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So, then: the Cathedral. It's enormous, magnificent. You exit the biosphere lock, and you see it before
you, above you, a ragged shadow against the stars. Light is needed for you to take in the architecture, but
there is no light, for Lévie is distant now and Madeleine not yet close enough. Through the long period
of the cosmic interhelium, the Cathedral is above all other things a Mystery. From the lock to the main
portal a crooked track runs down the crater slope along a path cut into the cold stone. You descend with
the required safety line clipped to your belt by the robot that mans the outer gate. Typically the
descending visitor, curious, will switch on the powerful lamp of his suit. But the lamp's white finger can
touch only separate spots of the edifice, moving from one to the other--here, there--like a feeble probe
across an outer skin. It is difficult to keep the beam on the same point as one approaches, so the visitor
stops, gawks, gropes with his pencil of light over the creation in rock. Covering the distance from the
biosphere (two hundred meters) in this way can take an hour. It took me an hour. Father Mirton was
waiting at the tomb, not surprised, as he told me later: some sit down on the slope and fall into a kind of
trance, wakened only by their suit alarm. I can believe it. The Cathedral is not a building, it's a sculpture.
Not a sculpture either. Ugerzo, ordering this version of crysthorn, knew that what was planted here
would be planted for no common purpose, that the Cathedral's function would be insignificant alongside
what it evoked. One function only was specified: the tomb of Izmir and the altar. They are inside,
enclosed in their own minibiosphere--for them a place must be kept intact, and access maintained for the
faithful. The rest was left to the imagination of the designers and to the growth's ergodic algorithms. The
sowing filled the circle around the tomb, some four hundred square meters. In the near weightlessness of
the asteroid, the crysthorn has shot to a height of almost a quarter of a kilometer. From the lock of the
crater biosphere one sees a hyperboloid corpus with crooked wings outspread, curved ribs in the middle.
On the flanks are asymmetric towers topped with stone that sprouts jagged leaves, as if frozen in place
by blackest vacuum at the moment of its explosion into carbon shrapnel. The form speaks of the flight of
the soul, which to reach the starry void must tear itself, in agonizing pain, from the chains of matter.
When the light begins to trace a profile here, an edge, a break, a rib of a cupola--sharp detail emerges
from the gloom, a cluster of hard shadows, and the eye is pulled into a spiral, no end to the detail, the
fractal nature of the crysthorn making self-similar shards of every shape, and the viewer is lost. Around
the towers, stairways out of Escher soar to stop-motion frames of death, at a certain angle it looks almost
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like a path a human being could take, but when the light takes in a larger piece of the Cathedral, you see
that it would have to be a spider, not a man, and that even a spider could not reach there. Because of the
asymmetry of the towers, all this openwork of the crysthorn appears to tilt toward the crater, toward the
observer, and to the right. Meanwhile the deceptive, recursive algorithms responsible for the outer
surfaces of the main nave make you think that you are watching the last, dying stage of the building--as
if some tumor of stone were rankling within--and that very soon, in a day, maybe two, it will sink and
fall into itself, rotten through: the tapering ribs will collapse beneath the weight of tortured rock; the
spine, topped with a cross, will plunge into the dimness of the internal organs; and from between the
jaws of the jutting portal will flow a slow avalanche of the Cathedral's brittle blood. The form speaks of
the torment of dying alone, of the frailty of matter, whose doubts poison the unseen soul. And if you turn
off your lamp and sit there for a moment on the slope, or maybe hesitate a while, with a step forward,
back, by the safety line--the eye's hungry pupil might catch a ray or two of light coming from the high
mass of shadow. Starlight pierces the Cathedral. It has no walls or roof, after all, they are not necessary
to it as a building--indeed, this is not a building--and the transparent dome that covers the tomb of Izmir
and the altar performs the functions of walls and roof itself. We are not dealing here with an ergonomic
thing. The interior is not empty, filled with, though no human being will see it, the same mystery of
crysthorn metamorphosis that has carved the parts visible to us. So at certain times certain stars send
their light through the Cathedral. The observer descending the slope registers flashes of light in that
gigantic stain of darkness, very like signals of decay in a vacuum chamber: tiny firings, now and then,
from nothingness. Then you enter the shade of the portal, frozen waves close around you like curtains,
like a thicket of iron bushes, you wade through the waters of a lake of pain. A turn, a light--and you are
standing before the tomb.
