César
“Max, a lot of things can happen to a man when he thinks he has the world by the tail.”
Lost in space!
That's not the only reference that came to mind. Max entering Earthport for this first time and staring at an alien reminded me of Men in Black. I'm sure this book has been a source of inspiration for many over the years. It's one of his best juveniles and a special one to me for having a plot that takes place outside the solar system for the first time (if I'm not mistaken). How exciting!
“To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.”
Mind Touch! Who would have thought? Giskard would be proud, dude.
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A radioactive Earth, an evil plan that threatens every corner of the Trantorian empire, and mental powers. It's hard to believe this is the same Earth that Calvin and Baley used to live in. Ah, how I miss good old Baley.
Asimov's first published novel is the one that started the whole Foundation universe! I'll be honest, I was expecting this to be just a good, entertaning story from an enthusiastic but somewhat immature writer; yet I enjoyed it more than the other empire novels. The Good Doctor is just brilliant and this book is everything you can hope to find from his witted mind: a complex plot with a high dose of intrigue and suspense.
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The first lines of Robert Browning's poem will stick with me forever now:⠀
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‘Oh, by the Runestaff, ‘ murmured Hawkmoon thickly, ‘the power in me!'
Damn, I couldn't put this one down. And now I have this bitter feeling of need... I need more fantasy books in my life!⠀
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The journey of Dorian Hawkmoon continues. It starts from we left off in the last book, in Hamadan after defeating Baron Meliadus, and then to Soryandum and the wraith-folk, a mechanical (steampunk?) beast, giant mutant jaguars, a cult of mad naked fellows, an amulet that grants superhuman abilities but only to the correct servant (the Runestaff knows no coincidences, you know?), back to the Kamarg and... the multiverse? I didn't see that one coming.⠀
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Overall a great book. Good pacing and worldbuilding. I like Dorian's character, call me a sadist but I enjoy his suffering. Not a masterpiece though entertaining and, escapism-wise, satisfying.⠀
“It's time to come up out of the ground. Time for men to breathe the air again, to walk under the open sky.”
The sun and all its planets had been engulfed by a vast cloud of cosmic debris, and dust motes were screening and blocking the sun's radiation from Earth. And so immense was the cloud that it would take centuries for the Solar System to pass entirely though it! The result is a new Ice Age. Self-contained, atomic-powered cities were built, capable of surviving under the ice for an indefinite length of time. The underground city of New York was ready for occupancy in the year 2297, about a century after the Earth had entered the cloud of cosmic dust. And now it was 2650 a.d., and the underground cities were more than three hundred years old. They had long since lost contact with one another, and by now all such contact was taboo. The New Yorkers, whose number had grown to 800,000 and then had been fixed there by law, were warm and happy in their underground hive. But after 300 years the ice is finally rolling back. Who cared for the outside world? Why go back to that vale of tears? ⠀
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Silverberg's post-apocalyptic adventure story was really good for me. A nice piece of fiction from one of the Grand Masters of the genre. This is the kind of book that makes me love speculative fiction even more, and in this case not only because of the global reaction to an impending ice age but also because of the anthropological implications. Human beings can get used to everything, right? Give resilience some time and new standards will emerge, we might even forget the surface and open spaces and become agoraphobic beings living comfortably in underground cities (which reminds me of Asimov's “The Caves of Steel”). Fortunately, some would not settle. Some would try to search for other survivors and even surface and travel thousands of miles across frozen lands and oceans just for the sake of human contact. This is their story.
“The dull ones stay home—and the bright ones stir around and try to see what trouble they can dig up.”
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Fun, fun, fun. A family road trip through the solar system from Luna to Mars, the asteroid belt and beyond. I almost felt like I was part of the family. ⠀
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So far one of the best juveniles I have read, cheek by jowl with Farmer in the Sky. According to Mr. Internet, Hazel Stone, the grandma, is the same Hazel who appears as a child in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, she is referenced as being part of the group of founders of the Lunar colony. Other members of the family also reappear in later novels. And of course there's the flat cat. I'm not a cat dude but the book made me wanna pet one for a while, just a little while, then I would force the poor fluffy thing to hibernate for some months. Their rapid breeding problem reminded me of the moties in Pournelle/Niven's The Mote in God's Eye.⠀
You wouldn't want to skip this one.
