Dan Simmons
Paperback | Pages: 232 pages Rating: 3.81 | 2269 Users | 104 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Phases of Gravity |
| ISBN: | 0759254419 (ISBN13: 9780759254411) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Strvinarska uteha #2 |
| Literary Awards: | Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (1990) |
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Richard Baedecker thinks his greatest challenge was walking on the moon, but then he meets a mysterious woman who shows him his past. passion for space exploration, his forgotten childhood and the loss he experienced during the death-flight of the Challenger. the moon, but the warm interior of his heart. love and loss that transports readers far beyond the confines of space and time.Particularize About Books Phases of Gravity (Strvinarska uteha #2)
| Title | : | Phases of Gravity (Strvinarska uteha #2) |
| Author | : | Dan Simmons |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 232 pages |
| Published | : | April 27th 2004 by eReads.com (first published April 1989) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Horror. Novels. Science Fiction Fantasy. Roman |
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Ratings: 3.81 From 2269 Users | 104 ReviewsColumn About Books Phases of Gravity (Strvinarska uteha #2)
A good collection of science fiction stories.I'd actually give this book 3.5 stars, but that's not on offer. It's well-written for the most part, and amazingly, the author was able to change venues and skip large portions of time, mid-paragraph, without losing the reader. I usually give up when they do this. I'm not sure where Simmons was leading Baedecker in the narrative, unless it was a search for enlightenment - and I guess he was successful in that. The ending reminded me of Clarke's 2001 - undecipherable, but hopeful.
Dan Simmons is known for his science fiction and horror writing. This is neither. It is, as he says in his afterword, a novel. Richard Baedecker is a former Apollo astronaut who walked on the moon. In the novel, which functions as a series of interconnected short stories, he travels to India on business, but in reality is checking in on his son who is living on an ashram following a guru. The second story finds a somewhat disillusioned Baedecker rediscovering some of his lost childhood when he
This slender, largely understated and unpretencious novel shows Simmons at his best; it's not bloated, doesn't have irrelevant lit. crit. essays stuffed into it and quietly grips despite mostly pretty low stakes.You go to the moon; you walk on the moon; you come back. Now what? Richard Baedecker did it as part of the Apollo programme. Years later he's drifting, divorced, estranged from his son, unable to understand the personal significance of what only 12 people have ever done. Enter the Manic
"This is not the book you are looking for" if you're expecting an astronaut's reminiscences about space travel or science fiction. The book is about the aftermath: an ex-astronaut trying to cope with what's left after the missions have ended and trying to understand the death (suicide?) of a fellow astronaut. The book wasn't what I expected and I didn't particularly enjoy the reading of it, probably because I was still hoping for something else. That said, elements of the book have stayed with
When I closed the book for the first time, I said to myself: "Beautiful." Dan Simmons has his place in my shelf and I must admit I am used to his narrative style. However I also must admit this book's style is not for everyone. Its jumbled chronology in fact creates pictures instead of telling a story, which is pretty much simple. However it's not the story that matters, it's the whole "finding oneself" journey throughout the decades of one man's life. Under the seemingly simple plot, the story
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