Masters of Everon

by Gordon R. Dickson

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Jef Robini is sent to the planet Everon find out why all efforts to create a stable colony on the planet have failed and discovers the cat-like maolots, mysterious inhabitants of Everon.

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Jef Robini is a PhD student with an interesting dissertation project - if a maolot whose growth was stunted by spending the first eight years of its life on Earth is reintroduced to its native Everon, will it mature properly? What would trigger its growth? To answer these and other questions, the "You know nothing, John Snow"-like Jef journeys to Everon and immediately gets overwhelmed by the the political games played on the new world. In the end, Jef is called upon to answer for mankind's selfishness and greed in front of the real Masters of Everon.

A fairly light book - a little heavy handed with the "humans are greedy and evil and the soulless corporations and beaucratic machinery turn even good people into amoral worker-bees" show more morality play. I actually didn't see the plot twist coming. Everything else in the plot line (like Jef's journey across Everon) seemed to have been put on rails. show less
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Standard fare for the 1980s. Stereotyped situation and characters, okay adventuring, the usual ethical posturing but with some arguments for both sides. Some plot & continuity holes, but not egregious.
Ook geen grote aanrader. Leuk boekje maar wat voorspelbaar en met wat gaten in de logica waar je niet te zwaar aan moet tillen. Daarnaast vind ik het einde wat vergezocht.

Jeff gaat met een groot katachtig buitenaards wezen naar een nieuw gekoloniseerde wereld. Daar kwam het wezen als pup vandaan, voor het hem door zijn daarna vermoorde broer werd toegezonden. Omdat het op aarde niet goed volgroeid werd mag Jeff nu uitzoeken waarom die groei niet doorzette – maar de kolonisten blijken niet allemaal even goedwillend tegenover het project te staan.
Gaandeweg wordt Jeff betrokken bij de politieke en economische intriges – en blijkt zelfs een hoofdrol te krijgen.

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A naturalized American who was born in Canada on November 1, 1923, Gordon Rupert Dickson is a popular science fiction writer. Dickson graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1948 and made his home in Minneapolis. Among his many novels, especially notable is Soldier, Ask Not, which won the Hugo Award in 1965. For many years, Dickson's most show more engrossing project was his Childe Cycle, a series of novels about humanity's evolutionary potential, which included a group of futuristic books that are popularly known as the Dorsai Cycle. Dickson also wrote hundreds of short stories and novelettes including Call Him Lord, for which he received a Nebula Award in 1966. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Original publication date
1979

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Science Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3554 .I328 .M36Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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