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The Lesson
- De: Cadwell Turnbull
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards, Ron Butler
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 514
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 460
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 460
An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years, the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of super-advanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders, and a peace that cannot last.
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3 out of 5 stars
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That was it?
- De Average Joe en 06-26-19
- The Lesson
- De: Cadwell Turnbull
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards, Ron Butler
SF doing what SF does best; accessible to all
Revisado: 07-22-19
I'm not going to re-cap the blurb or give a synopsis.
It's classic SF, about first contact, and humanity's struggle with a more technologically developed species. The book is informed by the authors background, the history of his birthplace.
History most of us know little about.
In it, all these half century old tropes spring to life on the page, vital and new and infused with fresh meaning, enacted by real characters we feel like we know.
There's stuff about colonialism I knew in my head, that I now feel in my flesh and bones. The book has made me a bigger person. This is the best case scenario; this is what we want books to do.
Human scaled interaction with global importance, existential impact. No straw men. No villains. No superheroes.
Just humanity, love, wonder, loss, resilience.
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