
+ + + The back cover + + +
Two miracles have opened to men the way of the Stars: An inexhaustible energy source and the secret of immortality. However, isolated by the barrier speed of light, the colonies become sclerotic; about immortality, it distills its insidious poison: boredom ...
Alone owner of a depopulated Earth by galactic diaspora, Doran Falkner, the author of two miracles, in seeking a third to lead humanity out of its torpor. The answer lies perhaps in the world Amaterasu, where placid animals seem able to teleport like the rider flying over the chessboard squares. Unless the centaurs ...?
+ + + + + + My opinion
Considered an excellent writer, which moreover has a very nice pen, Walter Jon Williams has unfortunately until now really caught our Francophone world. And yet he seems to have some good books to his credit, and under different genres too, of which his "Cable + considered a classic stone building cyberpunk.
But back to present his book here: "The Strike Rider" . Released in 1985, it is translated and published here in 2010. It therefore y 'a long hiatus between now and our English speaking, but delay is caught for our pleasure. We also thank the L'Atalante editions of this book we make available to the author, and "This is not a game" released the same year but written more recently.
"The trick rider" evolves against a background of fairly classic SF that is not without recalling the literary world of Robert Silverberg . But against this background hackneyed, Walter Jon Williams the opportunity to discuss and reflect quietly on the Rights and its contradictions without being moralistic or condescending, and even with some humor near a Iain M. Banks . It certainly there 's an adventure with interstellar travel and the search for why these animals, the lugs of Amaterasu, get to teleport. The kind of knowledge that would enable humanity to move instantly from here to there, breaking down the barriers of time and distance at once, causing a lot of future complications. Y Will he see a parallel with neo-liberalism and the collapse of all barriers? I do not know ...
Walter Jon Williams can give the thickness his characters, like a Roger Zelazny , it can create heroes while depth and questioning themselves. Introspection and reflection is what makes the strength of this book, people issues are also more forward as the adventure itself. Questions concerning immortality and mortality, love of life and its risks, reactions and confrontations of ideas, etc.. The discussion of purpose between alien and understanding of the other remakes me think "The star and the whip" to Frank Herbert and questions about the Other. In short a book rich with no lot of topics.
Finally we take a good book in hand, but even if I do not yet know the author well, "The trick rider" is perhaps not my favorite. Maybe it's to cover Genki I find it quite horrible (too computer made), knowing that the graphics of a book can influence felt quite that I 've. It's silly, but true. Nevertheless, I still quite like to continue to discover the author's bibliography American probably underrated here.
But back to present his book here: "The Strike Rider" . Released in 1985, it is translated and published here in 2010. It therefore y 'a long hiatus between now and our English speaking, but delay is caught for our pleasure. We also thank the L'Atalante editions of this book we make available to the author, and "This is not a game" released the same year but written more recently.
"The trick rider" evolves against a background of fairly classic SF that is not without recalling the literary world of Robert Silverberg . But against this background hackneyed, Walter Jon Williams the opportunity to discuss and reflect quietly on the Rights and its contradictions without being moralistic or condescending, and even with some humor near a Iain M. Banks . It certainly there 's an adventure with interstellar travel and the search for why these animals, the lugs of Amaterasu, get to teleport. The kind of knowledge that would enable humanity to move instantly from here to there, breaking down the barriers of time and distance at once, causing a lot of future complications. Y Will he see a parallel with neo-liberalism and the collapse of all barriers? I do not know ...
Walter Jon Williams can give the thickness his characters, like a Roger Zelazny , it can create heroes while depth and questioning themselves. Introspection and reflection is what makes the strength of this book, people issues are also more forward as the adventure itself. Questions concerning immortality and mortality, love of life and its risks, reactions and confrontations of ideas, etc.. The discussion of purpose between alien and understanding of the other remakes me think "The star and the whip" to Frank Herbert and questions about the Other. In short a book rich with no lot of topics.
Finally we take a good book in hand, but even if I do not yet know the author well, "The trick rider" is perhaps not my favorite. Maybe it's to cover Genki I find it quite horrible (too computer made), knowing that the graphics of a book can influence felt quite that I 've. It's silly, but true. Nevertheless, I still quite like to continue to discover the author's bibliography American probably underrated here.
+ + + + + + But still
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+ + + + + + The book
- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: L 'Atalante (September 23, 2010)
- Collection: Lace Swan
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