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contemporaries - your pale skin, red your eyes (Blafarde ta peau, rouge ton Regard 2000) by Roland C. Wagner (n.1960)

Della ricca messe di romanzi e racconti scritta da Roland Wagner in quasi un trentennio di carriera (wikipedia riporta il dato di una cinquantina dei primi e un centinaio dei secondi) in Italia non è giunto che un paio di romanzi pubblicati su Urania, una manciata di racconti pubblicati in appendice ai medesimi, e questo splendido racconto apparso nel 2004 sul n.43 della nuova serie di Robot. Poi più nulla.

A giudicare da questa suggestiva storia (leggibile in francese qui:  http://www.noosfere.fr/heberg/rcw/extraits/blafarde.htm ) è un peccato, anche se la bibliografia sul sito dell’autore mostra anche una nutrita serie di opere con tutta evidenza parecchio alimentari.

Suggestivo è forse un aggettivo che suona banale, ma è anche un vocabolo che esprime con accuratezza le sensazioni che provoca la lettura del racconto dell’autore transalpino. Esso è genuinamente di fantascienza, ma questa sua caratteristica scolorisce than just the ability to evoke suggestions in mind and spirit of the reader. It 'hard to scroll through several pages of the short story without mixed feelings of anxiety or chills. Without feeling melancholy and irrational nostalgia for something that tells the tale as lost and that perhaps unconsciously feel that it is easily smarribile even from ourselves. Without developing a deep sym-pathy with Sandra and with Regard to the wolves and lambs.

The time has stopped. Stood up to the level of the movement of electrons. How un'immota and final entropy. As if death itself had died: At the entrance of a hamlet, a teenager laughing shakes hands bone of a skeleton lying on the ground, wearing a flowered dress. I can not help but imagine the girl prisoner, unable to free himself from the embrace of her lover, panicking, trying first to remove the petrified fingers and even break them, then striking hard pounding flesh, crying, struggling for many hours before collapsing in a position of total despair, waiting for death is now inevitable ...

If we reflect on the fact that perhaps the universal constants of physics that govern our universe (and constants that are exactly those that make life possible as it is) does not have remained unchanged over time - and may not remain so - the case of Wagner, as imaginative colorings takes quite anxiety-inducing. At this time, however, escaped crystallized are pockets where the fabric and with it his life has remained unchanged (though the poor girl ischeletrita the first reported sequence was not able to completely escape from it ...). Or better still, but changed. About thirty thousand on a human being could survive the freezing weather. Emaciated individuals wander therefore no longer motionless statues between living and non undone by death, sometimes surprises in sleep and other times take a dip that will never bring them to fruition. Individuals gaunt and hungry. Wolves and lambs. Sandra is a wolf, emaciated, hungry, desperate for a lamb to eat. The event that ended almost everywhere the time has led to changes for individuals and the things it escaped. A human being who has had the good fortune to bump into one of the few food cibandosene escaped at the end of time, can not eat that in the future in this way. In contrast, if you like Sandra's first food after the apocalypse time had been the flesh of another human being who has eluso l’evento, qualunque altro cibo verrebbe poi rifiutato dal corpo. Agnelli i primi, lupi i secondi. Può sembrare brutale – è brutale – ma è anche più pulito di quanto non accada con le educate forme di cannibalismo che da millenni gli esseri umani praticano nei riguardi dei propri simili attraverso le innumerevoli forme di sfruttamento dell’altro, forme che in genere ci si premura di legalizzare fino a trasformare in criminali chi vi si ribella. I lupi uccidono per sopravvivere, gli uomini sanno farlo benissimo per comprarsi l’ultimo modello di Ferrari. E’ chiaro che l’esposizione del tabù nella sua forma più estrema e primitiva ci sconvolge molto di più: un uomo mangiato da un altro uomo is a far greater horror of millions of people deprived of dignity, starved and mowed it and illnesses as a result of signing a commercial treaty. Right?

Obviously these lambs of the story are still human, and some wolves can make a very bad end.

Sandra has become a wolf when one of two men who had joined the desperate search for something edible immediately after the end of time, weakened by hunger fell from a ladder dying. Sandra and her other companion, hunger, if they were fed. Then the other partner would have attacked Sandra che sarebbe riuscita a spacciarlo prima di venire sopraffatta. La donna inizierà quindi il suo vagabondaggio alla continua ricerca di agnelli che le permettano di sopravvivere.

