The Big Jump
by Leigh Brackett
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What awaits us out in space?New star-drive engines promise to open up the galaxy to humankind. But the first ship to use the engines disappears and a sole survivor returns...alone and dying of some strange type of radiation.No one can figure out what has happened to the ship or the crew. Nor does anyone know what happens to a ship travelling using star-drive technology.Does some unknown horror await us out there?The only way to find out is to go out again. And Arch Comyn is determined to be show more the one to solve the mystery.But is he ready ... Is the rest of mankind ready ... for whatever awaits us beyond The Big Jump? show lessTags
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Boring. More fisticuffs and spy vs. spy sort of stuff than SF until near the end, and even then it's men being manly. The actual SF stuff has been done better... as a short story. Brackett knows better. But I guess everyone has to make a living.
As other commenters have said — the noir-ish beginning, while having an attractive tone, doesn't work well to give the reader a sense of sympathy with the protagonist. The starflight portion is relatively standard Golden Age storytelling. Not Brackett's finest.
The story is dated like many 60s SF books but full of really great ideas.
Brackett was a prolific SF writer. Starting in the 1940s, she wrote a couple of dozen SF books and made living for years writing short stories for multiple pulp SF magazines. Eventually she wrote for TV and film.
I will read more books by this pioneer of classic SF.
Brackett was a prolific SF writer. Starting in the 1940s, she wrote a couple of dozen SF books and made living for years writing short stories for multiple pulp SF magazines. Eventually she wrote for TV and film.
I will read more books by this pioneer of classic SF.
Ennesima interpretazione sul tema dell'esplorazione spaziale. Molto originale la scoperta che gli uomini fanno su questo pianeta lontano.
Carino.
Carino.
Mar 29, 2013 (Edited)Italian
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- Canonical title
- The Big Jump
- Original title
- The Big Jump
- Original publication date
- 1955
- People/Characters*
- Arch Comyn; Ballantyne; William Stanley; Dubman; Sydna Cochrane; Peter Cochrane (show all 14); Jonas Cochrane; Sally Cochrane; Simon Cochrane; Dr. French; Roth; Fisher; Vickrey; Paul Rogers
- Important places*
- Barnards Stern
- First words*
- Über die Klüfte zwischen den Welten, von einem zum anderen Ende des Sonnensystems, das unter dem geschichtlichen Ereignis erzitterte, verbreitete sich das Gerücht: Jemand hatte den großen Sprung geschafft!
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Und sie tat es.
- Publisher's editor*
- Schelwokat, Günter M.
- Original language*
- Englisch
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- English, German
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- Paper, Ebook
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