Double Star 61 Cygni
The real protagonist of the novel is Mesklin, characteristics of the planet from "impossible" that Clement has imagined in the wake of some discoveries about the system Solar binary 61 Cygni. These observations suggest the presence of a considerable mass of the planet that the author, creating Mesklin, equipped, well, an enormous speed. The world described by Clement has so much the shape of a flattened ellipsoid due to the highest value taken by the centrifugal force at the equator, which causes this large discrepancy between the present force of gravity at the poles (700g) and the equator (3g).
The atmosphere of the planet is composed primarily of hydrogen and the seas are composed of liquid methane. Mesklin is inhabited by an alien race of intelligent, robust but small centipede able to withstand the enormous forces present on the surface of the planet.
The novel tells the adventures of a crew that Meskliniti, contacted and driven by the first human expedition to the system, run through parts of the world never explored before ...
The work is certainly the most prestigious scientific verisimilitude with which Clement and creates describes in great detail "his" Mesklin. Jar, however, the 'humanity' of the aliens and the excessive ease with which members of the human expedition can talk and communicate with them also appear unrealistic sidereal distances, amounting to tens of thousands of kilometers, which are carried along, though often by boat, these poor centipede extraterrestrial insects the size similar to ours ...
Overall it is a pleasant enough read, with good scientific ideas, but suffers from a plot a bit 'repetitive, with the gaps that we have highlighted, and a final hasty and too obvious.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
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HUGO AWARDS Anthology 1962-1966 (vol. 2)
A good anthology edited by the legendary Doctor, is accented with a beautiful tale of Ellison's "Repent Harlequin said the man of Tic Tac" and a short novel Poul Anderson No Truce with Kings ".
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A good anthology edited by the legendary Doctor, is accented with a beautiful tale of Ellison's "Repent Harlequin said the man of Tic Tac" and a short novel Poul Anderson No Truce with Kings ".
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
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Incandescence by Greg Egan
disseminate science is not easy, even less is to create works of creative writing based on scientific concepts. And if the concepts used are, moreover, not easy to understand even for someone who is "scientifically illiterate" The mere attempt deserves a commendation. That's why I would recommend reading this novel, especially those who, like me, is irresistibly attracted and fascinated by those boards full of formulas and incomprehensible at first sight puzzling that harmoniously resolve the complexity and apparent chaos of reality . The core of
Incandescence is the story of scientific renaissance that upsets the existence of the strange aliens to the people of Chipping, a planetoid located in the accretion disk of a neutron star. Novello Galileo and Newton put together, Zak is the first alien to question the nature of the movement, the strange weight distribution of force within the Chip (aliens inhabit the interior of this planetoid whose surface exposed to radiation from Monster star is uninhabitable).
Zak and his disciples built from scratch, without any comment from outside but based on simple tests of memory Galilean, Newtonian physics and general relativity, coming to describe the geometry of spacetime and to conceive of motion as the product of distortions brought to it by the masses of individual bodies.
Indeed, some logical steps are forced and unreal is the speed with which these aliens come, in less than two generations, to formulate principles that humanity has taken four centuries (but perhaps we who are sinning of anthropocentrism to be in the wrong !)... The reading is not easy, different parts of the novel are understood fully only to those who have a 'science education and a knowledge of the physical medium or on certain points, the highest level. That said, the story captures the reader, who feels he has to be him first person to understand and interpret the results of experiments Zak and reasoning about possible explanations and contradictions of the theories put forward: you find yourself transported to the protagonists, the epic science behind the whole human civilization today.
In conclusion, a novel that I recommend to all ... with the warning, however, does not expect an easy read and easy-going, but a text that requires, at various points, a reading that you understand and digest a little at a time, especially for those with physics and mathematics went very well in high school!
go to the full
disseminate science is not easy, even less is to create works of creative writing based on scientific concepts. And if the concepts used are, moreover, not easy to understand even for someone who is "scientifically illiterate" The mere attempt deserves a commendation. That's why I would recommend reading this novel, especially those who, like me, is irresistibly attracted and fascinated by those boards full of formulas and incomprehensible at first sight puzzling that harmoniously resolve the complexity and apparent chaos of reality . The core of
Incandescence is the story of scientific renaissance that upsets the existence of the strange aliens to the people of Chipping, a planetoid located in the accretion disk of a neutron star. Novello Galileo and Newton put together, Zak is the first alien to question the nature of the movement, the strange weight distribution of force within the Chip (aliens inhabit the interior of this planetoid whose surface exposed to radiation from Monster star is uninhabitable).