Regard la incontra all’inizio del racconto. Sandra è ridotta pelle e ossa, praticamente è già morta anche se la sua volontà le dà la forza per trascinarsi e lottare ancora. Regard è un fantasma. Una proiezione, come si vedrà in seguito. In un universo tanto sconvolto al livello più basicamente fisico anche una proiezione può sviluppare sentimenti a partire dalle sue memorie artificiali, restandone turbato and bound. Even an observer, even the cold stare of a science survived the death of its agents may be hot, may choose to become an actor in the drama. May suffer for the choices he makes. But he can not do is decide to participate, to affect events is beyond his powers. When the last extension of human science is facing a situation in which humans have regressed to the state more primitive and elemental in their lives it would be deprived of the tools to decide. It's no accident that Regard has no hands to grab real (no meat to feed his sacrifice and wolf). E 'because the decisions - and hope - to return depositari primi: gli esseri umani. Ed è una tenue nota di speranza a chiudere il racconto, come potete leggere all’indirizzo più sopra linkato. Anche disceso al suo livello più ferino l’uomo può ribellarsi ai suoi istinti più rozzi e immediati. Pur che lo voglia.

  L'antologia dove fu originariamente pubblicato il racconto.

Mi sono forse dilungato troppo sugli elementi narrativi, pur interessanti e in grado di suscitare emozioni e riflessioni tutt’altro che banali. Ho trascurato però in tal modo le caratteristiche di maggior forza del racconto. The development of writing painful and measured, and the remarkable ability to Wagner in evoking scenes of great charm and thus induce a wide range of emotions from the most subtle nostalgia to the full horror, the incisiveness of the two characters, Regard and Sandra, so quickly sketches but which makes us perceive with clarity the contours of deep soul, and the symbolic richness compressed into a few pages, almost summary of human history, the aspirations of our species and its potential and its failures and successes.

A story easier to read than to tell.

When You Body Is Producing Too Much Blood

The Classic - Biip (Beep 1954) by James Blish (1921-1975)

James Blish was one of the Department, and among them one of the less fortunate. His debut came in 1940, at about that time that saw the beginnings of the careers of all Futurians , the fan group of young New Yorkers quickly turned into writers, editors and various experts in the field of sf, and which included, in addition to Blish, Isaac Asimov, Fred Pohl, Cyril Kornbluth, Damon Knight, Don Wollheim. To cite the most famous. In the late '40s and one of the following decade Blish spent her season creative happier, especially for the high quality achieved by its narrative; season that culminated in 1958 with the publication of his novel rightly best-known and reputed: A Case of Conscience (translated into Italian under the title idiot War on Big Nothing , the novel is the expansion of a novel written before). The novel received the Hugo Award the following year and is often cited as one of the best examples of religious fiction. What is true but does not exhaust the interest of a work that also explores the best results with the issues of knowledge, a subject dear to the most, and puts in stage of consciousness that case relied on by the original title with a strong moral tension. A case of conscience is also the first step of a three / quartet focusing on the themes of knowledge and conducted through the literary genres: Doctor Mirabilis, the next novel is in fact a historical novel about the life of Roger Bacon, while the two more novels, Black Easter and The Day After Judgement that Blish considered a single work, are essentially fantasy.

happy at the time of his career and life back Blish also Galactic Cluster, the anthology of 1959 that includes his best short fiction of the decade and in which there is the tale Beep. The anthology has been translated in Italy by Fanucci in 1977 with the title prison without bars, presenting the third (and so far I know last) publication of Beep in our country, for the first time with the title changed in a more Italian Biip .

With the 60 Blish's career began to decline, although occasionally continued to produce as tight as his fiction stylistically and intellectually, those stories so bold and relentlessly accurate and logical. It has continued to rewrite what he had already written, in an effort maniacal precision and perfection: Blish, who as William Atheling Jr. has been one of the most implacable critics of the field, always reserved to himself (even in the first place to himself) that relentlessness. The cancer that struck him first and then the throat to the lungs, and would have led to the death and the propensity to alcohol made more bitter than those due to his later years.

