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Mass Market Paperback Blue Remembered Earth Book

ISBN: 0425256162

ISBN13: 9780425256169

Blue Remembered Earth

(Book #1 in the Poseidon's Children Series)

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The first novel in the Poseidon's Children series from the acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series. One hundred and fifty years from now, Africa has become the world's dominant technological and economic power. Crime, war, disease and poverty have been practically eliminated. The Moon and Mars are settled, and colonies stretch all the way out to the edge of the solar system. And Ocular, the largest scientific instrument in history, is about to make an epochal discovery... Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his long-running studies into the elephants of the Amboseli basin. But Geoffrey's family, which controls the vast Akinya business empire, has other plans for him. After the death of his grandmother Eunice--the erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur--something awkward has come to light on the Moon, so Geoffrey is dispatched there to ensure the family name remains untarnished. But the secrets Eunice died with are about to be revealed--secrets that could change everything...or tear this near utopia apart.
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J.R.R. Tolkien (b. January 3rd, 1892 in Bloemfontain, South Africa--d. September 2nd, 1973) was an English author and poet most famous for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He is also the author of The Hobbit and a literary criticism of Beowulf entitled Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics as well as ... Learn More About This Author

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Rated 5 stars
If you liked Beowulf, the Iliad, the Odyssey...

and other stories of that ilk, you will love this! And, you'll find hints of LOTR and the The Silmarillion: a dangerous ring, a dragonslayer, Mirkwood, dwarves, enchanted swords, and tragic romances. It's all there. Be forwarned that without Christopher Tolkien's notes and commentaries, it's hard to make sense of some of the verses. Christopher's writing style can also be dry and confusing at times, but I felt that the...

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Tolkiens version of the Legend taken from disparate sources

In my opinion as a tolkien devotee one can never get enough tolkien. I salivate at the mere thought that one day his translations of the beowulf poem being published, or his unfinished the Fall of Arthur. The book has another excellent scolarly dissertation by Tolkien. This time on the Elder or poetic Edda, or saemunds edda. The poetry in his recreation is powerfull and though not the same metre as the anglo saxon mode...

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Rated 4 stars
There is crying of ravens, cold howls the wolf

When J.R.R. Tolkien wasn't teaching philology at Oxford or penning classic fantasy novels, he did some retellings of old poetry. VERY old poetry. "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun" is one such work: a verse working of the Norse legend of the hero Sigurd and his adventures, as well as the two doomed women who loved him. The wording is a bit awkward in places, and a good chunk of the book's content is commentary by his son...

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Tolkien turns Norse

A few corrections need to be made to the reviews already here. First: This book is NOT a translation. It is a set of two original poems by Tolkien, with supplemental materials. The poems retell one of the most famous stories in Norse legend--the sources are the two Eddas, the Volsunga Saga, and others--but Tolkien gives here his own version. The poem is in the medieval Norse meter and style, but it is a new version, again,...

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Tolkien As A Master Scholar

Anyone who reads J.R.R. Tolkien knows that he was an engaging story teller, an erudite scholar, and a lover of language. In The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun we see all three aspects as clearly displayed as in any of his previously published material. From his earliest school days Tolkien loved the old Norse legends and "The Great Story of the North," told in the ancient Norse languages which were part of the ancestry of...

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