Aurorarama
A Science Fiction, Fiction, Abandoned book. Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the...
Introducing the Mysteries of New Venice steampunk trilogy with a first volume that “entrances and delights” (NPR) In the defense of steampunk comes a literary adventure unlike anything you’ve read before. 1908, New Venice: An ominous black airship hovers in the sky, and the city is hunting for the author of a radical pamphlet calling for revolt. The lead suspect is Brentford Orsini, one of the city’s most prominent figures. As the net around him tightens, Orsini receives a mysterious message from...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 432 pages
- ISBN: 9781612191317 / 1612191312
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The blizzard seemed to be dying down, and it was now possible to enjoy the sight of the buildings and embankments and bridges smothered in the diamond-dusted whiteness. There's always something soothing in the snow, thought Gabriel, a promise of happiness and absolution, of a new start on a clean sheet. Snow redesigned the streets with hints of another architecture, even more magnificent, more fanciful than it already was, all spires and pinnacles on pale palaces of pearl and opal. All that New Venice should have been reappeared through its partial disappearance.... Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little fires on a plain, and the frailty about them, if it did not excuse anything, at least explained a lot of Man's stubborn ruthlessness. Mankind had not started the mess that was life, after all. And on the whole, it had been an interesting species to be a part of, the girls especially, as long as you remembered to watch your back. Jean-Christophe Valtat, Aurorarama //
Non-steam steampunk? I believe Valtat calls his genre Teslapunk perhaps because so much depends on early and revolutionary use of electricity.Would it be too gauche to suggest that the emperor has no clothes? Valtat is an award-winning French science fiction author. This story, written in English, is praised by all the right and right-minded... This was more like a 2.5 for me. My hopes were high because I heard this was the "adult Golden Compass," but I also almost expected to be disappointed because it could never be as good.There were 8 or 9 knockout sentences and a few breathtaking paragraphs, even, but the plot didn't start intriguing me until more than 2/3rds of the way... I both enjoyed and was disappointed by Aurorarama. It was magnificent and ambitious in scope, but failed in several significant ways. The scene of events is New Venice, a magnificent confection of a city located inside the Arctic Circle, north of Canada. The time is around the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th century. The city...