Beep is a wonderful example of science fiction blishiana, even affected the styles of the time and not so brilliant in some hard-boiled fiction (the story is structured like a spy-story ). Although the characters of the tale are little more than mannequins, mere agents of the plot is to say, overall, the tale does not suffer. In fact, it gives an account could not be better as the definition of science fiction as a narrative of ideas. And an idea of \u200b\u200bgreat intellectual force although it is nothing new, is at the heart of the story. And history. In el día que hicimos the transición, the story I wrote in my previous post, the discovery of time travel creates the infinite multiplication Timelines; in Beep , Blish is followed instead to explore the possibility of knowing the future of the seal of certainty that time is immutable, the future that all written and played until the end of time. A time that now seems non-linear, synchronous. The presence (in fact it is here that the discovery) of the Dirac transmitter, through which you may receive communications from the future, assign Beep to a series of stories, including many of the best of the author, which make up a tenuously linked to the future history of humanity, a trait common to many other Blish great authors of his generation, notably Heinlein, Asimov e Anderson.

Illustrazione di Ed Emshwiller per la prima pubblicazione di Beep (Galaxy del febbraio 1954)

Il Trasmettitore Dirac, permettendo di ricevere comunicazioni dal più lontano futuro pare realizzare il sogno dell’onniscienza. Ma essa continua a sfuggire tra le dita dell’uomo (ed è un bene, immaginiamo, per quanto in tale situazione possa risultare frustrante): non è ovviamente possibile, infatti, conoscere ciò che non viene registrato dal Trasmettitore. Tanto l’idea di questa onniscienza frustrata quanto il ferreo determinismo di un tempo which is nothing if not an immutable destiny are conceptually fascinating. Determinism, on the other, which breaks one of our most decisive mental coordinates: the relation of cause and effect, although determinism apparently (or really?) Incomplete, since that is not registered by the Dirac equation remains unknown and therefore apparently (or really ?) delegated to the free human will. If time is already determined once and for all, there are no causes or effects, but only events: on which the human will has no power (but those that remain unknown?), Whereas our consciousness observes and developing the compulsive events rational justification for them in the shape of Cases (And effects). As Dana says Lje, the discoverer of how to use the transmitter which Dirac eye on the future, you can "invent" as many excuses as to why she has been to discover the mechanism and the Service (secret), but the only true is that she found out ... because he has discovered. And the service has not discovered why he has not discovered. Again, Beep, however, as in the story of Romero and de la Casa, is the discovery in some way to determine the future. If the story of two English authors it involves pulverization of the future tense in an infinite number of possibilities and the need to preserve the unique past of its rewriting Blish in the tale of it not only opens up the future (part of the future) knowledge, but he established the need (in the sense of inevitability) of the continued exploration of the future for it, having already given, can only be brought about by humanity through the knowledge they obtain from the Dirac Transmitter. Dana Lje service delivery to his knowledge the day and time in which it was planned to happen, and the service become apparent guardian of humanity, its expansion in space and its success in one of the opening scenes of the story Service rejected a massive alien invasion of the Galaxy with ridiculous ease: nothing strange if think that for centuries were aware of this event. In fact, the service does not perform other activities that a notary to certify the accuracy of what is already written in the future. A notary apprehensive that you care to verify the exact place of every single event recorded in the Dirac Transmitter, no matter how trivial it is. Why, as one of the characters, Krasna: Our Interests as a government depend upon the future. We made as if the future is as real as the past, and so far we Have not Been disappointed: the Service is 100 per cent successful. But Is not That very success without ITS warnings. What would happen if we stopped supervising events? We do not know, and we do not to take the chance. Despi The Evidence That the future is fixed, We have to take on the role of the caretaker of Inevitability. We Believe That nothing can possibly go wrong. . . But We have to act on the philosophy That history helps only Those who help themselves. It 'really so certain deterministically the future? ;-)

Blish's prose, where fashion does not give hard-boiled painting characters glamorous as the unlikely Dana Lje and putting in their mouths words and phrases that play today quite silly, is careful, measured and sometimes solemn. The inserts science should be read fluently, although they need the proper attention. Blish was training a biologist specializing in zoology, but at ease with science in general and as a skilled writer to draw stories that combine a talented visionary with uncommon rigor of the scientist. It is a beautiful testimony to the volume The seedling stars collecting some stories of exploration and human adaptation in the most different environments, among which there is a story Surface tension, one of the best results in the career of James Benjamin Blish .

