Izbor iz lektire za 2010. (1.dio)

Ne možemo garantirati da se tako osjećaju svi ljubitelji čitanja, ali nama se uvijek čini da smo par knjiga prekratki. Kroz koliko god knjiga prošli, uvijek postoji još nekoliko njih koje su nam promakle. Ovdje ćemo vam zato dati u ruke prvu ratu našeg izbora prošlogodišnjih priča i novela, spomenutih u posljednjem članku. Pa, da rasčistimo repove od lani.

Ted Chiang se drži one Piši malo, piši dobro, pa je u zadnjih dvadeset godina objavio samo dvanaest priča i novela. Iako piše na kapaljku, nagrade sakuplja lopatom; pola napisanog je osvojilo ukupno dvanaest nagrada. Kako nam se čini, novela The Lifecycle of Software Objects će sigurno nastaviti taj trend.

What’s the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, “Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. This process could follow the normal teaching of a child. Things would be pointed out and named, etc. Again I do not know what the right answer is, but I think both approaches should be tried.”

Hannu Rajaniemi je rođen u Finskoj, živi u Edinburghu, i tvrdi da previše vremena razmišlja o budućnosti te da jako voli slonove. U priči Elegy for a Young Elk nema slonova, ali ima losova, medvjeda, žestice i poezije. Čini nam se kao pravi finski ugođaj.

He dug a soft-cover notebook and a pencil stub from his pocket. He leafed through it: most of the pages were empty. Words had become slippery, harder to catch than elk. Although not this one: careless and young. An old elk would never had let a man and a bear so close.

He scattered words on the first empty page, gripping the pencil hard.

Robert Reed je dosada svoje ime stavio pod jedanaest novela i svu silu nominacija. Neki ga smatraju tradicionalnim piscem, no The Cull ipak nije tradicionalna priča o kiborškom doktoru na svemirskoj stanici. Ili možda jest?

Smiles mean nothing here. Inside the station, everybody smiles. Optimism is the natural state of mind. But this particular smile is larger and brighter than usual, and it happens to be honest. The man grins at me while taking a slow and very deep breath, trying to infect me with his prurient joy. He has news, important enormous delightful news, and he relishes the chance to tell me what I can’t possibly know yet.

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