Walkaway
- 560
- Pagina’s
- ongeveer 10 u
- Leestijd
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Over het boek
Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza―known to his friends as Hubert, Etc―was too old to be at that Communist party. But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has no where left to be―except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the sheep they see on the morning commute. After falling in with Natalie, an ultra-rich heiress trying to escape the clutches of her repressive father, the two decide to give up fully on formal society―and walk away. After all, now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life―food, clothing, shelter―from a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system. It’s still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Then the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. Now it’s war – a war that will turn the world upside down. Fascinating, moving, and darkly humorous, Walkaway is a multi-generation SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years…and the very human people who will live their consequences.
Waar de score vandaan komt
De bronnen komen gemiddeld uit op 7,6 over 148 beoordelingen — nog niet veel, dus de stem van de lezers weegt voor 49% mee en de rest trekt richting het Sciencefiction-gemiddelde van 7,8. Zo komt 7,7 tot stand.
| Bron | Gemiddelde | Beoordelingen | Gewicht |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8,6 | 13 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 7,6 | 135 | 91% |
Stemmen van lezers
De populairste recensies op Hardcover (met naamsvermelding van de auteurs).
“To be sure, this is a novel: There is a plot, there are characters. But deep down Walkaway is a philosophical dialogue where various character moot Doctorow's proposed anarchist utopia and the nature of self-realization, usually with the people in favor of Doctorow's views handily…”
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Hoe lang is Walkaway?
Het telt 560 pagina’s — langer dan 74% van de gerangschikte boeken in Sciencefiction.
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Dezelfde plank — Sciencefiction — en een score van 7,7, het dichtst bij dit boek.
