The year is 2276. On the world of Titan, an outer planet of Saturn, Duncan Mackenzie and many other colonists are about to leave their homeland for bicentennial celebrations on Earth. But for Duncan, the journey is also a delicate mission for himself, his family and the future of Titan.
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The year is 2276. On the world of Titan, an outer planet of Saturn, Duncan Mackenzie and many other colonists are about to leave their homeland for bicentennial celebrations on Earth. But for Duncan, the journey is also a delicate mission for himself, his family and the future of Titan.
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Entertaining but Meandering
18. Juli 2003
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If you want to start reading the works of Arthur C. Clarke, one of the 20th century's great visionairies, you can do worse than this one, but you could also do better. This work is basically the Earth of 2276 as seen through the eyes of an outsider. A lot of what he sees is remarkable and quite plausible, and the cast of characters is generally likeable. Like many Clarke novels, there is little in the way of conflict here - Clarke is not one for hero vs. villain - but unlike Childhood's End or 2001 or Rendevous with Rama, there is no sense of grandeur either. There are just a lot of incidents that just barely add up to something more.
Still, Clarke's unusual approach to writing - he is the only novelist who writes in stle of an essayist - and his appealing vision of a mature secular utopian Earth still works after seeing it often. Fans of dystopias are best advised to stay home. Fans of a happy tomorrow, where everyone is well-fed and sexually liberated and needs nothing more than a nice vacation, are invited in.
If you care for this, I recommend you move onto to his somewhat more action-oriented Rama and then to his masterowrk, Childhood's End.
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Disappointing. Poor effort. Why was this book written?
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Imperial Earth seems like a book written to fulfill a contractual obligation. As I read this book I kept getting the feeling that Clarke had collected various notes he had written for ideas and tried to make a book out of them without much further effort. This is a very shallow book. Characters were poorly developed, and the story meandered with no purpose. At the end of the book I wondered why Clarke had introduced many (most?) of the characters and settings.
Imperial Earth includes descriptions of Titan, where people live mostly underground but can go on the surface with oxygen and a thin thermosuit. The trip to Earth wasn't especially interesting. Descriptions of future Earth were given little historical background. Cultural changes were simply stated rather than explained.
Way too many blanks were left for the reader to fill in. You might as well write your own book instead.
Imperial Earth includes descriptions of Titan, where people live mostly underground but can go on the surface with oxygen and a thin thermosuit. The trip to Earth wasn't especially interesting. Descriptions of future Earth were given little historical background. Cultural changes were simply stated rather than explained.
Way too many blanks were left for the reader to fill in. You might as well write your own book instead.
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Clarke at his "Predict the future" best,
11. August 1999
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Having read just about everything that AC Clarke has put out, I believe that this tale of the futures energy barons (Hydrogen, not Oil) shows a plausable future and is Clarkes best (And yes I have read the RAMA series). In it a family that has become very rich and powerful has to come to terms with the fact that a new "Drive" that does not use H2 has been developed. The young protogei (SP?) is sent to earth to sort things out. But a life long friend of his, scared by their version of LSD has become obsessed with SETI.Clarke has all his normal future talk and ideas (Cloning, space travel, future society etc). The two become entangle in a plot, that as the title suggests, is more about colonies and empires as it about future tech and SciFi. Think of it as Scifi meets Imperial India and you have a good idea.
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