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Lundi, 21 octobre 2024

Planet of Exile

Traduction: [ Google | Babelfish ]

Catégories : [ Livres/The Hainish Cycle ]

ISBN: 9781598535389

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Werel is a planet with an orbital period of sixty Earth years. Rolery is a young native woman of the Tevaran tribe who meets Jakob, a human descendent from the small group of explorers who were marooned on the planet several Earth centuries ago. As winter is coming, the Tevarans are preparing for fifteen years without food by building a fortified and partially underground city with food reserves that should also protect them from pillage by the nomadic tribes of Gaals migrating south for the cold season. This year however, human scouts warn them that the Gaals seem to have united and will be strong enough to invade the Tevaran's city. Despite Jakob's marriage with Rolery being seen as unacceptable by the Tevarans, the humans help them evacuate their city when it is attacked by the Gaals and give them shelter in their own fortified city. The Gaals then attack the human city and cause many deaths, but eventually give up due to the terrible weather and the need to move south in search for food.

[ Posté le 21 octobre 2024 à 12:12 | pas de commentaire | ]

Mercredi, 31 juillet 2024

Rocannon's World

Traduction: [ Google | Babelfish ]

Catégories : [ Livres/The Hainish Cycle ]

ISBN: 9781598535389

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Rocannon is part of a survey team on an unnamed planet orbiting Formalhaut II where four different intelligent species have developed. All the other members on Rocannon's team have been killed by people from the Faraday system who have installed a secret military base with the intent on conquering planets from the interstellar League of All Worlds. With the enemy now controlling the only means of contacting the League, Rocannon wants to reach the base and use their ansible to reveal the location of the base. Rocannon travels on the back of windsteeds, by boat and walking, in the company of members of the Angyar culture of the Liuar species, on the northern continent. They meet with a members of the Fiia who guides the for a while, are made prisoner by cave-dwelling Gdemiar who wants to burn Rocannon (he survives thanks to his high-tech protective suit) and by the Winged Ones. The latter, a hive society, have captured them to feed on them, and they manage to escape only thanks to the Kiemhrir. In the mountains near his goal, Rocannon encounters an entity that gives him a form of telepathy. He finally reaches the enemy' base and contacts the League, leading soon after in its destruction; having felt telepathically the hundreds of deaths of his enemies, Rocannon feels guilty and is traumatized. Rocannon then retires among the Angyar of the southern continent, waiting for rescuers from the League. However, as humans cannot survive FTL travel, he has to wait at least eight years for anyone to reach him and dies before they arrive, not knowing the planet is now named after him.

[ Posté le 31 juillet 2024 à 16:55 | pas de commentaire | ]