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Gwiazda (Opowiadania) (1989)

by Arthur C. Clarke(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

ISKRY

review 1: Upon discovering some material remains of a race of beings extinguished due to an explosion of a supernova, a priest, who's also a scientist on the ship, has a crisis of faith.Being religious and thus having accepted God as a reality in his life, the crisis stems from trying to comprehend the capriciousness of God's destruction which seems cruel and unjust to him... therefore he feels torn as he's faced between 2 painful possibilities: 1) there is no God and the universe is cruel and random OR 2) there is a God and he/she is cruel and random. Both possibilities render God meaningless in this light, as all that remain is the cruelty and randomness of existence in either case.
review 2: Ces nouvelles ont le goût des années 50. Et je garde une nostalgie particu... morelière pour cette SF qu'on trouvait encore et qui inspirait en partie celle de mon adolescence (70's).Souvent un procédé proche du roman policier, avec une révélation finale qui change la perspective.C'est sans-doute pour cela que j'ai toujours eu du mal avec Arthur C. Clarke. Son style manque de chair, les personnages sont psychologiquement inexistants et on reste dans l'exercice d'imagination. Bref l'anti-thèse de l'inépuisable Philip K. Dick.Pour amateurs donc... less

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