La cité des illusions
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782253072539 (2253072532)
Publish date: March 1st 2004
Publisher: Livre de Poche
Edition language: French
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
20th Century,
Sci Fi Fantasy,
Speculative Fiction,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic
Series: Hainish Cycle (#3)
It might just be that I have my bar for Le Guin right up there. It was vivid in it's descriptions, and a lot happens and it's explored inside these few pages, but I felt like things spin and spin and spin once they reach the city, and then the resolution comes abruptly, as if the author had just t...
This was Ursula Le Guin's third novel, one of the books in her Hainish series that includes the famous Left Hand of Darkness. While I wouldn't rank this with that book or the first three Earthsea books, classics in science fiction and fantasy, this was the first that impressed me as more than routin...
See combined review of this, 'Rocannon's World', and 'Planet of Exile' in 'Three Hainish Novels' Hainish Cycle: Next: 'The Left Hand of Darkness' Previous: 'Planet of Exile'
Loved this book and the whole "idea" of it. Even though I was just a kid, a pretty young one at that, when this story takes place I can still remember when EVERYONE had a "smoke", women were "dames" and Frank, Dean & the boys were about the coolest cats on the planet! Randisi nails the times and h...
I'm a little loaded, not much, but certainly enough for some semi-drunken squee about an author I love. The advantage of not being entirely loaded is that typing is much, much easier. I've been thinking about this book recently, because I've had the stomach flu. I don't mean to imply that vomit make...
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