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| Original Title: | The Dark Side of the Sun |
| ISBN: | 0552133264 (ISBN13: 9780552133265) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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I think, for the preservation of sci-fi as a book genre, this book should only be read by either fans of Terry Pratchett himself or of obscure, vintage sci-fi. And I reason thus...Terry Pratchett is an amazing writer. Of fantasy. I know many people would argue, but I don't think he would have become half the writer he was if he had not been writing in the fantasy genre. His ability to write about people is what made him wonderful and well-loved, but putting that in to a fantasy setting made it.
The Dark Side of the Sun is a half-decent attempt at sci-fi. It has all the elements of a humorous lark รก la Hitchhiker's and has some great imagination when it comes to technology, but there always seemed to be too much happening at once. Terry had a hard time explaining everything in a well-thought out manner.
The best thing about this book? If you're a PTerry fan, it is the sheer amount of Discworld references (I say references, but this was a pre-cursor to Discworld so it's more of a starting point). We have Small Gods here, Hogswatch and klatch and probably a couple of character traits in the robots and humans. Widdershins may as well be on Discworld, only a Discworld that is 2000 years in to the future and has more advanced technology than the slide rule.
It is a fairly decent yarn, with a good story arc and some great comedy sci-fi moments. The humour was lacking slightly, as if he was just a little apprehensive. The ending was useless in all fairness, but you can see the tiny seedling shoots of PTerry's genius here. I mean, it was published about five years before Discworld, and it's nice to know that a man like PTerry started his career with a slight failure. It makes you feel good about yourself.
Imaginative? Yes. Humorous? Fairly. Epic to read about Hogswatch before Discworld had even been born? Totes. It's nice. It's a very quick read. It'll make you chuckle a little, if only at how rubbish it is considering who wrote it. But it's hugely enjoyable because that's what he does to you. He makes you enjoy stuff, the bastard.
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| Title | : | The Dark Side of the Sun |
| Author | : | Terry Pratchett |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Reprint |
| Pages | : | Pages: 235 pages |
| Published | : | April 22nd 1988 by Corgi (first published January 1st 1976) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Humor |
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Ratings: 3.58 From 8543 Users | 260 ReviewsRate Epithetical Books The Dark Side of the Sun
A psychedelic romp to find 'The Creator'. Short but packed with big ideas. Stylistically quite challenging for reading in 30 min chunks on the train, like Strata: dialogue-heavy and dense with references to alien cultures and futuristic technologies.I have not read Pratchett for a while and never a sci-fi.This is (not surprisingly ) lighthearted and imaginative.I didn't enjoy this as much as when I read "Mort" for instance but then there is a good chance I am just older and grumpier.The story is all over the place.We are spun from planet to planet, often for just half a page to meet some odd alien before dashing off again.The silly names of people and races I did find annoying.As you would expect, short, sharp, well written and quite
Pratchetts version of Dune. A classic style space-opera with all of the problems that implies but shorter and with the usual Pratchett wit. It isn't a comedy though, in fact while its not overly serious you could barely even call it a satire. About as funny as The Fifth Element.As i said it has all the problems of space-opera, too many characters, too many names, too much technobabble, too many weird concepts etc. but its short so not as annoying. There were still several occasions when i
An old favourite and I've reread it many times. Cleverly meshes philosophy, humour and science fiction to entertaining effect.
Here is the thing, I do not understand why there are so many negative reviews and bad ratings on this book.I myself have quite enjoyed reading this book, yes it is void of some more thorough descriptions but they are not so much needed to be able to enjoy the book.The thing is this is one of Terry Pratchett's earliest books and is not riddled with cleverly placed satiric sentences that catches you off guard and you find yourself laughing out loud in a public place looking like a complete idiot.
2,5 stars. I am not really sure, if I liked this standalone sci-fi novel. I am a fan of Terry Pratchett's writing, of his style, his ideas. But is later work is more structured, more elaborated than this. This is one of his earlier stories and it is not quite as mature as the books, I fell in love with.The story follows Dom, a humanoid creature of the planet Widdershins, who tries to solve two mysteries: who wants to kill him and what is the secret of the ancient race "Jokers". The persiflage I
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