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Resurgence (Hardcover)

de Charles Sheffield (Author)
3.5étoiles sur 5  Voir tous les commentaires (2 évaluations de client)

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The third book in Sheffield's Heritage Universe series (Convergent Series; Transvergence) further explores the magnificent artifacts and philosophy of the omnipotent Builders, but too many stock characters are introduced only to be killed off or to be funny. Survival experts and an administrator for the Fourth Alliance, Julian Graves, join the series' heroes-idealist Hans Rebka, Builder expert Darya Lang, adventurer Louis Nenda and his alien entourage, and the embodied computer, E. Crimson Tally-in a rescue mission to a galaxy in the Sagittarius Arm. During the voyage, Hans and Louis pursue their rivalry for Darya, while other crew members express their mutual dislike in a series of lame exchanges. Then, as they near their objective, the team splits up to maximize the adventures and provide, alternately, serious scientific investigation and low comedy. However, the multiple perspectives and plot leaps only fragment the gestures toward hard science, while the dramatic potential inherent in such characters as E. Crimson Tally goes undeveloped. The primary appeal will be to Sheffield devotees who feel compelled to finish a series that they've started. of The Amazing Dr. Darwin.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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A few years after the disappearance of the mysterious Builder Artifacts salted throughout the inhabited regions of the universe, a new phenomenon appears in the unexplored Sagittarian Arm of the galaxy, a force with the power to destroy planets. Capt. Hans Rebka and his team of galactic troubleshooters travel to the threatened Marglot system only to find themselves directly in the path of destruction. Veteran sf author Sheffield's third installment in his "Heritage Universe" series (after Convergent Series and Transvergence) continues his tale of a universe populated by both humans and aliens and filled with evidence of an ancient, vanished race whose legacies still direct the course of galactic events. Hard science, well-paced plotting, and likable characters combine to make a strong addition to most sf collections.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Entertaining, But That's As Far As It Goes, Aoû 11 2003
Par Emil L. Posey (Huntsville, AL USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This was a mildly entertaining book. Sheffield places the action at an indeterminate time in the future at the interstellar level, with travel between our Orion arm of the Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Sagittarius arm. He's big on aliens (although he doesn't go overboard) and on robotics. He does not show his strength in science in this novel.

The action centers on an ancient, largely unknown super race called the Builders that left a large number of enigmatic artifacts through the Orion arm. These artifacts date back some two million years. The Builders themselves have never been encountered, and are theorized to be either extinct or to have moved on to some other destiny. A scratch, motley team of somewhat disconnected characters is pulled together following the arrival of a ship from the Sagittarius arm. The ship contained two kinds of aliens, all of whom were dead. The team is asked to go to the Sagittarius arm to discover the aliens' purpose. There they find a huge, and growing, dead zone that stems either from the Builders or yet another super race.

The action is good, and the story flows. There was nothing that leapt out at me begging my interest other than just the general unfolding of events. It was fun to read, but will not leave much of a mark - certainly not like some of Sheffield's other books. Three stars, and that's being generous.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Best of the Heritage Universe Series, Juil 29 2003
Par Randy Stafford (St. Paul, MN USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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In the fifth novel of the Heritage Universe, the Builders, those aliens who scattered around huge, occasionally useful, sometimes deadly, artifacts about our part of the galaxy, have competition. Another force is destroying their work and sucking the heat and life out of entire solar systems.

Troubleshooter Hans Rebka, obsessed Builder scholar Darya Lang, the shady team of Louis Nenda and Atvar H'sial, their strangely loyal slaves, the exuberant and impatient E. C. Tally (an embodied computer), and Ethical Counselor Julian Graves again find themselves exploring the Builders' works and speculating as to what they mean.

This may be the most humorous book of the series, and the characters are at their most interesting. The action set pieces in frozen solar systems are inventive and suspenseful.

This is not a good entry point for the series, though. You'll want to follow the enigma of the Builders from the beginning starting with Sheffield's _Convergent Series_ and then _Transvergence_.

And, unfortunately, with Sheffield's death last year, some Builder questions will remain unanswered.

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