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Contemporaries - In the Great Rift Miranda (Into the Miranda Rift - 1993) of G. David Nordley (n.1947)

Gerald David Nordley ha esordito come narratore nel 1991, ormai quasi vent’anni fa. Americano, degree in physics, was the official U.S. Air Force, dealing with engineering communications, satellite communications and propulsion systems for astronautical vehicles. Once retired, in addition to technical and scientific essays began to write fiction, now showing an excellent author of hard sf , and especially versed in the history of planetary exploration and colonization of space usually writes fiction using the name G. David Nordley, and essays as Gerald D. Nordley.

Its not wide fame, especially in Italy where I think it is really known a few, may be due to the fact di venir identificato in modo stretto con la rivista Analog , sulla quale ha pubblicato gran parte dei suoi lavori e il cui tipo di fantascienza ha interpretato con esattezza e accuratezza; ma ritengo che la causa principale risieda nel fatto che la produzione di Nordley si compone di soli racconti e novelle (di cui in Italia è giunta una assai sparuta scelta), e appena alla fine dello scorso anno egli ha pubblicato il suo primo romanzo.

Nel Grande Rift di Miranda , che fu finalista sia al premio Hugo che al Nebula nella categoria della novella, è un saggio davvero perfetto della sua fantascienza, e un superbo esempio moderno di racconto planetary exploration.

With a no-nonsense style, almost like a scientific report, but that weaves a brief narrative in which he explores engraved - or rather sketch effect - the character and motivations of his characters, carries the reader Nordley in a nightmare scenario in a time and dream that dream is to be understood as the effect of old-fashioned sense of wonder from where it is invested. The novel opens in the middle of the action in the bowels of Miranda, the innermost and smallest of the giant moons of Uranus. A large stone sidereal, born from the collision and merger of smaller objects, whose interior is tutto percorso da fratture, canyons e rifts , grandi e piccole caverne. Un lontano discendente della Terra verniana del Voyage au centre de la Terre , che del resto l’autore cita espressamente come fonte di ispirazione. I quattro protagonisti del racconto, due uomini e due donne impegnati in una missione di esplorazione geologica e speleologica dell’interno del satellite, si sono appena ritrovati tagliati fuori dalla superficie di Miranda a causa di un terremoto inusualmente violento che quasi li ha seppelliti, e debbono affrontare la prospettiva di una risalita per decine di kilometri. Ammesso che sia possibile.

The diary chronicles the writer's group, Wojcech Bubka, dipanerà is the account of this journey in extreme conditions, in which each of the characters must confront their weaknesses, their ghosts - and risk damnation . But above all, in the best tradition of science fiction campbelliana, each of them discover the hidden resources of your mind and noble, those who perhaps did not even know you had.

Nordley's prose is deceptively slow, sometimes it seems sleepy, and then suddenly plunge the characters in the drama, adding to the reader. E 'on the quiet prose, flat, yet majestic, which describes that natural Nordley nightmare that is the heart cracked, broken and continuous telluric movement of Miranda. E 'to this extreme nature that they are forced to launch their challenge for survival Wojcech and his companions: the geologist Nikhil Ray, the doctor and his wife Cathy of these, and his girlfriend of Wojcech, the expert caving Randi Lotati.

During the three weeks of the story of a real odyssey Promethean, Nordley gives shows the skill with which he is able to modulate action, deepening Scientific, warm human emotions, and a very strong sense of wonder. The story may seem - inevitably - claustrophobic, with narrow descriptions of those terrible, loopholes through which human bodies are struggling to pass, that bones are crushed by the fragility caused by the near absence of gravity and the pressure of the rock. Then passed to the description of infinite cracks, crossing miles of that same rock coming to the surface of the satellite. A fascinating story, sometimes not easy to follow because fraught with inserts that refer to the scientific mind to the (best) evidence of Hal Clement, one of the deans of sf and true master of the most linked scientific extrapolation. But a narrative that involves for the dance between anxiety and relief that can be achieved; for that swirl of emotions. As relations between the four protagonists are subjected to a similar stress, and the extreme conditions that are forced to live (and live-) result in a collaboration so painful, hard as that is also animated by contradictory generosity and solidarity that human beings know how to show. It is no coincidence that their relationship will end in something that may look more or less depending on the friendship of the eye of the beholder, but in the end is different from "mere" friendship.

will also this tremendous journey in which each of them hurt, and saves each of the others to find a key to Nikhil and Cathy does not destroy their couple relationship and themselves with it, and to Randi and Wojcech establish a real relationship. In this painful catharsis arrive to thaw and resolve feelings of guilt removed and badly healed Randi and Cathy, sadism (in) confessed to Nikhil and his need for intellectual and social revenge, opportunism and a sense of inadequacy Wojcech .

