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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 Format: Kindle Book Label: eReads Manufacturer: eReads Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: February 18, 2004 Publisher: eReads Release Date: February 18, 2004 Studio: eReads Related Items: Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: They have gathered now on Damien and are about to witness the last rising of a manmade nova. They are 16 humans in a distant world about to be enveloped by an eruption of violence--horror and murder oddly complemented by a bizarre unforgiving love. But justice is not all that's about to be found. Judgment is coming and the 16 unsuspecting ones are on the threshold of the murdered star. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Flawed, melodramatic, but worth attentionThis late novel by Tiptree, better known for her short stories and short novels, has not been popular with either reviewers or readers. It has a number of flaws, but it held my attention throughout. There are a large number of characters, but they are all so nicely delineated that I had no trouble remembering who was who. The plot involves a small terrestrial caretaker base on an alien planet whose inhabitants had earlier been horrifically physically exploited by earthmen, a base ... Read More Rating:  - A Very Different BookI can see why the reviewers are pretty much split down the middle on this one. The set-up is extraordinary, the writing style is unusual, and the payoff is less than the reader hopes for. Even so, I really enjoyed this novel. There are more ideas in this book than in a dozen average SF novels, so I can look past the fact that many of the ideas are never fleshed out. It is the first "James Tiptree" novel (or short story) that I've read, and now I will definitely search out some of her earlier ... Read More Rating:  - Poor writing, plot, characters...Cardboard characters, High School level writing, poor plotting, unremarkable prose, "Brightness Falls from the Air" is a book that confounds the reader who has earlier read the superlatives and the cover blurb by the New York Times. Was Gerald Jonas high that day? The setup is fairly interesting: sixteen characters gather on a planet to witness the arrival of a visually spectacular nova front. This front is all that remains of a star destroyed along with an entire race of beings during ... Read More Rating:  - Strong Premise; Poor WritingIn Brightness Falls from the Air, Ms. Triptree has written a rich yet unsatisfactory novel. Ms. Triptree's characters are an interesting collection and the general backdrop of the novel is well staged. Yet the novel is consistently hindered by the short-sighted and outright unintelligent attitudes of the characters. As such, what might have been a sophisticated novel soon becomes tedious and trite. Ms. Triptree does provide a final, dark revelation that proves eerily satisfying -- but ultimately it is ... Read More Rating: - Delicate little novel, not fully realised.A strange group of characters gather on a forbidden world to watch and experience the effects of a dying planet. It seems, however, that some of them come with an agenda that involves harm to the natives of the world-- natives who have already been harmed enough... Tiptree introduces a wide variety of characters-- probably too many characters for the 270 pages of the book. They are developed enough to be interesting, but not enough to be even. It is not your run of the mill science fiction novel, ... Read More 
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