(...)
Madeleine was in view. Even inside the Cathedral, inside its biostasis, the rays of rich purple penetrated.
I had been waiting for Gazma half an hour now. I took off my suit and set it in the first pew, beside the
helmet. I prayed awhile. Still no sign of Gazma. I lifted my head without thinking and began to study the
intersecting innards of the Cathedral. The feeling was not as strong as Mirton said, but I too had the
conviction, every so often, that someone, Gazma, was watching me from that high labyrinth of shadows.
I went to the edge of the biobubble to take a closer look at the crysthorn stone. The sculpting was highly
complex, one pattern shifted into another, and the geometry of congruent figures kept drawing the eye
away from the light. It was not sculpture, of course, since no one had hewn and worked this stone of the
Horn. The form, commencing from the first seeds, had eaten into the asteroid's cold ground and heaved
in a wave of nanotransformations until, particle by particle, there rose here the memorial of Ugerzo's
gratitude. But how much can be contained in a seed's starting algorithms, in an architectonic code of
crysthorn? The face--it was definitely a face--and the silhouette, and the meniscus of stone, and the
overhang of eyeless skulls, and the upper intestinal cortege on the string of darkness stretched taut across
the loins of the Cathedral, a cortege of gaunt figures, a processional dance of alien skeletons--surely all
this could not have been provided by the code of an initiating seed. I don't know the specs, but it seems
unlikely that the planners had written into the seeds the future position of every piece of Izmir mineral,
ergodic autoprogramming doesn't work that way, one must leave room for chaos. So if it wasn't the hand
of the planners, whose hand was it? Whose was the talent behind this carving? Who gave grace to the
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fragile angels, put blood lust in the brows of the stalagmite demons, framed the illusion of refractive
flow through the Cathedral's epithelium? Who was the author of this masterpiece? I decided I should
read more on nanogenerative technologies.
From a pew I climbed up on a bony ledge of one of the Cathedral's curved ribs. Here, in the middle of
the main nave, from the surface of the stone--as through a thick membrane deforming their features--
heads of normal size emerge, peer out. Shadows gently cross their foreheads, their cheeks. I put out a
hand, touched with the pads of my fingers. It was cold, extremely cold, making the skin crack. I pulled
my hand away, fearing frostbite--that would cause trouble, fuss--but pulled too violently! Gravitation on
the Izmirids is minimal, a light kick can send you up several meters. I went flying in a wide arc, hit my
back against the barrier of the biobubble, which stabilized me a little as I then was thrown toward the
tomb. I managed to grab one of the pews, somersaulted, hit the floor with my left shoulder, and my head
smacked into stone--it sounds like little now, but at the time I was certain it would be a concussion at
least. I didn't lose vision, but pain filled me, shutting out all else. Blinking, I touched my head: sticky. I
saw the red on my fingers. My hair was matted with blood. I staggered to my suit, put it on, the helmet
too, sat and ran a diagnostic. The microprobes entered me: no fracture, but a long laceration. No
important vessel had been hit, there was not much loss of blood. I waited for the dizziness to pass. Still
no Gazma. To hell with him. The man was a lunatic, wasn't he, how could I have thought that he would
come on time, that he would come at all? It burned when the suit sealed my wound. The sedative began
to work. I returned to the Honzel Hotel.
(...)
Mirton left his quarters in the same mess as he had lived in them. When I entered, something fell to the
floor. But there were changes: naked walls. Apparently he had taken with him the photographs of the
Cathedral. I turned on the projector, but its memory had been erased. I started going through Mirton's
things--a good way to kill time, to divert my thoughts: putting this place into any order would easily fill
more than two days.
