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| Title | : | Ring of Ritornel |
| Author | : | Charles L. Harness |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | 1974 by Panther (first published 1968) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Space. Space Opera |
Charles L. Harness
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.7 | 66 Users | 6 Reviews
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L'Aire Nodale : un lieu terrifiant où la matière née de la Profondeur s'ouvre à la vie dans d'atroces convulsions ; le centre géométrique des Douze Galaxies qui forment l'univers, le commencement et la fin du temps et de l'espace... C'est là que la planète Terreur doit subir l'annihilation, pour expier les crimes atroces de sa population maudite.Et c'est là que James Andrek a rendez-vous avec son destin. Chassé de l'anneau galactique par Obéron, l'orgueilleux souverain des mondes habités, Andrek va se retrouver au coeur du plus diabolique des complots, pion impuissant d'une lutte opposant les religions d'Aléa et de Ritornel. Entre la doctrine du hasard capricieux et celle de l'éternel retour, ce n'est pas seulement le sort de la planète Terreur qui est en jeu, mais aussi celui des Douze Galaxies...
Chef-d'oeuvre d'imagination, L'anneau de Ritornel a élevé le space opera au rang d'Art Majeur : un univers de terreur et de beauté à ranger aux côtés des meilleurs textes de Cordwainer Smith et d'Alfred Bester.
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| Original Title: | Ring of Ritornel |
| ISBN: | 0586037985 (ISBN13: 9780586037980) |
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Ratings: 3.7 From 66 Users | 6 ReviewsAssessment Epithetical Books Ring of Ritornel
A THRILLING SPACE SAGA BY A MASTER FANTASISTThe Deep is the Beginning and the End, at once the womb and the coffin of time and space, the well-spring of life and death, the mother of nodesJames Andrek, brilliant young lawyer in the Great House of Oberon, mighty tyrant of the twelve Galaxies, has two obsessions: finding his Poet Laureate brother, Omere, and unravelling the mystery of his fathers death many years ago at the Node, perilous birthplace of the Universe.Did Andreks quest end at the
Also credited as Charles Harness.Charles Leonard Harness was born December 29, 1915 in Colorado City TX. After an abortive stint at Texas Christian University, studying to be a preacher, he moved on to George Washington University in Washington DC, where he received a B.S. degree in 1942, and a law degree in 1946. He married in 1938, and he and wife Nell have a daughter and a son. He worked as aThis is a very silly, badly-written SF novel, but, as they often do, it contains some great ideas and images. The bit where the hero is trapped in the timeless netherworld is rather good. He decides he will carefully replay his whole life, from start to finish, in every detail. So he does that, and he's still stuck there. Then he does it again. Still stuck. Then he decides he'll just carry on doing it, counting the times. He's up to a few hundred thousand when he suddenly remembers. He's tried
This is a very silly, badly-written SF novel, but, as they often do, it contains some great ideas and images. The bit where the hero is trapped in the timeless netherworld is rather good. He decides he will carefully replay his whole life, from start to finish, in every detail. So he does that, and he's still stuck there. Then he does it again. Still stuck. Then he decides he'll just carry on doing it, counting the times. He's up to a few hundred thousand when he suddenly remembers. He's tried
s'agit d'un roman écrit en 1969, qui a beaucoup vieilli, je trouve, dans ses mises en situation, la manière de voir les personnages, et la façond e dérouler l'action. Il nous décrit les aventures d'un homme qui, après avoir perdu son frère, va le rechercher et se retrouver, de fait, embrigadé dans des aventures complètement délirantes. Ce roman prend par ailleurs comme hypothèse cosmologique que la matière qui apparaît dans l'espace provient d'une source unique, autour de laquelle les galaxies
This was, for the most part, a fun book to read. I enjoyed the 'sciencing' it did (pretty accurate explanations of stellar nuclear processes, some human metabolism) though I didn't really think it at all necessary--the book effectively used magic whenever it needed to (super-surgery to reengineer human processes, bugs that 'eat' energy from nuclear reactions). And apart from the book being in space, and concerning itself with extra dimensions, I think it could just as well have been set in a
My copy of this book is old, it says 35p on the cover and I've read it several times, it is in English, but not for years. I wanted to revisit it before I'm too old to focus on the small print. It hasn't lost it's fascination over the years, in fact it's worn very well. Set in an unimaginably far future, it's a tale of injury and revenge, of how much of a mind makes a person and explores the question of whether events are predestined or subject to chance. And James Andrek is a very likeable
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