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Анклавы Вадима Панова #10
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Знаменитый цикл Вадима Панова «Анклавы» продолжается! Катастрофа едва не привела к гибели все человечество, но тех, кто рвется к мировому господству, не останавливают такие мелочи. Они готовы все повторить, и судьбы отдельных людей их нисколько не волнуют. Какое им дело, например, до бывшего военнослужащего внутренних войск Баварского Султаната? Капралу Микмаку довелось убивать, и нельзя сказать, что это занятие ему пришлось по душе. Теперь Микмак зарабатывает продажей «бютена» - артефактов высокоразвитой технологии, которая существовала до злополучного Дня Станции. Откуда Микмаку было знать, что случайная находка в небоскребе, который стал подводным гротом, перевернет не только его жизнь, но и жизнь всего человечества…
512 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2013
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March 9, 2017
This is the second spin-off from the main "Enclaves" series I read. It's a fun, pretty quick-paced story dealing with a chase to find and control a powerful piece of pre-Catastrophe tech. It's cyberpunk mixed in with that typical Enclaves mysticism, there's plenty of conspiracies, no one really knows what the hell is going on, and the action is always going at a frenetic pace. Lots of pieces are fed in flash-backs, and there's always a question of how accurate those are and what exactly is going on.
There was actually a shout-out to an event that supposedly took book in the earlier book I read, so i'm kind of confused just how much meta-plot there is between these spin offs (but I intend to find out eventually). Without the context of having read the main sequence, I think it'd be incredibly hard to figure out what is going on (and it's not like those books explained everything themselves, either). So it's hard for me to judge how comprehensible the book would be on its own. It's certainly a fun quick-paced cyberpunky adventure, but how much impact it would have in a vacuum, and how lost the world would leave a new reader is hard to say.
There was actually a shout-out to an event that supposedly took book in the earlier book I read, so i'm kind of confused just how much meta-plot there is between these spin offs (but I intend to find out eventually). Without the context of having read the main sequence, I think it'd be incredibly hard to figure out what is going on (and it's not like those books explained everything themselves, either). So it's hard for me to judge how comprehensible the book would be on its own. It's certainly a fun quick-paced cyberpunky adventure, but how much impact it would have in a vacuum, and how lost the world would leave a new reader is hard to say.
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