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Wizard (Gaia Book 2) (English Edition) Kindle Ausgabe

Englisch Ausgabe von John Varley (Autor) Format: Kindle Ausgabe
4,5 von 5 Sternen 477 Sternebewertungen
One of the greatest science fiction epics ever written, John Varley's Titan, Wizard, and Demon comprise a groundbreaking trilogy that will live forever. Human explorers have entered the sprawling mind of Gaea. Now they must fight her will. For she is much too powerful...and definitely insane."These books are going to be around for a long time." --Locus
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  1. Buch 2 von 3
    Gaia
  2. Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe
    429 Seiten
  3. Sprache
    Englisch
  4. Herausgeber
    Ace
  5. Barrierefreiheit
    Erfahre mehr
  6. Erscheinungstermin
    15. Mai 1987
  7. Lesealter
    Ab 18 Jahren
  8. Dateigröße
    3.1 MB
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John Varley is the author of the Gaean Trilogy (Titan, Wizard, and Demon), Steel Beach, The Golden Globe, Red Thunder, and Mammoth. He has won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards for his work.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B009KUXKAI
  • Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Ace
  • Barrierefreiheit ‏ : ‎ Erfahre mehr
  • Erscheinungstermin ‏ : ‎ 15. Mai 1987
  • Auflage ‏ : ‎ Reissue
  • Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
  • Dateigröße ‏ : ‎ 3.1 MB
  • Screenreader ‏ : ‎ Unterstützt
  • Verbesserter Schriftsatz ‏ : ‎ Aktiviert
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Nicht aktiviert
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Aktiviert
  • Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe ‏ : ‎ 429 Seiten
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1101623282
  • PageFlip ‏ : ‎ Aktiviert
  • Buch 2 von 3 ‏ : ‎ Gaia
  • Lesealter ‏ : ‎ Ab 18 Jahren
  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 636.012 in Kindle-Shop (Siehe Top 100 in Kindle-Shop)
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  • Kindle Customer
    5,0 von 5 Sternen Exciting reading, better than "Titan"
    Bewertet in Deutschland am 30. Mai 2000
    John Varley is a masterful storyteller. I first encountered his work when perusing some ancient issues of Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine, in the form of the chilling short story "Press Enter." Wizard is a fantastic sequel to "Titan" - it's a page turner. Varley developed the characters from "Titan" between novels - he managed to keep them human and interesting, rather than falling into the trap of allowing them to become two-dimensional and boring because of the power they wield on Gaea, a moon of Saturn which has its own sentient consciousness. The new characters are interesting, and Varley avoids the predictable potential pairings, instead choosing to create a human-alien relationship and create a plot thread which (hopefully) will be resolved in the last novel of the trilogy. I must get my hands on a copy of "Demon" to see how Gaea and her agent, Cirocco Jones, deal with the unexpected betrayal that occurs in the last part of "Wizard."
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  • distributed cognition
    5,0 von 5 Sternen Wizard meets the level of excellent set in "Titan"
    Bewertet in Deutschland am 20. Oktober 1997
    Wizard is easily as good as its prequel, Titan; the two are among the best books I have ever read. The fall into alcoholism (and subsequent recovery from it) by the main character, one of my personal role models, is touching. The story is compelling, offering both emotion and action. It is a must-read for all lovers of great writing, whether they are sci-fi fans or not.
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  • Tobias Vetter
    4,0 von 5 Sternen The Main Story is not SciFi...
    Bewertet in Deutschland am 9. Mai 2017
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    ...yet this may be the reason why many people like it so much. To me it is a little too little Space Opera. But a Lord of the Rings Kind of Quest is quite a good read, too, is it not? So just for completion reasons and to see if some space will inflict on the big wheel, I shall move on to the final book.
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  • Dr. Erik Maronde
    4,0 von 5 Sternen Gute Fortsetzung, klein bischen langatmig
    Bewertet in Deutschland am 16. Februar 2016
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    Nach dem hochgelobten Roman GAIA von John Varley, dem man nicht anmerkt, dass 1979 (!!) erstveröffentlicht wurde (supermodernes Gesellschaftsbild ohne Verklärung der menschlichen Natur), musst ich den Nachfolger lesen und lesenswert ist er, aber nicht soo gut wie machen Rezensenten schreiben. Trotzdem, wer Varley mag muss es lesen! ich werde mich jetzt an den dritten Band (Demon) wagen. Lest John Varley, er ist immer noch aktiv und schreibt gute Bücher (Die Thunder Tetralogie zum Beispiel).
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  • David W. Gore
    4,0 von 5 Sternen Varley's search for GOD
    Bewertet in Deutschland am 3. Juli 2000
    I loved the book -- great Sci-Fi with a lot of adventure and twists. Much of his writing reminds me of Piers Anthony. However, Varley is preoccupied with his own religion which occasionally shows up very clearly in his writing. It really doesn't bother me, but he is searching for God -- "he protesteth too much." I've seen it several times in people who pooh-pooh God and any afterlife but cannot keep from talking about it -- they and he are after the same thing. Very simply he's looking for God and the meaning of existence. Like most aethist's or agnostics (for all I know he's Southern Baptist)who blame life's miseries on a non-caring or non-existent God, they apparently don't understand that God gave this world to man and He's letting man "run it." So, keep looking John, and while you're at it, write us some more of that brilliant fiction -- you might find Him along the way!
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  • Amazon Customer
    5,0 von 5 Sternen A fantastic book
    Bewertet in den USA am6. Dezember 2023
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    To put some perspective on this opinion... I read Varley's Titan when I was mid-teens, and loved the richness and variety it contained. Yes, some of the material was a little mature in nature, but from the start, I was hooked. I wanted to visit the setting for that book... live there, even. I wanted to hang out with Cirocco, go with her while she explored that truly unique and practically limitless world. Gaby was cool, but Rocky was the clear stand out.