Beep be read in English at: http://www.arthursbookshelf.com/sci-fi/blish/james 20blish%% 20 -% 20beep.pdf

Bible Mad Gab Examples

Contemporaries - The day that through the transition (el día que hicimos the transición - 1997) by Ricard de la Casa (n.1954) and Pedro Jorge Romero (n.1967)

But before we talk about translations. No, the vexed question Urania ;-). This time nothing to do with the already miserable practice of cutting the novels in the translation becomes miserable for the unfairness of not reporting the fact on the cover.

Vorrei invece gettare uno sguardo più articolato alla questione. E’ infatti appena uscito in edicola l’Urania Millemondi n.53, Pianeti dell’impossibile , che presenta la seconda edizione dello splendido racconto scritto dal catalano de la Casa insieme allo spagnolo Romero. Il Millemondi traduce il volume The SFWA European Hall of Fame , antologia di fantascienza europea non anglofona curata nel 2007 dagli americani James e Kathryn Morrow. In precedenza, il racconto era apparso nel 2007 nell’Urania Millemondi n.44, Venti galassie , traduzione dello Year’s Best SF 9 , curato da David G. Hartwell e Kathryn Cramer e pubblicato nel 2004 con riferimento ai migliori stories appeared in English in 2003. The two Italian versions are very different and their value is uneven. Clear right away that is not necessarily a question of cuts or a greater or lesser capacity of the two Italian translators: to what one can understand the two versions are expected to head to the two different editions of Anglophone (of which I can not find the text on the network) and the original short story in English, read here: http://archivodenessus.com/cuento2.htm . The differences and the difference in value could thus well be attributed to the origin, translated into English. But are not these two specific translations of the same story that I wish to draw attention; However, given the chance, they lend themselves well for a couple of thoughts more details.

a reflection, more generally, I would refer to the style. The most recent translation is presented as a whole much more readable and stylistically elegant, yet on closer inspection it is not entirely satisfactory just as the other. Shorter than the previous one, characterized by a language more dry and few frills, with a vocabulary that makes the most accurate sense of history and phrases more clearly seem the kind of translation, "Slide" and "fluid" so maybe if the players should thank the original text is cut off. Mind you, in fact, that apart from small discrepancies in the information content of the two translations differ: not more than a few minimal detail, and without that there is an imbalance in favor of the longest translation. The difference, to read, it seems all styles: the oldest translation is much more discursive, sometimes scattered, and no doubt lengthy, typically presents as a fairly sloppy and unclear in places. At first glance it seems even closer to the original story, but I do not know English from potermici delve much. Beyond this, however, recover ground compared to the second row in Italian style undoubtedly better because, without the tare to the sloppiness (which can be attributed to the translator, English or Italian does not matter), is closer to the subject of the story. Smoothness is undoubtedly a quality, but not absolute by having to sacrifice everything, the new translation is dynamic, concise and appropriate action as the other is static, verbose and full of distractions: the fact is that in el día transición que hicimos the action, although present, is entirely vicarious than the speculative content, and reflective. If the lack of care of older translation becomes dark and sometimes disturbing, the new traduzione troppo spesso dà la sgradevole sensazione di sfuggire tra le dita e tralasciare di soffermarsi su particolari salienti, anche se l’indubbia eleganza attenua il rammarico.

Ricard de la Casa e Pedro Jorge Romero (primo e terzo da sinistra) insieme agli fondatori della rivista BEM

Una seconda riflessione più circoscritta vorrei riferirla alle scelte del traduttore. Nel racconto originale compare questa frase: Me veía moverme, Isabel parándolos y yo aturdiendo al primero, Isabel al segundo, yo al tercero. Interviniendo la bomba . Inizialmente is translated as: I saw forward, then I saw that Isabel would stop them and I stunned the first, second Isabel, I the third, holding the bomb . In the second becomes: [ Me veia moverme, Isabel paràndolos is deleted in a slightly different way, expressing the preceding sentence] I it stuns a while Isabel will land another, after which the third lie down together and grab the bomb . more elegant and efficient, no doubt, but why grab the bomb together? It seems a stretch to over-interpretation, though not impossible. The original phrase seems more unpredictable, and even later in scena Mikel, l’io narrante, studia da solo l’oggetto tenendolo in mano; è dunque più probabile che sia stato lui ad afferrare la bomba da solo e non con Isabel. Un’inezia, certo, però quante inezie ci sono nel corpo di ogni traduzione? E’ ovvio che ogni traduzione è rimessa all’interpretazione del traduttore, ma quanta di questa interpretazione deve sconfinare dallo stile (e già qui…) e dal senso generale alla lettera del testo?

