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	Белый гриб бел 4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	"Песий двор", собачий холод by Альфина (Goodreads Author), Корнел 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Полный пока by Альфина (Goodreads Author), Alphyna 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Черное и белое by Альфина (Goodreads Author), Alphyna 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Чена все знают по рассказу Story of Your Life, по которому снят фильм Arrival, хотя это далеко не самая типичная для него история; чаще же всего он пишет странноватую НФ про альтернативные реальности, внутри которых герои всё равно отличаются инженер ...more
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языком похоже на Платонова, только Платонова я читать не могу, а это таки могу (возможно, потому что оно про котиков). симпатичный, интеллигентный и располагающий — хоть вроде бы и ни о чём — срез души приятного задумчивого человека. книгу купила на ...more
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сложно. в отличие от «Города перестановок», не требующего специальных знаний, и «Диаспоры», где Иган довольно доходчиво разъясняет релевантные физические идеи для неспециалистов, на «Лестнице Шильда» повторять объяснения ему надоело — и лекция по ква ...more
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очень увлекательный и познавательный научпоп. мне понравилось, что авторы книги не стесняются иметь позицию. мы живём в стране, где есть наказание за оскорбление чувств верующих, но наше понимание того, каковы эти верующие и на что бывали исторически ...more
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Альфина shared a quote “You’re right: if there’s sentient life behind the border, it probably won’t share my goals. Unlike the people in this room, who all want exactly the same things in life as I do, and have precisely the same tastes in food, art, music, and sex. Unlike the people of Schur, and Cartan, and Zapata — who I came here in the hope of protecting, after losing my own home — who doubtless celebrate all the same festivals, delight in the same songs and stories, and gather every fortieth night to watch actors perform the same plays, in the same language, from the same undisputed canon, as the people I left behind. “If there’s sentient life behind the border, of course we couldn’t empathize with it. These creatures are unlikely to possess cute mammalian neonate faces, or anything else we might mistake for human features. None of us could have the imagination to get over such insurmountable barriers, or the wit to apply such difficult abstractions as the General Intelligence theorem — though since eve ...more Greg Egan
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славная книга про смерть, вечность, красоту и — главное — иллюзию обладания. история (это не спойлер) начинается с того, что мать главного героя гибнет, но потом всю долгую первую главу мы читаем описание их жизни до этого момента — так, будто она ещ ...more
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“Simulated consciousness" was as oxymoronic as "simulated addition.”
― Greg Egan, Permutation City

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“There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.”
― Peter Watts, Blindsight

tags: evolution, survival-of-the-fittest

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“Человек искал хоть какого-нибудь огня и нигде не находил его; стиснув зубы, потеряв надежду согреть пальцы ног, шевеля ими, неуклонно рвался взором к звездам. Удобнее всего ему было смотреть на звезду Марс, сияющую в небе впереди под Слободкой. И он смотрел на нее. От его глаз шел на миллионы верст взгляд и не упускал ни на минуту красноватой живой звезды. Она сжималась и расширялась, явно жила и была пятиконечная.”
― Михаил Булгаков, Белая гвардия. Записки юного врача

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“Все пройдет. Страдания, муки, кровь, голод и мор.Меч исчезнет, а вот звезды останутся, когда и тени наших тел и дел не останется на земле. Нет ни одного человека, который бы этого не знал. Так почему же мы не хотим обратить свой взгляд на них? Почему?”
― Булгаков М.А.

tags: Страдания, голод, жизнь, звезды, кровь, люди, мор, муки

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