Cardanica A Steampunk Nightmare World9 Book 1 edition by Dario Tonani Caroline Smart Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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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
Cardanica A Steampunk Nightmare World9 Book 1 edition by Dario Tonani Caroline Smart Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Reading Dario Tonani's Cardanica has been a pleasantly unsettling experience. This novella is a perfect choice for those wishing for a greater daily dosage of pulpy gore in their literary diet, especially if read in the claustrophobic confines of an airport or plane.It's the story of a cargo ship's crew inching through a harsh and remote desert world with little to control save their own psyches. Not much is known of their purpose except their eventual progression across the uneven sands, powered by a lumbering mechanical caterpillar of a vessel. Conjoined with the vehicle is a semi-sentient, self-sustaining and incessantly oiled "pneumoarc", the driving force behind an inevitable and undesirable turn of events.
Cardanica is a meaty however brief story containing a good mix of sci-fi, horror, and steampunk imaginings. It's definitely more than a work of simple shock value; rather, the story is a well-conceived peep into a dissolution of desperate events facing an unequipped crew. While leaving a fair amount of questions at its conclusion, the work justifies further exposition, perhaps best as a graphic novel, requiring a greater sense of closure. It's hard not to think of Cardanica as an overly oozing, anachronistic offshoot of Kubrick-inspired space drama, but is there anything wrong with that?
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Cardanica A Steampunk Nightmare World9 Book 1 edition by Dario Tonani Caroline Smart Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
"Cardanica" grabs your interest and does not let go. It is a creaking, lubricated metal mystery of dark corners and suspicious mechanical motives that leads you through explorations of the limits of character and the fear of unfamiliar surroundings.
Excellent read.
A classic theme of claustrophobic science fiction, turned in horror, revisited in the manner of Dario Tonani, an author who can transform the "beep beep" of electronic LED in squeaks of mechanical couplings and "lubricant" gurgling, making them alive, throbbing, "penetrating".
His writing concise, yet extremely effective, urges all your senses in this charming and atmospheric story, absolutely not to be missed.
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.
'Cardanica' is definately my kind of story - all parts gruesome and absurd, it depicts the horrifying reality of survival in a world completely inhospitable to life. The relationship between man and machine is brutal and even humorous (in a very dark fashion), and I was very much reminded of Kafka's 'In The Penal Colony' - hopefully something that Tonani accepts as the praise it is!
The only problem I have with the book is the translation - I do not feel that the translation possibly does the original Italian justice. This is the only reason I didn't give the book 5 stars.
Overall, though, highly recommended!
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.
I told my daughter I'd been offered a copy of a book to review, that it was steampunk. She asked me to define "steampunk". I said I thought of it as anything set in a Victorian society with advanced technology created using the materials and machinery of that time. Mostly, I said, I think it's about the aesthetic.
By my own definition, this isn't steampunk, because it's set on another world, a poisonous one, and there's no hint of what the society is like within the narrow confines of the story. Narrow confines, indeed. If you're looking for a story, reminiscent of Poe, something to creep you or a loved one out around Halloween, maybe to give as a gift for All Hallow's Read, this is an excellent choice.
I got goosebumps from the delicious ickiness of it.
Review copy from editor.
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."
Reading Dario Tonani's Cardanica has been a pleasantly unsettling experience. This novella is a perfect choice for those wishing for a greater daily dosage of pulpy gore in their literary diet, especially if read in the claustrophobic confines of an airport or plane.
It's the story of a cargo ship's crew inching through a harsh and remote desert world with little to control save their own psyches. Not much is known of their purpose except their eventual progression across the uneven sands, powered by a lumbering mechanical caterpillar of a vessel. Conjoined with the vehicle is a semi-sentient, self-sustaining and incessantly oiled "pneumoarc", the driving force behind an inevitable and undesirable turn of events.
Cardanica is a meaty however brief story containing a good mix of sci-fi, horror, and steampunk imaginings. It's definitely more than a work of simple shock value; rather, the story is a well-conceived peep into a dissolution of desperate events facing an unequipped crew. While leaving a fair amount of questions at its conclusion, the work justifies further exposition, perhaps best as a graphic novel, requiring a greater sense of closure. It's hard not to think of Cardanica as an overly oozing, anachronistic offshoot of Kubrick-inspired space drama, but is there anything wrong with that?
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