Nein, nur 90Uschi Zietsch hat geschrieben: 16. Dezember 2024 15:06 Ist die Folge dann wenigstens 120 Minuten lang?
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Nein, nur 90Uschi Zietsch hat geschrieben: 16. Dezember 2024 15:06 Ist die Folge dann wenigstens 120 Minuten lang?
Nur zur Info:Teddy hat geschrieben: 3. Dezember 2019 22:00Wieso schon wieder? Nach der ersten PISA-Studie ist die Lesekompetenz bei jeder weiteren Studie gestiegen und dieses Jahr zum ersten mal gesunken. (Mal davon abgesehen, dass Fünfzehnjährige wahrscheinlich noch nie die großen Dickens-Leser waren.)Badabumm hat geschrieben: 3. Dezember 2019 21:03 Und die neue Pisa-Studie zeigt: 'Schland ist schon wieder abgerutscht...
Alles Reynolds Fans können sich freuen. Die Fortsetzung von "Aurora" würd in August veröffentlicht unter dem für Reynolds Recht ungewöhnlichen Titel "Das Schiff der flüsternden Träume"lowcut hat geschrieben: 27. Oktober 2024 11:15 Mir haben alle Bücher von Alastair Reynolds gut gefallen. Es ist wirklich schade, das seit gut einem Jahrzehnt nichts mehr von ihm auf Deutsch veröffentlicht wurde.
Danke für den Hinweis. Das ist bestimmt wieder ein ganz schöner Wälzer.Scotty hat geschrieben: 20. Dezember 2024 16:23Alles Reynolds Fans können sich freuen. Die Fortsetzung von "Aurora" würd in August veröffentlicht unter dem für Reynolds Recht ungewöhnlichen Titel "Das Schiff der flüsternden Träume"lowcut hat geschrieben: 27. Oktober 2024 11:15 Mir haben alle Bücher von Alastair Reynolds gut gefallen. Es ist wirklich schade, das seit gut einem Jahrzehnt nichts mehr von ihm auf Deutsch veröffentlicht wurde.
Ich denke mit Grauen (und auch ein wenig Freude) an Die Arche, fast 900 Seiten. An die Fortsetzung habe ich mich bis heute nicht rangetraut.Scotty hat geschrieben: 20. Dezember 2024 18:54 Nach Amazon nur 400 Seiten. Die englische Ausgabe hat aber 432 Seiten. Ich hab daher Zweifel ob die Angabe richtig ist.
Wenn es nach mir ginge: Je dicker je besser!!!
Ich muss dich hier korrigieren. Laut amazon-Beschreibung ist es leider nicht die Fortsetzung von Aurora, sondern die Übersetzung des Einzelromans "Eversion", wohl eine Mischung aus Gothic, Cyberpunk, Horror, ...Scotty hat geschrieben: 20. Dezember 2024 16:23Alles Reynolds Fans können sich freuen. Die Fortsetzung von "Aurora" würd in August veröffentlicht unter dem für Reynolds Recht ungewöhnlichen Titel "Das Schiff der flüsternden Träume"lowcut hat geschrieben: 27. Oktober 2024 11:15 Mir haben alle Bücher von Alastair Reynolds gut gefallen. Es ist wirklich schade, das seit gut einem Jahrzehnt nichts mehr von ihm auf Deutsch veröffentlicht wurde.
Alastair Reynolds has become a favorite author of mine ever since I picked up three or four of the Revelation Space series books at a Worldcon back in the oughts - either Toronto or Denver (the memory fades as the years roll by). Being a sucker for space opera, Reynolds' books were right up my alley, and I read as many of them as I could. I've read 9 of his 20 novels, and, astoundingly enough, almost none of his short fiction (although I have three or four of his collections on my to be read list). As I said, I'm a sucker for space opera, and most of his work is space opera.
EVERSION is not space opera.
Well, there is a space ship. Eventually. After there are three other kinds of vessels over a total of four time periods. But while the vessels and the years change, the characters, mostly do not. Well, except when they do.
Silas Coade is a doctor aboard a sailing ship called the Demeter on an expedition to find the Ediface, a mysterious construct hidden within a hard to get to location in Norway. His job is what any other physician's job would be - keep the crew and passengers of the ship alive. In his down time he is writing a book of "fantastical fiction", which we would probably call science fiction. The expedition is financed by and the idea of a Russian named Topolsky, who wishes to reach the Ediface at all costs. Others in the cast of characters are Captain Van Vught, a soldier named Coronel Ramos, a ship crewmember named Mortlock (who encourages Coade to continue writing his book), a mathematician named Dupin, and the enigmatic and annoying (at least to Coade) Ada Cossile,
who seems to know more than everyone else on the expedition (In an amusing side story, Cossile is constantly criticizing Coade's novel, sending him back to his pen and paper to make revisions to the story. Coade complains that her many suggestions and corrections are slowing him down, and he fears that he may never get the book published because of her interference. I can't help but have the feeling that Reynolds was poking some fun at editors and the publishing business). The Demeter finds and approaches the Ediface, and discover that a ship has already been there, but it is a wreck as it has crashed. Eventually, the Demeter meets the same fate, and the crew is killed.
Or so we think. We turn the page, and the crew is back with us, on the steamship Demeter a number of years later than the first time, looking for the Ediface. The pattern is the same, with the Demeter locating the Ediface, discovering a crashed ship, crashing themselves, and dying. And then the same crew is on a dirigible, and then finally on a space ship. The pattern is the same, although the stories for each crew are different in each time period. Nevertheless, the outcome is the same, but with a difference. Coade is piecing together bits of information that only he is aware of, and he realizes that all this has happened before. And all the while, Ada Cossile is teasing him, tantalizing him, and even scolding him for not figuring out what's going on. At one point she tells him that she is disappointed, and that he's going to die again, and will keep dying until he figures it out.
EVERSION is a mystery, a puzzle. It's a puzzle that both the reader and Silas Coade are to figure out as the novel progresses. Each segment of the novel is written in an appropriate tone and language for the time period it's set in. This gives each story quite an authentic feel as the characters as well as the readers advance through time. This also serves to keep the reader in the story; it's tough to keep the reader invested when language and vernacular is out of place. That is not a problem here. There's a bit of Burroughs and Verne here, among others. The most amusing is the section of the story in which the characters are obviously in a 1930s or 1940s pulp era story, complete with absolutely absurd characters and dialog. I couldn't keep the smile off my face as I read this section, although at the same time I did a bit of cringing when it crossed my mind that this was what science fiction used to be; it's no wonder it used to be considered a ghetto.
In the end, the puzzle is not just figuring out what is going on with the different incarnations of the story; the Ediface itself is a puzzle, a kind of inside out structure - hence the title EVERSION - that must be navigated in order to resolve the situation the characters find themselves in. Of course,
there's another puzzle at work here, but one that only affects the reviewer. The trick is to review the book without giving too much away. To be fair, we've seen this kind of story before, but maybe not quite like this one. I guess in that respect we're all a bit like Silas Coade, remembering a story
we've experienced before, just a little different than the one we're reading and experiencing now.