Симмонс - тетралогия Гипериона.
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cjelliДочитано. Последняя часть оказалась, по большому счету, чушью собачьей. Первая книга была самобытна и интересна, разве что излишне отдавала типичными нф-попсовыми технологическими элементами, вторая была тоже вполне читабельна, но требовала, видимо, детального знакомства с творчеством Джона Китса (каковое, увы, у меня отсутствует), третья уже несла в себе оттенок вымученности, хотя тоже была местами достаточно привлекательна, впрочем, изрядно отдавая голливудщиной, и, казалось бы, предвосхищала драматичный финал. Увы и ах, четвертая отличилась преимущественно соплями, мессианским пафосом и стремлением писателя дать всем героем "счастье даром, и чтоб никто не ушел обиженным."
А дивные путешествия отдельных героев во времени вызывали в памяти вот эту цитату из Писания (кн. III, гл.17):
Time travel is increasingly regarded as a menace. History is being polluted.
The Encyclopedia Galactica has much to say on the theory and practice of time travel, most of which is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't spent at least four lifetimes studying advanced hypermathematics, and since it was impossible to do this before time travel was invented, there is a certain amount of confusion as to how the idea was arrived at in the first place. One rationalization of this problem states that time travel was, by its very nature, discovered simultaneously at all periods of history, but this is clearly bunk.
The trouble is that a lot of history is now quite clearly bunk as well.
Here is an example. It may not seem to be an important one to some people, but to others it is crucial. It is certainly significant in that it was the single event which caused the Campaign for Real Time to be set up in the first place (or is it last? It depends which way round you see history as happening, and this too is now an increasingly vexed question).
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Оценки (из 10 баллов) по частям: I-8, II-7, III-5, IV-3.
Начал читать "Crossroads of Twilight" Джордана (N+1-логия "Колеса Времени). Писателю явно платят побуквенно, класс игры очень невысокий, но, если читаешь цикл, на 10-й книге не останавливаешься. :) И язык бедноват, после Симмонса это очень ярко чувствуется.
А дивные путешествия отдельных героев во времени вызывали в памяти вот эту цитату из Писания (кн. III, гл.17):
Time travel is increasingly regarded as a menace. History is being polluted.
The Encyclopedia Galactica has much to say on the theory and practice of time travel, most of which is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't spent at least four lifetimes studying advanced hypermathematics, and since it was impossible to do this before time travel was invented, there is a certain amount of confusion as to how the idea was arrived at in the first place. One rationalization of this problem states that time travel was, by its very nature, discovered simultaneously at all periods of history, but this is clearly bunk.
The trouble is that a lot of history is now quite clearly bunk as well.
Here is an example. It may not seem to be an important one to some people, but to others it is crucial. It is certainly significant in that it was the single event which caused the Campaign for Real Time to be set up in the first place (or is it last? It depends which way round you see history as happening, and this too is now an increasingly vexed question).
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Оценки (из 10 баллов) по частям: I-8, II-7, III-5, IV-3.
Начал читать "Crossroads of Twilight" Джордана (N+1-логия "Колеса Времени). Писателю явно платят побуквенно, класс игры очень невысокий, но, если читаешь цикл, на 10-й книге не останавливаешься. :) И язык бедноват, после Симмонса это очень ярко чувствуется.