“Isn't a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion?”
Wow. What a wild ride!
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A classic, mind-bending Dick that was probably the inspiration for Inception. It took me a few days to put the broken pieces of my brain back together after this one. Along with “Ubik”, “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch” is now officially one of my favorite Dick novels. Man, that feeling after finishing the book, I was completely helpless. ⠀
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I'm not into religion and, in fact, I agree with what Fran Schein said to Barney: outdated junk. However, that mix of drugs and religion was masterfully executed. There were times when I thought “Oh, okay. We are going back to reality.” And then ... boom! “I guess not”. This is what I like the most about Dick's writing: nothing is what it seems, you can't tell the difference between what is real and what is not. Even in the end you are just a victim of ambiguity and subjective interpretations are left open. Michael Moorcock criticized the narrative as “incoherent” and, you know what, I agree. The plot can be incoherent, bumpy, erratic or whatever you want to call it but that's part of its beauty. ⠀
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Sometimes words are not enough. This is a masterpiece.
“So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.”
What a fun trip this was! Reading the book at the dawn of the 20th century must have been even more exciting I guess. The book also served as inspiration for C. S. Lewis' science fiction books. And of course Cavorite, the name of the antigravity material used in the story, will later be borrowed for a myriad of works. ⠀
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This is the journey of two men, a scientist and a businessman, to the moon. They will discover that the moon is inhabited by an extraterrestrial civilisation, the “selenites”, whose society is based in specialisation. These insect-like beings come in different sizes and shapes and together they form an entomological nightmare that will haunt me until I kick the bucket. They live in an enormous system of caverns and, guess what, gold is the most common mineral.
To me, it's a criticism of the society of that time and the inescapable greed and violence of human nature. A satire, if you will. Even though it's dated and it's full of nonsense from a scientific point of view, it was a very enjoyable read for me. Sometimes I can't believe it was written 120 years ago.
“Man needs freedom, but few men are so strong as to be happy with complete freedom.”
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There's this thing when I've read enough books by the same author (3⭐, 4⭐ or 5⭐ books), I really can't help but compare the one I just finished with the ones I liked the most. Hell, I don't even know if it's a good rating method but that's what I do. Does it make sense to you? See, this was a gripping space adventure for me, better than Space Cadet (3⭐), but not better than Startship Troopers (4⭐) or Farmer in the Sky (4⭐). Let's just say Between Planets it's a 3.5⭐ and get on with it already. Sorry for sharing my rating problems.⠀
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Heinlein's inventiveness was certainly ahead of his time. The year was 1951 and there he was talking about mobile phones, self-driving cars and stealth tech. Having read some of his late novels I noticed some backward references like Venusberg and Tycho City, and some other themes that he also develops in other of his books like citizenship, conspiracy and individual freedom. ⠀
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Don Harvey is a fine young boy who needs to deliver a message to his parents on Mars but get caught in the middle of a war of independence between the Republic of Venus and the mighty Earth Federation. One of the few books I've read where Earth is the bad boy. Because he was born in space, with one parent from Venus and the other from Earth, he needs to decide where his loyalties lie. An entertaining and complex juvenile novel about a boy whose courage will decide the future of planetary freedom. ⠀
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Side note: Mr. Darrell K. Sweet got it wrong! Venerian dragons have eight eyes, not six
Larry Niven's hard sci-fi novel is a classic, hands down. I'm sure it has all the ingredients to be considered a masterpiece for many people, which is why I get this bitter feeling of disappointment after hearing how amazing this book was and having finished it without that “wow” feeling. Don't get me wrong, I liked it. All in all, it was a fun and exciting read full of thought-provoking ideas, the worldbuilding and the science behind it are great, but I couldn't connect with the story and didn't give a damn about the characters. There are other things worth mentioning like selective breeding based on psychic luck, that was awesome, and so as the exploration part that reminded me of Clarke's “Rendezvous with Rama”.
This officially becomes the weakest joint Hugo, Locus and Nebula award winner I've read: ⠀
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— The Forever War (5⭐)⠀
— Gateway (5⭐)⠀
— The Gods Themselves(4⭐)⠀
— Rendezvous with Rama (4⭐)⠀
— The Stone Sky (5⭐)
“The truth is always multiplex.”
