Optron #39 13 сентября 2000

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ZX-Net - a couple of interesting letters from enthusiastic spektrumistov science fiction and fantasy.

  From the Editor


  Evidence of enthusiasm spektrumistov
science fiction and fantasy is
intense discussion of the topic in the past
early summer in ehokonferentsii ZXNET.BOOKS.

  Here are some on
Our vzgyad, interesting letters ("messag" as
expressed "networkers"), from borrowing the
This ehokonferentsii and executed in the form of
Article courtesy of their author.



       About Strugatskikh and not only ...


  {} Mayorov, 2000


  What makes "stupid" fantasy of a "serious" SF? Only the 
presence of everyone there magic-dragon-koldynov and other 
obscure things? I beg to differ! Take, for example, Max Frei, a 
series of Exo: Broken Magic! No science fiction here and does 
not smell! A readable entry of, not off ...


  And now - the sample SF: Strugatsky. Monday begins on 
Saturday. Too, because - FAIRY TALE! On "sereznyyu" SF is 
clearly not pulling, and how to read! I slipped it somehow 
sestryhe. The result: a couple of weeks, wild laughter (ny, 
slowly, she reads!), And then - the book disappeared for pary 
months - it odnonokyrsniki all took turns reading. 

  And I myself on Strugatsky, like many in the
"Those days", one might say, has grown. One
word - classic!

  However, sometimes we can hear that
saying, "Many of their works have lost their
relevance in the care of totalitarianism. "

  Hy what, open "Ulitky on the slope."
Read the description of the meeting. The one on the
where sleep is impossible, potomy that the area will conduct 
the meeting. And you can not sleep on meetings for this home 
is. And on Meetings slyshat necessary. And sleep - it is 
impossible. This is our common "no" ... And what we

see? And we see - any modern crowded meeting oryschih and 
long-and-clear -O-than-speaking people. In short, any policy or 
depytat - straight from the book! If interesting - compare 
speech "there" and talk "Here"


  Go further. "Trydno be a god - I'm it
some time ago turned over and struck again. Many 
correspondences "Dark Ages" with the current reality - just 
zhyt! 

  "Obsolete" as well! More Zhvanetsky said: "Either we live 
bydem lychshe, or my product stanyt immortal! "


  And why can not agree with either
the fact that fantasy, "there are no issues raised, the action 
takes place in a fictional and contingent world, and this makes 
it only a means of evasion from reality, "

nor with the fact that if "everything is tied to
bytovomy yrovnyu - like Belyaev and Ephraim
- It is not a fantasy. "

  REAL fiction have always relied on
reality described ety samyyu reality
and its problems!

  First, it is simply unrealistic pridymat
something that did not bind to the reality. And secondly, what 
can make dymat story about the problems of three-headed 
eight-amebopodobnyh syshestv that 

zhivyt their problems, people never
seen, and yes even ispolzyyut communicating entirely unknown 
terms? On suitable mental hospital for the author?


  In principle, I understand those who say
that all these Strygatskie and others like them - sediment and 
are subject to dumping. Yes, of course, if all are played to 
focus on really powerful stuff, then read modern trash is not 
are played. And it is unprofitable. That must be entered 
starting that "in the system Vyndovz-98 program are played 
faster and more reliable than some DOS'e.


  Now something must be entered starting mostly for the money. A
was previously CENSORSHIP - albeit scary stuff, but thanks to 
her ybozhestvo, Kojima is now all filled up, nail on the vine. 

  Say, today you can buy almost everything? In-in, especially - 
crap! 

  Take a mainly otreklamirovannoe:
some syper-pyper-syperzakrychivatel new bulbs for only $ 999.99!

  Shown once on the TV movie "Space Truckers." Naturally, the 
pre-advertised, gave fragments looked - great! Type of military 
science fiction and so on ...


  And I decided it Kintz look.

  No, I do not regret it: it turned out it was on
actually a comedy! (For those who have completed
at least the fifth grade and at least ymeet chyt-chyt
dymat).

  Not only did I at the beginning of each scene
has finally arrived knew how it ends, but this I
have not yet seen! I do it for the sake of jokes even recorded 
on kassety! 

  But that was in programmke:

  "Comic truckers. USA 1986
Fiction thriller. On the planet Triton
evil m-p Sachs is preparing a plan to capture the Earth. 
Arrived at planety Space Pilot John Cannon They take the task 
to deliver on Earth gryz secret. "


  In our solar system has no Triton PLANET!
There is such spytnik Neptyna ... And in the film
character "came" not to planety, while obychnyyu
kosmicheskyyu station.

  Here's a live example, when the spent
kychy pokypky money for the film, its translation
and reklamy. And in actual fact it's not a movie, and full of 
crap! There's a blooper to lyape sitting lyapom urge on. If you 
would call comedy - we could even understand. But

since "Thriller"!

  Publish and sell with us now, is not primarily the classics 
(roads, etestvenno!), And that is cheaper and easier - a little 
more, more! And all of this is provided with such advertising, 
then what nekyda! And all of this spent some money. And with 
all this They take some profits (except for all chemy

it?)



  P.S. from Infarha


  And we conclude the message of ehokonferentsii - as we have 
already opened - Collated borrowing the out of it "oridzhinov:



  Beer to you and peace!

  Justice: Themis la comedy.

  Blood - the blood, the beetle - a granddaughter.

  An army without a mat as a soldier without a gun.

  I, too, man! And also hochy zvychat proudly!

  Quiet is the Ukrainian night, but the fat must perepryatat ...

  I drink to forget that I am ashamed to drink.

  "For" votes vast tanks
majority.