Священные коровы

[eska]

Кристофер Прист о лучшей фантастике прошлого века.  Но больше - о том, как изменяется прочтение одних и тех же книг со временем.

Then I looked again at the 10 titles that remained, and the doubts about the whole enterprise returned in force. I was and am painfully aware of how long it was since I had read most of them. Now that I have looked into my recollections of the reading of each title, I realize how unreliable my judgement must be. Not only is my reading of (e.g.) The Space Merchants half a century old, it comes from a literary culture that has disappeared, and even the corporate America that was being satirized is no more. This is the same flawed argument that makes some people cling to their liking for the Heinlein juveniles or the Asimov robot stories they read when they were 14. I was 16 when I read the most long-distance of all these books...

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Я думаю, это такой склад ума - все подвергать.
Я его понимаю, конечно 8)