Station in Space (stories, 1958) -- compõe-se de várias histórias que podem ser lidas separadamente mas que se interligam pelas personagens e pela atmosfera. Em "A Caverna da Noite" conta o prodigioso feito de Rev McMillen, o piloto solto no espaço e que precisa ser salvo, o homem que pedia socorro a 1.700 quilômetros da Terra e que mobiliza a humanidade num amplo movimento de solidariedade. "Mistificação" narra a decepção de um sonhador, o jovem astronauta que, escolhido entre 50.000 candidatos, vem a descobrir a grande fraude que possibilitou as viagens interplanetárias. " A Grande Roda" descreve a vida dos construtores de plataformas espaciais e seus dramas e conflitos e nesse raconto muito se evidencia o amor do homem pela Terra. "Barril de Pólvora" é um estudo psicológico arguto que brota de um enredo de muita ação e "O Espaço é um Lugar Solitário", que descreve uma viagem de pioneiros a Marte e os traumas da grande solidão espacial, situa-se, no conjunto de narrações de James Gunn, como a de maior suspense e de fabulação mais complexa. |...| 'At one time, outer space was seen as the last frontier, the final challenge to human ingenuity. But those days are gone as the galaxy becomes the stomping ground for humans encountering strange new machinery and green-faced Martians. Depicted with stark realism and meticulous detail, this novel tells of the dangers, despair and unbelievable pleasurethat awaits the men and women who are to populate the first ever Station in Space'.'
Plataforma Espacial (Ciencificção #4) - Station in Space
James Gunn
EdArt
1963
246 páginas
8h 12m
Português Brasileiro
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James Edwin Gunn
James Edwin Gunn (born July 12, 1923) is an American science fiction author, editor, scholar, and anthologist. His work from the 1960s and 1970s is considered his most significant fiction, and his six Road to Science Fiction anthologies are considered his most important scholarly books[citation needed] although he won the Hugo Award for "Best Related Work" in 1983 and was finalist in 1989 for other books.[2] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 24th Grand Master in 2007.[3] James Gunn is a professor emeritus of English, and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, both at the University of Kansas.[4][5] Gunn served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, after which he attended the University of Kansas, earning a Bachelor of Science in Journalism in 1947 and a Masters of Arts in English in 1951. Gunn went on to become a faculty member of the University of Kansas, where he served as the university's director of public relations and as a Professor of English, specializing in science fiction and fiction writing. He is now a professor emeritus and director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, which awards the annual John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award at the Campbell Conference in Lawrence, Kansas, every summer. He served as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America[6] from 1971–1972 and was President of the Science Fiction Research Association from 1980–1982. SFWA honored him as a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 2007.
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