Golden Fleece

À bord d'Argo, un bateau de colonisation se dirigeant vers Eta Cephei IV, les gens sont très proches - il n'y a aucun autre choix. Ainsi quand l'ex-femme d'Aaron Rossman meurt dans ce ce qui semble être un accident bizarre, tout le monde offre leur sympathie, gardant poliment leurs soupçons de suicide pour eux/elles. Mais Aaron ne peut pas simplement accepter sa mort. Il doit connaître la vérité : est-ce que c'était un accident, ou s'est-elle suicidée ? Quand Aaron découvre la vérité derrière sa mort, il est confronté à un secret épouvantable - un secret qui pourrait le coûter sa vie.

Source (traduit par arween)

"Sawyer returns us to the Science Fiction of ideas and does so with a clarity of prose seldom seen these days. Well done and highly recommended." - Bakka Books in-store review (Toronto)

"A very accomplished first novel, skillfully blending hard scientific speculation about interstellar travel and artificial intelligence with interesting and effective characterization." - Books in Canada

"Sawyer gives us something rare in this age of the quotidian hero: a genuine tragedy. It is no accident that he invokes Greek myth in the title of the book. Sawyer is willing to play on the same field as Aeschylus and Euripides, and he proves himself equal to the task. JASON is, in my opinion, the deepest computer character in all of science fiction. And Aaron is, in my opinion, one of the most well-drawn, fallible, human detectives I've encountered in mystery fiction — in a league with, say, [Ruth] Rendell's Inspector Wexford. You might as well buy two copies in the first place — one to read and keep, and one to shove at your friends, saying, `Read this! Now!' How good is Golden Fleece? A friend of mine — an English professor — used to ask, whenever he saw me, `Why are you still writing that spaceship stuff?' Now I can answer. Because this is possible." - Orson Scott Card, Hugo and Nebula winning author of Ender's Game, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Connecticut)

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