този тип в който си казваш "Чакай да видя какво ще стане в следващата глава. ". Хардкор фантастика за хората които харесват такива книги, а аз определено съм от тях. Впечатлен съм от фантазията и размаха с който действа Броснан. Brosnan is a new author for me, and the book was a Terry Prathchett recommendation and to be honest I struggled with it, Published infor me it managed to somehow embody a very eighties vision of a postapocalyptic future that grated with me time and again, All sorts of aspects of it simply seemed to me utterly implausible: the genetics gone crazy, airships the size of large towns, the mix of feudal and high tech, the list just keeps going on.
Not for me and I wont be continuing with the series, Drugo čitanje, nakon dvadesetak godina, Još je jednako dobra. Ovo je jako dobro znanstveno fantastično djelo, možda i najoriginalnije znanstveno fantastično djelo koje sam do sad pročitala, Radnja se događa u dalekoj budućnosti gdje se gradovi nalaze na Mjesecu, u svemiru i na Marsu, Ljudi žive po nekoliko stotina godina, prestaju stariti u trideset i petoj, a žene imaju menstruaciju jednom u dvadeset godina, Nebeski gospodari vladaju zemljom i svatko tko se nastani na zemlji, mora plaćati godišnji danak Nebeskim gospodarima, pa često ljudi znaju gladovati,
Tako je Minerva u Sjevernoj Americi morala plaćati danak, žive Amazonke, žene su veće od muškaraca i dominantnije,
Glavni lik je Jan, isprva nesnalažljiva i osjetljiva djevojka koja živi s ocem i majkom koja je sili da bomb stavlja u anus, Knjiga počinje kad se Minerva priprema za napad nebeskih gospodara i kasnije biva uništena, a Jan biva jedina preživjela i dovedena u roblje gdje je preuzima Milo, vrlo tajanstven lik koji te uvijek iznenađuje.
Knjiga pokazuje negativnu ljudsku prirodu i kako ljudska moć može sve odnijeti k vragu, Skoro svaki lik je bio sadist i poremećen, Svaki lik je bio žedan za moći i besmrtnošću, ljudskim tkivima se raspolagalo kao običnim materijalom, Vrlo sam suosjećala sa Jan koja je bila bezbroj puta iskorištavana od strane drugih ljudi, ali ipak se snalazila, Može se reći da je imala i puno sreće, Osim Jan jedini pošteni likovi su bili Ashley, Ceri i Carl, Možemo Ashely i Carla ne kontati, budući da je Ashley hologram, a Carl softwer, usput mi se sviđala crna pantera koja je na neki način mogla govoriti,
Od likova mi se sviđao i Milo, iako je bio sadist i nije bio drugačiji od ostalih, Bio je vrlo tajanstven, svako malo bi iznenadio čitača, a on je najviše pokretao radnju,
John Brosnan ima vrlo bujnu maštu, vrlo je originalan, samo je dvedeset i prvo stoljeće prikazao kakvo nije danas, ali opet, knjiga je napisana.
pa mu možemo oprostiti, Ez dakit zer esan. I reread this book having read it many MANY years ago, when I wasorI think, Probably not long after it first came out, during my "read every damn bit of scifi in the library of my small town because bloody hell this place is killing me" years.
I figured I'd give it a go for nostalgia as the kindle edition was only a couple of quid, It was both better and worse than I expected,
The setting is a postapocalyptic world set after the 'gene wars' in which a few pockets of greatly altered humanity survive in a wilderness of mutant animals and 'blight lands'.
They are ruled over in a kind of feudal system by 'sky lords' great airships, tech surviving from before society's collapse, Almost all knowledge of technology has been lost, and humanity now lives in various fantasy tropes, basically, The story follows a protagonist, Jan, from 'feminist' Minerva a settlement of women genetically altered to be physically and socially dominant over their oppositely altered submissive men.