E ', by tradition, a fiction that closes on the tones of optimism. Man triumphs (as opposed to alienation: the four in the large cavity inside the bodies of Miranda and the remains of an alien expedition of over two hundred thousand years old and not so lucky as they will). Optimism and triumphalism, however, different from those of a few decades ago. The difference is so realistic tone, described by the heroism so much raw, but it is above all a sense of responsibility that can not be shunned to mark the distance. Each of the four protagonists, Randi, Cathy, and their singer Wojcech Nikhil, will simply per soccombere al “dovere” di sopravvivere in qualche modo. E quindi sopravvivrà. Ognuno di loro vi riuscirà uscendo dal proprio isolamento per far gruppo, trovando fuori di sé l’ultima parte di risolutezza necessaria a non soccombere; questa volta non a un dovere, ma al Grande Rift di Miranda.  

Edita in origine sul fascicolo del luglio 1993 di Analog , la novella è stata pubblicata in Italia sul numero dell’inverno 1995 (il terzo) dell’edizione nostrana della rivista, edita dalla Phoenix e purtroppo durata in tutto cinque numeri. La cura editoriale e la traduzione sono obiettivamente abbastanza lacking.

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The classic: The great courtyard (The big front yard - 1958) - Clifford D. Simak (1904-1988)

The big front yard is one of the masterpieces of Clifford Simak, and probably his more good news. I do not reread the first time, more than 25 years ago, and I appeared aged at all. If anything, some of his passages take on a more complex and complete after a further quarter of a century, plenty of reading behind me and after another quarter of a century of history. It appears - inside - As a simplistic story the reader to post-cyberpunk age (it is a story of 1958), addicted to dancing bits in cyberspace, the virtual computer and the human conscience digitized, it is probably inevitable, but is led astray by an error 'immediate appearance of the countryside, of humanity passes for almost peasant is told in the pages of the novel, guided error of naive perspective at all absent.

The big front yard instead is definitely a story told with simplicity: simplicity acuminata which results from the elimination of layers of complexity with no benefit, the reduction of complexity to its primary operation.

Simak tells of a first contact with an alien species, and prepare to do his story as an architecture that shows all linearity and transparency, talking about daily life in rural America eisenhoweriana: small business, the village idiot, a social and human albeit with difficulty continued to keep the consumer away from the door. Appearance. Below, the story reveals a plot full of reflections on the human condition, nature, the reports that are structured relations power. Almost a hypertext, hypertext appears to us as the structure of the world which comes into contact with the hero Hiram Taine: a portal of worlds to worlds. It is said that science fiction of the past decades did not foresee, or could do so, the phenomenon of the internet, but with just a little 'imagination is not difficult to trace the fundamental structure of the network in the size of the openings in this short novel. Still, The big front yard testifies to the independence and unconventionality of his purposeful author: full decade of the '50s Simak wrote a story that stands out completely from the paranoid climate of the period, exemplified by the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, developing platform relational opposite and totally devoid of content utopian, moralistic naivete of: rather solidly rooted in rationality. And it is not an angry young man who picks up early warning signs of protest in Berkeley is still to come: no, it was a staid middle-aged man who has plenty of pointing the fifties.

's so that is the way to start quietly, and lying flat with the characterization of the protagonist, his dog and the sparse human environment that surrounds them, for Simak which employs a time that seems excessive, but it is in full to set the mood and pace of the narrative to be taken in the psychological reading, the fold of the initial story, almost fairy-tale, which suggests a reminiscence of Grimm and the shoemaker's poor as it was on his desk every morning to work shoes confezionategli

