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Zarathustra Refugee Planets #1-3
Die Opfer der Nova
When the star Zarathustra went nova, the desperate survisors spread out in all directions. Those that found habitable worlds were few, and after hundreds of years the Zarathustra Refugee Planets were either forgotten or in quarantine. Colonising a new planet requires much more than just settling on a newly discovered island of Old Earth. New planets were different in thousands of ways - any of those differences could mean death and disaster to a human settlement. And sometimes, refugees from another planet had to be brutal. For the inhabitants of Carrig, new arrivals brought invincible death guns - and their ruthless, all-powerful tyranny...
Now published in one volume, these brilliant novels once again show John Brunner to be a true master of science fiction writing.
5 Polymath (1974) aka Castaways' World (1963)
161 The Avengers of Carrig (1969) aka Secret Agent of Terra (1962)
317 The Repairmen of Cyclops (1965)
Now published in one volume, these brilliant novels once again show John Brunner to be a true master of science fiction writing.
5 Polymath (1974) aka Castaways' World (1963)
161 The Avengers of Carrig (1969) aka Secret Agent of Terra (1962)
317 The Repairmen of Cyclops (1965)
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First published March 1, 1989
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About the author
John Brunner
572 books485 followersJohn Brunner was born in Preston Crowmarsh, near Wallingford in Oxfordshire, and went to school at St Andrew's Prep School, Pangbourne, then to Cheltenham College. He wrote his first novel, Galactic Storm, at 17, and published it under the pen-name Gill Hunt, but he did not start writing full-time until 1958. He served as an officer in the Royal Air Force from 1953 to 1955, and married Marjorie Rosamond Sauer on 12 July 1958
At the beginning of his writing career Brunner wrote conventional space opera pulp science fiction. Brunner later began to experiment with the novel form. His 1968 novel "Stand on Zanzibar" exploits the fragmented organizational style John Dos Passos invented for his USA trilogy, but updates it in terms of the theory of media popularised by Marshall McLuhan.
"The Jagged Orbit" (1969) is set in a United States dominated by weapons proliferation and interracial violence, and has 100 numbered chapters varying in length from a single syllable to several pages in length. "The Sheep Look Up" (1972) depicts ecological catastrophe in America. Brunner is credited with coining the term "worm" and predicting the emergence of computer viruses in his 1975 novel "The Shockwave Rider", in which he used the term to describe software which reproduces itself across a computer network. Together with "Stand on Zanzibar", these novels have been called the "Club of Rome Quartet", named after the Club of Rome whose 1972 report The Limits to Growth warned of the dire effects of overpopulation.
Brunner's pen names include K. H. Brunner, Gill Hunt, John Loxmith, Trevor Staines, Ellis Quick, Henry Crosstrees Jr., and Keith Woodcott.
In addition to his fiction, Brunner wrote poetry and many unpaid articles in a variety of publications, particularly fanzines, but also 13 letters to the New Scientist and an article about the educational relevance of science fiction in Physics Education. Brunner was an active member of the organisation Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and wrote the words to "The H-Bomb's Thunder", which was sung on the Aldermaston Marches.
Brunner had an uneasy relationship with British new wave writers, who often considered him too American in his settings and themes. He attempted to shift to a more mainstream readership in the early 1980s, without success. Before his death, most of his books had fallen out of print. Brunner accused publishers of a conspiracy against him, although he was difficult to deal with (his wife had handled his publishing relations before she died).[2]
Brunner's health began to decline in the 1980s and worsened with the death of his wife in 1986. He remarried, to Li Yi Tan, on 27 September 1991. He died of a heart attack in Glasgow on 25 August 1995, while attending the World Science Fiction Convention there
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K H Brunner, Henry Crosstrees Jr, Gill Hunt (with Dennis Hughes and E C Tubb), John Loxmith, Trevor Staines, Keith Woodcott
Winner of the ESFS Awards in 1980 as "Best Author" and 1n 1984 as "Novelist"..
At the beginning of his writing career Brunner wrote conventional space opera pulp science fiction. Brunner later began to experiment with the novel form. His 1968 novel "Stand on Zanzibar" exploits the fragmented organizational style John Dos Passos invented for his USA trilogy, but updates it in terms of the theory of media popularised by Marshall McLuhan.
"The Jagged Orbit" (1969) is set in a United States dominated by weapons proliferation and interracial violence, and has 100 numbered chapters varying in length from a single syllable to several pages in length. "The Sheep Look Up" (1972) depicts ecological catastrophe in America. Brunner is credited with coining the term "worm" and predicting the emergence of computer viruses in his 1975 novel "The Shockwave Rider", in which he used the term to describe software which reproduces itself across a computer network. Together with "Stand on Zanzibar", these novels have been called the "Club of Rome Quartet", named after the Club of Rome whose 1972 report The Limits to Growth warned of the dire effects of overpopulation.
Brunner's pen names include K. H. Brunner, Gill Hunt, John Loxmith, Trevor Staines, Ellis Quick, Henry Crosstrees Jr., and Keith Woodcott.