She ends up captured and taken up into a Sky Lord, meeting the seemingly superhuman, Milo, who alternates between dry humour and psychotic murder,
This is a novel firmly in thes 'sexy adventure' school of scifi but with as preoccupation with genetic manipulation and cybernetics, Even though the writing is reasonably easy to read that's the 'better than I expected' bit and some of the airship stuff is cool I can't really recommend it for much more than nostalgia.
John Brosnan clearly had a chip on his shoulder about feminism, an oldfashioned "I'm not racist but, . . " streak, and a weird preoccupation with sexual violence, When I was a young white boy this didn't seem too out of place, having read a lot of Robert Heinlein and Philip José Farmer, but now it's quite cringey.
I'm probably going to finish the trilogy out of nostaliga and a morbid curiosity to see more clearly the thing I read at a young age.
If you want an 'old fashioned' adventure that's reasonably easy to read, has some 'cool' action and fantasy/ scifi elements, and will otherwise not challenge your brain one iota, than you might be interested.
Although I'm fairly sure you could find something like that without the heavy dose of problematic elements if you looked around a little, Oh and be warned that this should really be read as part of a trilogy, It does sortof wrap up but it would be more appropriate to package this and the later books as a single slabsized book instead of three slim volumes.
Не си играйте с гените! Радвайте се на това, което имате! Kad sam negdje prije pregledavala popis pročitanih knjiga, naletila sam na ovu SF trilogiju, S obzirom da sam je čitala kad sam imalagodina a to je bilo davno, odlučila sam ih opet uzeti, Dio radnje sam zaboravila, ali su mi knjige ostale u sjećanju kao nešto što mi se jako svidjelo,
Ovaj prvi dio ponijela sam sa sobom na more i brzinski ga pročitala, Odmah sam se prisjetila većine događaja iz knjige, I pri drugom čitanju isto mi je bila odlična, Ideja o budućnosti u kojoj vladaju ogromni cepelini čiji vlasnici ih zovu Nebeski gospodari, a većinu svijeta su uništili nusproizvodi Genetskih ratova, mi je i nakon toliko godina i dalje osvježavajuća.
Likovi su mi svi zanimljivi, Jan, draga Jan većinu vremena samo ide kud ju, što bi rekli, život nosi, A Milo, do samog kraja knjige nisam mogla odlučiti sviđa li mi se on, živcira li me, je li pozitivac ili bih ga natukla.
U svakom slučaju, prvom prilikom uzimam nastavak,
I don't know. I didn't like it much, but I had to keep reading, Funny. The story is like a rollercoaster, I could not connect with any of the characters, I still don't understand Jan her background and the way she had to be brought up, what was she imbued with, very much clashes with the way she behaves later.
Anyway, I am proceeding with the series, just to see what happens, Всички човешки връзки се градят на нуждата, на егоизма. И всички човешки чувства. Егоизмът е равен на оцеляване. Да вярваш в друго,
означава да си играеш с романтични самозаблуди.
Pulp moderno.
Género. CienciaFicción.
Lo que nos cuenta, Minerva es un enclave gobernado por mujeres en medio de una jungla repleta de especies animales y vegetales potencialmente letales, Falta poco para que Lord Pangloth, una nave voladora de enorme tamaño que opera mediante helio e hidrógeno perteneciente a los Señores del Cielo que llevan más de tres siglos dominando el mundo, llegue a Minerva para recibir el tributo en cereales que exige desde hace mucho tiempo.
Como dicho tributo significaría la hambruna y el final del enclave, el Consejo valorar la opción de atacar la aeronave, Primer libro de la trilogía Los señores del cielo,
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sitelink blogspot. com/ for the setting, Centuries in the future, after the world has been devasted by the Gene Wars, the scattered remnants of humanity struggle against both the spreading biological blight on the ground and the great airships that dominate the skies.
Controlled by feudal warlords, these milelong dirigibles patrol their territories, exacting tribute from the ground communities, Леко засрамен си признавам че чак сега намерих време за трилогията на Джон Броснан, макар и да ми я хвалят от години. И има защо!
Описания от него постапокалиптичен свят е страхотен, достоверен, истински, а героите му са симпатични и описани по начин който те кара наистина да страдаш когато се наядат на хой което се случва тук и там.
