Light Chaser: Peter F. Hamilton

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Lyx a season actor he showed all aspects of LB multi-faceted traits eloquently, vivid, delicate and detailed. His ability to deduce the state of his character is thoughtful and accurate. In the last Finale rescue, he blown me away with one of the best acting I’ve seen in C drama and I just witness the explosive growth of this talented actor. ……..Hat’s off to Lyx for performing many dangerous stunts himself.

Amahle ha vivido durante miles de años con solo la compaña de su IA a bordo y de las relaciones pasajeras con las personas que visita en cada mundo. Vive una vida segura y predecible, visitando los mismos planetas una y otra vez. Los surcaluz no son más que humanos modificados para vivir siglos y milenios, que viajan por las estrellas de planeta en planeta en un camino cíclico que siempre les lleva a visitar los mismos mundos. La sensación de que los días se confunden y se hacen interminables es palpable en como Light Chaser esta escrito. Los planetas se asemejan unos con otros, los días de Amhale parecen similares entre si y todo la acción da la impresión de ocurrir en apenas un instante, aunque pasen milenios. Always has the dream of conducting a wedding of a century? Or jealous of other people getting married, and wanna stir up some troubles on others wedding? We have various wedding-related wedding events to create more fun! Both of these are Hard SF writers who no doubt keep up to date with what is happening on the distant frontiers of science. ‘Light Chaser’ introduces us to the concept of the ‘strangelet’, a hypothetical particle consisting of a bound state of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks. (It functions as a kind of fanciful widget in the novella.)Ranging from cross server PvP, Clan War to battle royale, the game strives to deliver the most exhilarating gameplay! Light Chaser', a collaborative writing effort by veteran authors Peter Hamilton and Gareth Powell, is a very cool hard-science-fiction novella about a traveler of space in the year 28367! Amahle is 26,355 years old. She's been a Light Chaser for most of that, travelling alone on the circuit between the stars, dropping off and collecting memory collars for her employer, EverLife. The worlds she visits are hell holes of medieval reenactment or dingy mining, but she entertains herself between stops living their lives through the memory collars. Except, again and again, on different worlds and years apart, a voice keeps calling to her, telling her to remember, telling her she needs to act. And, slowly, she does. We have 2nd couple who are big sweethearts and the 3rd ones that well can do with less screen time.

El dúo también se esfuerza mucho para tratar de mantener bajo control los aspectos de la historia basados ​​en el tiempo. Puede que no se sostenga bajo un escrutinio estricto, pero no solo agitan sus manos y dicen "es nuestra versión del tiempo", mientras lo desvían con ingeniosidades. En cambio, juega un papel tanto funcional como temático dentro de la historia y la vida de Amahle. El trabajo de una surcaluz consiste en viajar por el universo recopilando los recuerdos de los habitantes de los mundos más lejanos a cambio de baratijas. Recuerdos que vienen compilados en collares de memoria, y que Amahle, nuestra surcaluz protagonista, ve y escucha en sus eternos viajes de un planeta a otro. Sin embargo, todo cambia cuando encuentra un inquietante mensaje oculto en uno de esos collares que la interpela de forma directa. Un mensaje que lo cambiara todo en su infinita vida. Sus creencias comenzarán a derrumbarse, todo lo que daba por seguro empieza a tambalearse y ella es la única que puede acabar con todo, aunque el precio a pagar sea más alto de lo que piensa. In addition, other characters with their own demons to face, and romance between different couples added flavor to the story. Romance-wise, there was the calm, restrained and mature love between the main leads. The comfortable steady kind of relationship that I appreciated. There was the second couple that delighted many with how they overcome challenges to stay together and a third couple who did nothing but irritated me with their rash, impulsive, entitled spoilt love. That said, there were viewers who liked them too.Because the story is so short, I don’t want to ruin it for you by saying too much, so I’m keeping this review short. But I did love the way everything is resolved at the end. Amahle discovers through the memories of Carloman just what needs to be done to fix the universe, and I loved watching her carry out her plan. The final chapter gave me chills and put a big smile on my face. I recommend this delightful novella to anyone who loves a perfectly crafted mystery/adventure with interesting characters and worldbuilding. El primer capítulo de Light Chaser (Surcaluz) apela a lo que me atrae en la space opera contemporánea. En una decena de páginas se asiste a una serie de tensas maniobras en las que los dos tripulantes de una nave cierran una misión y se abocan a su propia muerte. Para describir el proceso Gareth L. Powell y Peter F. Hamilton utilizan un lenguaje plagado de neologismos cuyo significado se intuye por el contexto, unas situaciones impensables con la tecnología actual. Apelan al hambre de sentido de maravilla y estimulan la curiosidad por descubrir los motivos detrás de esta acometida suicida. Una vez concluida esta introducción, se toman las 130 páginas restantes para exponer el por qué de ese curso de acción, durante las cuales coquetean con un tratamiento de la aventura espacial más apegada a la estética de la fantasía medieval. Por hacer un símil con las novelas de La Cultura, se alejan de Pensad en Flebas para sobrevolar Inversiones. Amahle is one of a number of Light Chasers who traverse the known universe with only AI for company. She stops at planets, sometimes as often as once every fifty years and sometimes only once in a thousand, to collect their memories and their stories. Through these she lives an untold number of lives and is able to forget her own. This proves harder to do when the same voice and name, albeit in different bodies, starts to crop up in different planets that are light years apart. This is impossible, but the story it has to tell her is even more so. Chinese Authorities to Further Restrict Foreign Content Programming". China Film Insider. 2018-09-21 . Retrieved 31 January 2019.

