Nemesis
Ratings26
Average rating3.6
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Ratings26
Average rating3.6
Tearing its way through space on a collision course for Earth is Nemesis, a fiery ball of destruction, a dwarf star as red as the color of blood. Circling Nemesis is Rotor, an Earth colony whose occupants have cut themselves off from the anarchy and degeneration of an old and wasted world to form their own utopian existence. For them Rotor is a kind of Ark; one with hidden dangers that must be understood.
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Set in the twenty-third century, this novel was written two years before Asimov's death, and is part of his unified History involving his Robot stories and the Empire series of stories. This story deals with a point in time just before the discovery of true FTL travel becomes possible.
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Overall, I enjoyed the storyline and the author did a great job with the presentation.
I did find several things incredibly frustrating: an over-protective mother figure and a narrator that was contemplating out loud, how different types of science would occur. Both stalled the story much too often. I started jumping chapters until I found movement again.
Much of what the author imagines still hasn't come to pass, much of what he does talk about, about society and human nature are still the same.
Hace ya bastante tiempo que he querido leer este libro. No es la mejor novela de Asimov que he leído pero, en general, me ha gustado. Muy poca acción para mi gusto.
En el pŕologo, Asimov advierte que esta novela no está relacionada con sus otras series pero que no descartaba la idea de unirlas en cierto punto. Sin embargo, algo del libro me ha hecho recordar el planeta Gaia en “Fundación y Tierra” y siendo este libro el comienzo de la colonización espacial no encuentro motivos para descartar la idea (aunque sea sólo para mí) de que estén conectadas con las otras series de Asimov.
En el siglo XXIII la Tierra se encuentra superpoblada, existen colonias espaciales llamadas “Establecimientos” en las órbitas de la Tierra, la Luna, Marte y el cinturón asteroidal suficientemente grandes para albergar varios miles de personas. Una de las colonias, Rotor, emprende un viaje hacia una estrella enana roja llamada Némesis a dos añoz luz de distancia.
El nombre de la estrella ya debería sugerir algo. Mucho material científico y viajes espaciales. ¿Algo más?
