El món de Rocannon

239 pages

Langue : Català

Publié 31 mai 2023 par Raig Verd.

ISBN :
978-84-19206-57-2
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4 étoiles (2 critiques)

Els «Senyors de les Estrelles» van arribar fa molts anys, i van capgirar per sempre el destí del planeta Fomalhaut II amb les seves guerres interestel·lars. Un d’aquests Senyors, l’etnòleg Gaverel Rocannon, està estudiant el planeta per a la Lliga de Tots els Mons, quan un enemic destrueix la seva nau i l’hi deixa atrapat i incomunicat. Per tal d’alertar la Lliga d’aquest enemic, haurà de recórrer aquest món desconegut, i alhora qüestionar-se tot el que es pensa que en sap, del planeta, dels seus habitants i d’ell mateix.

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a publié une critique de Rocannon's World par Ursula K. Le Guin

Interesting High Fantasy/Scifi Mix

4 étoiles

I must admit, this book didn't capture me as much as others. It is not long though, and you have to consider its age (published in 1966!).

Its ideas and story are therefore quite remarkable. I have not read the other, more famous stories from the Hainish novels, but I'm sure this is not the best.

It contains some landmarks of Scifi though (even though most of it is high fantasy), most remarkably the Ansible, which Le Guin invented here and which is a mainstay for so many other works from later authors.

Least-favorite LeGuin

3 étoiles

Ansible—the open-source “infrastructure as code” tool—borrowed its name from this novel.

In the story, an ansible is a faster-than-light (FTL) communication device—words typed on one ansible appear instantaneously light-years away.

This factoid was chief among my reasons for reading this book.

I also read it for completeness sake—“Rocannon’s World” is the first novel in the Hainish Cycle—Ursula K. Le Guin’s epic future history, which includes one of my all-time favorite books: “The Dispossessed.”

But this was my least-favorite Le Guin story I’ve read thus far (although that’s a high bar).

The story was nothing more than your average 1960s sci-fi/bronze-aged castles with flying cats mashup.

While that sounds exciting, the actual book was slow.

There needed to be more plot for such a plot-driven story.

Plot

I ride with Olhor, who seeks to hear his enemy’s voice, who has traveled through the great dark, who has seen the World hang …