- Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
- Verlag: Tor Books U.S.; Auflage: 1st Mass Market Ed (30. November 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0812575741
- ISBN-13: 978-0812575743
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,3 x 10,4 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.1 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (7 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 762.235 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In the 22nd century, humanity discovers life on an extra-solar planet, Isis: life that is lush, beautiful--and deadly. The least molecule of Isian biology kills humans painfully and horribly. Zoe Fisher has been born and bred--cloned and genetically engineered--to explore Isis. But Isis has secrets undiscovered by humanity, and Zoe herself contains secrets known only to the political powers that created her. And an act of biomedical sabotage has changed Zoe in unknown ways.
Robert Charles Wilson is the author of Science Fiction Chronicle's Best SF Novel of 1998, the bestselling Darwinia, and is also an Aurora Award winner and Nebula and Hugo Award finalist. With Bios, Wilson has created a hard-SF novel rich in great ideas, strong writing, and the classic sense of wonder, a work that stays true to the implications of its frightful biology. --Cynthia Ward, Amazon.com -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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In the 22nd century, humanity discovers life on an extrasolar planet, Isis: life that is lush, beautiful--and deadly. The least molecule of Isian biology kills humans painfully and horribly. Zoe Fisher has been born and bred--cloned and genetically engineered--to explore Isis. But Isis has secrets undiscovered by humanity, and Zoe herself contains secrets known only to the political powers that created her. And an act of biomedical sabotage has changed Zoe in unknown ways.
Robert Charles Wilson is the author of Science Fiction Chronicle's Best SF Novel of 1998, bestselling Darwinia, also the Aurora Award winner and Nebula and Hugo Award finalist. With Bios, Wilson has created a hard-SF novel rich in great ideas, strong writing, and the classic sense of wonder, a work that stays true to the implications of its frightful biology. --Cynthia Ward -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Let me just begin by saying I'm a terrible reviewer. I will never achieve the necessary objectivty to analyze novels I care for. With that said, I'm not sure what the first reviewer is going on about. The characters are touchingly drawn, especially Zoe and Tam. Granted, the dialogue might be described as minimalist, but with no sacrifice in style. In my opinion, his review only underscores that the better part of aesthetics is mostly personal taste.
Permit me to gush,I think this novel is brilliant. With Wilson it all comes down to endings. In a few delicate strokes, and on a few pages, he has the artist's ability to paint something geniunely beautiful and moving. What a gorgeous universe he delivers! A wonderful rendering of speculative metaphysics in fiction, to boot. I so enjoyed the motif of life 'descending'(falling?) to earth and becoming corrupted. The earth and humans cut off from LIFE are in a cosmic prison house, so very gnostic and reminiscent of Lurianic Kabbalah.
I just wanted to say how grateful I am to have met Robert Charles Wilson at a Borders book signing in Farmington Michigan. It ranks as one of the top ten great conversations of my life.
(And if you need anyone to read works in progress mail away!)
Sincere thanks to RCW for his work. My life is better for having encountered your stories.
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Unlike Wilson's last book, Darwinia, this one is a clear cut winner. It covers an interesting twist on scifi: what if there weren't lots of "M Class" planets out there where humans could casually show up and start colonizing? What if other planets had organisms completely toxic to humanity?
Like Darwinia, around the middle of the book you start to realize there's a much larger conspiracy going on, but unlike Darwinia, the two halves flow together easily.
There was a lot of emotional intensity in this book, and it had a very satisfying ending. I thouroughly enjoyed it.
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As Ursual le Guin remarked in her inroduction to "Left Hand of Darkness", "anything carried to its logical extreme is despressing, even cancerogenic". Bios makes this very mistake on numerous occasions. First of all, it lacks any and all human element. I could not accept any of the characters as LIVING PEOPLE, but more as just a few more entities that would eventually succumb to the "bleedout and deliquescence" that is so gratuitously plentiful in Bios. Dialogue is indeed scant, and, unlike Ender's Game (yet another nearly inhuman book), author does little in the way of interjecting words spoken out-loud with words not spoken at all. Time shifts are rarely paid atention to, and I had trouble keeping track of who was the viewpoint character. Naturally, with the characters gone from view one begins to pay more attention to the setting. It took me only a few pages to discover the amazing floweriness of scientific terminology. The author has a seemingly insatiable desire to explain the technical details of every single device, as if to stop the reader from taking notice of the book's glaring deficiencies. Literally every word is preceeded with an explanatory adjective of the most "hard SF" sort, which in itself is, first of all, rather annoying, and, second of all, leads the reader to believe that the author though of the book as lacking in credibility. Aside from these I thought that the world of Isis, the most important force in the entire book, is far too underdeveloped. When I read about wondrous new worlds, I want to know something about them!
Despite its flaws Bios manages to collect a rather unhealthy attention. I suppose one who likes what is dubbed "hard science fiction" may also like this forever cold iceberg.
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Quality science fiction
One of the rising masters of human oriented science fiction (Gypsies, A Bridge of Years) has now gone into hard science fiction. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. März 2000 von Michael J Lane
Subtle and fascinating
Wilson's first off-Earth novel (as far as I know)and a fascinating exploration of the themes of communication and isolation. Loved it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. November 1999 veröffentlicht
If this is good . . . . then I am confused
I could not get through Darwinia. And Bios, when it was all said and done, had no purpose. The text of both books are repetitive. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. November 1999 von Dwwade
Wilson is the new rising star of hard SF
Much like it's predecessor Darwinia, Bios is an ambitious combination of hard science fiction and pan-universal spirituality. Wilson writes beautifully; I'm envious. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. November 1999 von John Wright
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