In addition to his fiction, Brunner wrote poetry and many unpaid articles in a variety of publications, particularly fanzines, but also 13 letters to the New Scientist and an article about the educational relevance of science fiction in Physics Education. Brunner was an active member of the organisation Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and wrote the words to "The H-Bomb's Thunder", which was sung on the Aldermaston Marches.
Brunner had an uneasy relationship with British new wave writers, who often considered him too American in his settings and themes. He attempted to shift to a more mainstream readership in the early 1980s, without success. Before his death, most of his books had fallen out of print. Brunner accused publishers of a conspiracy against him, although he was difficult to deal with (his wife had handled his publishing relations before she died).[2]
Brunner's health began to decline in the 1980s and worsened with the death of his wife in 1986. He remarried, to Li Yi Tan, on 27 September 1991. He died of a heart attack in Glasgow on 25 August 1995, while attending the World Science Fiction Convention there
aka
K H Brunner, Henry Crosstrees Jr, Gill Hunt (with Dennis Hughes and E C Tubb), John Loxmith, Trevor Staines, Keith Woodcott
Winner of the ESFS Awards in 1980 as "Best Author" and 1n 1984 as "Novelist"..
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January 28, 2019
Trei povestiri din ciclul Zarathustra.
Polymathul
O space opera cu colonizare doar ca începutul colonizării a fost de nevoie și pe nepregătite. Refugiati interstelari au plecat în graba de pe planeta Zarathustra pentru ca steaua planetei a explodat și s-a transformat într-o nova, au ajuns/aterizat mai mult sau mai puțin forțat (nava supraîncărcată, resurse de oxigen pe terminate, boli din cauza condițiilor precare) și au început colonizarea în condiții nu tocmai propice.
Planeta pe care ajung nu e deloc prietenoasa, mai ales din punctul de de vedere al faunei dar și al florei.
Au plecat în direcția opusa Pământului și a planetelor colonizate pana acum, spre spațiul necunoscut.
Își pun cap la cap experienta, îndemânările, experientele, cunoștințele din diverse domenii astfel încât sa poată supraviețui. Mai sunt și ceilalți, o alta nava care a aterizat forțat în alta parte a planetei și cu care încearcă sa ia legătura.
Colonizarea standard se făcea pe baza unei strategii și a unei tactici de colonizare care asigurau rate mari de succes, pentru fiecare planeta fiind pregătit un polymath, un fel de geniu + super erou Marvel care știa totul despre planeta respectiva dar care moare mai devreme decât ceilalți pentru ca este ars/stors de aceasta relație om-planeta.
Insa în cazul de fata nu se făcuseră nici un fel de pregătiri pentru colonizare, dar din fericire și sa vezi coincidenta, Lex unul din tineri refugiați este polymath în devenire pentru o alta planeta, aflat în perioada de pregătire la momentul în care a avut loc evacuarea.
Colonizarea unei planete, dar colonizare făcută pe genunchi și din bucăți, ca au aterizat de nevoie, au pierdut nava (de fapt capacitatea de zbor recuperând o parte din material dar nu cele legate de comunicația la distanta), nu e o colonizare planificata și organizata ci făcută din mers și adaptându-se la condiții, la mediu, la dinamica sociala a grupului, a ceea ce știu vs ce au nevoie, la priorități.
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Polymathul
O space opera cu colonizare doar ca începutul colonizării a fost de nevoie și pe nepregătite. Refugiati interstelari au plecat în graba de pe planeta Zarathustra pentru ca steaua planetei a explodat și s-a transformat într-o nova, au ajuns/aterizat mai mult sau mai puțin forțat (nava supraîncărcată, resurse de oxigen pe terminate, boli din cauza condițiilor precare) și au început colonizarea în condiții nu tocmai propice.
Planeta pe care ajung nu e deloc prietenoasa, mai ales din punctul de de vedere al faunei dar și al florei.
Au plecat în direcția opusa Pământului și a planetelor colonizate pana acum, spre spațiul necunoscut.
Își pun cap la cap experienta, îndemânările, experientele, cunoștințele din diverse domenii astfel încât sa poată supraviețui. Mai sunt și ceilalți, o alta nava care a aterizat forțat în alta parte a planetei și cu care încearcă sa ia legătura.
Colonizarea standard se făcea pe baza unei strategii și a unei tactici de colonizare care asigurau rate mari de succes, pentru fiecare planeta fiind pregătit un polymath, un fel de geniu + super erou Marvel care știa totul despre planeta respectiva dar care moare mai devreme decât ceilalți pentru ca este ars/stors de aceasta relație om-planeta.
Insa în cazul de fata nu se făcuseră nici un fel de pregătiri pentru colonizare, dar din fericire și sa vezi coincidenta, Lex unul din tineri refugiați este polymath în devenire pentru o alta planeta, aflat în perioada de pregătire la momentul în care a avut loc evacuarea.
Colonizarea unei planete, dar colonizare făcută pe genunchi și din bucăți, ca au aterizat de nevoie, au pierdut nava (de fapt capacitatea de zbor recuperând o parte din material dar nu cele legate de comunicația la distanta), nu e o colonizare planificata și organizata ci făcută din mers și adaptându-se la condiții, la mediu, la dinamica sociala a grupului, a ceea ce știu vs ce au nevoie, la priorități.
continuarea pe ... si vreme(a) e ca sa citim
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