Acting-wise, I have nothing but praises for the leads. Both Luo Yun Xi and Janice Wu impressed with their quiet intensity and ability to emote so much with the smallest expressions. I first watched them together in “My Sunshine” and even then, they had great chemistry. They have certainly earned their reputations as excellent actors and in this show, they truly become their characters. Luo Yun Xi is amazing and I still cannot get over the fact that he did almost all of his stunts. Dramas come and dramas go but his performance was above and beyond. La apertura de Light Chaser es cuanto menos extraña. Quizá, el primer capitulo sea el menos digerible para alguien que no este acostumbrado a la ciencia ficción más dura. Un comienzo in extrema res, que bien podría ser el final y nos trata de poner en situación. Una situación que debemos reconstruir collar a collar junto a Amahle. A partir de ahí, todo es una huida hacia delante hasta este punto y final que ya hemos visto. Light Chaser se preocupa más por ir al grano y centrarse en Amahle, su protagonista, que por todo lo que pueda plantear. La construcción de mundo es interesante, pero escueta, y nada más que un impulso para hacer avanzar la historia. Lo mismo pasa con el concepto del tiempo. Viajamos años y años, milenio tras milenio, pero es solo algo funcional y temático dentro de la historia. Recorremos el universo de forma frenética entre mundos y vidas, esculpiendo solo los cimientos de su cosmos y centrándose en la intima -pero épica- historia que quiere contar. Y es una pena, por que la complejidad de algunos mundos, su crítica capitalista y como funciona la sociedad de los surcaluz es cuanto menos interesante. Two things could have made up for this: the characters and the chance to explore. Well, I didn't like Amahle and she's the only character of any significance, so there went that. My biggest issue with her was that, for all she's (almost) immortal, she behaves just like any-old human today (with an emphasis on 'today'). Likewise, the worlds described are surprisingly uncreative for a science fiction novella. They're analogs of either medieval, early industrial, or early modern Earth, with a lot of cultural references to the current day. Odd, considering that we're talking 26,000 years in the future. And yes, to some extent, this is part of the plot, but the authors could have tried just a bit harder. This was a great, immersive sci-fi novella, focusing on futuristic AI and technology with the ability to halt the evolution and societal growth of all species across the universe. I really enjoyed Amahle's quest for truth and that the reader was granted permission to journey with her across the realistic timeline of the years it took for her to gain it. There was a sweet love story concurrently developing although it was never allowed to overtake the main focus, which I also appreciated. The nitty-gritty: A galaxy-spanning mystery and an unexpected love story, Light Chaser is one of my favorite novellas of the year.

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Creatively, capturing and transferring traditional Chinese artistic styles into CG animation proved especially challenging for Zhao’s team. According to the director, “This is a pioneering project, so we put tremendous effort into both set design – like the Chinese-painting-like mountains and rivers - and character design. That includes, for example, the multiple-layer traditional Chinese clothes, ancient young ladies’ hair styles and movements.” This is an SF novella eligible for 2021 awards, written by British authors Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell. It is already selected for BSFA longlist, and maybe some Hugo voters will also support it. The story follows one woman's unraveling of an epic and perplexing riddle that calls into question the entire nature of our reality and human civilization. It borrows elements from Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns as well as Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire. The latter, in particular the concept of past lives memory stored in the form of imago machines, plays a key role, as does the theme of memory as identity. The authors make clever use of these stored memories sourced from a myriad of places and people across the galaxy to piece together the riddle that lies at the heart of the story. The story starts at the end (often used feature in modern SF, which I know annoys some readers) with a couple in a spaceship, Amahle and Carloman, who prepared to die, even if the man says “There is nothing to fear. Trust me, I remember all my deaths.” The ship hits a star, but before vaporizing, it left a ‘strangelet’ that turns the star supernova, annihilating all around it. There's a mind blowing premise at the heart of Light Chaser which makes for a compelling read, yet some foundational plot elements are hastily glossed over or incompletely presented and left me feeling like I didn't quite get the full picture.