Delany's New Wave novel is really good. It's bildungsroman, space opera and time travel. It's also about slavery told in a very clever way: you can own the slaves or be near them, but you will suffer from what it is known as “the sadness of the Lll” which is an overwhelming feeling of, well, sadness created by the Empire to protect the slaves. They are a unique workforce for building structures and terraforming planets. I liked the simplex/complex/multiplex concept and how it applies even to the reader to make sense out of the story. ⠀
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I must confess that it was a challenging read. I was kinda lost at times, just like the main character and then... boom! The last two chapters put all the pieces together, or almost. I got the feeling that there are some loose ends even at the end (if there is one at all). When was the message delivered? Is everything that happened, including war, a consequence of the message being delivered? I need to talk to someone about this book. Let me know if you've read it. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
I can't remember reading too much about Beowulf. Essentially because this annoying feeling I have towards poems. So, yeah, I wouldn't dare to read the original translated poem and that's the reason why I chose this little one as a starting point. It's a retelling and it's beautifully written. And even though I would like to put it under the “Norse” label and get on with it, it isn't. Supposedly because Old Norse literary tradition doesn't begin until the 12th century in Iceland and the Beowulf manuscript was produced between 975 and 1025. Having said this, it would fall under the “Germanic” category as far as I can tell. ⠀
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The story itself revolves around the Scandinavian warrior known as Beowulf and his deeds against three monster antagonists: Grendel; Grendel's mother, a sea-hag; and, finally, the death-dragon of the deep. All creatures of darkness! Beowulf is probably the most altruistic hero I've heard of. It's an heroic legend and major themes are honor, loyalty, bravery and glory. It's also bloody and dramatic. You can totally guess what's gonna happen but it's worthy and amazingly well told. Michael Morpurgo is not some random fella, it seems. Ever seen the movie “War Horse”? He wrote the novel.⠀
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After reading “The Hobbit” in January, I was convinced that Tolkien has based part of his world-building, if not all, on a large amount of Norse mythology, which is not really that surprising, he was a philologist and language teacher English and Literature. But hear this: in the third part of the story, a slave awakens and enrages a dragon by stealing a golden goblet from his lair, the dragon had been sleeping on a huge treasure hoard for three centuries. It does ring a bell, doesn't it?
“Production was below, but consumption was above.”
The second book in the Galactic Empire series, although it can be read as a standalone novel as far as I can tell. It's a classic asimovian mistery story yet not his best. Slightly better than The Stars, Like Dust in my opinion but not enough to reach 4-asimovs and similar to the previous one in the sense of despotic rulers. Except for one, maybe, characters are flat as hell but the story itself is good and enjoyable. ⠀
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Florinians are forced to work in the kyrt fields and are treated as an inferior race by the resident Sarkites. Kyrt is a unique and extremely expensive natural plant fiber that does not grow on any planet other than Florina, making kyrt a treasure and a curse to the locals, but a source of wealth for Sark. Trantor is galaxy-wide empire with a million worlds under its belt and looking for expansion. When Rik, a spatio-analyst, discovers the terrible danger that threatens Florina, political and economic stability hang by a thread.⠀
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Unless Pebble in the Sky it's a 10-star book, I can confirm that this series is the weakest.
What a fun read this was! Fast, action packed and straight to the point. What more can I ask for? I may be overlooking some development issues like the character's backstory, an abrupt and predictable plot change in the last chapter, but, in the end, it delivers.
I find the idea of prison planets (or moons, thank you RAH) very thought-provoking. Dietz made it very compelling with a self-sustainable economy build around each prison planet, and Swamp's economy was centered on monster hunting. These monsters can be hunted for their skins and then sold to the empire although these monsters are a tough nut to crack, especially for their ability to blend in with the background. We also have human monsters that disguise as something good and friendly, like a philanthropist.
And there are ruins! Yes, it seems that there are ruins scattered on many planets created by a race known as the Builders; they're believed to have been extinct eons ago. Of course, the plot didn't develop in that direction. That could have been good... and now it's starting to feel like a déjà vu, this is not the first time this year I find myself saying the same thing about ruins (I'm not thanking RHA this time for not developing the ruins-on-the-moon plot in Rocket Ship Galileo)
“You don't need morals. No set of morals can apply to you. You can obey no rules set down by your kind because there are no more of your kind. And you are not an ordinary man, so the morals of ordinary men would do you no better than the morals of an anthill would do me.”