Да, дори генно модифицираната амазонка, израсла в общество на феминисткимъжемразки ми стана симпатична, макар и не с интелекта си!
Ако имаше начин да се опише една идея поярко това което всъщност се случва на повърхността, далеч под перките на могъщите небесни господари, мутиралите зверове
и странните явления, то книгата веднага би станала една от любимите ми съвременни фантастики.
От друга страна кой знае Остават още два тома за прочитане. The future Earth of John Brosnans The Sky Lords is a uniquely nasty and colourful place, and Ive visited it before,
I read the second book in this trilogy when I was thirteen twentyfive years ago and loved it, It took me a quarter of a century to track down book one The Sky Lords and return to Brosnans ruined Earth, I did so with some trepidation revisiting the fondly remembered books of our youth often ends in disappointment but Im glad I did,
This isnt your standard postapocalypse Earth, your The Road style nuclear winter, or a Ballardesque climatechange wracked, sunblasted greenhouse, Brosnans future is a pungent and squalid world dripping with fungal decay, where a hightech humanity has been largely reduced to almost medieval level, supplemented by the few surviving bits of oldscience gear left functioning.
Designer fungi, plagues, animals and plants, all made uniquely vicious by genetic engineering , have blighted the Earth, turning it into an inhospitable wasteland filled with hungry terrors.
What fertile areas remain are being encroached upon, the fungus and its denizens forcing humanity into smaller and smaller safe areas each year,
Unfortunately for the people struggling to survive on the blighted Earth, they also have to contend with threats from the air, Among the surviving technical wonders are a dozen or more gigantic, milelong airships known as Sky Lords, Once built for humanitarian missions and evacuations, these vast dirigibles have become decrepit floating cities, and they rule huge swathes of the world, collecting tribute from all those who live beneath them.
Jan Dorvin lives in once such community, a matriarchal society of female warriors whose paying of tribute has pushed them to breaking point, They plan to shoot down their Sky Lord a ship known as the Lord Pangloth and keep their tribute for themselves, This decision will see Jan enslaved and set to hanging from a rope thousands of feet up to polish the failing solar panels on the floating home of her oppressors.
It is here she meets Milo, a refugee like her, but possessed of strange abilities and a knowledge of science and the past that is odd for a slave.
Milo saves Jan from assault largely to preserve her for his own creepy advances and the two of them form an uneasy alliance as they embark on an adventure that will change the world and challenge the feudal rule of the airship cities.
Theres some great worldbuilding here, and it sucked me right in, despite their being a few weak points in the story,
Jan is an interesting character a young warrior woman used to ruling over men, who is brave, tough and resourceful, Her hero potential as an Amazonian asskicker isnt really reached, however, as despite her strength she pinballs around between dominant men throughout the book, most of whom treat her as either a nonentity or a target for rape.
Jan is forced to use sex to get ahead, and sometimes rather horrifically submit to being used, Early on in the story she notes that sex given for survival or under duress is rape, and by her metric most of the sex her character is involved in is indistinguishable from that crime, which is pretty damn grim.
Jan's lack of agency in her own story is capped off by somewhat of a deus ex machina in the final act that involves a couple of machine personalities.
Maybe my readers eye is a little jaundiced, but this development seemed a touch too convenient,
However, the good stuff in The Sky Lords makes up for some of these weaknesses, Brosnans posttech neofeudal society is vividly alive, as is his blighted wasteland, Likewise the imagined history behind it all is satisfyingly deep and well thought out, The characters and their backstories are genuinely interesting and my curiosity as to how the world was blighted drew me through the narrative like a carrot hanging before a hungry horse.
Im genuinely looking forward to reading the rest of the trilogy, where I hope Jan will be given the stronger role her character deserves,
Despite its flaws The Sky Lords is an entertaining, moreish read that kept me glued to my reader, It took me a quarter of a century to return to this bleak and beleaguered world, and I loved finally learning the backstory of a novel that my teenage self loved.
I really should have gotten around to reading it sooner,
Three point five aggressive mushrooms out of five, .
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