the gnomes, the emphasis almost random but clearly the strength of the individual to the pervasiveness of the state - almost suddenly Heinlein! All this equipment, such as the traditional emphasis in character, attachment to a primary dimension of human life and feelings, Simak serves to hide, or rather to let emerge slowly, available to those who have eyes e pazienza per svelare il gioco, il suo interesse profondo e tutto centrato sulla relazionalità dei sentimenti umani. L'alieno, come il diverso, in Simak è lo straniero fuori della nostra porta. La relazione con lui implica la ricerca dei punti di contatto, ricerca programmaticamente complessa e laboriosa, e competitiva (il tortuoso modo di comunicare con gli alieni, attraverso un doppio filtro di traduttori esemplifica il fenomeno). Un percorso mai facile, ma sempre fruttuoso, a differenza della sua alternativa aggressiva. E nulla di ingenuo ha la figura dello scemo del villaggio, Beasly, che sembra mutuata da Sturgeon; Beasly, elemento cardine della catena di comunicazione con gli alieni è un memento del valore della diversità culturale e naturale; come un

memento della possibilità che ciascuno di noi si riveli poi il debole svantaggiato rispetto a un altro più forte.

Le Grandi storie della fantascienza, il volume dell'anno 1958 dove la novella ha avuto una delle sue innumerevoli antologizzazioni

La critica propaganda per solito la vulgata di un Simak cantore del buon tempo andato, del natio Wisconsin campagnolo elevato a paradigma culturale di un Paradiso perduto, di una civiltà primitiva, property, based on a kind of primacy of love and left unexamined feelings of good will to man. The big front yard shows a different reality: Simak theorist is aware of a universe based on relational

cooperation based on very specific objectives (the main character is a Hiram Homo Faber and a merchant are the activities of modern civilization), a solidarity that does not exclude the competition but not with a view to mitigate the loss of profits forces.

The novel has been variously titled in Italy: "The large backyard volume Bompiani in" Extraterrestrials "in which I have read and reread, but the first translation was under the title" The Hague great, then taken over frequently, also in the collections of the Hugo awards (it was in 1959). Finally, it has a translation as "The long backyard."

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Christopher Anvil (1925-2009)

The American writer Harry C. Crosby made his debut in fiction in 1952 and soon adopted the pseudonym Christopher Anvil "with whom he became known.

Anvil the team was a classic writer of the magazine Astounding Stories (later Analog ) by John Campbell: competent (most times) and anthropocentric. Its protagonist he passed all standard colors and then triumph in the end thanks to his superior intellect pure John Campbell :-)

In his career he has published several novels and a substantial number of stories. In Italy I received a handful of seconds, and one of the first: When the machines will stop ( The day the machines stopped , 1964). Reprinted several times, the novel depicts a classic situation of sf and thrillers (but partially happened in reality Sometimes, the first year after publication), a global collapse of energy and stop on the machines, and has consolidated a minor but lasting reputation for its author unquestionably a small classic.

note is worth three of his short stories, selected by Isaac Asimov and Martin Greenberg for the series of anthologies The Great Stories of Science Fiction that gather each year the best story (according to Isaac & Greenberg) 1939 to 1963.

Contains the short story mental Companion (Mind partner).

Has the story All against all ( Gadget vs. Trend )

Has not the story in the literature (in literature Not ).

Edwin Lester Arnold (1857-1935)

Edwin Lester Arnold is probably one of the least known among the precursors of British science fiction. E 'Urania had been on the Classics published in 2000 his book of fiction Gulliver Mars ( Gullivar Lieutenant Jones, His vacation - 1905, then printed as Gulliver of Mars), a brilliant fantasy planet that was able to inspire similar novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The limited success of the work led to the premature conclusion of the literary career of Arnold.

the English text can be found here: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/604

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VI - Words (Words - 1985) Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999)

Naomi Mitchison ha ottantotto anni quando viene pubblicato questo racconto, e continuerà a scrivere praticamente fino alla morte. Nata in una antica famiglia dell’aristocrazia scozzese (gli Haldane) che concentra le sue figure di rilievo proprio nello scorso secolo, lungo tutto l’arco della sua vita sarà impegnata sul fronte delle tematiche femministe. E’ stata una scrittrice assai prolifica, dedicandosi alla saggistica, alla poesia, al romanzo storico e di costume, alla narrativa per ragazzi e a quella fantastica. Nel campo strettamente fantascientifico has produced a handful of novels and short stories, among them Memoirs of a spacewoman (1962), first published in Italy as Diary of an astronaut and then Memoirs of an astronaut, a space-opera where the emphasis is all about knowledge, its size and relational and biological problems, rendered in a clear perspective and the absence of the feminine element adventure.

