Online čitanka četvrtkom: FUTURE WEAPONS OF WAR

“Future Weapons of War” je zbirka priča o, kako samo ime kaže, budućnosti ratovanja i razvoju oružja. Urednici, Joe Haldeman i Martin H. Greenberg, odlučili su prve tri priče iz zbirke staviti online, pa tako, prije nego kupite knjigu, možete pročitati …

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch: “Craters”

What they don’t tell you when you sign up is that the work takes a certain amount of trust. The driver, head covered by a half-assed turban, smiles a little too much, and when he yes ma’ams you and no ma’ams you, you can be lulled into thinking he actually works for you.
Then he opens the side door of his rusted jeep and nods at the dirt-covered seat. You don’t even hesitate as you slide in, backpack filled with water bottles and purifying pills, vitamins and six day’s dry rations.

• Paul J. McAuley: “Rocket Boy”

Rocket Boy lived under the knot of ferroconcrete ribbons where the road from the spaceport joined the beltway that girdled the city. He’d made a kind of nest in a high ledge beneath the slope of an on-ramp, and although traffic rumbled overhead day and night, it was as cozy and safe as anywhere on the street because it could be reached only by squeezing through a kind of picket fence of squat, close-set columns. Even so, Rocket Boy clutched a knife improvised from the neck of a broken bottle while he slept in his nest of packing excelsior, charity blankets and cardboard. The first lesson he’d learned on the street was that you needed to carry a weapon with you at all times.

• Dena Bain Taylor: “Jade Angel”

Xandri scanned the terrain through her retinal camera, frowning at the readouts scrolling down her peripheral field of vision. She wasn’t seeing the Chimese dragon, so either intel had been wrong about the attack alert, or the Chimese had shifted operations.
Whatever the reason, she had no target. Just a cracked plateau, fogged by the perennial summer dust storm, that ran until it hit the white-hatted Coprates massif.

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Irena Rašeta je vlasnica i glavna urednica NOSF-a, stalna suradnica u magazinu Plan B, glavna urednica na portalu Online.hr i autorica zbirke priča Cabrón. Aktivna je članica zagrebačkog društva ljubitelja znanstvene fantastike SFera te organizatorica SFeraKonskog programa.

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