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L'autore di Colossus (Urania n. 475) ritorna con un nuovo grandioso, spettacolare romanzo, dal quale stanno già traendo il film. Il colosso è questa volta l'AT-1 (Automatic Tanker n. 1), una gigantesca petroliera comandata da un computer, che rinnova le leggende dell'olandese Volante e del Vascello Fantasma attraversando gli oceani senza equipaggio. A bordo c'è soltanto una scorta armata, composta da quattro ex militari (più una ex hostess), e tutto sembra procedere nel modo più tranquillo, quando fulmineamente... Non possiamo, beninteso, dirvi altro. Ma possiamo garantirvi che di rado dei puntini di sospensione hanno annunciato un suspense più prolungato e perfetto di questo.
Copertina di Karel Thole
Copertina di Karel Thole
- GenresScience FictionFiction
178 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1975
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D.F. Jones
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Dennis Feltham Jones, a British Science Filction Author wrote under the byline D.F. Jones
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Dennis Feltham Jones, a British Science Filction Author wrote under the byline D.F. Jones
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December 4, 2017
Wow.
Never have I read a book that strayed so far from what was depicted on the cover and promised in the synopsis . . .
[SPOILERS below]
The cover shows a gigantic ship that’s easily 50x the size of the ocean liner below it. The deck appears lined with people of many cultures, and there are two domed cities with clock towers and skyskrappers. The back of the book promises the largest nuclear reactor on earth and hints at it’s globe destroying potential!
None of this is true. The ship is gas powered. It’s only a large oil tanker with a crew of five. At no point is the world in danger. Maybe a dinged iceberg or two. As far as pulp fiction from the mid-70’s goes, it doesn’t measure up there either.
BUT, if your deal is buying books with cool covers that you’ll probably never read, then Berkley Medallion has a cover for you. In the future I'll think twice before I even look at one of their books
Never have I read a book that strayed so far from what was depicted on the cover and promised in the synopsis . . .
[SPOILERS below]
The cover shows a gigantic ship that’s easily 50x the size of the ocean liner below it. The deck appears lined with people of many cultures, and there are two domed cities with clock towers and skyskrappers. The back of the book promises the largest nuclear reactor on earth and hints at it’s globe destroying potential!
None of this is true. The ship is gas powered. It’s only a large oil tanker with a crew of five. At no point is the world in danger. Maybe a dinged iceberg or two. As far as pulp fiction from the mid-70’s goes, it doesn’t measure up there either.
BUT, if your deal is buying books with cool covers that you’ll probably never read, then Berkley Medallion has a cover for you. In the future I'll think twice before I even look at one of their books
April 17, 2023
Run-of-the-mill thriller. Not science fiction.
June 11, 2011
An unmemorable novel, which has all the makings of a Hollywood thriller--if it hasn't already become one--of a deadly automated nuclear ship.
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