Defenders
Autor Will McIntoshen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 mai 2014
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A
new
epic
of
alien
invasion
and
human
resistance
by
Hugo
Award-winning
author
Will
McIntosh.
Our
Darkest
Hour.
Our
Only
Hope.
The
invaders
came
to
claim
earth
as
their
own,
overwhelming
us
with
superior
weapons
and
the
ability
to
read
our
minds
like
open
books.
Our
only
chance
for
survival
was
to
engineer
a
new
race
of
perfect
soldiers
to
combat
them.
Seventeen
feet
tall,
knowing
and
loving
nothing
but
war,
their
minds
closed
to
the
aliens.
But
these
saviors
could
never
be
our
servants.
And
what
is
done
cannot
be
undone.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316217767
ISBN-10: 031621776X
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Orbit
Colecția Orbit
ISBN-10: 031621776X
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Orbit
Colecția Orbit
Notă biografică
Will
McIntosh
is
a
Hugo
award
winner
and
Nebula
finalist
whose
latest
novel,Defenders,
has
been
optioned
by
Warner
Brothers
for
a
feature
film.
His
previous
novel,Love
Minus
Eighty,
was
named
the
best
science
fiction
book
of
2013
by
the
American
Library
Association,
and
was
on
both
Io9.com
and
NPR.org's
lists
of
the
best
SF
novels
of
2013.
His
debut
novel,Soft
Apocalypse,
was
a
finalist
for
a
Locus
Award,
the
John
W.
Campbell
Memorial
Award,
and
the
Compton
Crook
Award.
Along
with
four
novels,
he
has
published
fifty
short
stories
in
venues
such
asAsimov's,Lightspeed,
andScience
Fiction
and
Fantasy:
Best
of
the
Year.
Will
was
a
psychology
professor
before
turning
to
writing
full-time.
He
lives
in
Williamsburg
with
his
wife
and
their
five
year-old
twins.
You
can
follow
him
on
Twitter
@willmcintoshSF,
or
on
his
website,www.willmcintosh.net.
Recenzii
"McIntosh
is
without
a
doubt
one
of
the
most
underrated
science
fiction
authors
writing
today.Defendersis
an
emotional,
action-packed
story....McIntosh's
cautionary
near-future
tale,
told
from
multiple
perspectives,
serves
as
a
brutally
honest
portrayal
of
how
humans
carelessly
exploit,
destroy
-
and
in
this
case
create
-
other
species."—RT
Book
Reviews
(Top
Pick)
"What makesDefenderssuch an incredible novel is McIntosh's pure elegance, the beauty of its simplicity. Each element of the novel, the characters, the situations, the world, the results of the world's actions, organically feed into each other as the novel progresses."—SFFWorld
"This military science fiction novel offers fast paced action."—Publishers Weekly
"McIntosh's novels often blend unlikely scenarios and genre tropes in ways that make you rethink them. Here he's brought together the classic veterans' "coming home" story with telepathic alien invasion and issues around what it means to have been genetically engineered for one purpose. It's a posthuman scenario that McIntosh is exploring in all its messy complexity."—io9.com
"McIntosh tells a more global yet still deeply personal tale about life during wartime and its aftermath... McIntosh has his finger on the pulse, again."—Kirkus (starred review)
"An emotional story of love, loyalty, and forgiveness amid the stark realities of war."—Booklist
"What makesDefenderssuch an incredible novel is McIntosh's pure elegance, the beauty of its simplicity. Each element of the novel, the characters, the situations, the world, the results of the world's actions, organically feed into each other as the novel progresses."—SFFWorld
"This military science fiction novel offers fast paced action."—Publishers Weekly
"McIntosh's novels often blend unlikely scenarios and genre tropes in ways that make you rethink them. Here he's brought together the classic veterans' "coming home" story with telepathic alien invasion and issues around what it means to have been genetically engineered for one purpose. It's a posthuman scenario that McIntosh is exploring in all its messy complexity."—io9.com
"McIntosh tells a more global yet still deeply personal tale about life during wartime and its aftermath... McIntosh has his finger on the pulse, again."—Kirkus (starred review)
"An emotional story of love, loyalty, and forgiveness amid the stark realities of war."—Booklist
Premii
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist, 2015