Peut-être les étoiles

Terra Ignota #5

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French language

Published Oct. 20, 2022 by Le Bélial'.

ISBN:
978-2-38163-061-8
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4 stars (5 reviews)

Février 2455. Six mois ont suffi à faire voler en éclats trois siècles de prospérité. Six mois d’une guerre civile à l’échelle mondiale. Six mois au cours desquels les Ruches sont entrées en conflit ouvert. Six mois d’un black-out inquiet, où l’accès instantané à l’information et les déplacements ultrarapides n’ont plus cours. Six mois d’horreurs… et aucune perspective de paix. Dans ce monde où la technologie est si avancée que n’importe quel objet industriel peut se muer en arme de destruction massive, où voisins et membres d’une même famille peuvent appartenir à des Ruches désormais ennemies mortelles, deux grandes factions s’opposent : les pro-Ruches, brûlants de réformer ces dernières, face au dieu vivant J.E.D.D. Maçon et ses séides, désireux de bâtir un système plus juste mais qui ignorent encore comment. Tandis qu’en coulisses se joue un autre conflit crucial : celui de l’orientation future de l’humanité… Atteindre les étoiles ne …

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Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer

2 stars

This whole tetralogy was bizarre, excessively wordy, and generally unpleasant, all the characters and their interactions were insane, finally culminating in a drawn out death wheeze of an ending. I only finished each book including the last out of a mild fascination with "could this get worse, or will it get better?" Was the author simply playing a colossal joke?

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5 stars

After a long wait for the final Terra Ignota volume, Perhaps The Stars does not disappoint. Yes, there are parts that on and on, but they work if you've bought in to the previous books. There is even in-story justification for this that was started in The Will to Battle.

The dense prose we've come to expect continues here, and I feel I need to complete a reread before I can write much more of a review.

In short, if you liked the previous novels then this is an extremely satisfying conclusion. Those who found the prior works to be more of a struggle won't have any relief here.

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