SFera u Profilu i online čitanka na temu američkog Zlatnog doba SF-a

Večeras će se u sklopu serije predavanja SFera u Profilu održati multimedijalno predavanje Američko Zlatno doba SF-a – je li bilo zlatno?, a tim povodom donosimo vam online čitanku s autorima koji će večeras biti spomenuti: čitajte priče Heinleina, de Campa, Kornblutha, Asimova …

Zagrebački pravnik i nagrađivani SF autor Boris Švel upoznat će publiku s počecima američke znanstvene fantastike u prvoj polovici 20. stoljeća, s naglaskom na generacije autora, kako sa Zapadne obale (Heinlein, Bradbury, de Camp), futurijance (Kornbluth, Pohl, donekle Asimov), te one koji su više-manje samostojeći (Bester). Predavanje će se održati u četvrtak 22. listopada u 19 sati u prostorijama Profil Megastorea (Bogovićeva 7, Zagreb).

A dok čekate predavanje, pozabavite se odgovorima na pitanje Koja su se predviđanja iz Zlatnoga doba SF-a obistinila, a koja nisu?, a potom pročitajte priče nekih od autora o kojima će večeras biti riječ …

Robert A. Heinlein: “The Menace from Earth”

My name is Holly Jones and I’m fifteen. I’m very intelligent but it doesn’t show, because I look like an underdone angel. Insipid.
I was born right here in Luna City, which seems to surprise Earthside types. Actually, I’m third generation; my grandparents pioneered in Site One, where the Memorial is. I live with my parents in Artemis Apartments, the new co-op in Pressure Five, eight hundred feet down near City Hall. But I’m not there much; I’m too busy.

L. Sprague de Camp: “A Gun for Dinosaur”

No, I’m sorry, Mr. Seligman, but I can’t take you hunting Late Mesozoic dinosaur.
Yes, I know what the advertisement says.
Why not? How much d’you weigh? A hundred and thirty? Let’s see; that’s under ten stone, which is my lower limit.
I could take you to other periods, you know. I’ll take you to any period in the Cenozoic. I’ll get you a shot at an entelodont or a uintathere. They’ve got fine heads.

Cyril M. Kornbluth: “The Only Thing We Learn”

The professor, though he did not know the actor’s phrase for it, was counting the house – peering through a spyhole in the door through which he would in a moment appear before the class. He was pleased with what he saw. Tier after tier of young people, ready with notebooks and styli, chattering tentatively, glancing at the door against which his nose was flattened, waiting for the pleasant interlude known as “Archaeo-Literature 203″ to begin.

Isaac Asimov: “The Last Question”

The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five-dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way:
Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful attendants of Multivac. As well as any human beings could, they knew what lay behind the cold, clicking, flashing face – miles and miles of face – of that giant computer. They had at least a vague notion of the general plan of relays and circuits that had long since grown past the point where any single human could possibly have a firm grasp of the whole.

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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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