My first Sturgeon. This is a fix-up novel of three linked novellas, the first and third written around “Baby Is Three” (Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1952). If I was to read “Baby Is Three” as a standalone story, it would have been a four-star rating, hands down.
I must confess I'm not fond of his poetic writing style, I had a hard time following the story and had to go back and reread some paragraphs. I felt disoriented at times but somehow I think this was intended, you have to keep going and try to make sense out of it, live it through the character. Which leads to the characters: very solid ones. Overall the story is acceptable, it didn't feel too dated considering the overwhelming amount of superhuman plots you see nowadays. It occurs to me that the psychic powers could have been better exploited... what do I know? The concluding part explores the nuances of power, ethics and morality. That was okay. The concept of the Homo Gestalt didn't quite fit for me, it's a little awkward if you ask me.
More sturgeon is on its way as I write all this nonsense. So we'll see.
“The one thing that could give us some real basis for our living is to know for sure whether or not anything happens after we die. When we die, do we die all over—or don't we?”
A fine Heinlein utopian, futuristic novel on genetics and economics. Sometimes I felt like the plot wasn't really going anywhere and that he was trying to cover too much ground, but it was certainly an enjoyable read nonetheless. I couldn't stop thinking in how this relates to Huxley's Brave New World hierarchical society but with synthesists and geneticists; it's, of course, way more science-packed as you might expect from the Grandmaster.
Hamilton Felix is the culmination of a three hundred year program of controlled genetics and selective breeding. Leader type. He is part of a “star line” group of high-quality human characteristics. He enjoys life but thinks it's meaningless, thus he gives a rat's ass about line continuity... until he is drawn into new adventures.
3.5
“Si muchos de nosotros dieran más valor a la comida, la alegría y las canciones que al oro atesorado, éste sería un mundo más feliz.”
Absolutamente brillante, hermosa y atemporal. Es la historia sobre la reconquista de la Montaña Solitaria, también conocida como “El viaje de Erebor”, anterior a los eventos ocurridos en “La Guerra del Anillo”. Cuenta las hazañas de Bilbo Bolsón, Gandalf y los trece enanos cuyos nombres todavía intento memorizar
Tal vez algunos recuerden, de alguna u otra forma, la historia de Umbrella Corporation, aquella gigante farmaceútica que intentaba crear armas biológicas mediante la ingeniería genética. Claro, hasta que todo se fue al traste y se salió de control. ¿Ocurrió de manera espontánea o intencionada? Pues bien, eso es de lo que trata este libro, la historia de lo que ocurrió antes de la mansión Spencer y el equipo Alfa de los S.T.A.R.S. de Raccoon City, es decir, los eventos anteriores al plot del primer juego de la franquicia con Chris Redfield y Jill Valentine: “Resident Evil” (1996). ¡Aquí nadie está hablando de las películas!⠀
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En esta novelización de “Resident Evil Zero” (2002) viajamos junto a Rebecca Chambers y Billy Coen hasta el Centro de Formación de Umbrella para descubrir el oscuro pasado de la compañia y la historia de James Marcus, el creador del T-virus. Todo siempre con su imprescindible dosis de acertijos característica del juego, sus espeluznantes encuentros y sus asquerosas criaturas.⠀
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El desarrollo es entretenido de principio a fin, gran trabajo de Perry para mantener enganchado. Otra novelización que vale la pena el esfuerzo.
“A man isn't a collection of chemical reactions; he is a collection of ideas.”
La primera novela publicada de Heinlein y la primera de sus famosas novelas juveniles de Scribner's.
