Reviews

Radiant Terminus by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Antoine Volodine

saxonnefragile's review against another edition

4.0

Les récits d’anticipation m’agace généralement assez vite. Trop de temps passé à décrire une société cohérente, pas assez à créer une expérience littéraire d’un ailleurs. Aussi j’ai craint à tort une mauvaise expérience de lecture.
Mais Volodine avec ses obsessions habituels de chamanismes et de post exotisme offre quelque chose qui se rapproche à la fois d’un réalisme soviétique confronté à la SF la plus échevelée. Brouillant les repères spatio-temporels il entraîne le lecteur et ses personnages dans un futur non pas plausible mais qui est un mélange de Chernobyl et de magie.

chillcox15's review against another edition

5.0

An absolutely wild misandrist Stalker that fills you with deep dread about the tenuous separation of life and death. Hopefully will be considered a masterpiece of our era?

alesandra's review against another edition

2.0

Le début : 5/5
La fin : 2,5/5 car long et interminable.

ianlumsden's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

jae_lou's review against another edition

2.0

J'ai vraiment eu du mal à terminer ce roman. J'ai fini pas sauter des passages pour arriver au bout.

haunted_klaus's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

opojaz's review against another edition

Stopped on pg 230.

dolingen_de_gratz's review

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

bedazzlebub's review

5.0

Volodine does an excellent job here of blending science fiction with elements of magical realism. From the radiated pits left by sunken reactors to the unnatural longevity and psychic powers they may grant their visitors. Those wandering the hollowed-out remnants of their homeland, neither alive nor dead (or maybe both). Forests that harbor ominous misdirection and strangeness for anyone foolish enough to traverse them. And perhaps, most importantly, the instability and malleability of the traumatized human mind. Whether by empirical, chemical or supernatural means, the characters in this story are at the mercy of forces incomprehensible and irresistible to them.

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https://infinitememoria.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/radiant-terminus-by-antoine-volodine/

jae_lou's review against another edition

2.0

J'ai vraiment eu du mal à terminer ce roman. J'ai fini pas sauter des passages pour arriver au bout.