Slow Gods

Brossura

lingua English

Pubblicato il 18 Novembre 2025 da Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-316-58630-6
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ASIN:
0316586307
5 stelle (2 recensioni)

My name is Mawukana na-Vdnaze, and I am a very poor copy of myself.

Slow Gods is the galaxy-spanning tale ​of one man's impossible life charted against the fate of humanity amongst the stars—a powerfully imaginative space opera from multi-award-winning author Claire North.

In telling my story, there are certain things I should perhaps lie about. I should make myself a hero. Pretend I was not used by strangers and gods, did not leave people behind.

Here is one out there in deep space, in the pilot's chair, I died. And then, I was reborn. I became something not quite human, something that could speak to the infinite dark. And I vowed to become the scourge of the world that wronged me.

This is the story of the supernova event that burned planets and felled civilizations. This is also the story of the many lives I've lived since I died …

2 edizioni

A sprawling outer-space speculation that feels like the present state of the future far far away.

4 stelle

Late to the party again, as the only other book I've read from Claire North was "84K", a "1984" meets "Black Mirror" dystopia. Now "Slow Gods" is something else entirely: A space opera in deep time with extraterrestrials, god-like AI, supernovae, fascist regimes, immortals, and many many genders.

The narrator approaches a similar divine status being reborn many times by advanced technology (?), trying to save civilizations, memory, and love (yes love). So despite the immense scale and levels of strangeness this is down to earth (well, down to way-beyond-earth), in details I liked a lot.

If you put space opera on a scale where "Ender's Game" occupies one pole, then "Slow Gods" is far remote on the other side. Not the least due to considerations of philosophy, class, suffering, and diversity. Even the god-like characters are somewhat empathic and almost believable.

Les Dieux lents

5 stelle

‘Les Dieux lents’ est un space opera se déroulant dans un coin de l'espace, à la localisation et aux frontières indéfinies, et au sein duquel cohabitent de vastes civilisations, chacune entièrement structurée autour d'une philosophie et d'un mode de vie qui lui sont propres. Les voyages interstellaires rapides y reposent sur une technologie dont le coût n’a rien d’anodin, conduisant des vaisseaux, connectés à des Pilotes éphémères et faillibles, à plonger dans des interstices aussi létaux qu’effrayants. Quelque part, deux étoiles sont en train d’achever de s’effondrer l’une sur l’autre pour créer une supernova dont l’onde annoncée balaiera et détruira plusieurs planètes.

Si les enjeux se déploient donc à l’échelle de systèmes solaires, de civilisations, mettant en jeu tout l’équilibre géopolitique précaire existant, Claire North ne fait pas le choix d’une narration surplombante et désincarnée. L’histoire est en effet racontée à travers le récit rétrospectif d’un narrateur, que les circonstances …

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