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| Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Dobra znamenja »Pravzaprav le nekaj ljudi na obličju planeta ve, da sama oblika M25 tvori magični simbol Odegra v jeziku črne duhovščine starodavnega Muja in pomeni “Pozdrav mogočni zveri, požiralcu svetov”.« Angeli, demoni in antikrist, ki se rodi v napačno družino. Pratchett in Gaimann v sočnem Pižamovem prevodu. wiki |
 | Žiga X. Gombač, Polnočna zajeda, Risova bratovščina, Jastrebov let »Pred njim se je odprl zamegljen satelitski posnetek, na katerem je bilo dokaj razločno videti Podsteno in streho hotela. Manj razločno pa vrhove hribov iz ptičje perspektive, saj je te prikrivala siva pega. Na to pego je kazala rdeča puščica, ob kateri je pisalo Risova dolina.« Otroško/mladinsko raziskovalno/fantazijsko. Prijetno branje. |
 | Isabel Abedi, Isola »Še danes pogosto mislim na tisti nenavaden čas na odprtem morju; nadrealistične ure med dvema svetovoma in med resničnostma. Medtem ko je naš odhod iz Angre dos Reis, tako imenovanega zaliva kraljev, z vilami milijonarjev na zelenih gričih, dragimi jahtami v pristanišču in grdo jedrsko elektrarno le še bel madež v mojem spominu, se mi je prizor v čolnu globoko vtistnil v spomin. Bili smo tam, dvanajst mladih in vranje črn pes, Tempelhoffova ekipa za otok.« Isabel Abedi smo pri nas spoznali skozi serijo otroških romanov o Loli (priporočam), v Isoli pa se je lotila bolj zrelomladinskih tem. Snemanje reality showa na samotnem otoku se spremeni v umor. wiki |
 | Tadej Golob, Zlati zob »Gozd se je redčil, Večja drevesa so zamenjali najprej njihovi pritlikavi in rahitični primerki, jerebika s svojimi rdečimi kroglicami, odcveteli in strupeni nagnoj … potem pa igličavo grmovje med skalami in travami ter osamljenimi macesni. Nad njimi se je vzpenjala strma, a skoraj povsem zelena stena. Strmec na drugi strani doline je bil že globoko spodaj.« Ravno oni dan sem tarnal, da staroste slovenskega planinskega pisanja niso dobile spodobnih naslednikov, pa me je presenetil Tedi. Nekoč odličen prosti plezalec, zdaj avtor odlično napisanega mladinskega romana polnega plezanja in zakladov. |
 | Christopher Paolini, Inheritance »Eragon ran his fingers through his hair. He suddenly felt exceptionally tired. Why does everything have to be so hard? he wondered. Because, said Saphira, everyone wants to eat, but no one wants to be eaten.« Paolini je odlično zaključil trilogijo v štirih delih, edino konec je bolj ali manj prepisal od Tolkiena. Nič hudega, bralci se vedno radi sprašujemo: »Kaj se je zgodilo potem?« wiki |
 | Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay »Most businesses are closed by this time on reaping day, but the black market’s still fairly busy. We easily trade six of the fish for good bread, the other two for salt. Greasy Sae, the bony old woman who sells bowls of hot soup from a large kettle, takes half the greens off our hands in exchange for a couple of chunks of paraffin. We might do a tad better elsewhere, but we make an effort to keep on good terms with Greasy Sae. She’s the only one who can consistently be counted on to buy wild dog.« Če ste slučajno prespali zadnje pol leta – Igre lakote se dogajajo v bodočnosti, v Ameriki, uničeni od vojne, kjer glavno mesto vlada trinajstim kolonijam, ki jih tare lakota. Mladinsko/odraslo, dobro napisano. Druga knjiga je sicer precejšnja kopija prve, tretja pa poda odličen zaključek. wiki |
 | David Benedictus, Poletje v stoletni hosti »Sovin barometer je še zmerom kazal stanovitno lepo, in ko ga je potrkala, je še zmerom kazal stanovitno lepo, in ko ga je spet potrkala, je padel na tla in steklo se je razbilo, kazal pa je še zmeraj stanovitno lepo in dežja še zmeraj ni bilo od nikoder.« Za vse, ki ste v mladosti uživali ob dogodivščinah medvedka Puja, je David Benedictus napisal (avtorizirano) nadaljevanje. Odlično! wiki |
 | Bruce Schneier, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
»A good way to think about it is that both institutional pressure and security systems allow us to overcome the limitations of the Dunbar numbers by enabling people to trust systems instead of people. Instead of having to trust individual merchants, people can trust the laws that regulate merchants. Instead of having to evaluate the trustworthiness of individual borrowers, banks and other lending institutions can trust the credit rating system. Instead of trusting that people won't try to rob my house, I can trust the locks on my doors and—if I want to turn it on—my burglar alarm.«
Razmišljanja o tem, kaj je zaupanje in kako vpliva na civilizacijo v vseh merilih – od osebnih odnosov do multinacionalk in držav. Eseji znanega strokovnjaka za računalniško varnost. Sicer zanimivo, a težko branje – rabil sem tri mesece, da sem se prebil skozi.
