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I wanted to like this book, but I got tired of the characters after a while. The book has some really strong ideas: art and the study of art as an important cultural and politicial marker in a SciFi world and the logivity of Christian imagry. Loved this aspect of the book. The female characters were so James Bond, though, that it was hard to stay focused. This was ultimatley an espionage story - and that got a bit tedious.
J'ai lu ce roman il y a un ou deux ans et, curieusement, je n'en avais gardé aucune trace écrite, alors qu'il m'avait profondément marqué. Mais faisons les choses dans l'ordre.Dans un système solaire du XXIVème siècle déjà colonisé par l'homme, la Terre est toujours occupée malgré les innombrables guerres qui y ont eu lieu. Sur cette Terre, qui semble toute entière être devenue un musée, Anton Lindgren gère le domaine de Lord Monboddo, un riche collectionneur d'art au goût terriblement sûr (bien...
Though it largely fails in execution, Carve the Sky is at least trying to do something interesting, a feature that always buys a work of science fiction a lot of good will from me. Unfortunately, the interesting overall concept is undermined by Jablokov’s failure to create dramatic tension and contradictory depictions of both characters and the setting. The end result is a book that has intriguing elements but that ultimately failed to engage me, rendering it a forgettable piece of pulp. Jabloko...
Priceless sculpture, with sordid history, is basis for interplanetary war. Aesthetics, and cultural intangibles, more valuable than realized.
Alexander Jablokov’s Carve the Sky takes place in the year 2358. Vanessa is an art expert who is supposed to authenticate a carving by famous sculptor Ozaki, and Anton is the Seneschal to the Monboddo Household, responsible for caring for its vast art collection. Vanessa also works for the Academia Sapientiae, and Anton is an intelligence officer. The Ozaki carving sets off a series of events that lead to conspiracies, a trip to the moon (where the characters participate in an animal hunt), a tr...
Carve The Sky is a 1991 science fiction novel by Alexander Jablokov starring Anton Lindgren (Seneschal to George Harvey Westerkamp, Lord Monboddo, Interrogator of Boston, Colonel Division of External Security {Westerkamp wears a lot of hats}) and Vanessa Karageorge (Ordinary Fellow of the Academia Sapientae). The plot of the novel revolves around the search for a famous and skilled sculptor who’s supposed to have been dead for a couple of years. A new piece by him has appeared and it contains a
OK. A bit slow....interesting story.
I marked as being on my "Mystery" bookshelf (as well as "science fiction"). However, the story is closer to "espionage", although not quite what I'd usually expect if I was told a book was espionage.There's a good pace and a good writing style. The story takes place in the context of an interplanetary human civilization which has no starships. There are tensions between the political blocs of the inner planets and the outer planets. Mars, being near the border between the two blocs, feels more a...
Questo è un gran romanzo. Non tanto per l'argomento, ma per come l'autore crea e definisce una futura società soffermandosi sugli aspetti artistici, e della vita intesa come arte nel senso aristocratico del termine. Poi certo, la trama è ben costruita e decisamente avvincente, e la storia scorre molto bene. Ma è la parte dedicata alle opere d'arte quella fondamentale.
Fresh, original and compelling.
If you haven't read anything by Alexander Jablokov yet - you MIGHT want to save this for later. I say that because i've read all his books, and so far this is by far the very best one. If you read them in the order they came out - as i did - there is an -admittedly unfair- sense of slight disappointment. Hopefully that is just me, but in any case, this is a full-on masterpiece. This, his first novel makes me think of Orson Welles and Citizen Kane. His later works (like with Mr. Welles) are quite...
Bought on Ebay by mistake as I thought I would get something else. Abandoned after reading the prologue. Too much action / espionage, too many clichés and stereotypes, not enough sci-fi or depth to be interesting for me.
