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Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
Verlag: Saint Martin's Press; Auflage: Reprint (Januar 2000)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0312868030
ISBN-13: 978-0312868031
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 21,6 x 14,7 x 2,8 cm

Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.5 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (4 Kundenrezensionen)

Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.061.750 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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First solo appearance for Sheckley since Dramocles (1983) following a series of comedy collaborations with the late Roger Zelazny (A Farce to be Reckoned With, 1995, etc.). Thanks to bad investment advice, impoverished mythology professor Arthur F enn topples into a financial black hole. But then he receives the Key of Solomon from a fellow scholar. Arthur uses the key to visit Godshome, where he meets Leafie, a manic-depressive trickster god who agrees to helpin return for unlimited access to Eart h. Unwittingly, Arthur signs up. Leafie soon fixes Arthur's financial problems, but then he and a bunch of repulsive friends move in with Arthur. Mimi, Arthur's beloved, takes one look and bolts. Sammy, Arthur's reckless stockbroker friend, likes the gods , though, and makes money fencing the antiques, jewels, and TVs they steal to feed their disgusting appetites. Leafie decides to set Arthur up as the figurehead of a new religion. But in contacting Godshome, Arthur broke the universe. Another god, Asturas , came into being to fix things; unfortunately, Asturas's evil brother, Ahriman, wants to destroy the Earth and arranges for an invasion by alien religious fanatics. Another subplot involves the apprentice love goddess Mellicent, who, accidentally struck by Cupid's arrow, falls for Arthur. Leafie and friends, meanwhile, devastate the Earth. Somehow Arthur, aided by an interactive HELP file and an articulate black hole, must save the planet, or the universe, or something. Time was when Sheckley routinely t urned out terrific SF short stories, though his novels have always been poor; here, the framework's broadly amusing but few laughs bubble up through the increasingly desperate improvisation. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights r eserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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When mythology professor Arthur Fenn finds himself facing financial disaster, he invites a bevy of forgotten deities to Earth to solve his dilemma?a move that plunges the universe into chaos. Though a few witty moments enliven this tale of the return of the lesser gods, Sheckley's tongue-in-cheek fantasy suffers from a haphazard plot and lackluster characters. A marginal purchase for large libraries.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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It has its moments, but overall disjoint and unfocused 28. Juli 2000

Von David Rolfe

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Robert Sheckley has written some great, absurd satire, so I'm interested when he comes up with something new. I enjoyed the early chapters of this book, but as it went along, it simply lost focus, randomly introducing and abandoning characters and situations. It was clever in many ways, but the disintegrating structure lost me.

Sheckley wrote many short stories in the 1950's and 60's, and some say those were his best work. It has probably always been a challenge for him to hold a long story together. But some of his novels have been great -- my favorites are "Mindswap" and "Journey of Joenes". Most of his work is out of print, but it's worth looking for if you've got a taste for the absurd.

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Wonderful, absurdist nonsense from a master satirist! 15. September 1999

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Those who have arrived at Robert Sheckley's literary doorstep via one of his t.v. or movie-based science fiction serial novels (Deep Space Nine, Aliens, Babylon 5) are sure to experience major disorientation with "Godshome." But those who are already acquainted with the brilliantly original writing of this masterful, erudite nutcase will be delighted to encounter vintage Sheckley--complete with a shaggy dog storyline, chuckleheaded characters, and biting, unrelenting, Swiftian wit. Robert Sheckley is to science fiction what Botticelli was to the Renaissance--a maverick original who's impossible to compare with anyone else in his time, but without whom, the era would be less rich. With "Godshome," Sheckley is not content merely to satirize human folly; he brazenly satirizes existence and the very universe itself, by pairing together, as he always does, mundanity and magnitude in a wacky cosmic tango. "Godshome" is a fun, thoughtful read and I highly recommend it.

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Not worth the time 21. Januar 1999

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This book had some interesting ideas and situations in it, but the author never bothered to bring closure to any of it. The focus shifts bewilderingly from character to character without much in the way of a unifying plot to it. The final pages are a stopping point rather than an ending or resolution. It was extremely frustrating to have spent the time reading this book, only to seemingly watch the whole thing come apart by the finish and result in nothing.

I won't be reading this author in the future. And I'd suggest the publisher hire better editors.

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