"Barry N. Malzberg - A Galaxy Called Rome" - читать интересную книгу автора (Malzberg Barry N)

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THIS IS NOT a novelette but a series of notes. The novelette
cannot be truly written because it partakes of its time, which is
distant and could be perceived only through the idiom and
devices of that era.
Thus the piece, by virtue of these reasons and others too
personal even for this variety of True Confession, is little more
than a set of constructions toward something less substantial ...
and, like the author, it cannot be completed.



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The novelette would lean heavily upon two articles by the late
John Campbell, for thirty-three years the editor of
Astounding/Analog, which were written shortly before his
untimely death on July 11, 1971, and appeared as editorials in
his magazine later that year, the second being perhaps the last
piece which will ever bear his byline. They imagine a black
galaxy which would result from the implosion of a neutron star,
an implosion so mighty that gravitational forces unleashed
would contain not only light itself but space and time; and A
Galaxy Called Rome is his title, not mine, since he envisions a
spacecraft that might be trapped within such a black galaxy and
be unable to get out ... because escape velocity would have to



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exceed the speed of light. All paths of travel would lead to this
galaxy, then, none away. A galaxy called Rome.

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