 Venendo al racconto, esso nella sua impostazione generale è una classica storia di viaggi nel tempo, e più precisamente si inserisce in quel stream of stories where bodies act of "police time." The classic American fiction has produced in the masterpiece asimov The End of Eternity and the cycles of Poul Anderson and H. Beam Piper, respectively, the Time Patrol and Paratime (which is part of the novel Lord Kalvan Altroquando , one of the best on the subject). Ricard de la Casa and Pedro Jorge Romero write a story worthy of the best Asimov, scientifically rigorous, intellectually fascinating and daring, and create two portraits in a few pages deep and credible human. And most of psychology that is credible in relation to the situation told. Psychologies that can really imagine lives be shaped by (multiple) as those of Isabel and Mikel if they ever existed. And yet still perfectly credible as a woman and a man of all time.

On 7 August 2012, the formulation of the theory Thunder makes it possible to travel in time (the past) but also splits the story into two: before that date there is only one temporal plane of then on the continuum shatters into millions, billions of divergent lines, as more and which less. The Corps of Intervention Thunder oversees the orthodoxy of that story before August 7, 2012 is not breached by criminals storms. Isabel and Mikel are part the section of the body that oversees the English history. And the longer period of time is subject to attacks of the transition, the sensitive period after Franco's death in the coup attempt operated by Tejero, when the reaction to it permanently consolidated democratic institutions.

In its content of action and plot, the story is reduced to the narration of a task team led by Isabel to bring the story back on track after known criminals had murdered Santiago Carrillo causing devastating deviations of the Timeline. Isabel died in the course of action. That's it. But the real story envelops this core, the pervading and yet is made to contain. The two authors are able to emerge from this tiny plot the relationship between Isabel and Mikel. Between Isabel and Mikel. Or the many, countless reports, all variations of a report supporting that crumbles into those of the infinite and the infinite Mikel Isabel's death in which death renew their knowledge, returning each time to know each other in a way that is both usual and each time is different. With infinite timelines after August 7, 2012 is indeed recruited at each death, another of the many different versions of each official storm. And so there is always that Mikel will recruit a new Isabel while he is still mourning the death of mate or friend (depending on how their relationship has evolved in a specific special occasion). Or there will be an Isabel who will do the same with Mikel. But if the reality is infinite, there is still a reality? I believe that Philip Dick would have appreciated a story like this. The reader will appreciate instead the emergence of Mikel conscious of its being a stage in a succession of identity are always different and always the same. A Mikel who is preparing to face for the first time its normal condition of Mikel: the resumption of his relationship with Isabel after death - a death - of her.

The anthology Cosmos Latinos where the story appeared in English for the first time

Apologize Attendance Letter

Ocean's Eleven

Day 4: Marechiaro - Real Benaco = 4-6 victory

Bella Real Benaco defeating the quoted Marechiaro to 6-4. In Tonoli network (3), Dossena (2) and Damonti.

Rank: 12 Fabric
Valentino
Sergnano 9
Real Benaco
Marechiaro 7 6 6
Frassati
Videoton 3 4
Castelnuovo
Borea Soncino
Rana Jewels 3 3 0
Toga


GOL

	PRES	GOL SUB	AMM	ESP
Tonoli Alessandro	4		0 0 0		9
Damonti Massimo	4		0 0 0		2
Dossena Mattia	3		0 0 0		2
Mario Soldati	1		0 0 0		1
Biraghi Cristian	4		0 1 0		0
Bellini Omar	1 0			0 0 0
Cremonesi Luca	4	0		0 0 0
Teeth David	4	0		0 0 0
Cervieri Marco	4	13		0 0 0