Words is a short story that despite the location, so that the original Italian, in anthologies of women's and feminist science fiction into reality non è così caratterizzato in tal senso. Certo, protagonista è una figura di scienziata, la dottoressa Toni, delineata con cura dall’autrice, ma questo è tutto. Il tema centrale del racconto verte su questioni percettive e cognitive che si possono allargare, a ben vedere, a tutta una serie di considerazioni sulla fantascienza e più in generale la letteratura.

La protagonista è una neurofisiologa che va compiendo studi appunto sulle percezioni sensoriali. Il suo lavoro sperimentale va oltre la biologia e fisiologia dei sensi comunemente intesi (tatto, vista ecc.) e la conduce dunque a sviluppare metodologie atte a risvegliare, nelle sedi deputate del cervello, le strutture cellulari preposte a sensi che nell’uomo non sono attivi.

Con lo sperimentare in prima persona gli effetti cognitivi di queste nuove percezioni, la donna si troverà ad affrontare la questione decisiva dell’impossibilità di descrivere tali effetti, di rendere con gli strumenti del linguaggio le proprie reazioni. E’ il cuore del racconto. Dante, che in realtà ben possedeva gli strumenti linguistici per esprimere l’ineffabile, nel Paradiso insiste sull’ineffabilità del divino. Però il divino, in quanto creazione dell’uomo, rientra nella sphere of human experience. In fact, the ineffability in the case of Dante is a measure of hyperbolic and symbolic dell'inattingibilità by the divine dimension of the human intellect.

If we ask instead the perspective of sensory perception unknown to man, so completely outside of its assets experiential, we see that the ineffability becomes technical problem and, consequently, philosophical . What does Naomi Mitchison, is to use the forms of science fiction to prime considerations in the first instance of literature in general, and that subsequently can be identified as a specific science fiction.

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Words are the tools of the writer. The man is faber also, perhaps above all, ideas. The definition is because the central idea can be communicated, transmitted to others, and thus shared. Why become a common heritage and therefore the instrument. The word has become the defining symbol of the idea and material used by man. At the word, as the definition of the idea behind the man comes through experience. It 's the old question: How can I explain to those who are color blind? Dr. Toni is precisely in this condition. You can also take as a metaphor for that particular faber which is the science fiction writer, who must find the words to describe worlds, ideas, facts that do not exist. Which are, at best, speculative. The young journalist who goes to interview the scientist will be found precisely in the position of the writer of science fiction. The fact the woman take charge (because it is "good with words") to find ways to translate into a meaningful literary form his notes on experiences in the course of his experiments that allow try the new perceptions. There is like the proposition of the schematic division between scientific and literary culture. But even more, I think there is a proposition of the primordial task of interpretation, almost magical word. The word is a key. And the writer is one who opens doors for us.

Science fiction author goes further to create the keys for doors that do not exist, which must show consistency through his work as a blacksmith.

the young journalist will be able to get to grips with the problem of which he was invested? We'll never know. We know that there has dedicata tutta sé stessa, e che senza dubbio ha raggiunto qualche tipo di risultato. Le manca però l’esperienza diretta. Non aliena da pericoli, perché ci si deve sottoporre a stimolazioni nervose in gran parte ancora ignote nei loro effetti collaterali (di assuefazione, per dire). In un incontro finale con la dottoressa ella discuterà proprio di questi aspetti. La donna più anziana appare provata, ma serena. Di certo “vede” la realtà in modo nuovo, e non potrebbe essere diversamente, e il suo cruccio resta l’impossibilità di trasmettere agli altri le sue percezioni. Il blocco dello scrittore deve essere una brutta bestia per chi è del mestiere ;-).

anthology The Italian (1990) and the original (1985) publication of the story

Beyond the bare basic idea of \u200b\u200bthe possible interpretations metaphoric, the narrative all the more striking for the figure of the scientist, the author describes almost allusions to and subtractions that telling you something or let the character to reveal himself in his gestures and actions. Short hints, almost nuance that fielding skills and sophistication to create a psychology and credible figure of a woman alive, passionate and mysterious. It is no coincidence that a light illuminates the mystery of his death. Not in the proceedings: that the risks involved in experiments performed, of which he was warned and that all those who loved her entreat you to take due account is made, and the scientist dies during one of them. The mystery is more subtle, in the words of the anonymous reporter who had learned to love that close up the story: Only his lips were still attitudes with a smile, as if perhaps he had finally found the words to say. do not know if this is so, but it's nice to think so: life, apparently, is dangerous, but only by living we learn and grow.