On a dresser I found a box with several dozen rolls of foil: etched enlargements of black-and-white shots
of the Cathedral. I looked at them all in turn. Mirton had scribbled on them, made comments in large
letters, arrows pointing to lopsided circles enclosing fragments of images, all this in red marker. I taped
a few to the wall to examine them more carefully. What was this about? Mirton had underscored certain
architectonic details: the cornice of one of the towers, the pseudogargoyles at the portal. Near them he
had written: 2 mos. excr.? Perilevium. And: mass transport? And: 3 mm/h.
He had also left books, not bound copies of personal notes but textbooks on nanogeneration: Crysthorn:
Structure and Functions; Chaos Chained, or the Pathways of Life; The Programming of Open
Negentropic Systems: An Introduction; The Self-Actualizing Language of Nanomachines: A Manual;
and the like. I remembered the holo of his that I had almost stumbled into on the first day. So he had
been studying the Cathedral from the fundamentals up: the architecture, building strategies, materials.
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About crysthorn itself I know enough to be able to go through these books without feeling that I am
banging my head against the wall of esoteric high tech. True, I never fully understood the theory of its
programming, the mind rebels somehow, refusing the notion of planning what is unforeseeable, of
calculating what is incalculable. But the applications I knew, I once even did some sowing myself. It
was only a small gazebo by a lake at my parents' place in Hoolstalon. I sowed strictly by the book,
following instructions: marked off a rough square, measured by pacing, opened the hermetically sealed
crysthorn (the Gazebo Venice version, as I recall), poured the appropriate amount of seed into my hand,
and strewed it along the marked lines. A little was left over, so I added that at the corners. I threw on top
two buckets of mud prepared earlier. In one night the gazebo had grown nicely. How old was I then,
thirteen? Even at thirteen I was impressed by the allowable imprecision of the process: it didn't matter if
I sowed exactly along a line or not, if I strewed the seed in a wide band or not; it didn't matter where
they fell; it even didn't matter if I planted them all or not--a quarter of them would have served: the
instructions said that a dozen seeds would work; the whole bag, twenty decos, was to bring as close to
one as possible the probability of obtaining the ideal form of the purchased item. Clearly there is a
tremendous difference between a commercial, closed crysthorn like the one that produced the gazebo of
my parents and the one-of-a-kind, open crysthorn of the Cathedral. The difference lies in the
preprogramming of the code. The crysthorn of the Cathedral belongs to the "incomplete" types: not all
the data about the end form are provided. The gazebo, for example, would grow the same, down to the
microscopic level, whether you planted its seeds on a volcano, at the bottom of the Lizon Sea, or on a
rock of the Horn. The Cathedral, on the other hand, would grow very differently with a change in such
minute parameters as the precise moment of sowing.
Over these books I forgot about the passing time (people can indeed contrive to control their thoughts),
and only the signal of contact established with the planet returned me to reality. It was after their council.
"There is little I can tell you in this dark hour," said the bishop. "Two alternatives are left, and they are
equally tragic. We here have no right to advocate either one. Possibly you will be returned to life on
Lizon, should you decide to leave in the face of everything. But, truthfully, there is no basis in logic for
depending on that possibility. Staying on the Izmirids, you preserve your life, as they have assured me,
for several more years. But then you must die a solitary death, in that most desolate place." He tightened
his lips. "People feel that in suffering they are always alone, but that is not true, it is never true.
Remember this, there, in the dark. God will not abandon you, my son." He blessed me. "Forgive me, that
I sent you there."
Yes, in moments of extremity we return to the basic words, speaking as one speaks to children. At the
beginning and at the end, that same honesty, certainty, simplicity.
(...)
