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Taschenbuch: 384 Seiten
Verlag: Tor Books; Auflage: Reissue (18. Juni 2001)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0812580109
ISBN-13: 978-0812580105
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 17,1 x 10,7 x 2,7 cm

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Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 500.892 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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Girl meets boy. Girl falls in love with boy. Boy turns out to be an old man impersonating his own grandson. Girl discovers diabolical plot to sterilize the Third World. Boy erases girl's memory. Intrigue upon intrigue unfolds, involving an army of ninjas, talking sharks with arms, the peculiarities of telegraphy, and a virtual Rex Stout detective who lives in an old Macintosh.

And that's just the setup for this well-developed, whip-smart mystery-thriller-love story from duo Larry Niven and Steven Barnes. But it's hard to imagine going wrong when you team up Niven's technology-loving optimism and legendary chops with Barnes's eclectic résumé (the guy's been everything from a karate columnist for Black Belt magazine to a scriptwriter for The Twilight Zone). Probably their best collaboration yet, Saturn's Race matches the pacing and unpredictability of Ken MacLeod's The Stone Canal while evoking the anything's-possible, shiny sleaziness of a Snow Crash near future.

Our protagonist--the boy-cum-grandfather--works on Xanadu, an OTEC-powered island-city floating just off Sri Lanka, part of a supranational corporate superelite. He's teamed up in a love triangle balanced by the girl who's mind he wiped and his ex-wife, a feisty security officer straight out of Stone Age Java. The population-control plot succeeds ("We can fight their grandchildren for air and water in thirty years, or we can reduce their numbers now"), but who knows what the puppet master behind Xanadu's all-powerful Council is really up to? --Paul Hughes -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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In this well-done futuristic thriller set in a world in which national governments are giving way to supranational corporations, a so-called council led by a mysterious Saturn and based in a high-tech floating city, Xanadu, attempts to control population growth by causing a whole generation of sterile women. Japanese American computer expert Chaz Kato is actually the grandfather of the young man who, thanks to massive surgery and medication, he appears to be. With his two lovers, American Lenore Myles and Indonesian Clarise Maibang, he discovers an increasingly bloody trail leading to the contraceptive conspiracy, which finally erupts in global war. The narrative jumps about a good deal, but each jump brings new technological wonders and social institutions, tongue-in-cheek bits of cultural history (such as O. J. Simpson portraying Othello), and continuous byplay between the three principal characters. It would be hard to call this book more than an intelligent romp, but it isn't anything less, either. Roland Green
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Very good SF! 27. Juni 2000

Von Mike Giroux

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First, SKIP THE KIRKUS REVIEW!

They do a great job of spoiling most of the plot points, AND getting the details wrong.

This is a good SF story, with interesting people and technologies. The action is fairly believable, as are the tech and political environments.

If you like the Ocean Thermal Energy Converter platforms in this book, check out Greenwar by Gould and Mixon, and Blind Waves by Steven Gould, which also feature OTEC platforms.

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READ THIS BOOK.....NOW! 8. Juli 2000

Von S. K. Magness

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If your a true fan of the SF genre, this book is a must read. Niven and Barnes in collaboration produce stories and characters that exceed their individual talents. The story is a mystery where the lead characters must discover the identity of a genocidal monster to save their lives, while running from the effects of the villeins plan. It is set in the near future. The authors paint a highly believable picture of the course of current technology and its effects on world order. This book compares very well with "Dreampark", another Niven, Barnes collaboration.

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Intelligente Invasions-Story 21. Februar 2003

Von Thomas Franke

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Schon mal kleine "Elefanten" (Rüssler) als Invasoren erlebt? Nun, in Larry Nivens Fantasie _ wohl noch stärker bei Jerry Pournelle - sind sie offenbar die idealen Eindringlinge. Und die Menschheit ist natürlich, wie immer total unvorbereitet, bis auf ein paar Kämpfer, die sich dem Chaos entgegen stemmen... Dem Roman merkt man deutlich an, dass er noch zu Hochzeiten des Kalten Krieges geschrieben wurde, hat aber auch seinen eigenen, fast möchte ich sagen "Niven-ähnlichen" Charme. So wird auch versucht, für manche der Taten der Eindringlinge die Motive herauszuarbeiten.
Insgesamt eine wirklich lesenswerte Story

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