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Название книги: Learning the World
Автор(ы): Ken MacLeod
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Learning-the-World-183363.html
A Note on Translation
For convenience, some numbers used by characters who count in an octal system have occasionally been rendered in decimal. Terms derived from a dead scholarly language are rendered as if from Latin. There is an explanation for this.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks are due to Carol for giving flight to my characters, to Charles Stross for handwaving their limbs, to Farah Mendlesohn for helpful comments at various stages of the draft, and to Del Cotter for sending me a paper about world ships.Some of the ideas and images were inspired by The Millennial Project, by Marshall T. Savage, and Reason in Revolt, by Ted Grant and Alan Woods.
1 — The Ship Generation
Learning the World14364:05:1217:24The world is four thousand years old. I was eight years old when I found that out for myself. My name is Atomic Discourse Gale and this is the first time I have written something that anyone in the world can read. It is strange and makes me feel a little self-conscious, but I reassure myself that not many people will read it anyway.14364:05:1318:30That was a joke. I see I have a few readers. J – – wants to know how I found out the age of the world. It was six years ago now but I remember it quite well. I was very young then and didn’t understand everything that happened, but looking back I can see that it was a significant event in my life. That is why I mentioned it. So this is what happened.“How old is the world?”I asked my caremother. “I don’t know,” she said. “Why don’t you look it up?”“I’ve looked it up,” I said. “I don’t beli
Название книги: Learning the World
Автор(ы): Ken MacLeod
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Learning-the-World-183363.html
A Note on Translation
For convenience, some numbers used by characters who count in an octal system have occasionally been rendered in decimal. Terms derived from a dead scholarly language are rendered as if from Latin. There is an explanation for this.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks are due to Carol for giving flight to my characters, to Charles Stross for handwaving their limbs, to Farah Mendlesohn for helpful comments at various stages of the draft, and to Del Cotter for sending me a paper about world ships.Some of the ideas and images were inspired by The Millennial Project, by Marshall T. Savage, and Reason in Revolt, by Ted Grant and Alan Woods.
1 — The Ship Generation
Learning the World14364:05:1217:24The world is four thousand years old. I was eight years old when I found that out for myself. My name is Atomic Discourse Gale and this is the first time I have written something that anyone in the world can read. It is strange and makes me feel a little self-conscious, but I reassure myself that not many people will read it anyway.14364:05:1318:30That was a joke. I see I have a few readers. J – – wants to know how I found out the age of the world. It was six years ago now but I remember it quite well. I was very young then and didn’t understand everything that happened, but looking back I can see that it was a significant event in my life. That is why I mentioned it. So this is what happened.“How old is the world?”I asked my caremother. “I don’t know,” she said. “Why don’t you look it up?”“I’ve looked it up,” I said. “I don’t beli
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