Zak and his disciples built from scratch, without any comment from outside but based on simple tests of memory Galilean, Newtonian physics and general relativity, coming to describe the geometry of spacetime and to conceive of motion as the product of distortions brought to it by the masses of individual bodies.
Indeed, some logical steps are forced and unreal is the speed with which these aliens come, in less than two generations, to formulate principles that humanity has taken four centuries (but perhaps we who are sinning of anthropocentrism to be in the wrong !)... The reading is not easy, different parts of the novel are understood fully only to those who have a 'science education and a knowledge of the physical medium or on certain points, the highest level. That said, the story captures the reader, who feels he has to be him first person to understand and interpret the results of experiments Zak and reasoning about possible explanations and contradictions of the theories put forward: you find yourself transported to the protagonists, the epic science behind the whole human civilization today.
In conclusion, a novel that I recommend to all ... with the warning, however, does not expect an easy read and easy-going, but a text that requires, at various points, a reading that you understand and digest a little at a time, especially for those with physics and mathematics went very well in high school!
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
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GOODBYE BABYLON by Pat Frank
The novel is a classic apocalyptic science fiction and takes the classic theme of "after bomb." The setting is that of a typical small town in the southern United States, Fort Repose, describing the author portrays the lifestyle of the 60 United States and pointing to the social conflicts that are going to explode all over the country. The protagonist is Bragss
Randy, a young man of good family, a bachelor, who leads a comfortable life without effort and without liability. Randy is an Army reservist, he has tried the path of politics, but without success, rejected by the local community for its lukewarm attitude toward the Supreme Court (these are the years of struggle for the rights of blacks). The quiet routine
Randy and Fort Repose is destroyed in a few hours, during which the U.S. is the victim of a massive Soviet nuclear attack that leaves the town miraculously unscathed. Randy and his fellow citizens being hauled into a new world, they are missing all took for granted that goods (food, electricity, drugs ...) and new barbarism threatens the peaceful existence of the community. While there are those who can not cope with change, as the local banker who sees crumbling, with the loss of value of money, all the evidence on which he based his life, preferring to give way to suicide, the majority of the population faces , adapting to the new realities, fighting quotidinamente for survival.
follow a script well known, the events leading to the end and accelerate the maturation of Randy coming finally to shoulder its responsibility and become the guide of the whole community.
The work does not shine for some originality but reads at a good pace, caught by the rapid and exciting turn of events, the credibility and verisimilitude of the narrative description and the skill of the author.
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The novel is a classic apocalyptic science fiction and takes the classic theme of "after bomb." The setting is that of a typical small town in the southern United States, Fort Repose, describing the author portrays the lifestyle of the 60 United States and pointing to the social conflicts that are going to explode all over the country. The protagonist is Bragss
Randy, a young man of good family, a bachelor, who leads a comfortable life without effort and without liability. Randy is an Army reservist, he has tried the path of politics, but without success, rejected by the local community for its lukewarm attitude toward the Supreme Court (these are the years of struggle for the rights of blacks). The quiet routine
Randy and Fort Repose is destroyed in a few hours, during which the U.S. is the victim of a massive Soviet nuclear attack that leaves the town miraculously unscathed. Randy and his fellow citizens being hauled into a new world, they are missing all took for granted that goods (food, electricity, drugs ...) and new barbarism threatens the peaceful existence of the community. While there are those who can not cope with change, as the local banker who sees crumbling, with the loss of value of money, all the evidence on which he based his life, preferring to give way to suicide, the majority of the population faces , adapting to the new realities, fighting quotidinamente for survival.
follow a script well known, the events leading to the end and accelerate the maturation of Randy coming finally to shoulder its responsibility and become the guide of the whole community.
The work does not shine for some originality but reads at a good pace, caught by the rapid and exciting turn of events, the credibility and verisimilitude of the narrative description and the skill of the author.
go to the full
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