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 | Manuel Kiessling, The Node Beginner Book: A comprehensive Node.js tutorial
»When I arrived at the point where I wanted to start with my first "real" Node.js application, I wondered not only how to actually code it, but also how to organize my code. Do I need to have everything in one file?«
Malo strokovnega izobraževanja … |
 | Pedro Teixeira, Hands-on Node.js
»Instead of using the “addListener” function, you can also use “on”, which is exactly the same thing. «
… in še malo … |
 | Douglas Mauro and Kevin Schmidt, Essential SNMP
»A trap is a way for an agent to tell the NMS that something bad has happened.«
… in še malo. |
 | Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, Mark Teppo, Erik Bear, Joseph Brassey, Cooper Moo and E.D. deBirmingham, The Mongoliad: Book One (The Foreworld Saga)
»The palace grounds flooded with music, dozens of melodies collapsing into one ear-ringing, chest-pounding sound. There was the constant clash of cymbals and piercing chime of bells, overlaid with the mad piping and bellowing of horns and flutes and the screeching of sinew-stringed fiddles. Singers too, giving voice to so many different songs that one could only catch fragments of verses at a time—heroic epics, songs of praise for the heavens and the mountains and the Khagan, short ribald tunes sung in a drunken roister, and low, droning throat singing. And beneath all that the steady beat of great drums, like a heartbeat, like the whole palace had become one giant body and all the revelers were the blood in its veins.« Po tem, ko sem bil kar malo razočaran na Baročnim ciklom, sem se kar s težavo lotil Mongoliade – novega Stephensonovega projekta o Evropi v kajpavemkaterem stoletju (v časih vnuka Džingis-kana). Premamila me je cena – dobil sem jo za 80 evrocentov. Pa se je splačalo, Mongoliada je odlična! Zelo priporočam. wiki |
 | Steven Gould, 7th Sigma
»When Ruth was done reading it, she went back inside and penned a short response, paying for heliograph transmission. Perro Frio didn’t have a heliograph tower but there was one ten miles north. The regular mail rider would drop it on his way and it would be transmitted from tower to tower to the edge of the territory, then e-mailed.« Znanstvenofantastični izgovor (v delu Amerike se ne da več uporabljati kovine, ker jo takoj požrejo nekakšni majhni robotki, za katere nihče ne ve, od kje so se pojavili) za zmes kavbojke in vzhodnjaških borilnih veščin (aikido). Odlična pripoved o odraščanju v takih razmerah, ki kar kliče po nadaljevanju. wiki |
 | Greg Egan, The Clockwork Rocket
»“The stars are really moving,” Vito reminded her. “Not just rising and setting with the turning of the world. Between the time when the red light we’re seeing now left a star, and the time when the violet light we’re seeing now followed it, the star will have moved far enough for us to see the different colors coming from different directions. When we look at the sun, the violet light and the red light follow the same road, even though the red light begins the journey earlier. When we look at a star, the violet light’s coming to us from a different place, along a different path than the red.”«
Če bi bilo … vesolje drugače ukrivljeno, kot je. Neobičajno izhodišče, iz katere Egan na podlagi popolnoma resne fizike pričara zelo podoben, a povsem drugačen svet, kot smo ga navajeni. V romanu so sicer daljši kosi razlage »tiste druge« fizike, ki jih večina ne bo razumela, a na srečo to ni pomembno za zgodbo. Priporočam! Aja, prvi del trilogije, drugi še ni napisan. wiki |
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