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Jalavan SciFi-sarja #1
Viimeisellä hetkellä: Seikkailuromaani tulevaisilta ajoilta
- GenresScience Fiction
335 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
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January 7, 2021
Vaikka kyse on kuinka klassikosta, ei se tee kirjasta ikinä hyvää. Klassikotkin voivat olla huonoja.
Tämä oli. Huono ja työsä ja sekava. Mutta yllättävää kyllä, kielen käyttö ei ollut niin vanhahtavaa kuin olisi voinut luulla 99 vuotta vanhalta teokselta.
Tämä oli. Huono ja työsä ja sekava. Mutta yllättävää kyllä, kielen käyttö ei ollut niin vanhahtavaa kuin olisi voinut luulla 99 vuotta vanhalta teokselta.
January 13, 2023
The first modern Finnish SF novel by autodidact H.R. Halli, real name Rudolf Richard Ruth, is a neglected futuristic epic in the line of H.G. Wells' "When the Sleeper Wakes", Burroughs' Mars series and with a sprinkle of both Stapledon's "Last and First Men" and " The Matrix".
In his moment of dying, the protagonist is transported to the future, when Man has mastered the power of the mind, enabling the most powerful people to detach themselves from their body, but also possess someone else's. The protagonist is the prophecised Messiah-figure, foretold to free the enslaved people from the oppression of a master race ruled by a despotic master. Dripping with sexuality and violence, "Viimeisellä hetkellä" is a prime example is a prime example of early 20th century pulpy SFF. A highly imaginative, ripping adventure yarn, fluently written, if a bit corny in places.
In addition to his pioneering SF work, Ruth also wrote two of the first detective novels in Finnish, under the pseudonym Rikhard Hornanlinna. Unfortunately I don't think "Viimeisellä hetkellä" has ever been translated.
In his moment of dying, the protagonist is transported to the future, when Man has mastered the power of the mind, enabling the most powerful people to detach themselves from their body, but also possess someone else's. The protagonist is the prophecised Messiah-figure, foretold to free the enslaved people from the oppression of a master race ruled by a despotic master. Dripping with sexuality and violence, "Viimeisellä hetkellä" is a prime example is a prime example of early 20th century pulpy SFF. A highly imaginative, ripping adventure yarn, fluently written, if a bit corny in places.
In addition to his pioneering SF work, Ruth also wrote two of the first detective novels in Finnish, under the pseudonym Rikhard Hornanlinna. Unfortunately I don't think "Viimeisellä hetkellä" has ever been translated.
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