Hearts in the large machine

the Hearts in the large machine (Drunk in the great machine) is a novel of Science-fiction in two volumes of the Australian writer Sean McMullen published in English in 1999 and French in 2004.

Argument

Two thousand years after the Great Winter which failed to cause its disappearance, humanity returned at a preindustrial stage and carries out a difficult life under the direction of a quasi feudal mode where the skill to fight in duel takes precedence over justice. Periodically and in an unforeseeable way, strange a call devastation populations and animals, making them lose any conscience and irresistibly obliging them to move towards the South where they disparaissent.
A mysterious calorific ray come from the sky, prevents the creation of electronics components thus blocking any technological advancement. So industry is limited to the most elementary machines and the country is traversed sand yachts and with pedals while the communications are carried out by a network of téléphotes using the light of the soleil.
With Rochester , small independent State located in what was old the Australia, Zarvora Cybeline, new the dragon black directing the library, hustles the old traditions. It has just invented a curious machine, the calculor , kind of computer mechanical where the human beings replace the electronic chips. At the dawn of a new century, she then discovers, thanks to this tool, that another Grand Winter is about to occur. Indeed, it would seem that, on the moon, of antiques machines continued their thousand-year-old Work by building a veil intended to darken the rays of the sun.

Kind

the Hearts in the large machine is a novel of Science-fiction pertaining to the kind Steampunk, characterized by a preindustrial universe where technologies are stammering and primarily mechanics. It also mingles some elements with it with the Roman of adventures.

French editions

Work is made up of two volumes entitled Calculeur and the Strategists .

  • 2004, Hearts in large machine I - Calculeur , ED. Robert Laffont, coll Elsewhere and tomorrow, ISBN 2221095901

  • 2004, Hearts in large machine II - the Strategists , ED. Robert Laffont, coll Elsewhere and tomorrow, ISBN 2221101561

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