Difference between revisions of "Far Rainbow"
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| − | '''Strugatsky, Boris, and Arkady Strugatsky. ''Far Rainbow''.''' Antonina W. Bouis, trans. New York: Collier-Macmillan, 1979. [[Category: Fiction]] | + | '''Strugatsky, Boris, and Arkady Strugatsky. ''Far Rainbow''.''' 1963. ''Far Rainbow/The Second Invasion from Mars''. Gary Kern, trans. New York: Macmillan, 1979. Antonina W. Bouis, trans. New York: Collier-Macmillan, 1979. [[Category: Fiction]] |
Analyzed by I. Csicsery-Ronay, as a use of and commentary upon the theme of scientific exploration and attempts at domination of nature ([[Towards the Last Fairy Tale: On the Fairy-Tale Paradigm in the Strugatskys' Science Fiction, 1963-72.|". . . Last Fairy-Tale]]," cited under Literary Criticism). | Analyzed by I. Csicsery-Ronay, as a use of and commentary upon the theme of scientific exploration and attempts at domination of nature ([[Towards the Last Fairy Tale: On the Fairy-Tale Paradigm in the Strugatskys' Science Fiction, 1963-72.|". . . Last Fairy-Tale]]," cited under Literary Criticism). | ||
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| + | According to John J. Pierce, ''Foundations of Science Fiction''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?21424] in ms. revision 2020, "Far Rainbow" features research into "Zero-Transport (matter transmission)"; "the Devil’s Dozen: scientists with grafted computer implants that render them totally rational – and totally inhuman"; and "the Massachusetts Machine, an artificial intelligence that had once almost taken over the world" (ms. p. 25). | ||
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Revision as of 21:35, 8 July 2020
Strugatsky, Boris, and Arkady Strugatsky. Far Rainbow. 1963. Far Rainbow/The Second Invasion from Mars. Gary Kern, trans. New York: Macmillan, 1979. Antonina W. Bouis, trans. New York: Collier-Macmillan, 1979.
Analyzed by I. Csicsery-Ronay, as a use of and commentary upon the theme of scientific exploration and attempts at domination of nature (". . . Last Fairy-Tale," cited under Literary Criticism).
According to John J. Pierce, Foundations of Science Fiction[1] in ms. revision 2020, "Far Rainbow" features research into "Zero-Transport (matter transmission)"; "the Devil’s Dozen: scientists with grafted computer implants that render them totally rational – and totally inhuman"; and "the Massachusetts Machine, an artificial intelligence that had once almost taken over the world" (ms. p. 25).
RDE, updated, 8July20
