Loosely speaking, if Science Fiction is often a literature of disruption (in which change is, if not good, at least embraced), Fantasy is frequently a literature of consolation: a warm feather-bed of social conservativism disguised as nostalgic escapism, a longing for feudal certainties.
Sounds about right.
P.S. He is the author of Singularity Sky.
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Кого я уже могу рекомендовать, это Vernor Vinge. Язык у него не Гоголь и не Шекспир (и рассчитано на подростков, как обычно), но придумано интересно. Конкретно, Fire Upon the Deep (хотя она и толстенькая). Ну и True Names, классика, первая (по-видимому) книга, в которой описан cyberspace.
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Sounds about Duh.
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Re: Sounds about Duh.