A last look at the Cathedral. I took with me a few of Mirton's photographs on foil. What exactly was he
after? I suspect that in this way he was tracking changes in the Cathedral's architecture, that he found
some error in the crysthorn code, some gap in the subroutines of self-termination. The photographs
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confirm this. I have walked around the Cathedral several times, probing with my lamp at some of the
pieces of the structure that he recorded, comparing them: they are different, they have altered, assuming
shapes more or less related. The pieces that I didn't find, I didn't find no doubt because they and their
settings have changed too much for me to recognize them from these photographs. How quickly does
this take place? Mirton evidently tried to measure the pace. It is surely much slower than the rate of first
growth, the Cathedral after all has been standing here for many years, people would have noticed
something. But I think that even Mirton wasn't completely sure. Or could he have been on the track of
something else?
Gazma flicked past in my cone of light: I saw a quick movement in the upper section of the Cathedral's
left tower. He must have hidden himself deeper inside, because afterward I saw only motionless shadow.
What is he doing there? And how did he get there? The Cathedral--I don't need to remind myself of this,
it's so plain--is not a building subject to ergonomics, its architecture is not in the service of human use, it
has no stairways, no ducts or shafts, Gazma must have accomplished no little feat of climbing. The
gravitation is weak, true, but if you fall from up there, bones will break, mass is mass, momentum
momentum.
I went in. I am standing at the tomb of Izmir. What did that madman say? That there was an attraction?
That you couldn't free yourself? Like iron filings. Maybe he. I have felt nothing like that. I take off my
helmet and gloves. The stone marker is cold and smooth. The angular face of Izmir Predú fills my hand.
I turned on the journal and once again listened to the recording of my conversation with Telesfer at the
CFG laboratories. Let's say that the Black Wool is an artifact of the aliens. That it's a Hoan machine,
though we have not been able to discover the medium of its action. The traces of a gamma burst suggest
a cosmic catastrophe on a grand scale. The Izmirids have been crossing the interstellar void for hundreds
of thousands of years. Is it possible that they were intentionally aimed into space before the explosion?
For what purpose? Where are they headed? If not for the accidental encounter with Madeleine, they
would have ended their voyage in orbit around Lévie. It's one or the other: there is a purpose or there
isn't. But no. Take the crysthorn. There are midway solutions. Except the time--such time--the vast
stretch of millions of years--is surely outside the reckoning of any civilization! And even if all this is
true, what then is the Wool? It keeps the asteroids in a group. To what end? For if that was its only
function . . . The sense, the sense! The marker at my hand is so smooth, it's practically wet. Deo optimo
maximo. That carving is lovely: fortunate, that at least it was not left to chance. It's really not hard to
understand Gazma's fascination, esthetics is the first language of religion. A hundred ninety-five
minutes. The reds, yellows, and blues of Madeleine shine like dawn through the ribs of the Cathedral,
everything here is either in shadow or painted with viscous colors. I'll sit, I'll quiet my heart. I thought
that it would be mainly fear, an animal terror, but I feel only regret now, a great, motionless, heavy
regret, the squeezing weight of dark water. No thoughts, no instructions for the body, even my eyes are
dry. There is only a little tightening in my chest. But why speak, silence is better.
Jacek Dukaj
Translated by Michael Kandel
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© for the illustration by Tomasz Bagi•ski
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Contents:
Dukaj Pages – is the official, authorized website dedicated to Jacek Dukaj's writings.
Jacek Dukaj –
is considered to be the most brilliant of the active Polish Science Fiction and
Fantasy writers. You can contact him by e-mail.
The Cathedral –
is the most famous Jacek Dukaj's work. There is a short animated movie by
Tomasz Bagi•ski based upon the story. In 2003 the movie was nominated an
Academy Award in the category of SHORT FILM - ANIMATED. Parts of the
story had been translated into English by Michael Kandel. Have a read.
The Iron General –
is another Jacek Dukaj's story also partially translated into English by Michael
Kandel. This story is one of the candidates for Tomek Bagi•ski animated movie
adaptations. Enjoy!
