the brink of its own destruction. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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We follow a few key players as a time of crisis develops in the city. The son of the current Architect, who controls the robots that keep the domes intact; a part-time healer who is in favour after medicating one of the ruler's migraine; a hermaphrodite dream interpreter, fallen on hard times. Not a lot of the city makes sense initially, the inhabitants have been there so long they don't remember how or why it came to be, and many deliberate distortions or evasions have occurred over the centuries. The whims of the ruling family are as bizarre as one might expect. The main focus is the upcoming celebration of aestival time - the grand decade occuring occasion of opening the main doors to the terrifying wonder of Outside, something none of the inhabitants experience at any other time, and all believe to be mortally dangerous. This year however there seems to be a great storm approaching heralded in dreams and prophecies, something that no-one takes seriously because the domes have never failed ot shelter them before. Even the twisted warning of the variety of distorted gene-constructs, some of them truly ancient, can cause no more than unease.
Bizarre and disturbing it does all pull together to make sense in the end, but I found it all a little bit too far from my comfort zone to really appreciate. None of hte characters are normal. Indeed 'normal' is not really something that is known anywhere in the book, and without that anchor to contrast the experiences against, it all too overdone. There's something of the feel of China Melville's work in it, and I didn't much like that either. ( )