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Reamde de Neal Stephenson

Reamde

Autor Neal Stephenson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2012

Descoperim în Reamde o schimbare de ritm și de perspectivă în vasta operă a lui Neal Stephenson. Dacă în The Diamond Age autorul explora viitorul nanotehnologiei, iar în Polostan se apleca asupra originilor epocii atomice, aici ne confruntăm cu un prezent hiper-conectat, unde granița dintre economia virtuală și supraviețuirea fizică se dizolvă violent. Considerăm acest roman un punct de cotitură în care Stephenson abandonează speculația istorică densă pentru un realism tehnologic alert, păstrându-și însă obsesia pentru sisteme complexe.

Cine a citit Snow Crash va recunoaște aici fascinația autorului pentru codul informatic ca forță motrice a realității, însă, spre deosebire de virusul lingvistic din celebrul său debut cyberpunk, virusul REAMDE din acest volum este o amenințare mult mai pragmatică și mercantilă. Structura narativă este una de tip cinematic, pendulând între liniștea munților din British Columbia și haosul metropolelor chineze. Richard Forthrast, un personaj construit cu o profunzime neașteptată, devine puntea de legătură între o lume a hackerilor și una a fundamentaliștilor religioși, demonstrând că în secolul XXI, nicio acțiune digitală nu rămâne fără ecou în lumea materială.

Notăm cu interes modul în care Stephenson reușește să mențină tensiunea pe parcursul celor peste o mie de pagini, transformând o problemă de securitate cibernetică într-o cursă contra cronometru la nivel mondial. Spre deosebire de Strange Flesh de Michael Olson, unde incursiunea în realitatea alternativă este una mai degrabă psihologică și artistică, Reamde tratează jocul video ca pe un ecosistem economic și politic cu mize reale de viață și de moarte. Este o explorare magistrală a modului în care infrastructura noastră digitală poate fi folosită ca armă de către entități care nu înțeleg neapărat tehnologia, dar îi stăpânesc potențialul distructiv.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780062191496
ISBN-10: 0062191497
Pagini: 1056
Dimensiuni: 139 x 212 x 56 mm
Greutate: 0.85 kg
Editura: Harpercollins

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorul care caută o experiență de lectură densă, Reamde oferă o perspectivă fascinantă asupra vulnerabilităților lumii noastre moderne. Câștigați o înțelegere nuanțată a modului în care jocurile online și geopolitica se pot ciocni neașteptat. Este recomandarea noastră pentru cei care apreciază proza lui Neal Stephenson și doresc un technothriller de anvergură, care transformă complexitatea tehnică într-o aventură de supraviețuire globală.

Despre autor

Neal Stephenson este unul dintre cei mai influenți scriitori americani de ficțiune speculativă, recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a sintetiza domenii precum criptografia, filozofia și istoria științei. Cariera sa acoperă genuri diverse, de la cyberpunk-ul definitoriu din Snow Crash la epopeea istorică Polostan. Dincolo de literatură, Stephenson a activat ca și Chief Futurist pentru Magic Leap și consilier pentru Blue Origin, expertiza sa tehnologică fiind fundamentul pe care își construiește viziunile narative despre viitorul și prezentul umanității.

Descriere scurtă

“Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling.”
—Time
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations—whether he’s reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (Snow Crash), or both (Cryptonomicon). With Reamde, this visionary author whose mind-stretching fiction has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace—not to mention William Gibson and Michael Crichton—once again blazes new ground with a high-stakes thriller that will enthrall his loyal audience, science and science fiction, and espionage fiction fans equally. The breathtaking tale of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game, Reamde is a new high—and a new world—for the remarkable Neal Stephenson.

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From the extraordinary Neal Stephenson comes an epic adventure that spans entire worlds, both real and virtual.
The black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, former draft dodger and successful marijuana smuggler Richard Forthrast amassed a small fortune over the years—and then increased it a thousandfold when he created T'Rain. A massive, multibillion-dollar, multiplayer online role-playing game, T'Rain now has millions of obsessed fans from the U.S. to China. But a small group of ingenious Asian hackers has just unleashed Reamde—a virus that encrypts all of a player's electronic files and holds them for ransom—which has unwittingly triggered a war that's creating chaos not only in the virtual universe but in the real one as well. Its repercussions will be felt all around the globe—setting in motion a devastating series of events involving Russian mobsters, computer geeks, secret agents, and Islamic terrorists—with Forthrast standing at ground zero and his loved ones caught in the crossfire.

