The Powers of the Earth
月面都市アリスティラスを舞台に、地球政府の干渉から自由を守ろうとする入植者たちを描くリバタリアン・ハードSF。
作品情報
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月面都市アリスティラスを舞台に、地球政府の干渉から自由を守ろうとする入植者たちを描くリバタリアン・ハードSF。
レビュー要約
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政治的・科学的な設定を前面に出し、ジャンル小説としての推進力と思想性を両立させている。題材の濃さを好む読者に向く。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Independently published
- 発売日
- 2017-11-16
- ページ数
- 661ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 4.22 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781973311140
- ISBN-10
- 1973311143
- 価格
- 4231 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Science Fiction/High Tech
Earth in 2064 is politically corrupt and in economic decline. The Long Depression has dragged on for 56 years, and the Bureau of Sustainable Research is hard at work making sure that no new technologies disrupt the planned economy. Ten years ago a band of malcontents, dreamers, and libertarian radicals bolted privately-developed anti-gravity drives onto rusty sea-going cargo ships, loaded them to the gills with 20th-century tunnel-boring machines and earthmoving equipment, and set sail - for the Moon.There, they built their retreat. A lunar underground border-town, fit to rival Ayn Rand's 'Galt's Gulch', with American capitalists, Mexican hydroponic farmers, and Vietnamese space-suit mechanics - this is the city of Aristillus.There's a problem, though: the economic decline of Earth under a command-and-control economy is causing trouble for the political powers-that-be in Washington DC and elsewhere. To shore up their positions they need slap down the lunar expats and seize the gold they've been mining. The conflicts start small, but rapidly escalate.There are zero-gravity gun fights in rusted ocean going ships flying through space, containers full of bulldozers hurtling through the vacuum, nuclear explosions, armies of tele-operated combat UAVs, guerrilla fighting in urban environments, and an astoundingly visual climax.The Powers of the Earth is the first book in The Aristillus series - a pair of science fiction novels about anarchocapitalism, economics, open source software, corporate finance, social media, antigravity, lunar colonization, genetically modified dogs, strong AI…and really, really big guns.
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Enjoyable
The book has great characters and punchy chapter cuts that build drama at a steady pace. Looking forward to others in the series.
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Loved it
The story and pacing are excellent. The physical book, despite amazon mistreatment, is of good quality. Loved it. 5/5
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Very Good
Sounds like Despossessed's Úrsula K. Le Guin: Earth all-controlled and na totally free Moon. But in both sides have problems, people trying to escape from Earth, Mormons requiring neighborhood regulation on Moon. I don't give 5 stars because the "uplifted dogs", able to handle and talking and thinking as teenagers was a little bit over to me.
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A fine yarn in the spirit of Heinlein
This was great, difficult to put down. The concepts were well thought out and the milieu very credible. Bloody politicians!! And I love the Dogs.
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Loved it
I am not a libertarian, I don't buy into the philosophy though I appreciate where it is coming from, I am however a sci fi fan and enjoyed reading Heinlein when I first discovered his writing. This book is not like Moon is a harsh mistress, forget that, forget all the Heinlein stuff. This is new, this is different. If you have a love for hard sci fi and a hard on for future speculative fiction this is exactly your jam and it has talking dogs so, like I dont even know what you are waiting for. This book is one of those books that you skim parts of because you are so desperate to find out what comes next, try not to do that one too many times, inhale it in all it's glory and relish every moment of it, cause you are gonna miss it once you are done. Personal note: I get that guys from Texas like their guns and keeping their emotions bottled up but to me those kind of characters are some of the least believable ones in a story, you know the type, the hardasss who like to do it all myself and the world can eat a dick because he is just so good at what he does yada yada, dunno maybe cause I'm not from the area so I guess I can't relate but characters like that seem paper thin caricatures to me no matter how redeeming a story arc you give them.
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