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Chargement... Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevittpar Jack McDevitt
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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. I really like Jack's novels but I thought I'd take a shot at his short fiction works. I especially liked his time travel stories, including Times Arrow and Time Travellers Never Die (from which he expanded it into a novel). He also told several stories from the Priscilla Hutch universe which was fun and insightful. A man decides to get involved with the Nok's civil war. He's tired of just being an observer and takes an active role in messing up the battles and saving lives, much against the Prime Directive (remember that one, Trek fans?). Hutch gets involved and the story leaves the reader with a complex plot with a simple answer. Nicely done. Other stories in the mix were pretty good, some not so much, it's a matter of taste. Took me a long time to get through the book as there are so many stories. 'Henry James, This One's For You' about a computer who can write the perfect novel, threatening to put regular writers and editors out of business. What would you do? Crazy ending. There's more: Part I: Unlikely Connections Cryptic The Fort Moxie Branch Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City Tweak Melville on Iapetus Lighthouse (with Michael Shara) Cool Neighbor (with Michael Shara) Whistle In the Tower Part II: Lost Treasures Ignition Indomitable Last Contact Never Despair Windows Dutchman The Tomb Promises to Keep To Hell with the Stars The Mission Part III: Out There Report from the Rear Black to Move The Far Shore Sunrise Kaminsky at War Part IV: Touching the Infinite Fifth Day Deus Tex Gus Welcome to Valhalla (with Kathryn Lance) Tyger Auld Lang Boom Part V: Inventions and Fallout Cruising through Deuteronomy The Candidate Act of God Ellie Time's Arrow Dead in the Water Henry James, This One's for You Time Travellers Never Die I really like Jack's novels but I thought I'd take a shot at his short fiction works. I especially liked his time travel stories, including Times Arrow and Time Travellers Never Die (from which he expanded it into a novel). He also told several stories from the Priscilla Hutch universe which was fun and insightful. A man decides to get involved with the Nok's civil war. He's tired of just being an observer and takes an active role in messing up the battles and saving lives, much against the Prime Directive (remember that one, Trek fans?). Hutch gets involved and the story leaves the reader with a complex plot with a simple answer. Nicely done. Other stories in the mix were pretty good, some not so much, it's a matter of taste. Took me a long time to get through the book as there are so many stories. 'Henry James, This One's For You' about a computer who can write the perfect novel, threatening to put regular writers and editors out of business. What would you do? Crazy ending. There's more: Part I: Unlikely Connections Cryptic The Fort Moxie Branch Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City Tweak Melville on Iapetus Lighthouse (with Michael Shara) Cool Neighbor (with Michael Shara) Whistle In the Tower Part II: Lost Treasures Ignition Indomitable Last Contact Never Despair Windows Dutchman The Tomb Promises to Keep To Hell with the Stars The Mission Part III: Out There Report from the Rear Black to Move The Far Shore Sunrise Kaminsky at War Part IV: Touching the Infinite Fifth Day Deus Tex Gus Welcome to Valhalla (with Kathryn Lance) Tyger Auld Lang Boom Part V: Inventions and Fallout Cruising through Deuteronomy The Candidate Act of God Ellie Time's Arrow Dead in the Water Henry James, This One's for You Time Travellers Never Die aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Boy, am I glad I did. Yes, I suppose this fits the "good old-fashioned" description, but I'm less than happy calling this "old-fashioned." I suppose it is "old-fashioned" in the sense that the writing is, well, what I would call straight-ahead writing -- that is, we're not in the realms of what is by now the no longer new "New Wave" (I'm dating myself, here -- and giving some sense of where I left off reading science fiction, right around the time I went to college in 1979) and its sometimes self-conscious striving for real art. But gosh, McDevitt's writing is just ... *good*. The stories are never shaped quite like I expect them to be: what they do is often very surprising, and pleasing.
I'm about 200 pages in. This is a book to savor. ( )