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Laddar... Majestrum: A Tale Of Henghis Hapthorn (urspr publ 2006; utgåvan 2007)av Matthew Hughes
VerksinformationMajestrum av Matthew Hughes (2006)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I was going to give this book a 3. The plot gave me a rather 'pale' impression'. It seemed kind of average. On the other hand, there were fascinating details that I liked and I think I liked the language too. The main characters didn't come off as very likeable (not the humans anyway), but at least they're interesting. So is the setting. Especially the setting. I'd definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes Jack Vance's The Dying Earth. As a mix of science fiction and fantasy, it works well. I'm looking forward to finding out more about 'Old Earth' in its 'penultimate age', in the next book about Henghis Hapthorn. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Sherlock Holmes meets Jack Vance's Dying Earth in Majestrum, the explosive new novel from Matthew Hughes, acclaimed author of Black Brillion, Fools Errant, and The Gist Hunter and Other Stories. The scientific method and a well-calibrated mind have long served freelance discriminator Henghis Hapthorn, allowing him to investigate and solve the problems of the wealthy and powerful aristocracy of Old Earth, and securing him a reputation for brilliance across The Spray and throughout the Ten Thousand Worlds. But the universe is shifting, cycling away from logic and reason and ushering in a new age of sympathetic association, better known as magic. This change is evidenced by the unexplained transformation of Henghis Hapthorn's personal electronic integrator into a small fruit-eating creature. Odder still, Hapthorn's personality has been cleaved into two distinct beings sharing one body: himself, familiar and appropriate to the rational old order; and the other, strange, intuitive, and obsessed with an arcane and untranslated tome, appropriate to the new. When Hapthorn is hired by Lord Afre to investigate the motives of his daughter's new companion, a young man of indeterminate circumstances, he takes the job expecting it to allow him the opportunity to explore and understand his changing universe. Little does Henghis Hapthorn realize, but the path of discovery will lead to deeper questions, a mysterious assignment from the Archon himself, and the ancient and powerful secret name... Majestrum! Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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