Livro: Mundo coberto de árvores com quilômetros de altura

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O mundo está coberto de árvores com quilômetros de altura. Um morador do planeta sobe ao topo da árvore mais alta para encontrar uma nave acidentada. Ele nunca esteve nesse nível antes. Isso o leva a uma jornada para as profundezas mais baixas que ninguém viu antes, repletas de criaturas estranhas. Eu acho que a capa mostrou o morador descendo para as áreas escuras mais baixas com raízes de árvores e criaturas brilhantes.

Era um livro muito pequeno e uma leitura muito rápida. Fiquei acordado a noite toda para terminar. Peguei emprestado de um amigo que estava em Dune por volta do 1986.

por Roger Lawhorn 14.05.2018 / 09:24

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Eu acredito que é Midworld de Alan Dean Foster.

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Wikipedia:

Midworld is a planet entirely covered by a rain forest three-quarters of a kilometer (almost half a mile) tall. Born is a member of the primitive human society that has lived peacefully on Midworld for hundreds of years, careful not to disturb the natural balance of the jungle. His people live in a gigantic tree called the Home Tree. When they die, they are ceremonially buried in another gigantic tree of a species called They-Who-Keep. Each of the locals forms a lifetime bond with a powerful and intelligent photosynthetic animal called a furcot. When they need to damage a plant they are familiar with, they communicate with it empathetically ("emfoling") to make sure it does not object.

The world is disrupted by the arrival of an exploitative business venture from Earth whose representatives know nothing of the delicate stability of the planet. A man and a woman from this company crash in their aircraft near Born's home. He, a fellow hunter named Losting (both hunters are in love with the tribe's most beautiful girl), and their furcots lead the castaways safely through the jungle's surprising dangers to their station.

Born realizes that the newcomers are on his world to gain a life-extending drug from the burls formed by the They-Who-Keep trees around buried people. Horrified by this discovery and the invaders' callousness toward living beings, he uses native plants and animals to destroy their station. In the final fight Losting is killed, but Born returns to the Home Tree. Losting's brain and mind are absorbed to form part of a developing planet-wide network of consciousness involving They-Who-Keep and the furcots.



Outros livros com florestas gigantes são Estufa por Brian Aldiss e Terra no crepúsculo de Doris Piserchia.

14.05.2018 / 09:44

Este é um tema comum em SF Ursula K Le Guin escreveu exatamente a mesma coisa em "A palavra para o mundo é floresta".

Kevin J Anderson criou esse mundo em sua "Saga dos Sete Sóis" A série "As árvores do mundo de Theroc" eram gigantescas árvores sapientes com quilômetros de altura e eram capazes de formar naves espaciais.

The most prominent human world aside from Earth is Theroc, a planet covered in semi-sentient worldtrees that is quietly independent from the Hansa. Theroc's "green priests" are able to commune with the trees and communicate telepathically across space when touching a treeling, making them indispensable for instantaneous communication across the galaxy.

Existem muitos outros exemplos.

18.02.2019 / 13:35