Floating Hotel
Autor Grace Curtisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2025
Observăm încă de la primele pagini că proza lui Grace Curtis posedă o eleganță ludică, o fluiditate care transformă un decor tehnologic rece într-un spațiu vibrant, aproape organic. Stilul său se distinge printr-o atenție meticuloasă la detalii senzoriale, reușind să construiască o lume în care luxul decadent al unui hotel intergalactic coexistă cu vulnerabilitatea celor care îl întrețin. Floating Hotel nu este doar o aventură spațială, ci o scrisoare de dragoste adresată conceptului de „acasă” și comunităților care se formează în cele mai neobișnuite locuri.
Apreciem în mod deosebit construcția lumii, centrată pe nava Abeona. Acest hotel nu este un simplu vehicul, ci un ecosistem complex care navighează prin Calea Lactee, oferind priveliști spectaculoase și servicii impecabile, în timp ce ascunde intrigi politice și secrete personale. Sistemul de „management” al navei, condus de Carl, devine inima narativă a cărții. Remarcăm modul în care Curtis echilibrează tonul optimist cu accente de mister: de la conferințe enigmatice ale „Rezolvitorilor de Probleme” până la prezența subtilă a spionilor imperiali. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la The Paradox Hotel, deși accentul pus pe „familia aleasă” și căldura interacțiunilor umane marchează o voce proprie, mult mai luminoasă decât abordările noir clasice.
În contextul operei sale, Floating Hotel rafinează temele explorate în Frontier sau Idolfire. Dacă în lucrările anterioare Grace Curtis se concentra pe supraviețuire în medii ostile și romanțe de tip slow-burn, aici ea mută reflectorul pe stabilitatea fragilă a unei micro-societăți stelare. Este o evoluție firească a autoarei, care trece de la peisajele post-apocaliptice la un spațiu de un rafinament „Wes Anderson-esque”, păstrând însă aceeași sensibilitate pentru personajele marginale.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0756419735
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 142 x 205 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Astra Publishing House
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un science fiction „warm and cozy”, unde accentul cade pe relații umane și atmosferă, nu doar pe tehnologie. Veți câștiga o perspectivă proaspătă asupra genului, descoperind o poveste plină de speranță despre misfits și rebeli care își găsesc locul printre stele. Este lectura ideală pentru fanii lui Becky Chambers care își doresc un strop de mister și estetică vizuală sofisticată.
Despre autor
Grace Curtis este o voce emergentă și extrem de apreciată în literatura speculativă contemporană, cunoscută pentru capacitatea de a infuza genurile fantasy și science fiction cu o sensibilitate queer și un umor subtil. După succesul răsunător al romanului de debut Frontier, un amestec ingenios de western și SF, Curtis și-a consolidat reputația de „world-builder” talentat. Lucrările sale, printre care se numără și bestsellerul Sunday Times Idolfire, explorează adesea teme precum identitatea, apartenența și puterea legăturilor interumane în fața unor sisteme opresive sau a unor viitoruri incerte.
Descriere
'Smart, bold and so much fun . . . I'm officially a member of the Grace Curtis fan club' AMIE KAUFMAN
The Grand Budapest Hotel in space, Floating Hotel is a hopeful story of misfits, rebels and found family, perfect for fans of Becky Chambers, Martha Wells and Aliette de Bodard.
Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. Year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the milky way. The last word in sub-orbital luxury - and a magnet for intrigue. Intrigues such as:
Why are there love poems in the lobby intray?
How many Imperial spies are currently on board?
What is the true purpose of the Problem Solver's conference?
And perhaps most pertinently - who is driving the ship?
At the centre of these mysteries stands Carl, one time stowaway, longtime manager, devoted caretaker to the hotel. It's the love of his life and the only place he's ever called home. But as forces beyond Carl's comprehension converge on the Abeona, he has to face one final question: when is it time to let go?
