Online čitanka četvrtkom: ACCELERANDO

Cijeli roman Charlesa Strossa “Accelerando”, iz 2005. godine, dostupan je online i za download u različitim formatima. Roman je osvojio nagradu Locus 2006. i bio nominiran za Huga.

Manfred’s on the road again, making strangers rich.
It’s a hot summer Tuesday, and he’s standing in the plaza in front of the Centraal Station with his eyeballs powered up and the sunlight jangling off the canal, motor scooters and kamikaze cyclists whizzing past and tourists chattering on every side. The square smells of water and dirt and hot metal and the fart-laden exhaust fumes of cold catalytic converters; the bells of trams ding in the background, and birds flock overhead. He glances up and grabs a pigeon, crops the shot, and squirts it at his weblog to show he’s arrived. The bandwidth is good here, he realizes; and it’s not just the bandwidth, it’s the whole scene. Amsterdam is making him feel wanted already, even though he’s fresh off the train from Schiphol: He’s infected with the dynamic optimism of another time zone, another city. If the mood holds, someone out there is going to become very rich indeed.
He wonders who it’s going to be.

Ire

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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