Pages: 444
Price: € 8.90
March 1912, Europe and parts of England suddenly disappear, replaced by a mainland fauna and flora not land that one does not take long to name the Darwin. For the young Guilford Law, this tragedy has nothing of a miracle or divine punishment, rather a mystery that science will ever solve. With this certainty, he will sacrifice everything to be part of the first major exploratory expedition intended to sink the heart of the unknown continent, an expedition of violent death in violent death, led him further than he could imagine. ..
Darwinia from a very good idea. One night in 1912, all Europe is replaced by a virgin and wild continent. The geography is basically the same but the fauna and flora are completely different. While in the early 20th century, religion is in decline because of, among other things, increasing scientific knowledge, many people behind this transformation by divine intervention comparable to the deluge. They even talk about Miracle.
In the early 20, an expedition is organized to explore the continent by boat up the Rhine. Their goal is to unravel the mystery of the origins of Darwin, name given to this new Europe. But the expedition goes awry. Crew members die and Guilford Law, one of the last survivors will discover the incredible truth ...
The idea was really exciting and could lead to a great novel by Jules Verne adventure, a tribute to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth with the backdrop of a confrontation between science and religion. Unfortunately, this is not the author goes on and a completely different direction. The exploration of Darwin is actually shipped quite quickly and only serves as an introduction to real story of this book is a sort of struggle between good and evil embedded in a plot unnecessarily complicated and sluggish.
During the three quarters of the novel, Robert Charles Wilson tells three stories in fact. Guilford Law so that, that of his wife and daughter in London and that of a medium in the U.S.. The three stories are supposed to join at some point to form a coherent whole. Outside it is not. The story of the woman and that of the medium ultimately did very little interest and just chop the main narrative of the coup that never found its rhythm and does not imply never drive in this strange world that is the Darwin. Moreover, the novel is regularly interrupted by interludes in which overly complicated language that I hate trying to give it all coherence. It's wordy and Robert Charles Wilson confuses the reader with obscure terms when in fact the explanation he gives us is in fact very simple and even banal.
I never got into the story and I admit I struggled to get to the end of these 444 pages. Robert Charles Wilson, who is usually so hard to build engaging characters crashes along the entire length. Those are very transparent and Guilford Law is that which the player must identify himself unable to move. Robert Charles Wilson's leg is only rarely present and Darwinia is a big disappointment for me. Fortunately the author has subsequently overtaken .
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