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Sandro Pertini died 20 years ago. I would like in this small space, remember a great Italian with a cartoon by Andrea Pazienza:

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year of the massacre

Since mankind fights Chtorr has never known a moment so critical. Jim McCarthy is the commander of the enemy knows that the goals are more ambitious than it sounds ...









It 'rare to find something in the landscape of science fiction powerfully conservative, very "right" as this saga of David Gerrold. Probably because the science fiction part of the current situation and extrapolate trends to criticize, analyze, or highlight some elements of our society that the author of the moment is frightening. In practice, science fiction by its nature can not be conservative because it is a kind of change that is its raison d'etre. The exceptions are some authors now born out of old junk that to replicate the success of the past wrapped in abject nonsense ultra-conservative, as Clarke and his Final Odyssey. Or novels as f Anteria space poorly understood and little beds that undergo a mark against their (undeserved in this case) "political". In recent history, some heavily conservative authors have produced and sold many books, such M. Jack hton, But in that case it borders on the best seller, a prairie where ultraconservatorismo has always found fertile ground. Think W. Smith who arrived with drawn sword to defend the apartheid "because the blacks themselves do casino" and to treat all Democrats as terrorists.
Gerrold wrote a real book instead of fiction, a good book in my view and then makes an 'operation ever attempted in my memory. Fortunately (or ignorance ...) the average reader of science fiction did not appreciate much this book, even without noticing 's political operation, I think especially for the sophistication of the implementation.

Our world, the earth, undergoes an invasion. A whole alien ecosystem, made up of plants, animals, insects, bacteria and virus arrives on our planet and attacks him. Many species disappear, whole ecosystems are being devastated. The animal symbol of all is the "worm", a gigantic Vermona similar to those of dunes that goes and eats anything it finds.
To make matters worse many countries do not have a great desire to fight. The "emerging" countries seem not to care because of the defense of the planet. Do not cooperate properly. They refuse to use dozens of atomic bombs against the alien trees and grass. Even science is against the poor army. Scientists study study but do not come to any conclusion. We need an army lieutenant scompra that everything so tell those morons how it works.
We cheat the other countries, leading to a fait accompli, the subjugation of science to 'the army and release every three meters above a nice bomb that does so much good for the environment. Clearly, even the military are not perfect. For example, if they are not Canadian and American thoroughbreds are stupid and should be made to wash the dishes.
Since the planet is not aware of the threat must be to push a bit 'in favor of total war. In a general conference of the UN pretends to be eaten alive by a worm. Horrified all the delegates vote for what they want the United States. Obviously the cocks that generalone became really eat, it was all a trick. The novel is in the early 90 '. We think now that Colin Powell before a stunned assembly of the 'UN in February 2003 stirred a tube containing anthrax (actually talcum powder I believe) and I swear to all that stuff comes from' Iraq! A cosmic dance unfortunately forgotten in the many balls these days fake conspiracy. The parallel is striking. At the turn of the '80s - '90 Gerrold had foreseen what would happen in American politics over the next 20 years.

And now? Gerrold
Now unfortunately for the Americans and his lieutenant-know-it-all McCarthy (name evocative of McCarthyism ..) have lost their war. The U.S. destroyed after Iraq and did not find any weapons of destruction are sadly leaving the country, possibly under the influence of Iran (!). Brazil took the piss in the book runs like a train under a left-wing administration, as throughout South America. The worms (red and mangiabambini ..) have won and lost McCarthy. Perhaps this climate of defeat followed the announced cycle is no longer released. Will Gerrold to continue this cycle or will have to wait at the end of the Obama (and maybe the 'beginning of the Palin ) to write again?


the author:

David Gerrold whose real name is Jerrold David Friedman was born in Chicago in January 1944. He began writing very young to the television drama Star Strek, The Twilight Zone and other TV series. He joined the writer's career as a writer Hugo and Nebula winning many awards.


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In the classical tradition (now the cinema is gradually rediscovering) the great urban catastrophe caused by an unforeseeable accident, this "Fog" and mysterious yellowish gushing from a crack in one morning English countryside and begins its slow and deadly march on London, is a famous star of not less than the Triffids by John Wyndham. Strange acts of violence occur in quiet places, reasonable people or commit acts fearing inexplicable, absurd acts, bestial crimes. Gradually, the picture is accurate, the circle tightens around the metropolis in a crescendo of horror and desperate helplessness. What this enemy rolling stop? There is a brain, a will in this misty ball of death?

The fog is part of the wealth of current science fiction catastrophic but English is a novel late, after several years of catastrophe English al'età gold of the 50 '. For this reason, although from those assumptions Herbert focuses not so much. Times have changed. Youth movements and schools of thought to the alternative "system" have changed post-war society, punk, mods, rockers. Herbert is free to exploit England for something that is not only critical to a company plaster and hypocritical and so can a lot more fun, while remaining lightweight. Herbert writes an exciting horror novel, which I think should be elected to manual for those wishing to attempt in the genre.
The fog is unleashed as a result of an experiment in biological warfare, occurred in the past (so there is a government conspiracy, but belongs to an ancient time, the 50s of the Cold War). The military is always stupidly hard but less omnipotent and less perfect than before, in fact they are cornered in the meetings of government and forced to surrender, to confess. Rely on a semicivile for help: we see an influx of works such as 007 or the first police series, where an external player help law enforcement officers, has abandoned any realistic fiction. Herbert heavily winks an eye at the cinema, writing a great novel, but also a 'good script. Curiously, no one has ever made into a film by this novel, unlike other things Herbert, perhaps because it is something really heavy. James Herbert
fact it goes down hard.
The mist that spreads the island crazy people who commit heinous crimes. Severed heads brought to the walk, pedophilia, mass suicides, aircraft launched against skyscrapers. Herbert wisely dispenses an enormous cruelty to ironic and funny episodes, while continuing with the main storyline and keeping the voltage a thousand.
Herbert said: "I am very insecure of being a writer and do not understand why so much has happened." You can answer: why do you write well, built through challenging and always keep the tension high! So I highly recommend this book to all fans of horror and science fiction.

the author:
James Herbert was born in London in 1943 and 1974, the year of his first novel has always been a professional writer. In addition to writing is artistic director of an advertising agency and graphic. Has in fact designed by only the covers of his novels. He always had a huge success with the public coming to sell over 40 million copies of her novels.