    Now for Wizard. In my totally subjective opinion, this is one of Varley's best pieces of work. The story is interesting, with a wonderful mixture of drama, suspense, action, tragedy, humor, humanity, and richness that exceeded and amplified every aspect of the first book. Despite the jarring differences on many fronts, I still was almost immediately hooked here as well.. The characters were deep and compelling. Gaby became the standout. Not that I didn't sympathize with the Wizard's plight, but Varley had me so emotionally invested in Gaby that, while reading the book on a public bus, I drew alarmed reactions from the other passengers when I stood up and loudly said "No way!" Before returning to my seat, a bit embarrassed. (Anyone who has read it almost certainly knows exactly which part.) Gaby's growth was amazing. And then, at the end, we got to see a kind of redemption that was so well written, so filled with tension, that I could hardly stay seated (at home this time).

    This is not about Demon, the third part of the trilogy, but I will add that it has an equally jarring and seemingly disconsonant opening that took me a bit more to really get into, but it shared the same almost locomotive-like building of momentum that Wizard has... once rolling, both books just pull you along at sometimes breakneck pace... the words can't get from the page to your eyes fast enough.

    It would not be an exaggeration to say I love this trilogy, but Wizard in particular was, and continues to be on each successive reread (every few years) a source of amazement, wonder, and is (in my again subjective opinion) a model for great story telling.

    If you haven't read the trilogy, you should.
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  • randy c
    5,0 von 5 Sternen Five Stars
    Bewertet in Kanada am 27. Oktober 2017
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    very good
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  • F. M. Havicon
    4,0 von 5 Sternen Still very enjoyable, despite changing tastes and the emergence of political correctness.
    Bewertet in Großbritannien am 7. Juli 2015
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    For unknown reasons not available on Kindle -- like a great deal of fine American science fiction -- so I had to find space on a shelf for the book when it came to getting hold of a replacement copy (mine got ruined in a leak). In fact this trilogy of novels is becoming difficult to get hold of in the new format, which is a shame, because it showcases a writer at the height of his abilities.

    A lot of Varley's ideas were seen at the time as "revolutionary hedonism" and because SF of the 70s, and perhaps into the early 80s, tended to embrace anything remotely new or alternative, he got away with a lot of stuff that today might be seen as un-pc, or even a little disgusting and outrageous, especially concerning the "recreational reproductive" habits of youthful humans. How times change! Of course what's important is the writing itself, which is smooth and flowing and on the verge of humour but not quite breaking into comedy.

    The concept of "Titan", used for all three volumes of the trilogy, was somewhat psychedelic in its time, and the only downside is that Varley gets incredibly self-indulgent on occasion, going into needlessly extensive dialogues and descriptions. That puts him nicely among his peers of today (the twenty first century), so in that respect he was ahead of the competition when this was written, 1980.
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  • bob
    5,0 von 5 Sternen excellant adult reading.
    Bewertet in den USA am29. Juli 2013
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    I find this series by John Varley to be one of the most entertaining set of sci fi ever written.
    He takes you to a world and introduces you to characters and you really feel as if you are there with them in this "world that is a God". Another reviewer mentioned how racy the book is at times,but it wasn't written for the kiddies and i find those sexy moments in the books very entertaining and have no problem with them at all,sexuality is just part of being human and he is definately using that to help the reader relate better to the characters in the book.
    From Titan to Wizard to Demon a extremely exciting adventure awaits the reader!
    Another thought-i wonder if movie makers ever considered making a movie out of these books-i imagine probably but there is the whole problem of buying the rights to do that and besides a lot of books like this don't translate well to the big screen(case in point Stephen King's stuff).It's just with all this CGI and everything now it might be easier to make it more believable and true to the books -Sigourney Weaver as a older "Rocky"-not sure who i would like as the younger one.
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  • Adib Behi
    5,0 von 5 Sternen Five Stars
    Bewertet in Kanada am 27. November 2016
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    Thanks.
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