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Bezig met laden... Blind Lake (2003)door Robert Charles Wilson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Blind Lake is Robert Charles Wilson’s dark, nuanced take on issues raised in Carl Sagan’s Contact (1985). Blind Lake was nominated for a Hugo, but it never achieved the fame of Sagan’s novel. Hollywood opportunity did not come knocking for Wilson as it did for Sagan, who died during the production of the 1997 film adaptation of Contact. Sagan envisioned religious opposition to alien contact. Wilson suggests a pop culture cult. One of his characters writes a bestseller titled “God & the Quantum Vacuum.” He thinks the ampersand in the title is responsible for its success. Sagan’s aliens adopt a familiar human avatar on a holographic tropical beach; Wilson’s aliens are large, reeking sea creatures who appear in a barren desert. Sagan’s aliens learn about us from SETI and early TV; Wilson’s team makes contact through an array of telescopes beyond the orbit of Jupiter, whose data is interpreted by the AI of a quantum computer based on a Bose-Einstein Concentrate. Officials wonder whether the AI itself can be trusted and whether the aliens may have corrupted the system. As it happens, the situation is more complicated than that. An alien AI may be talking to an autistic child and her unstable father. In the end, Wilson’s cosmic vision is closer to that of Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life” and its 2016 film adaption, Arrival, than is to Sagan’s technological optimism. 4 strong stars. What is a person? A new technology (that is not understood) allows us to see, through a screen, other planets. We're watching two different ones. One has a sentient, alien life that builds cities and makes things, but seems entirely unlike humans. And the base using this technology is suddenly cut off, quarantined, from the outside world. Left alone, to wonder what happened. A good, old sci-fi tale about scientists playing with stuff they don't understand, vast alien societies (or not), even vaster alien intellects (or not). And some basic human insanity, to spice things up. Young Tess may be crazy... or she may be communicating with an alien presence. Her mother may be overly-sentimental... or onto a breakthrough of galactic proportions. Her ex-husband almost certainly is crazy... and suddenly, due to the quarantine, he's in charge. And then there's the weird stuff. Robert Charles Wilson is another writer that I find easy to read. And fun. Certainly, this is not as good as Darwinia, but it's just about as strange. Extremely slow to start, but much like the technologies in the story, the events intensify exponentially. After a certain point I couldn't stop reading until I had finished. Now it's late and I realize I haven't eaten in many hours. It's a good book, not without flaws, but more creative and substantial than most. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Robert Charles Wilson, saysThe New York Times, "writes superior science fiction thrillers." HisDarwiniawon Canada's Aurora Award; his most recent novel,The Chronoliths, won the prestigious John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Now he tells a gripping tale of alien contact and human love in a mysterious but hopeful universe. At Blind Lake, a large federal research installation in northern Minnesota, scientists are using a technology they barely understand to watch everyday life in a city of lobster like aliens upon a distant planet. They can't contact the aliens in any way or understand their language. All they can do is watch. Then, without warning, a military cordon is imposed on the Blind Lake site. All communication with the outside world is cut off. Food and other vital supplies are delivered by remote control. No one knows why. The scientists, nevertheless, go on with their research. Among them are Nerissa Iverson and the man she recently divorced, Raymond Scutter. They continue to work together despite the difficult conditions and the bitterness between them. Ray believes their efforts are doomed; that culture is arbitrary, and the aliens will forever be an enigma. Nerissa believes there is a commonality of sentient thought, and that our failure to understand is our own ignorance, not a fact of nature. The behavior of the alien she has been tracking seems to be developing an elusive narrative logic--and she comes to feel that the alien is somehow, impossibly, aware of the project's observers. But her time is running out. Ray is turning hostile, stalking her. The military cordon is tightening. Understanding had better come soon.... Blind Lake is a 2004 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Sin previo aviso, se impone un cordón militar alrededor de Blind Lake. Todas las comunicaciones quedan cortadas. La comida y demás suministros son entregados por control remoto. Nadie conoce el motivo, aunque los científicos siguen con sus investigaciones. Hasta que uno de ellos llega a la conclusión de que aquellos seres, aunque parezca imposible, son conscientes de la observación del proyecto.