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2012 Lunar Contact (2012)

by J.D. Clarke(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Amazon Digital Services

series

Contact

review 1: Begrepet "Lunar Contact" i tittelen er ganske så misvisende da dette først og fremst bare refererer til hvordan historien begynner. Det første inntrykket jeg fikk var en mix av "Rendez-vous with Rama" og "2001", men etter de første kapitlene dras historien langt lenger slik at sammenligningene ikke lenger blir gyldig. Riktignok er det mange elementer her man finner i mange klassiske sci-fi-bøker, men som Umberto Eco sier så blir nye bøker alltid til blant gamle bøker og aldri i et vakuum. Det er sant også for denne boken.Det jeg personlig likte med denne boken var at det er få lange landskapsbeskrivelser og mer handling og dialog. Teknobabbelet var også rimelig greit da de representerte en såpass fremmed teknologi at det ikke blir knotete når ting skal forklar... morees. Det blir vel kanskje litt langt å skulle kalle den filosofisk, men at den kan gi et par tanker i en eller annen retning er ikke umulig. Det er likevel ikke en "WOW!"-bok, men betegnelsen 4 av 5 stjerner (="really liked it") sier vel sitt.
review 2: When I read the premise for this book I was intrigued. Sure enough the novel starts out the way the synopsis describes but shortly after it takes the hell off and keeps going way beyond any lunar contact. Its like climbing up a hill just to see another hill in your path. I had no idea this book was going to take it as far as it did. The characters in this story accomplish some some major feats that is way beyond their level or even realm of expertise and kept doing it. In other sci-fi stories you just except that they pull this stuff out of there butts, use some quantum physics dialogue/explanation and you go with it. However in this story everything they accomplish can be satisfactorily explained because of the new technology they acquire and learn to use. If I have to have one complaint its that sometimes the really complicated problems get solved too easy and/or quickly. Then the story's momentum makes you forget about how easy that was and then another complicated problem comes up and it happens again. After a while you just expect for the good guys to always prevail without worrying about them too much. I can honestly say this book was fun and i am looking forward to future SCIFI novels from these authors. In fact it is highly possible this story could continue in a sequel. (disclaimer: when I like a story I always ignore things like grammar, spelling or science fact when reviewing or rating a novel) less

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