- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: Tor Books (Oktober 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312866615
- ISBN-13: 978-0312866617
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,4 x 14,9 x 1,9 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.369.402 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Who isn't a sucker for a good robot story? Few sci-fi fans can resist such a staple of the genre, especially when it's done well, and the first section of Tony Daniel's three-part Earthling stands shoulder to shoulder with the best. Daniel is an able and imaginative writer, and his gentle, curious mining robot Orf is a bona fide charmer. Reactivated for a deep-digging geological research project, Orf is imbued with the memories of a dead geologist and acclimatizes himself to the world like a wide-eyed, articulate child, observing mating moths with the same detached fascination as he does a cold-blooded murder.
Although the poetry-loving Orf is the novel's common thread, he ceases to be its focus after the first section. That part closes when Orf discovers sentient beings ("terranes") in the Earth's mantle, and cataclysmic earthquakes and flooding destroy the northwestern U.S., plunging the world into chaos. As exciting as all that may sound, these portentous events signal only the unraveling of Earthling's patchwork narrative. The disappointing middle section follows the harrowing--and gory--journey of a Park Service ranger (the Park Service being just another warring, post-apocalyptic tribe) delivering medical supplies to California. Earthling's third and final section nearly--but not quite--salvages the novel, fast-forwarding to the year 3000, where society "trances" across the galaxy and studies the Earth not as an organism but as a piece of art. --Paul Hughes
From Kirkus Reviews
Disjointed non-novel cobbled together from three long stories, by the author of Warpath (1993). In the near future, the ``Matties'' (eco-fanatics) of Washington State's Olympic peninsula are battling loggers and the government over the establishment of Skykomish, an ecological protectorate. Meanwhile, a mining robot with the memories of geologist Victor Wu rusts in the rain until geologist and Park Ranger Andrew Hutton rescues him and puts him to work. Deep underground, the robot, Orf (Orpheus), discovers some strange rocky intelligences, the terranes. On the surface, however, war rages between Matties and loggers, and Orf's tunnel is sabotaged. A series of earthquakes causes economic and political collapse, so Andrew joins with other Rangers to live in the treetops, while the rest of society devolves into tribes and Orf dwindles into a legendary monster. Years later, Ranger Jarrod travels south with a cargo of antibiotics and learns what Yosemite's Rangers have discovered. After dreadful hardships, he finds out that the Earth's magnetic field is reversing, and only the soothing efforts of Orf's terrane pals will prevent the mother of all earthquakes. Finally, a millennium hence, everybody has learned to ``trance'' (commune) with the terranes and has the ability, mentally, to explore distant stars and planets. Daniel's stimulating ideas deserved a rethink and rewrite, not this lumpy fix-up treatment with its all-but-irrelevant robot. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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First off, this is a great book. A really wonderfull book. And the best thing I can really say about it is that it got me interested in science fiction again, after a long hiatus. The book takes on a theme made popular in the golden age of science fiction; artificial inteligence. But Daniel give the subject a really great feel. He dosent make the mistake of trying to make the robot yearn for humanity. But it is a compassionate intelligence experiencing intense relationships with humans. but maybe i am over analyzing. let me leave it at this: this is a great book, even if you have never read science fiction.
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Terrible
8. März 2010
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
There's no getting around it - this book was terrible. From the beginning it is nearly incoherent. There is no real introduction of characters (and characters are invented for a single page then dropped). There's no scale. After the dated entries I could never be sure what century it was placed in. And it jumps from a personal journal to a robot to a random human hundreds of years in the future to... well, I can't even describe the finale. The tectonic plates are *spoiler* sentient? Planets are dolphins?
In short, Avoid this book at all costs. Not worth the read. The author needs to pick a character and focus on it.
In short, Avoid this book at all costs. Not worth the read. The author needs to pick a character and focus on it.
moooo
22. Mai 2009
Format:Taschenbuch
I really enjoyed this book for the most part. The first two stories were real page turners, but the third (the last 30 pages) felt rushed and was a bit to metaphysical for me. The ending is forced and hardly and ending to the story as a whole. I would have like to see the first two stories made into books of their own and the third thrown in the bin.
1 von 2 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Intelligent. and beautiful. I was moved and love this book.
6. September 2002
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This was a surprising, fascinating read. I am turned on by his stark, earthy and pure poetry. Daniel is immensely imaginative, intelligent and courageous writer. I was moved and inspired. I definitely enjoyed 'Earthling'. Looking forward to the sequel of 'Metaplanetary'- another must read!
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