အရင္အပါတ္က Plaza Singapura နားမွာ Times စာအုပ္ဆိုင္ က warehouse sales လုပ္ေနတာနဲ႔ဆံုပါတယ္။ အဲဒိမွာ 7$ 8$ ေလာက္နဲ႔ fitction စာအုပ္ေတြေရာင္းေနတာေတြ႔တာနဲ႔ ၀င္ေမႊျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဖတ္ခ်င္တဲ့စာအုပ္ေတြ အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားေတြ႔ရပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ခုတေလာဖတ္ေနတာေတြနဲ႔ ပံုစံမတူတာ ဖတ္ခ်င္တာမို႔ အခုစာအုပ္ Sky People ကို ေရြးလိုက္ပါတယ္။
SciFi စာအုပ္ေပမယ့္ .. ခုလာမယ့္ေနာက္ ဘယ္နႏွစ္ဆိုတာမ်ိဳးမဟုတ္ပဲ။ 1960s ေလာက္က ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေျခအေနန႔ဲ ေရာေထြးထားပါတယ္။ US နဲ႔ USSR တို႔ အျပိဳင္ space race လုပ္ေနၾကတာပါ။ russia က venus ျဂိဳလ္ေပၚကို drome စတင္တယ္။ အဲဒိမွာ Venus က ကမာၻနဲ႔ အေတာ္ဆင္တူေနၿပီး လူနဲ႔ ပံုစံတူေတြလဲေတြ႔ရတယ္၊ ကမာၻေလာက္ေတာ့ အဆင့္မျမင့္ေသးဘူးေပါ့။ အဲဒါကို US ကၾကားျဖတ္ နားေထာင္တယ္။ လူေတြလႊတ္ၿပီး စခန္းခ်ေနတယ္။ အဲဒိ Venus မွာ လူရိုင္းနဲ႔ လူယဥ္ ၂ မ်ိဳးရွိရမွာ လူရိုင္းေတြက USSR ကေရာက္လာတဲ့ ယဥ္ေပၚက AK47 ေတြရသြားတာကေန venus လူယဥ္ ေတြေရာ၊ လာစခန္းခ်ေနတဲ့ US အဖြဲ႔ေတြေရာ ေျမြကိုက္တာပဲေပါ့။
Marc Vitrac was born in Louisiana in the early 1960’s, about the time the first interplanetary probes delivered the news that Mars and Venus were teeming with life—even human life. At that point, the “Space Race” became the central preoccupation of the great powers of the world.
Now, in 1988, Marc has been assigned to Jamestown, the US-Commonwealth base on Venus, near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooths and dinosaurs, Jamestown is home to a small band of American and allied scientist-adventurers.
But there are flies in this ointment – and not only the Venusian dragonflies, with their yard-wide wings. The biologists studying Venus’s life are puzzled by the way it not only resembles that on Earth, but is virtually identical to it. The EastBloc has its own base at Cosmograd, in the highlands to the south, and relations are frosty. And attractive young geologist Cynthia Whitlock seems impervious to Marc’s Cajun charm.
Meanwhile, at the western end of the continent, Teesa of the Cloud Mountain People leads her tribe in a conflict with the Neanderthal-like beastmen who have seized her folk’s sacred caves. Then an EastBloc shuttle crashes nearby, and the beastmen acquire new knowledge… and AK47’s.
Jamestown sends its long-range blimp to rescue the downed EastBloc cosmonauts, little suspecting that the answer to the jungle planet’s mysteries may lie there, among tribal conflicts and traces of a power that made Earth’s vaunted science seem as primitive as the tribesfolk’s blowguns. As if that weren’t enough, there’s an enemy agent on board the airship…
Extravagant and effervescent, The Sky People is alternate-history SF adventure at its best.
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