Livro pós-apocalíptico onde as pessoas podem melhorar ou alterar sua aparência com qualidades animais

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Eu li este livro provavelmente 10 ou 15 anos atrás. Eu me lembro de começar com uma jovem (eu acho) falando com um computador e alterando sua aparência em um espelho. Eu acredito que ela estava fazendo mudanças sutis que estavam atualizadas com o que era popular na época e acredito que o livro explicou que outras pessoas tinham escolhido fazer mudanças menos sutis e se tornarem animais.

O livro segue ela e seu pai que se torna líder de uma nova civilização, quando o computador principal é atingido por terroristas ou algo assim. Eles caem na idade das trevas e têm que recorrer à sobrevivência como na Idade Média. Foi muito descritivo em um momento em que a mulher estava tentando descobrir como eles costumavam lidar com ciclos menstruais sem tecnologia. Eu lembro que havia um cara mau, e eu acredito que ele era um tigre ou um pantera, mas ele queria a garota. Ele começou a invadir os pequenos assentamentos que surgiram no período seguinte, e se tornou como um senhor da guerra, tendo saques, pilhagens e estupros. O namorado das meninas lutou a última batalha com ele e perdeu o braço.

Tenho certeza de que o livro foi escrito na década de 1950. Lembro-me de pensar que era estranhamente preciso e avançado para quando foi escrito. Eu tenho tentado me lembrar deste livro nos últimos 10 anos, porque foi aberto e acredito que foi parte de uma série. Lembro-me que este livro é um dos melhores que já li. Pode fazer você cerrar os dentes, rir e chorar de uma só vez. Alguém pode me ajudar a encontrar isso?

    
por NastyN8 13.01.2019 / 19:56

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Haverá dragões por John Ringo. ( disponível em um CD do Baen )

In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise-and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive. But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil and small farm. In the village of Raven's Mill, Edmund Talbot, master smith and unassuming historian, finds that all the problems of the world are falling in his lap. Refugees are flooding in, bandits are roaming the woods, and his former lover and his only daughter struggle through the Fallen landscape. Enemies, new and old, gather like jackals around a wounded lion. But what the jackals do not know is that while old he may be, this lion is far from death. And hidden in the past is a mystery that has waited until this time to be revealed. You cross Edmund Talbot at your peril, for a smith is not "all" he once was. . . .

Cenas relevantes:

Alteração do corpo do adolescente:

"Well, you know that Marguerite's birthday party is coming up, right?"
"I'm not going to let you have a body-sculpt, Rachel," Daneh said lifting her chin and t'tching in negation. "We've been over this before."
"But Mommm!" the teenager whined. "My body is disgusting. I'm too fat. My boobs are huge and my butt is the size of Mount Evert! Pleeease!?"
"You're not too fat," the doctor said definitively. "Your body mass index is square in the center of the charts; your nannites wouldn't let it be anywhere else. And this . . . boyish look that is the current fad is not healthy, even for females who have been body sculpted. You can only pare away so far then you're into reserves. Your friend Marguerite is probably below seven percent body fat. That's not healthy. Barely so for a male and not for an unChanged female. And I'm not going to let you tinker with your DNA . . ."
"I know, Mom," Rachel said with an exasperated sigh. "But . . . I just look like a cow. I'm sorry, but that's how I feel."
"Okay, just this once," Daneh sighed. "And only for the party and only a bit. Stand up."
Rachel bounced off the bed and held out the hologram projector, a thumb-sized cube of crystal. "I was looking at some styles. Can I have Varian Vixen?"

Edmund (o pai da menina) torna-se líder da nova comunidade pós-guerra:

"We need a vote," Myron said. "Any other nominations? Edmund, do you accept?"
The smith looked at the ground and to the others. A weight appeared to settle on his shoulders and something old and hard seemed to be in his countenance. But when he looked up his face was clear.
"I do."
"Any other nominations? No. All in favor say aye."
"Aye!"
"Opposed?" There was silence. "Passed by acclamation, Mayor Edmund."

A mulher começa a mensurar depois que os nanites médicos falham

"Not from her . . . anus," Tom said. "The . . . the other part. I'm sorry if I'm being unclear, but this is my mother, okay?"
"Okay," Daneh answered. She wracked her brain for what might be wrong and there was something nagging at her. But for the life of her, the only thing that came to mind was some sort of internal injury. "Did she fall? Was she hit?"
"Not that I'm aware of," Tom said.
Daneh held her peace until they reached the sprawling farmyard, then hurried inside with Rachel at her heels.

They went upstairs to where Myron was standing outside the bedroom door, wringing his hands.
"Thank God you're here, Daneh," Myron said. "I . . . she's . . . I just can't take it. Please help her!"
"I'll see what I can do, Myron," Daneh answered, secretly fearful that there wouldn't be much she could do. Without nannites she was virtually helpless. She might know the inner workings of the human body, but fixing that body took tools she no longer possessed."

    
14.01.2019 / 14:21