Ninefox Gambit
Autor Yoon Ha Leeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iun 2016
Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris's career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.
Cheris's best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one who can figure out how to successfully besiege the fortress.
The bad news is that Jedao went mad in his first life and massacred two armies, one of them his own. As the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust Jedao--because she might be his next victim."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781781084496
ISBN-10: 1781084491
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Solaris
ISBN-10: 1781084491
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Solaris
Notă biografică
Yoon Ha Lee is a writer and mathematician from Houston, Texas, whose work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed and The Magazine Of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He has published over forty short stories, and his critically acclaimed collection Conservation of Shadows was released in 2013. He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat, and has not yet been eaten by gators.
Recenzii
Starship Troopers meets Apocalypse Now - and they've put Kurtz in charge... Mind-blistering military space opera, but with a density of ideas and strangeness that recalls the works of Hannu Rajaniemi, even Cordwainer Smith
Beautiful, brutal and full of the kind of off-hand inventiveness that the best SF trades in, Ninefox Gambit is an effortlessly accomplished SF novel
Readers willing to invest in a steep learning curve will be rewarded with a tight-woven, complicated but not convoluted, breathtakingly original space opera
Origami elegant, fox-sly, defiantly and ferociously new, this book will burn your brain... Axiomatically brilliant, heretically good
Cheris and Jedao are fascinating, multi-faceted entities, filled with contradictions and idiosyncrasies; Lee's prose is clever and opulently detailed; the worldbuilding is jaw-droppingly good
Yoon Ha Lee recasts Korean legend in a densely rendered, high-tech future universe, with intricate worldbuilding
Lee finds a sumptuous beauty in physical moments and complexity in thought and motivation
"You know what's going on, right?" Ninefox Gambit asks; often, you have to say, "Uh, yeah, of course," when the real answer is "I have no idea, but I really, really care"
This is military SF with blood, guts, math, and heart
Bold, fearlessly innovative and just a bit brutal, this is a book that deserves to be on every awards list
I love Yoon's work! Ninefox Gambit is solidly and satisfyingly full of battles and political intrigue, in a beautifully built far-future that manages to be human and alien at the same time
I haven't felt this blown away by a novel's originality since Ancillary Justice - and, since I'm being completely honest, Ninefox Gambit is actually more inventive, boundary-breaking, and ambitious than that
Genuinely alien, with thrillingly unfamiliar social structures and technologies, and the attention to detail is simply stunning... Just don't ever let your concentration slip, or there's a good chance that you will miss something wonderful
A dizzying composite of military space opera and sheer poetry... Every word, name and concept in Lee's unique world is imbued with a sense of wonder
While Lee has developed a singular combination of military SF, mathematical elegance, and futuristic strangeness, readers may note echoes of or similarities to Iain M. Banks, Hannu Rajaniemi, C. J. Cherryh, Ann Leckie and Cordwainer Smith
Daring, original and compulsive... As if Cordwainer Smith had written a Warhammer novel
A great read; very intriguing world building in particular... I now want to sign all my emails with "Yours in calendrical heresy"
Ninefox Gambit gives a wonderful amount of worldbuilding without any clunky exposition dumps, is ruthlessly clear-eyed about the costs and concerns of war (especially at this technological level) and gives us an instantly ingratiating heroine, who spends most of the book doing her best to outmaneuver the forces that have set her up to fail, waste the lives of her troops or just die
Space-based nail-biter Ninefox Gambit is a smart space opera that pushes the frontier of science fiction
A challenging story, tackling science fiction concepts we're familiar with (spaceships and intergalactic war) while layering on purposefully obfuscated but compelling twists
If you're looking for another great sci-fi read, you should consider Ninefox Gambit
Beautiful, brutal and full of the kind of off-hand inventiveness that the best SF trades in, Ninefox Gambit is an effortlessly accomplished SF novel
Readers willing to invest in a steep learning curve will be rewarded with a tight-woven, complicated but not convoluted, breathtakingly original space opera
Origami elegant, fox-sly, defiantly and ferociously new, this book will burn your brain... Axiomatically brilliant, heretically good
Cheris and Jedao are fascinating, multi-faceted entities, filled with contradictions and idiosyncrasies; Lee's prose is clever and opulently detailed; the worldbuilding is jaw-droppingly good
Yoon Ha Lee recasts Korean legend in a densely rendered, high-tech future universe, with intricate worldbuilding
Lee finds a sumptuous beauty in physical moments and complexity in thought and motivation
"You know what's going on, right?" Ninefox Gambit asks; often, you have to say, "Uh, yeah, of course," when the real answer is "I have no idea, but I really, really care"
This is military SF with blood, guts, math, and heart
Bold, fearlessly innovative and just a bit brutal, this is a book that deserves to be on every awards list
I love Yoon's work! Ninefox Gambit is solidly and satisfyingly full of battles and political intrigue, in a beautifully built far-future that manages to be human and alien at the same time
I haven't felt this blown away by a novel's originality since Ancillary Justice - and, since I'm being completely honest, Ninefox Gambit is actually more inventive, boundary-breaking, and ambitious than that
Genuinely alien, with thrillingly unfamiliar social structures and technologies, and the attention to detail is simply stunning... Just don't ever let your concentration slip, or there's a good chance that you will miss something wonderful
A dizzying composite of military space opera and sheer poetry... Every word, name and concept in Lee's unique world is imbued with a sense of wonder
While Lee has developed a singular combination of military SF, mathematical elegance, and futuristic strangeness, readers may note echoes of or similarities to Iain M. Banks, Hannu Rajaniemi, C. J. Cherryh, Ann Leckie and Cordwainer Smith
Daring, original and compulsive... As if Cordwainer Smith had written a Warhammer novel
A great read; very intriguing world building in particular... I now want to sign all my emails with "Yours in calendrical heresy"
Ninefox Gambit gives a wonderful amount of worldbuilding without any clunky exposition dumps, is ruthlessly clear-eyed about the costs and concerns of war (especially at this technological level) and gives us an instantly ingratiating heroine, who spends most of the book doing her best to outmaneuver the forces that have set her up to fail, waste the lives of her troops or just die
Space-based nail-biter Ninefox Gambit is a smart space opera that pushes the frontier of science fiction
A challenging story, tackling science fiction concepts we're familiar with (spaceships and intergalactic war) while layering on purposefully obfuscated but compelling twists
If you're looking for another great sci-fi read, you should consider Ninefox Gambit