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English fiction catastrophic

England can be considered the home of science fiction catastrophic, not only for having produced the first book of the modern era, but catastrophic for having flooded the market in Theme catastrophic war novels, which almost never failed to achieve the greatest public have still dominated the fiction affecting the entire usually on the imaginary catastrophe.

Strolling in network I must say that I found on how and why the British like crazy to stage the death of our society is not much. The majority of thinking about the industrial revolution and the Luddites, a labor movement that countered the industrialization breaking machines that were introduced and that led to unemployment. In practice, the catastrophe would be a representation of fear, the extreme of the technology out of control and its adverse consequences.
'm not really agree with this interpretation, the Luddites is too old to have influenced the narrative of '900 and has produced very few other effects that inspire the narrator, like the birth of trade unions, the workers' struggle, socialism and communism. It all happened 100 years ago and passed the golden age of English fiction catastrophic.
I think you should look for the roots of modern catastrophe in another direction. Upon arrival of the Second World War the British had an empire. Although historians now highlighting correctly at that time now the British empire had ended, this was not true for men of the time. There is a considerable delay in obtaining knowledge of history and we see things very well at the moment, in which the American empire declines. The majority of people are convinced that when the U.S. Comandini the planet and some countries such as China, India or Brazil to be inhabited by friendly louts intent on eating the rice bowls, to bathe in the rivers in rags or at least to get two and make viados puppe fake, at least not those guys who are busy all day playing soccer.
There is a considerable delay in understanding the phenomena that occur over our heads and the British had not yet understood, like all others, that their domination in the secular world was over. Consider a society with much less information than now, an empire that lasted about three centuries, which extended the domain from 'new world to Australia. To get an 'idea of \u200b\u200bwhat England should be noted that the creation of our country, Italy, was encouraged by the British Empire who wanted to create a strong country in the south that could annoy the French. When at school I studied the unification of Italy was nowhere written that they could reach the thousands of Garibaldi in Sicily undisturbed because the Bourbon fleet was under fire of British gunboats.
short, were the masters. The British citizen on the one hand he knew to live in the superpowers' age and the other lived in a well-regulated by rules of behavior and appearance, very stringent and rigid, required in an imperialist country. At company level, this will be further questioned by the various youth movements that followed, such as punk. It was well wave. In '36, the United States have 3 tanks and an army under the Portuguese. The European powers, France and Austro-Hungarian empire had been defeated in the last century. The rest of the world was composed of little more than monkeys, godless barbarians to conquer and control, and plunder of resources.
Then came World War II. The war was tough for the British but lived in a unique way. If the soldiers fought and died throughout the world in the 'island did not reach the smell of gunpowder gun. The British lived in the war only by the reports of the envoys. There was no television, but only newspapers and newsreels, was a different era from today. The journalists were serving government and wrote what he wanted the government, without exception. The complaint was not even invoked, and there was enough, and it was total. Meanwhile, world trade was stopping and the inhabitants of an 'island used to receive goods from all over the world, like imperial Rome, began the hard times, rationing, the cold and hunger. Beneath the patina of the English gentleman, returned to see the human beast. In fact by some to the deprivations of the war were certainly harder in Italy, where many facilities were destroyed and where did the dire hunger. But we do not consider ourselves masters of the world. We were a crock pot Assistant since the creation of the country (and no doubt we will be until the end of time .. but that's another story, even a storiaccia). For the English it was a shock. I imagine that began to spread a certain prostitution out of necessity, to a few here who possessed valid cards to get food and other supplies needed. Surely there 'was a great corruption and yet there were those who took advantage of, corrupt politicians and criminal gangs. The British imperial world quickly collapsed, leaving room for a 'humanity more brutal, more direct , Intent to survive by any means, paradoxically, more real and sincere than before.
War finally arrives even in the 'island but in a way unique compared to all others, through bombing and without a real invasion. The British were never occupied and spared the horrors of 'employment have focused on errors (much smaller) of a country at its lowest. Will probably never know what was the German advance in the Soviet Union, we have this number, 28 million deaths, but it's just a cool figure. What must have been the Japanese occupation of China, as well as brutal and ruthless was the Soviet counter-offensive in Germany, when probably every woman aged between 4 and 90 years was raped.
But in London every rape was committed by an Englishman, not a soldier's uniform and other foreign language. And for every crime there was more coverage of the state, the police were probably in total chaos and perhaps too small for the call to arms. Very little is needed to break down the trust in institutions and in the established order. For a country which of these milestones had its reason for existence for centuries was a bucket of ice water in his face.
The writers who were kids in these years later reworked this time using the means of catastrophe. The company that they described what they respond well to and since then: The government

1. mind and always consider the people who can not ever know the truth
2. There are groups that decide to fight the government but only to replace it
3. The first difficulty the patina of human civilization will disappear and men act like savages
4. There is no moral and no God who can fill my belly
5. The survivors have to behave like a small tribe, where the stronger must command
6. Women are prey and war trophy

In this fairly homogeneous in its various landscape diversity is a 'real exception, Ballard, the most famous English writer who has never catastrophic, or nearly catastrophic fiction written English! But Ballard deserves that we talk to and a part of 'another time.

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