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"Planet des falschen Zaubers" von Harry Harrison (Deathworld)
Übersetzt von Heinz Zwack
Utopia Großband 141, Pabel Verlag Dezember 1960
(AmeS)
Born this day: 03/12/1925 (d. 08/15/2012)
Harry Harrison was an American SF author and SFWA Grand Master best known for The Stainless Steel Rat series and Make Room! Make Room!, which inspired the film Soylent Green. He also wrote the Deathworld trilogy and Bill the Galactic Hero, blending satirical wit with classic space opera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison_(writer)
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Mostly, what they read are the old boy's #SciFi stories from around the 1930s and 1940s, where the male uberman genius industrialist, with his girlfriend along for the ride in the rocketship, saves the galaxy, and knows better and does better than stupid governments.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/115826293180493731
Every half-arsed idea that makes for a good boy's story but is terrible science, from greenfingering a planetary climate to swarms of 'AIs' in space, has a precursor of some kind in these tales.
It's not that they've missed LeGuin specifically. It's that they've missed six decades of thoughtful counterpoints to that old stuff beginning in the late 1960s.
Recenzje fantastyczne:
»[Recenzja] „Filmowy wehikuł czasu” Harry Harrison«
Podróże i majstrowanie w czasie to jeden z kanonicznych obszarów XX-wiecznej fantastyki naukowej. Źródeł inspiracji dla tych pomysłów można doszukiwać się we wcześniejszych powieściach i opowiadaniach o wizjach, a nawet o legendach, na przykład o ponad półwiecznym śnie, w który zapadł Epimenides z Krety, domniemany cudotwórca z Fajstos (VII/ VI wiek p.n.e.). O niestałości czasu jako zmiennej miary przemijania rozważał także w jednym ze swoich dzieł Święty Augustyn z Hippony (IV wiek n.e.)...
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»Harry Harrison „Filmowy wehikuł czasu”«
Informacje na temat książki Harry'ego Harrisona "Filmowy wehikuł czasu", która ukazała się nakładem Domu Wydawniczego Rebis.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/ksiazki/o-ksiazkach/fantastyka/harry-harrison-filmowy-wehikul-czasu/
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Harry Harrison, "The Streets of Ashkelon" (short story available in Stainless Steel Rat Visions".
#HarryHarrison #StainlessSteelRatVisions
[extract]
He had just reached the fringes of the village clearing when the rumbling grew to a head-splitting roar and the spacer broke through the low-hanging layer of clouds above. Garth shielded his eyes from the down-reaching tongue of flame and examined the growing form of the gray-black ship with mixed feelings.
"You better go ahead, Itin, " he said. "Use the water so you can get to the village quickly. Tell everyone to get back into the swamps, well clear of the hard ground. That ship is landing on instruments and anyone underneath at touchdown is going to be cooked. "
The ship baked dry a hundred square meters of mud, the roaring blast died, and the landing feet crunched down through the crackling crust. Metal creaked and settled into place while the cloud of smoke and steam slowly drifted lower in the humid air.
... a figure stepped out ...
Hi, my name's James Cameron, and I'm a thieving little shit.
"Survival Planet" short story, included in the "Stainless Steel Rat Visions" anthology written by Harry Harrison ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_Nova_(Star_Trek:_Enterprise)
I think that @merc had it right. This isn't the Galactic FBI. It's the Galactic CIA.
That said, remaining an unturned crook would have made Slippery Jim into a #SciFi version of Simon Templar. And Simon never really got into major jeopardy, either. At least not in the actual novels as I recall.
There was an awful lot of beating people up, murdering them, and pocketing part of their loot in the novels.
#TheSaint #LeslieCharteris #HarryHarrison #TheStainlessSteelRat
Actually, Inskipp had also been a crook.
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