The Orchid Cage
by Herbert W. Franke
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This book is a new English translation of the classic science fiction story written in 1961 by Herbert W. Franke, widely held to be the most important German-language science-fiction writer. A dead city on a distant planet, two groups of people trying to explore it. Step by step, they penetrate the outer ring with its ultra-modern technology, the half-ruined medieval city center and finally the mysterious center. But is the eerie city really dead? Suddenly the factories start working again, show more the automatons intervene, and somewhere in the background there is still something hidden that could perhaps awaken. But is it people or machines? Herbert W. Franke leads the reader into an oppressively strange world; only after the startling resolution does it become clear what lies behind the adventures of the intruders - not a cosmic strangeness, but a threatening development that could affect humans in the same way. Franke's novel is thus a parable of the evolution of all humans in the age of technical communication ... show lessTags
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I keep feeling this is less a fantasy than a prediction of the future of the sedentary western society.
Los hombres no parten a la conquista de las estrellas porque ello se ha evidenciado impracticable. En su lugar envían informaciones capaces de crear en cualquier lugar las “células robots” que explorarán y enviarán a la Tierra los datos deseados. Pero esta aventura conduce a uno de los infiernos racionalizados más implacables que haya concebido la literatura de ciencia ficción. Franke mantiene la tradición de la utopía pesimista, característica de los escritores fantásticos alemanes.
Nov 2, 2022Spanish
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AndroSF (52)
Goldmanns Zukunftsromane (Z 24)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- La Cage aux Orchidées
- Original title
- Der Orchideenkäfig
- Original publication date
- 1961
- Original language*
- German
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Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 809.3 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Fiction
- LCC
- PT2666 .R3 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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- 114
- Popularity
- 284,573
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (2.50)
- Languages
- 7 — English, French, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 7
