Недавние обзоры книг в ЖЖ

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У аввы и иванова-петрова (у аввы - sci-fi, у иванова-петрова крайне интересная история и философия науки).

Запишу в комментариях, где Дрим сам превращает URLs в линки, и не надо это делать руками :-)

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https://avva.livejournal.com/3364558.html

David Given, Child of the Sea and the Stars

One can just read it here: http://cowlark.com/child-of-the-sea-and-the-stars/

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This is another novel which started as a National Novel Writing Month project in 2012.

(The famous one I know is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Circus which is great.)

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This one is very good.

Section 4: how machines (and software) should be done: http://cowlark.com/child-of-the-sea-and-the-stars/four.html

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"It’ll keep putting it off, and putting it off, because that’s the only thing that’s keeping it going…"

From Section 7: http://cowlark.com/child-of-the-sea-and-the-stars/seven.html

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Section 14: http://cowlark.com/child-of-the-sea-and-the-stars/fourteen.html

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“No,” she says abstractedly. “I want to try something else… I may be able to force resonance in the right mode by setting up a false-space tropism around it. Persuade it it’s in a different universe… I heard about that once.”

Stephen’s known enough engineers to recognise a problem-solving fugue when he sees one.

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It doesn’t work. Neither does Night Wave’s next try, which is something about creating a warp field via a virtual warp core that’s really a manifold of time-shifted mirages of the real warp core in a reflexive feedback system. At least, that’s what Stephen thinks Night Wave says. However, this fails for a different reason.

“I’m getting interference,” she says, studying the cubes, which are glowing gently. “I’m sure it’s working. The manifold builds power nicely, but then something disturbs it and it dumps it all. I think it’s that light.”

Stephen looks up; in the undercity the light at the heart of the Snarl is, of course, hidden behind the ring. But there’s enough purple reflecting from the body of the Snarl that it’s presence is felt.

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construction of the worlds:

http://cowlark.com/child-of-the-sea-and-the-stars/nineteen.html

http://cowlark.com/child-of-the-sea-and-the-stars/twenty.html