Paz Interminable (Spanish Edition)
by Joe Haldeman
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Author: Joe HaldemanEdition: Paperback
Audio: Spanish (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language); Spanish (Published)
Published: 2005-09
ISBN: 8466624090
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Ediciones B
Book Reviews of Paz Interminable (Spanish Edition)
Book Review: Peace May Have a Huge Cost!
Summary: 5 Stars
Ediciones B has "Nova", a sci-fi collection with many interesting titles & authors in Spanish version.
Since 2004 Ediciones B has launched a pocket book collection "Byblos" with no specific genre defined. Fortunately for us, sci-fi buffs, some volumes pertain to this genre, allowing us to access a very inexpensive and high quality product.
Joe Haldeman (1943) wrote two "Hugo" & "Nebula" awarded novels: "The Forever War" (1975) and the present one "Forever Peace" (1997).
This is not a minor achievement. He produces high quality sci-fi as his "Worlds" trilogy, his also "Hugo" & "Nebula" awarded novella "The Hemingway Hoax" (1990) and a number of excellent short stories.
Both novels show Haldeman's war experience, he saw action at Vietnam where he was seriously wounded. Joe shows his intimate knowledge of suffering and senseless killing and the devastating effects they produce on combat personnel.
The story centers on Julian Class who's a complex character.
His vocation and main interest is physics, researching & teaching. He is Afro-American and maintains a serious relationship with his white mentor & elder colleague Prof. Blaze Harding.
On top of all that he is a military "mechanic" with ten days service and twenty days leave allowing his academic activities. Being a "mechanic" means he control and operate a "soldierboy" a mechanical soldier remotely droved with an almost telepathic connection. Even if "mechanics" suffer no physical injuries, they feel the pain of any damage on their "soldierboy".
The first half of the book describes Julian everyday life and the world backdrop reflecting an endless war between First World vs. Third World nations, with lots of innocent casualties on both sides of the line. In this part of the story there are some very interesting meditations about war, justice, human nature, economic inequality and some other serious topics.
The second half of the novel focuses on two axis: the danger of universe extinction due to a mega-project trying to recreate the Big Bang situation and a conspiracy to attain endless peace for Humankind (at a high price to be sure).
"Forever Peace" is a high quality sci-fi novel deserving the awards obtained.
Do not let it pass by!
Reviewed by Max Yofre.
Summary of Paz Interminable (Spanish Edition)
"Una excepcional investigación sobre las causas institucionales y psicológicas de la guerra, y una sólida y convincente extrapolación socioeconómica." Rusell Letson en LOCUS. En la Tierra, el Primer Mundo ha alcanzado un bienestar inconcebible mediante la nanotecnología, en especial con la llamada "nanofragua", una máquina que consigue todo lo que uno desea siempre que disponga de las materias primas. El Tercer Mundo sólo accede a ella a cambio de seguir una política dócil y amistosa. Así, este enorme desequilibrio económico y de poder es causa de que más de cien países se hallen en guerra. Julián, un joven científico, ha sido apartado de su mundo e introducido en una máquina bélica que actúa según órdenes ajenas y no según la voluntad del joven. Una versión actualizada de La guerra interminable, planteada como una interesante exploración del tema de la guerra unido a las nuevas tecnologías.Literature & Fiction Books
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