The Golden Galley –
is Jacek Dukaj's debut publication, called by critics "a daring start". It is the only
Dukaj's story fully translated into English. You can buy an anthology containing
the story at Amazon.com
Ice –
Jacek Dukaj's latest novel is exceptional both for its refined multilevel plot and its
dimensions (1045 pages). Read the Ice review in EU Magazine.
Black Oceans –
a long awaited novel, which provoked legends even before its publication in
2001. Read the translated passages.
Author:
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Ice - Newest Jacek Dukaj's novel.
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The Iron General and The Golden Galley.
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"The Cathedral" DVD.
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DVD containing an animated short based on "The Cathedral" is available at Amazon.com
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Note: The passages presented below are so far the only parts of "The Cathedral" by Jacek Dukaj
translated to English. Once the story is completely translated we will notify immediately on this site.
So, then: the Cathedral. It's enormous, magnificent. You exit the biosphere lock, and you see it before
you, above you, a ragged shadow against the stars. Light is needed for you to take in the architecture, but
there is no light, for Lévie is distant now and Madeleine not yet close enough. Through the long period
of the cosmic interhelium, the Cathedral is above all other things a Mystery. From the lock to the main
portal a crooked track runs down the crater slope along a path cut into the cold stone. You descend with
the required safety line clipped to your belt by the robot that mans the outer gate. Typically the
descending visitor, curious, will switch on the powerful lamp of his suit. But the lamp's white finger can
touch only separate spots of the edifice, moving from one to the other--here, there--like a feeble probe
across an outer skin. It is difficult to keep the beam on the same point as one approaches, so the visitor
stops, gawks, gropes with his pencil of light over the creation in rock. Covering the distance from the
biosphere (two hundred meters) in this way can take an hour. It took me an hour. Father Mirton was
waiting at the tomb, not surprised, as he told me later: some sit down on the slope and fall into a kind of
trance, wakened only by their suit alarm. I can believe it. The Cathedral is not a building, it's a sculpture.
Not a sculpture either. Ugerzo, ordering this version of crysthorn, knew that what was planted here
would be planted for no common purpose, that the Cathedral's function would be insignificant alongside
what it evoked. One function only was specified: the tomb of Izmir and the altar. They are inside,
enclosed in their own minibiosphere--for them a place must be kept intact, and access maintained for the
faithful. The rest was left to the imagination of the designers and to the growth's ergodic algorithms. The
sowing filled the circle around the tomb, some four hundred square meters. In the near weightlessness of
the asteroid, the crysthorn has shot to a height of almost a quarter of a kilometer. From the lock of the
crater biosphere one sees a hyperboloid corpus with crooked wings outspread, curved ribs in the middle.
On the flanks are asymmetric towers topped with stone that sprouts jagged leaves, as if frozen in place
by blackest vacuum at the moment of its explosion into carbon shrapnel. The form speaks of the flight of
the soul, which to reach the starry void must tear itself, in agonizing pain, from the chains of matter.