Recenzii

“Stephenson’s REAMDE: perfectly executed, mammoth, ambitious technothriller...a triumph, all 980 pages of it.” — Cory Doctorow, boingboing.com
“Noir futurist Stephenson returns to cyberia with this fast-moving though sprawling techno-thriller...Who’ll prevail? We don’t know till the very end, thanks to Stephenson’s knife-sharp skills as a storyteller. An intriguing yarn—most geeky, and full of statisfying mayhem.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on REAMDE
“Stephenson...delivers a sprawling thriller that shows him in complete control of his story.” — Publishers Weekly on REAMDE
“In less masterful hands, this pile-up of implausible coincidences, madcap romance, technological mayhem and nail-biting suspense might have been a train wreck, but Stephenson pulls it off. REAMDE has one of the most satisfyingly over-the-top endings of anything I’ve read in years. ” — Washington Post Book World
“Nobody else writes like Stephenson” — Press Association (England) on REAMDE
“Neal Stephenson has guts, a killer story, and—for the first time since Cryptonomicon—a thriller I can thoroughly recommend to any reader....With REAMDE we have a very smart page-turner—a global chess game expertly played.” — Mental_Floss on REAMDE
“REAMDE is...one big, carefully choreographed, jet-set square-dance of mayhem.” — Bloomberg News
&#8220Sometimes when you’re reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn’t just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only one.&#8221 — Lev Grossman, Time magazine
“There’s an intellectual pill buried deep in Mr. Stephenson’s narrative candy, one powerful enough that he deserves to be classified as a major national and international resource.” — Wall Street Journal on REAMDE
“[Stephenson] makes reading so much fun it feels like a deadly sin.” — International Herald Tribune on REAMDE
“Reamde is an entertainment, an enormous, giddily complex one. There’s no telling what Stephenson might be planning for his next novel, but now’s the time to dive into a first-rate intellectual thriller without fear of being overwhelmed by its virtuosity.” — San Francisco Chronicle on REAMDE
“Expertly crafted and often gorgeously written.” — Boston Globe on REAMDE
“Even at a thousand pages, Reamde is sprightly enough to jump between 9 or 10 plot threads without getting tangled up in itself.…[A]n addicitve reading experience. You don’t so much read the book as tear whole hundred-page chunk out of it with your eyes.” — Stranger magazine on REAMDE
“It’s hard to sum up a 1,000 page tome in a short review, so if you don’t feel like reading this rather long one, I’ll boil it down to three words: I loved it.” — Tor.com on REAMDE
“After a decade of novels set in 18th century Europe and in alternate universes, Neal Stephenson triumphantly returns as a bestselling author to contemporary America.” — www.fantasyliterature.com
“Stephenson, best-known for his genre-hopping novels, tackles tech-terrorism in Reamde.” — OakPark.Patch.com
“A story that, despite its gargantuan heft, speeds along like a bullet train....The depth of the story, the attention to detail, the interlocking narratives and fine characterizations mark REAMDE as an immersive literary experience.” — Pittsburgh Tribune on REAMDE
“REAMDE combines meticulous observation of the stranger socioeconomic effects wrought by technology with rousing fusillades of adventure.” — The Guardian on REAMDE
“Stephenson somehow makes his crazy setup entirely plausible and tons of fun.” — Knoxville News-Sentinel on REAMDE
“[REAMDE] is, without a doubt, one of the smartest, fastest-moving, and most consistently enjoyable novels of the year, a book with the rare distinction of being one this reviewer wishes he had written.” — Irish Examiner on REAMDE
“[A] rip-roaring race through computer hacking and guns, China and North America, virtual reality and terrorism. ” — Sunday Times (London) on REAMDE

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In 1972, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, fled to the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft. A skilled hunting guide, he eventually amassed a fortune by smuggling marijuana across the border between Canada and Idaho. Parlaying his wealth into an empire, Richard developed a remote resort in which he lives; he also created T'Rain, a multibillion-dollar, massively multiplayer online role-playing game with millions of fans around the world. But T'Rain's success has also made it a target. Hackers have struck gold, unleashing REAMDE, a virus that encrypts all of a player's electronic files and holds them for ransom. They have also unwittingly triggered a deadly war beyond the boundaries of the game's virtual universe - and Richard is at ground zero. Racing around the globe from the Pacific Northwest to China to the wilds of northern Idaho, Reamde traverses worlds virtual and real. Filled with unexpected twists and turns in which unforgettable villains and unlikely heroes face off in a battle for survival, it is a brilliant refraction of the twenty-first century, from the global war on terror to social media, computer hackers to mobsters, entrepreneurs to religious fundamentalists