** AUTHORS LOVE GRACE CURTIS **
'A beautiful novel . . . You will turn every page hoping for one hundred more' HANNAH KANER
'Curtis oozes charm and humour' TAMSYN MUIR
'An absolute marvel' BETH REVIS
'A real treat' MAX GLADSTONE
'Bittersweet and breathtaking' JULES ARBEAUX
'Beautiful and clever, sad and hopeful, subtle and profoundly moving . . . A heartbreak and a hug' CLAIRE NORTH
'If you read one sci-fi novel this year, make it this one' KATE DYLAN
** READERS LOVE FLOATING HOTEL **
'I was completely immersed ' Netgalley, Five Stars
'Made me laugh and tear up and restore a little hope in humanity' Netgalley, Five Stars
'Grace Curtis is a wonderful writer' Netgalley, Five Stars
'Unique and brilliant' Netgalley, Five Stars
'Deliriously divine' Netgalley, Five Stars
Recenzii
Curtis oozes charm and humour
Delightfully inventive
Smart, bold and so much fun . . . I'm officially a member of the Grace Curtis fan club
An absolute marvel to behold!
PRAISE FOR FLOATING HOTEL
A beautiful novel, magnificently told. Floating Hotel is a story of love, gentle rebellion and mystery pulled through a ragtag bunch of outstanding and dangerous misfits who have all found their way to the stars. Curtis is a master of turning the screw of the story tighter with each page as she inexorably takes us through the lives of the characters to the centre of political intrigue and danger. You will turn every page hoping for one hundred more
This book was a joy to read. It was beautiful and clever, sad and hopeful, subtle and profoundly moving all at once. Grace Curtis has written a novel dripping with humane observation and brilliant craft, weaving together a story that catches you by the heart, even as it pulls you across the galaxy. It is both a heartbreak and a hug in a book; an awesome achievement
Bittersweet and breathtaking, with evocative prose and a scope that's somehow both intimate and galaxy-spanning, FLOATING HOTEL is like the Abeona itself. It invites you to enjoy its atmospheric and multi-layered story and lovable cast at your leisure-and the deeper you get, the less willing you are to let it go. Grace Curtis has a new fan for life!
A funny, humane, and sneaky novel-Floating Hotel is intricate and welcoming as the Grand Abonea around which it revolves, a treasured space in a treacherous universe. Theirs, I mean. Ours too
Curtis has done it again - delivering a high stakes slice of life novel that's bleeding with heart. The underbelly of the Abeona hotel may be rotting with secrets, but like the guests, you'll be too dazzled by its effortless charm to notice. If you read one sci-fi novel this year, make it this one
When I'm rich I'm booking a tour on the Grand Abeona Hotel. Grace Curtis's ability to populate that wonderful, crumbling old relic with characters you really come to love is absolutely exceptional, and Floating Hotel is a joy from arrival to check-out. Mine's a martini, Carl!
Quietly incredible - a constellation of lives, each rendered with warmth and wit, building up a picture of connection, sanctuary, and resistance. The kind of book I want to live in
It is here that Curtis's second novel shines, with the quirky wit of a Wes Anderson film and a deeply grounded and human sense of the importance of found family, this lovable adventure through space seems to be anything other than distant
The sense of place is superb, the characters are wonderful studies of humanity, differences are celebrated, diversity feels established. I found friends with whom I empathised and commiserated. I observed others with sadness, and found hope and jubilation as I got to know those on board. Highly recommended, Floating Hotel is a triumph of observation and deserves to fly
You'll be sucked into the Abeona's world on a sweet, surprisingly sentimental journey across the Milky Way
Even when the stakes are high, Curtis has a knack for keeping things intimate and understated, peeling back the layers of the novel's scrappy found family. Centering optimism in the face of an increasingly dark universe, this feel-good saga lingers long after it's finished
Look out for Grace Curtis' Wes Anderson-esque Floating Hotel.
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Descriere scurtă
Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the milky way. The last word in sub-orbital luxury—and an absolute magnet for intrigue. Intrigues such as: Why are there love poems in the lobby inbox? How many Imperial spies are currently on board? What is the true purpose of the Problem Solver’s conference? And perhaps most pertinently—who is driving the ship?
Each guest has a secret, every member of staff a universe unto themselves. At the center of these interweaving lives and interlocking mysteries stands Carl, one time stowaway, longtime manager, devoted caretaker to the hotel. It’s the love of his life and the only place he’s ever called home. But as forces beyond Carl’s comprehension converge on the Abeona, he has to face one final question: when is it time to let go?