When the light begins to trace a profile here, an edge, a break, a rib of a cupola--sharp detail emerges
from the gloom, a cluster of hard shadows, and the eye is pulled into a spiral, no end to the detail, the
fractal nature of the crysthorn making self-similar shards of every shape, and the viewer is lost. Around
the towers, stairways out of Escher soar to stop-motion frames of death, at a certain angle it looks almost
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like a path a human being could take, but when the light takes in a larger piece of the Cathedral, you see
that it would have to be a spider, not a man, and that even a spider could not reach there. Because of the
asymmetry of the towers, all this openwork of the crysthorn appears to tilt toward the crater, toward the
observer, and to the right. Meanwhile the deceptive, recursive algorithms responsible for the outer
surfaces of the main nave make you think that you are watching the last, dying stage of the building--as
if some tumor of stone were rankling within--and that very soon, in a day, maybe two, it will sink and
fall into itself, rotten through: the tapering ribs will collapse beneath the weight of tortured rock; the
spine, topped with a cross, will plunge into the dimness of the internal organs; and from between the
jaws of the jutting portal will flow a slow avalanche of the Cathedral's brittle blood. The form speaks of
the torment of dying alone, of the frailty of matter, whose doubts poison the unseen soul. And if you turn
off your lamp and sit there for a moment on the slope, or maybe hesitate a while, with a step forward,
back, by the safety line--the eye's hungry pupil might catch a ray or two of light coming from the high
mass of shadow. Starlight pierces the Cathedral. It has no walls or roof, after all, they are not necessary
to it as a building--indeed, this is not a building--and the transparent dome that covers the tomb of Izmir
and the altar performs the functions of walls and roof itself. We are not dealing here with an ergonomic
thing. The interior is not empty, filled with, though no human being will see it, the same mystery of
crysthorn metamorphosis that has carved the parts visible to us. So at certain times certain stars send
their light through the Cathedral. The observer descending the slope registers flashes of light in that
gigantic stain of darkness, very like signals of decay in a vacuum chamber: tiny firings, now and then,
from nothingness. Then you enter the shade of the portal, frozen waves close around you like curtains,
like a thicket of iron bushes, you wade through the waters of a lake of pain. A turn, a light--and you are
standing before the tomb.
(...)
Madeleine was in view. Even inside the Cathedral, inside its biostasis, the rays of rich purple penetrated.
I had been waiting for Gazma half an hour now. I took off my suit and set it in the first pew, beside the
helmet. I prayed awhile. Still no sign of Gazma. I lifted my head without thinking and began to study the
intersecting innards of the Cathedral. The feeling was not as strong as Mirton said, but I too had the
conviction, every so often, that someone, Gazma, was watching me from that high labyrinth of shadows.
I went to the edge of the biobubble to take a closer look at the crysthorn stone. The sculpting was highly
complex, one pattern shifted into another, and the geometry of congruent figures kept drawing the eye
away from the light. It was not sculpture, of course, since no one had hewn and worked this stone of the
Horn. The form, commencing from the first seeds, had eaten into the asteroid's cold ground and heaved
in a wave of nanotransformations until, particle by particle, there rose here the memorial of Ugerzo's
gratitude. But how much can be contained in a seed's starting algorithms, in an architectonic code of
crysthorn? The face--it was definitely a face--and the silhouette, and the meniscus of stone, and the
overhang of eyeless skulls, and the upper intestinal cortege on the string of darkness stretched taut across
the loins of the Cathedral, a cortege of gaunt figures, a processional dance of alien skeletons--surely all
this could not have been provided by the code of an initiating seed. I don't know the specs, but it seems
unlikely that the planners had written into the seeds the future position of every piece of Izmir mineral,
ergodic autoprogramming doesn't work that way, one must leave room for chaos. So if it wasn't the hand
of the planners, whose hand was it? Whose was the talent behind this carving? Who gave grace to the
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fragile angels, put blood lust in the brows of the stalagmite demons, framed the illusion of refractive
flow through the Cathedral's epithelium? Who was the author of this masterpiece? I decided I should
read more on nanogenerative technologies.
From a pew I climbed up on a bony ledge of one of the Cathedral's curved ribs. Here, in the middle of
the main nave, from the surface of the stone--as through a thick membrane deforming their features--
heads of normal size emerge, peer out. Shadows gently cross their foreheads, their cheeks. I put out a
hand, touched with the pads of my fingers. It was cold, extremely cold, making the skin crack. I pulled
my hand away, fearing frostbite--that would cause trouble, fuss--but pulled too violently! Gravitation on
the Izmirids is minimal, a light kick can send you up several meters. I went flying in a wide arc, hit my
back against the barrier of the biobubble, which stabilized me a little as I then was thrown toward the
tomb. I managed to grab one of the pews, somersaulted, hit the floor with my left shoulder, and my head
smacked into stone--it sounds like little now, but at the time I was certain it would be a concussion at
least. I didn't lose vision, but pain filled me, shutting out all else. Blinking, I touched my head: sticky. I
saw the red on my fingers. My hair was matted with blood. I staggered to my suit, put it on, the helmet
too, sat and ran a diagnostic. The microprobes entered me: no fracture, but a long laceration. No
important vessel had been hit, there was not much loss of blood. I waited for the dizziness to pass. Still
no Gazma. To hell with him. The man was a lunatic, wasn't he, how could I have thought that he would
come on time, that he would come at all? It burned when the suit sealed my wound. The sedative began
to work. I returned to the Honzel Hotel.
