The Vanished Birds
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ePUB 3
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Nein
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
18.08.2020
Verlag
Titan BooksSeitenzahl
432 (Printausgabe)
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1888 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781789093933
Bold, lyrical and imaginative, this space opera is a must for fans of Becky Chambers and Alastair Reynolds
Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. The captain of a transport ship contracted to the Umbrai corporation, she lives only for the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky.
A boy, broken by his past, and hunted by his present. For he is one of the few born with the gift of the Jaunt. The ability to travel instantly anywhere in the universe. An ability that threatens the vicelike control of the settled worlds by corporations such as Umbrai.
Fumiko Nakajima, the great scientist responsible for the design of bird-like Stations that Umbrai uses to control vast tracts of space, has been searching for one such as he for a thousand years.
Together, they set out to protect the boy, a journey that will cross the decades and light years all the way out to the fringes of settled space where the laws of civilisation do not apply, and they will have only each other to rely on.
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I'm conflicted...
I had high expectations for this book because the author's other novel 'The Spear Cuts Through Water' was utterly amazing. Then I started reading and I couldn't grasp where this was going at all. I finished the first half of the book but still nothing really intrigued me. The overall idea seemed interesting and eventually I started to like some of the characters and their stories, but the storytelling itself didn't engage me at all. After about two thirds of the book, that changed entirely. All of a sudden, i was met with the style of writing I remembered from the author's other novel. Only then could I no longer put this book down, and I sat there with my mouth open as I rushed through the pages. From that point onwards, it was definitely a tear-inducing and heartbreaking ride of emotions. For me, this is a story about deep regrets as well as the exploitation of others' for one's own gain. This book may be sci-fi, but don't go into it thinking you're going to get epic space battles or anything like that. In a way, this is a story about humanity. But since I had to read through more than half of the book to actually enjoy it, I can't just praise it. As I mentioned before: I'm conflicted.
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