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Por desgracia se convierte en una de las más flojitas que he leído hasta ahora. Creo que pudo haber sido mucho mejor de haber explotado el tema de las ruinas. Le tiro la culpa al hecho de haber sido escrita muy cerca del final de la Segunda Guerra y la fiebre del atomic power.⠀
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Y eso es, la energía atómica en este libro es usada no para otro proyecto Manhattan, sino para propulsar naves espaciales. Emocionante, sí; aunque tal vez más emocionante por aquella época, veintidos años antes del Apolo 11. Sin embargo, hubo algo que sí hizo retorcer mi alma de emoción: la idea de la fundación de Luna City, la primera ciudad selenita. Vamos, ya, NASA, ¿cuándo una basecita lunar?⠀
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Y como no podía ser de otra forma, porque lo hecho por el Führer hizo que querramos seguir leyendo historias solo para derrotarlos nuevamente, se encuentran en la luna con.... ya lo digo... viene spoiler.... ¡NAZIS! Sí, nazis con planes atómicamente disparatados.⠀
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Si sirve de consuelo, la relación Heinlein/Luna mejora con el tiempo. Si no me creen, échenle mano a La luna es una cruel amante. Una de las mejores novelas de ciencia ficción que he tenido el placer de leer.
‘The Machine,' they exclaimed, ‘feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have our being. The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.'
La mayor parte de la población ha perdido su habilidad para vivir en la superficie del planeta. Cada persona vive en una pequeña habitación bajo tierra en donde todas sus necesidades son proporcionadas por La Máquina, omnipotente y ubicua. Todo es igual para todos gracias a los avances de la ciencia. Los viajes se han vuelto prácticamente obsoletos: ¿para qué viajar si todo es igual en todos lados? El contacto físico es considerado algo innecesario y repulsivo, se comunican mediante una red global a través de un dispositivo que se asemeja a una tablet, en donde pueden visualizarse y escucharse. Cada individuo se especializa en un tema específico con el único objetivo de generar nuevas ideas, las cuales son planteadas mediante una red social de intercambio de conferencias. El castigo máximo es la indigencia, las personas son exiliadas y enviadas a la superficie a su propia suerte. Es una sociedad completamente dependiente de La Máquina; los nacimientos, el entretenimiento, la eutanasia... todo es controlado por ella.
Los esfuerzos del progreso no son en aras de la humanidad sino por y para La Máquina. La humanidad, en su intento por buscar la comodidad, se abre camino hacia el oscuro abismo de la decadencia. Pero La Máquina se detiene...
Me pregunto si Asimov obtuvo algo de inspiración de esta historia. La repugnancia hacia el contacto físico es muy similar a la sociedad que encuentra Elijah Baley en el planeta Solaria en “El sol desnudo”, y la decadencia sociotecnológica es fácilmente comparable con la de los Espaciales en toda su saga de robots. Wow. Cuesta trabajo creer que este relato fue escrito en los albores del siglo XX, allá por 1909, más o menos contemporáneo con H. G. Wells. Es de esas historias que hacen que te preguntes si algunos son realmente capaces de asomarse y ver el futuro. Increíblemente profética.
“By trying to protect children from disappointment, we protect them from hoping, striving, dreaming, and sometimes from achieving their dreams.”
Acepté la sugerencia de la autora y me tomé mi tiempo para digerir cada capítulo presentado en este libro, por lo general entre una o dos semanas. La paternidad está lejos de ser una ciencia exacta, lo aprendido requiere práctica y toneladas de paciencia. No todo funciona para todos: lo que funciona para mi hijo puede no funcionar para el tuyo. En mi caso casi nunca me funcionaba como esperaba pero descubrí que el truco yace, según creo, en adaptar las experiencias para tu propia conveniencia y aprender de tus propios errores. Mi hijo mayor es como una pequeña estrella que entra en supernova ante la más mínima muestra de irritación y, aunque en el pasado mi esposa y yo hemos cometido errores, no es el fin del mundo, lo podemos enmendar. No me gustaría que se hagan la idea de que todo se consigue con pasividad, delicadeza y ternura; la firmeza y el tono son igual de importantes. Eso sí, el castigo no sirve para absolutamente nada más que para crear conflicto y sembrar deseos de venganza.
Si deciden darle una oportunidad al libro, esto es lo que les espera:
1. Enseñando a los niños a lidiar con sus sentimientos
2. Incentivar la cooperación
3. Alternativas al castigo
4. Fomentar la autonomía
5. Elogios y autoestima
6. Liberando a tu hijo de los roles
Si eres de las personas a las que todo esto le sale de forma natural, enhorabuena. En nuestro caso, y quiero creer que en el de la mayoría, necesitamos un empujoncito y muchos, muchos consejos. La paternidad es uno de los trabajos más díficiles y a la vez gratificantes que uno pueda experimentar.
