Divine Intervention
Divine Intervention is a science fiction novel by Ken Wharton. It focuses on 隔絶された植民惑星に地球からの移民船団が迫り、社会の均衡と信仰が試される。
Work Information
Divine Intervention uses the world suggested by its title to bring people and their times into quiet focus.
Divine Intervention is a science fiction novel by Ken Wharton. It focuses on 隔絶された植民惑星に地球からの移民船団が迫り、社会の均衡と信仰が試される。 Its appeal as an award-winning work lies not only in its subject but also in the way it conveys the atmosphere of its time through people and events. As the narrative or argument unfolds, readers can trace the social background and changing values behind it.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Ace
- Published
- 2001-12-01
- Pages
- 400 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 11.02 x 2.77 x 17.17 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780441008865
- ISBN-10
- 0441008860
- Price
- 1899 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Science Fiction/Adventure
Cut off from Earth for more than a century, the inhabitants of the colony planet of Mandala have evolved their own unique society, a culture that could be turned upside down by the forthcoming arrival of thousands of new colonists from their home planet. Original.
Ken Wharton is a physics professor at San Jose State University and performs research with high intensity lasers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. DIVINE INTERVENTION is Wharton's first novel.
Reviews
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A Great Fast-Paced Adventure
With his ability to plot several lines of thought and combine them with adventure, laugh, curiosity and suspense, "Divine Intervention" is no doubt a delight for the science fiction reader. The author throws you into the scene right from the start. With no blabber in even one single page, and with the ability to provide new ideas and many twists along the story, the book is a great escape into a new surrounding and technology. The scientific background of the author spices the story with hard sci-fi elements while human drama and spiritualism are kept an integral part through out the book. The writing style is very clear and intriguing. It is definitely a fast-paced adventure that keeps you awake into the night. Highly recommended!
Related Literary Awards
- The Philip K. Dick Award Edition 20 (2001) ・special award