(...)
Mirton left his quarters in the same mess as he had lived in them. When I entered, something fell to the
floor. But there were changes: naked walls. Apparently he had taken with him the photographs of the
Cathedral. I turned on the projector, but its memory had been erased. I started going through Mirton's
things--a good way to kill time, to divert my thoughts: putting this place into any order would easily fill
more than two days.
On a dresser I found a box with several dozen rolls of foil: etched enlargements of black-and-white shots
of the Cathedral. I looked at them all in turn. Mirton had scribbled on them, made comments in large
letters, arrows pointing to lopsided circles enclosing fragments of images, all this in red marker. I taped
a few to the wall to examine them more carefully. What was this about? Mirton had underscored certain
architectonic details: the cornice of one of the towers, the pseudogargoyles at the portal. Near them he
had written: 2 mos. excr.? Perilevium. And: mass transport? And: 3 mm/h.
He had also left books, not bound copies of personal notes but textbooks on nanogeneration: Crysthorn:
Structure and Functions; Chaos Chained, or the Pathways of Life; The Programming of Open
Negentropic Systems: An Introduction; The Self-Actualizing Language of Nanomachines: A Manual;
and the like. I remembered the holo of his that I had almost stumbled into on the first day. So he had
been studying the Cathedral from the fundamentals up: the architecture, building strategies, materials.
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About crysthorn itself I know enough to be able to go through these books without feeling that I am
banging my head against the wall of esoteric high tech. True, I never fully understood the theory of its
programming, the mind rebels somehow, refusing the notion of planning what is unforeseeable, of
calculating what is incalculable. But the applications I knew, I once even did some sowing myself. It
was only a small gazebo by a lake at my parents' place in Hoolstalon. I sowed strictly by the book,
following instructions: marked off a rough square, measured by pacing, opened the hermetically sealed
crysthorn (the Gazebo Venice version, as I recall), poured the appropriate amount of seed into my hand,
and strewed it along the marked lines. A little was left over, so I added that at the corners. I threw on top
two buckets of mud prepared earlier. In one night the gazebo had grown nicely. How old was I then,
thirteen? Even at thirteen I was impressed by the allowable imprecision of the process: it didn't matter if
I sowed exactly along a line or not, if I strewed the seed in a wide band or not; it didn't matter where
they fell; it even didn't matter if I planted them all or not--a quarter of them would have served: the
instructions said that a dozen seeds would work; the whole bag, twenty decos, was to bring as close to
one as possible the probability of obtaining the ideal form of the purchased item. Clearly there is a
tremendous difference between a commercial, closed crysthorn like the one that produced the gazebo of
my parents and the one-of-a-kind, open crysthorn of the Cathedral. The difference lies in the
preprogramming of the code. The crysthorn of the Cathedral belongs to the "incomplete" types: not all
the data about the end form are provided. The gazebo, for example, would grow the same, down to the
microscopic level, whether you planted its seeds on a volcano, at the bottom of the Lizon Sea, or on a
rock of the Horn. The Cathedral, on the other hand, would grow very differently with a change in such
minute parameters as the precise moment of sowing.
Over these books I forgot about the passing time (people can indeed contrive to control their thoughts),
and only the signal of contact established with the planet returned me to reality. It was after their council.
