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Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Добрият чичо Ейдриън я сътвори отново - магията на добрата научна фантастика, която не е съвсем фантастика, защото под пласта от приключения бушуват или пък тихичко циркулират концепции.

Това става ясно още от заглавията на трите части - кому би хрумнало да ги кръсти “Свобода”, “Равенство” и “Братство” - на френски! - ако не е фен на просвещението и френската революция?

Ако списъкът ще улесни нещата, имаме си още:
✔️тоталитарна дистопия на земята с концентрационни лагери в избрани звездни системи и има ли смисъл неконформизмът
✔️Отзвуци от Оруеловата “1984” и от затворническата лагерна проза за ГУЛАГ. При това поднесени с дълбоко разбиране.
✔️планетата Килн с непонятни и опасни форми на живот, странна еволюция, базирана на симбиоза и още по-непонятни руини, оставени от незнайни строители

✔️ благата и капаните на науката и на догмите
✔️ малко екология
✔️ малко за смисъла на съществуването и ролята на човечеството
✔️ И да - Йеронимус Бош с неговите средновековни символи, тревожно преплитащи органично с неорганично, от “Градината на земните радости”. Кой меркантилен днешен автор-фантаст препраща към Йеронимус Бош, за бога?! Чайковски, ето кой…


Главният герой разказва от първо лице в подвеждащо забавен маниер. Е, всъщност не е забавен. Иван Денисович на моменти говори така. Разобличаващо.

Краят малко ме накара на посърна - дойде ми леко разтеглен и предимно според пазарните канони. Но не съвсем, не съвсем. И да му се не види, Ейдриън, защо така заряза романтиката?!

Не бих искала да стъпвам на Килн, но беше дяволски интересно да чета за нея. Чайковски държи ниво и припомня защо фантастиката е важна - в самостоятелно заглавие, а не в петнайсети том…

4,5⭐️

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▶️ Цитати:

🧩 “A people without hope, what will they do? One of two things: nothing, or everything.”
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🧩“What if we inadvertently discovered a reality that didn’t match the dogma?”
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🧩“A final irony, the career academic ending his life as a lesson.”
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🧩“You can’t dictate properly unless you have a list of things that are right and lawful against a list of things that aren’t, and never the twain shall meet.

“What?’ they’d say. ‘You don’t want this unpleasant circumstance we’re forcing on you? Then you’re obviously in favour of this absurdly exaggerated opposite we’ve just invented.”

“You don’t want these laws? Then you must want rampant anarchy!’

“And with a good enough speaker that kind of argument, shouted from the enshrined pulpit of Mandate-approved media, can sound very persuasive, mostly because there’s never anyone there to argue back. The idea that there might be shades of possible in between any two opposites was anathema to Mandate thought, and this crept into their scientific orthodoxy too,”
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‘“Scholastic purges?”’[…] “After people outside the institutions got wind of what was going on, they needed a name for it. So they cast it as halting the corruption of young minds, think of the children . . . You know, the usual.”
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🧩“It’s fear of the whip, not greed, that turns us all into potential betrayers.”
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🧩“the universe isn’t a place of binaries. Control is not either absolute or absent. It’s a gradient,”
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🧩“They want very specific answers from science. Black and white answers to complex questions”
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🧩“Human history is full of social conventions designed to salve the consciences of the mighty and curb the ambitions of the small.”
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🧩“So we invent philosophies to tell us we were right to do what we did and we’re allowed to do what we want. You find a god, basically, who tells you you’re okay. And maybe it’s actual God, because that’s an easy out. God says. Why? If you’re asking that question then you haven’t got faith and you’re out of the God club.”
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🧩“An enquiring scientific mind and a rigid orthodox thinker, all crammed into that one head. Simultaneously driven to find out the answer, and absolutely sure he knows what that answer will be.”
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🧩“We always underestimate the complexities that can arise from simple systems. ”
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🧩“A disillusioned revolutionary is a dangerous thing.”
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🧩“Being incarcerated by an oppressive regime makes you political by default.”
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🧩“Any oppressive system needs an element of arbitrary punishment just to keep people properly on their toes”
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🧩“seeing random chance in the world is the result of insufficient data ”
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🧩“What makes you ‘fittest’ isn’t being bigger and stronger than everything else. It isn’t even necessarily being better at any given thing than everything else. Because you need everything else. That’s how biology works. Each cell needs the other cells, each organ needs the other organs, each organism needs the other organisms. The base unit of life is all life.”
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Reading Progress

November 20, 2024 – Shelved as: to-read
November 20, 2024 – Shelved
November 23, 2024 – Started Reading
November 24, 2024 –
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November 25, 2024 –
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“After people outside the institutions got wind of what was going on, they needed a name for it. So they cast it as halting the corruption of young minds, think of the children . . . You know, the usual.”"
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0.0% "“we invent philosophies to tell us we were right to do what we did and we’re allowed to do what we want.”"
November 25, 2024 –
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0.0% "E, не, Чайковски вкара и любимите си паяци, да е не се увлече 🤣"
November 25, 2024 –
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November 26, 2024 –
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0.0% "Лелей, колко било хубаво да се чете истинска фантастика ❤️✌️"
November 26, 2024 –
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0.0% "…и кой каза “1984” и “Архипелаг Гулаг” в извънземна обстановка?"
November 26, 2024 –
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0.0% "…и референция към добрия стар Брьогел и “Градината на земните радости”. Машала, брат!"
November 26, 2024 – Shelved as: ebook
November 26, 2024 – Shelved as: dystopia-and-post-apocalyptic
November 26, 2024 – Shelved as: among-the-stars
November 26, 2024 – Shelved as: science-fiction
November 26, 2024 – Finished Reading
December 7, 2024 – Shelved as: totalitarianism

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message 1: by Mariya (new)

Mariya Винаги е удоволствие да прочетеш рецензия на друг любител на Чайковски. Нямам търпение да стигна и до тази книжка!


Emiliya Bozhilova Чайковски е някаква странна бяла врана, и аз много си го обичам, макар любовта към паяците да е прекалена 😆


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