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Sinossi
Fin da piccoli, Patricia Delfine e Laurence Armstead hanno avuto visioni del mondo diverse e spesso opposte. Patricia sapeva parlare agli animali e trasformarsi in un uccello. Laurence è stato capace di costruire un supercomputer e una macchina del tempo (in grado però di muoversi solo di due secondi nel futuro). Nell'attraversare quell'incubo infinito che è la scuola media sono diventati alleati, per quanto un po' diffidenti; almeno fino all'intervento di un misterioso consulente scolastico con un piano segreto... Mai avrebbero immaginato di ritrovarsi. Ma dieci anni dopo, ormai adulti, si incontrano di nuovo. Patricia si è laureata a Eltisley Labirinto, l'accademia segreta per chi ha poteri magici, mentre Laurence è un prodigio dell'ingegneria impegnato a cercare di salvare il pianeta. Trascinati sui fronti opposti di una guerra tra scienza e magia, Laurence e Patricia sono costretti a schierarsi, prendendo una decisione da cui dipendono il destino del pianeta e dell'umanità.
- ISBN: 8804747730
- Casa Editrice: Mondadori
- Pagine: 372
- Data di uscita: 30-08-2022
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This is one weirdass book. A good kind of weird, but it definitely isn't for everyone. All the Birds in the Sky transcends genres, refusing to find its place anywhere - is it sci-fi? Paranormal/fantasy? Dystopian/alternate world? Magical realism? In truth, it's some of all of those. A quirky and stra Leggi tutto
"Indestructible" Or to put it in milder terms, "I just got ran over by a mac truck." This novel is just too important to miss, whether or not you're into SF or Fantasy, because it is both. It's a long and delightful and REAL conversation between the two, a heartfelt exploration and a synthesis, a hear Leggi tutto
One of the best books I have read in ages, easily in the top three I've read this year.
Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other A magical savant, a super genius, the world on the brink of eco-apocalypse, possible ways out, or are the solutions as dangerous as the problem? and young love. What’s not to like? Laurence Amstead is your basic pre-ad tech genius,
What a wildly imaginative, delightful novel. I had no idea what to expect from this book but I was just thrilled with this book from the beginning to the end. Patricia and Laurence, who meet each other as kids and develop a friendship of convenience that becomes much more by the end of the novel, ar Leggi tutto
I didn't want to finish this but I wanted it to be over. A short book, but every day the Kindle would taunt me with the slow progression of % 86% . . . 90% . . . 94% . . . I would groan and sigh every time I went to pick it up. There was no way to remember what was happening because every chapter was Leggi tutto
Unbelievably stupid and I loved every minute of it. Guaranteed: lessons on how to become a bird and a witch, ice-cream-loving assassins part-timing as school advisors, inside perspective on suet and AI, magic school, nerds, bullying. Plus a healthy dose of the Absurd - enough to induce a very strong Leggi tutto
As a reader, every once and a while a book comes along that charms the living daylights out of you. All the Birds in the Sky surprised, astounded, and captivated me in equal measures. Unfortunately, when a book is this good it makes it almost too difficult to review: there's little to be said that t Leggi tutto
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