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The Hydrogen Sonata de Iain M. Banks

The Hydrogen Sonata

Autor Iain M. Banks
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 sep 2013

Reținem cu un amestec de admirație și nostalgie The Hydrogen Sonata, volumul care încheie magistral grandioasa serie Culture. Poziționat la finalul unei cronologii literare care a început cu Consider Phlebas, acest roman consolidează viziunea lui Iain M. Banks asupra unei utopii post-deficit, explorând de data aceasta conceptul metafizic al „Sublimării”. Dacă în Surface Detail autorul investiga ororile iadului digital, aici ne concentrăm pe procesul invers: elevarea unei întregi civilizații, Gzilt, către un plan de existență infinit mai complex. Notăm cu interes contrastul specific stilului lui Banks: Gzilt este o societate profund militaristă în structură, dar pașnică în manifestare, aflată acum în fața extincției voluntare. Cititorul care a apreciat dilemele etice și complexitatea agenților din Use of Weapons va găsi aici o dinamică similară în misiunea lui Vyr Cossont, însă într-un context mult mai vast, cel al sfârșitului unei ere. Lumea construită este una a tehnologiei supreme, unde navele spațiale au personalitate, iar avatarurile Culturii intervin în destinele galactice cu un amestec de cinism și eleganță. Recomandăm acest titlu nu doar ca pe un spectacol de operă spațială, ci ca pe o reflecție asupra moștenirii culturale și a adevărului istoric, totul orchestrat printr-un ritm narativ care alternează între acțiune explozivă și dezbatere filozofică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316212366
ISBN-10: 0316212369
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 136 x 208 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Orbit

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un science-fiction de idei, unde construcția lumii atinge o scară galactică. Veți descoperi un univers în care tehnologia permite nemurirea și transcenderea, dar unde secretele vechi de milenii pot încă distruge civilizații. Este ocazia perfectă de a experimenta apogeul stilului lui Iain M. Banks, un amestec unic de inteligență sclipitoare, umor discret și imaginație fără limite.

Despre autor

Iain Banks (1954–2013) a fost un autor scoțian de o versatilitate rară, publicând ficțiune mainstream sub numele de Iain Banks și science-fiction sub semnătura Iain M. Banks. După succesul fulminant al debutului său, „The Wasp Factory” (1984), s-a dedicat scrisului, lansând în 1987 seria Culture. Recunoscut de The Times drept unul dintre cei mai importanți 50 de scriitori britanici de după 1945, Banks a revoluționat genul space opera, oferind viziuni tehnologice avansate dublate de o profundă analiză politică și socială. The Hydrogen Sonata rămâne testamentul său literar în cadrul universului Culturii.

Descriere scurtă

The New York Times bestselling Culture novel...

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization.

An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.

Amid preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command. She must find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago.

It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilization are likely to prove its most perilous.

Notă biografică

Iain Banks came to controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Consider Phlebas, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Banks in 1987. He is now widely acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation.

Recenzii

"This rich, sweeping panorama of heroism and folly celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Culture, Banks's far-future semi-utopian society.... The action tumbles along at a dizzying pace, bouncing among a fascinating array of characters and locales. It's easy to see why Banks's fertile, cheerfully nihilistic imagination and vivid prose have made the Culture space operas bestsellers and award favorites."—Publishers Weekly
"One of Banks' best Culture novels to date."—Booklist on The Hydrogen Sonata
"It's fantastically good fun that throws in some big ideas about life, the universe and everything, and like the unabashed leftie that he is, Banks manages to get in there a few sizable shots at unthinking, dogmatic religiosity for good measure."—SciFi Now
"Banks's charming prose and the scale of his imagination continue to delight Culture vultures."—SFX
"The Culture, the post-scarcity, hedonistic, Machiavellian, libertarian, arse-kicking science-fiction society created by the late Iain M. Banks...one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future."—The Guardian
"Incomparable entertainment, with fascinating and highly original characters, challenging ideas and extrapolations, and dazzling action...sheer delight."—Kirkus Reviews

Descriere

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The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. His Culture books combine breathtaking imagination with exceptional storytelling, and have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre.

'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation.

An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilisations: they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost in­finitely more rich and complex existence.

But, amid preparations, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Vyr Cossont, a former soldier for the Gzilt, appears to have been involved, and she is now wanted - dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android and a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete a ­final mission; she must ­find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over nine thousand years old, who might just hold the key to understanding what happened . . .

The ­final days of the Gzilt civilisation may prove its most perilous.

Praise for the Culture series:

'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday

'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian

'Jam-packed with extraordinary invention' Scotsman

'Compulsive reading' Sunday Telegraph

The Culture series:
Consider Phlebas
The Player of Games
Use of Weapons
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
The State of the Art

Other books by Iain M. Banks:
Against a Dark Background
Feersum Endjinn
The Algebraist

Also now available:
The Culture: The Drawings - an extraordinary collection of original illustrations faithfully reproduced from sketchbooks Banks kept in the 1970s and 80s, depicting the ships, habitats, geography, weapons and language of Banks' Culture series of novels in incredible detail.