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Cardanica (A Steampunk Nightmare) (World-9) [Kindle Edition]

Dario Tonani (Author), Caroline Smart (Translator)
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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"A delicious steampunk nightmare dripping blood and oil from every crevice."
Graham Edwards, Fantasy writer

"Not since Harlan Ellison's 'I Have no mouth and I must scream' has there been a better depiction of man at the mercy of his own vindictive and sadistic creations."
Paul Di Filippo, Science Fiction writer

"Now that I've read Cardanica, I won't be taking any elevators."
Roberto Grassilli

"Imagine a cross between Bruce Sterling's *Involution Ocean*, Keith Roberts' *The Grain Kings* and some of Ian Watson's darkest early short-stories; it's like that, but very different also..."
Rhys Hughes, Fantasy writer

A steampunk story set in a poisonous world where huge trucks the size of ships plow across the treacherous sands.

The “Robredo” is a giant ship-truck, the darling of the local engineering world. Built of metal and wood, it’s powered by a “magic mix” of steam and bacteria …

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Awards: Tolkien (1989) Lovecraft (1994, 1999), Italia (1989,1992, 2000)

Length: 10.200 words

Product details

  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 208 KB
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: 40k (20 Sep 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B005OLF4I8
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #464,763 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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4.0 out of 5 stars This one will play games with your mind 16 Nov 2011
By Scott
Format:Kindle Edition
Cardanica is a very quick read that could very well creep you out. While reading it I saw the action going on in black and white like an old Hitchcock movie. This story leaves a lot for your imagination to fill in about the reasons behind what is going on. The scenes, characters, and technology are all explained very well, but there is a mystery as to what is truly happening. The mood while read is pretty tense, with a feeling of enclosure. Overall the emotions are conveyed very well and if you enjoy books that will play with your mind a bit this one is for you.
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Amazon.com: 4.4 out of 5 stars  16 reviews
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars a steel nightmare....worth to read! 24 Sep 2011
By Massimo Carli - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
A very good reading. But do not begin this book if you are not ready to finish it! Once begun you will not be able to stop. Within a simple narrative framework reminiscent of traditional Sci-fiction, Dario Tonani drags you into a gripping, claustrophobic nightmare where the very meaning of being human is challenged. Dario reads the "Man vs Machine" theme not as a struggle for power but as a dramatic symbiotic relationship that shakes the reader emotions. This was my first eBook, if Dario will continue to write with this quality it will not be the last!!..... just avoid eating before beginning.....
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A terrifying logbook 24 Sep 2011
By Kitsune - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
A poisonous sand world where people travel inside big ship-trucks. Outside the protection of that structure, there are no possibilities of surviving in that inhospitable place but boarding a pneumoarc, the strange scape/survival vehicle that can detach from the ship and take people to a safer place like a Metroport. Garrasco, the Sandguard, and Victor, his second-in-command, knew that. So when the Robredo, one of the greatest pieces of engineering, lost power and shipwrecked they have to trust the pneumoarc to survive. But it ends up being more than a machine: a terrifying thing that drips oil and blood from the walls, where Garrasco and Victor are like prisoners.

Is surviving a matter of using others, letting them die?

A novelette mixed with a logbook, Cardanica is one of the most terrifying texts I've read this year. Dario Tonani's blunt prose leads the reader inside the pneumoarc among the characters to feel what they feel like: "Flesh on a course flesh."
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars It's Alive! 11 Oct 2011
By Rock Robster - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Warning: slight spoiler alert.
Somewhere amidst the poisonous sands of World 9, the remaining crew of the crippled desert crawler, Robredo, face these terrifying realities: there is no escape from within the relentless autonomous survival craft, Cardanica; and someone will be culled to serve the needs of both the survivor and Cardanica.

But the most perplexing questions of all, with possibly the more terrifying implications, remain: why did someone design Cardanica this way, and what was the moral calculus they used to decide who would be the survivor and who would be the sacrifice?

Cardanica is a perfect way to start the Halloween season, not with ghosts or ghouls, but with a monster of man's creation.
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