“Nuestro Sol es tan sólo una estrella amarilla ordinaria de tamaño medio, cerca del borde interno de uno de los brazos espirales. ¡Ciertamente hemos recorrido un largo trecho desde Aristóteles y Ptolomeo, cuando se creía que la Tierra era el centro del universo!”
Hemos recorrido un largo camino desde que religiosos y filósofos dejaron de entrometerse en la ciencia. En otras épocas, semejante herejía me hubiera costado un arresto domiciliario por el resto de mis días, muy al estilo del pobre Galileo. Qué tiempos aquellos; la revolución copernicana debió haber sido muy dolorosa. Cómo algunos siguen creyendo a estas insituciones que modifican sus doctricnas solo para beneficio propio es algo que nunca voy a entender. Divago, para variar.
Aristóteles, Ptolomeo, Copérnico, Galilei, Kepler, Newton, Roemer, Maxwell, Einstein, Hubble, Friedmann, Wheeler, Planck, Curie, Heisenberg, Hawking. Son solo algunos de los nombres que ayudaron a levantar cada peldaño de la ciencia y, aunque la cima es nebulosa, nos acercan cada vez más al triunfo último de la razón humana: la teoría del todo. Ahora sabemos que el tiempo y el espacio no son inmutables, que el tiempo no es absoluto, es más personal y relativo al observador: ¡nuestros relojes no tienen por qué coincidir! Ahora sabemos, gracias al principio de incertidumbre, que el universo no es determinista ya que no podemos saber con exactitud el estado actual del universo. Esto es a la vez fascinante ya que en mecánica cuántica, esto es, en escalas atómicas, se introduce en la ciencia un elemento inevitable de impredecibilidad o aleatoriedad. Ahora sabemos que podemos viajar al futuro sacándole provecho a la relatividad pero que los viajes al pasado son otra historia. ¿Por qué los humanos del futuro no han venido a decirnos el secreto del viaje en el tiempo? En teoría la propuesta sigue abierta aunque parece ser improbable en términos macroscópicos, tal vez Hawking tenga razón al decir que existe algún tipo de FBI que proteje a la cronología de la curiosidad humana; sin embargo, los agujeros de gusano siguen dando esperanza.
Hemos ganado terreno en los últimos años y puede que estemos más cerca del final de la búsqueda de las leyes últimas de la naturaleza. ¿Encontraremos, por fin, las ecuaciones de la teoría unificadora? Y luego, tal vez, podamos mover nuestros esfuerzos desde el cómo hacia el por qué: ¿por qué el universo se toma la molestia de existir?
Algunos puntos son más difíciles de digerir que otros pero creo que en general Hawking hace un gran trabajo para tratar temas complejos de manera sencilla. Ideal para profanos y entusiastas por igual.
“Las estrellas, como todos los demás albures del hombre, constituían una imposibilidad evidente, una ambición tan temeraria e improbable como los inicios de la aventura en los grandes océanos de la Tierra, en el aire o en el espacio.”
Rating: 3.5 / 5
Hace ya buen tiempo que puse sobre mis hombros la titánica tarea de leer todas las novelas ganadoras del premio Hugo. Esta no solo ganó el Hugo y el Locus, sino que también fue elegida como una de las cincuenta mejores novelas de ciencia ficción de todos los tiempos en 1987 por la Locus Magazine. Yo no sé si iría tan lejos. De lo que sí estoy seguro es de que me hubiera arrepentido de haberla dejado.
El comienzo fue emocionante: expansión, colonización, comercio. Luego se vuelve bastante pesada por un exceso en el desarrollo, aunque no pude escapar de las redes del worldbuilding. Luego de convencer a mi cerebro de romper esta brecha me llevé una gran sorpresa hacia la mitad del libro y ya no pude soltarlo. Me encontré con el conflicto, la ambición y la traición, pero también con el honor y la moralidad. Y aunque parezca que el bien es esquivo y que los corazones se enfrían bajo el acero de la estaciones y las naves, hay ciertos límites que algunos no están dispuestos a cruzar. La ambición de pocos al final decidió el destino de muchos.
Es un space opera complejo y denso, y que es parte de un universo mucho más grande, pero que vale la pena el esfuerzo.