Cauldron
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
En 2255, la era de la navegación interestelar ha tocado a su fin. La academia de Ciencia y Tecnología lleva clausurada mucho tiempo y son las fundaciones privadas las únicas que realizan esfuerzos por continuar con la exploración espacial. Sin embargo, el físico Jon Silvestri insiste en la existencia de un prototipo abandonado tiempo atrás, que resultaría mucho más eficaz para emprender dicha campaña. Priscilla Hutchins, convertida en recaudadora de fondos, consigue respaldo para la investigación de Silvestri. En poco tiempo, Cauldron, el núcleo de la galaxia, se encontrar a unos meses de distancia y por fin podré esclarecerse el misterio de las mortíferas nubes omega que llevan siglos asolándola. Solo un puyado de hombres y mujeres viajaren al mismísimo corazón de Cauldron?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Space opera specialist McDevitt shoehorns two traditional SF plots into his latest Academy novel (after 2006's Odyssey), doing both stories a disservice. Youthful physicist Jon Silvestri persuades the philanthropic Prometheus Foundation to back tests of a risky interstellar drive that's vastly superior to current technology. Soon series keystone Priscilla Hutchins finds herself aboard a newly outfitted ship dispatched to the galactic core, seeking the source of a million-year-old interstellar menace. The cast is uniformly likable if prickly, but no true protagonist emerges from McDevitt's ensemble. Some sections are leisurely, others rushed. Readers see little of the star drive research, and the space voyage is triply sidetracked to a planet of cheerfully technophobic aliens, an abandoned world with unexpected dangers and a black hole with a tantalizing secret before reaching its stated objective, where the threat's origin is summarily introduced and disposed of in the last 60 pages. Despite considerable inventiveness and an enthusiastic pro-space agenda, the story remains superficial, especially frustrating from a writer of McDevitt's caliber.