"There is little I can tell you in this dark hour," said the bishop. "Two alternatives are left, and they are
equally tragic. We here have no right to advocate either one. Possibly you will be returned to life on
Lizon, should you decide to leave in the face of everything. But, truthfully, there is no basis in logic for
depending on that possibility. Staying on the Izmirids, you preserve your life, as they have assured me,
for several more years. But then you must die a solitary death, in that most desolate place." He tightened
his lips. "People feel that in suffering they are always alone, but that is not true, it is never true.
Remember this, there, in the dark. God will not abandon you, my son." He blessed me. "Forgive me, that
I sent you there."
Yes, in moments of extremity we return to the basic words, speaking as one speaks to children. At the
beginning and at the end, that same honesty, certainty, simplicity.
(...)
A last look at the Cathedral. I took with me a few of Mirton's photographs on foil. What exactly was he
after? I suspect that in this way he was tracking changes in the Cathedral's architecture, that he found
some error in the crysthorn code, some gap in the subroutines of self-termination. The photographs
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confirm this. I have walked around the Cathedral several times, probing with my lamp at some of the
pieces of the structure that he recorded, comparing them: they are different, they have altered, assuming
shapes more or less related. The pieces that I didn't find, I didn't find no doubt because they and their
settings have changed too much for me to recognize them from these photographs. How quickly does
this take place? Mirton evidently tried to measure the pace. It is surely much slower than the rate of first
growth, the Cathedral after all has been standing here for many years, people would have noticed
something. But I think that even Mirton wasn't completely sure. Or could he have been on the track of
something else?
Gazma flicked past in my cone of light: I saw a quick movement in the upper section of the Cathedral's
left tower. He must have hidden himself deeper inside, because afterward I saw only motionless shadow.
What is he doing there? And how did he get there? The Cathedral--I don't need to remind myself of this,
it's so plain--is not a building subject to ergonomics, its architecture is not in the service of human use, it
has no stairways, no ducts or shafts, Gazma must have accomplished no little feat of climbing. The
gravitation is weak, true, but if you fall from up there, bones will break, mass is mass, momentum
momentum.
I went in. I am standing at the tomb of Izmir. What did that madman say? That there was an attraction?
That you couldn't free yourself? Like iron filings. Maybe he. I have felt nothing like that. I take off my
helmet and gloves. The stone marker is cold and smooth. The angular face of Izmir Predú fills my hand.
I turned on the journal and once again listened to the recording of my conversation with Telesfer at the
CFG laboratories. Let's say that the Black Wool is an artifact of the aliens. That it's a Hoan machine,
though we have not been able to discover the medium of its action. The traces of a gamma burst suggest
a cosmic catastrophe on a grand scale. The Izmirids have been crossing the interstellar void for hundreds
of thousands of years. Is it possible that they were intentionally aimed into space before the explosion?
For what purpose? Where are they headed? If not for the accidental encounter with Madeleine, they
would have ended their voyage in orbit around Lévie. It's one or the other: there is a purpose or there
isn't. But no. Take the crysthorn. There are midway solutions. Except the time--such time--the vast
stretch of millions of years--is surely outside the reckoning of any civilization! And even if all this is
true, what then is the Wool? It keeps the asteroids in a group. To what end? For if that was its only
function . . . The sense, the sense! The marker at my hand is so smooth, it's practically wet. Deo optimo
maximo. That carving is lovely: fortunate, that at least it was not left to chance. It's really not hard to
understand Gazma's fascination, esthetics is the first language of religion. A hundred ninety-five
minutes. The reds, yellows, and blues of Madeleine shine like dawn through the ribs of the Cathedral,
everything here is either in shadow or painted with viscous colors. I'll sit, I'll quiet my heart. I thought
that it would be mainly fear, an animal terror, but I feel only regret now, a great, motionless, heavy
regret, the squeezing weight of dark water. No thoughts, no instructions for the body, even my eyes are
dry. There is only a little tightening in my chest. But why speak, silence is better.
Jacek Dukaj
Translated by Michael Kandel
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© for the illustration by Tomasz Bagi•ski
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Size:
Novel
Translated:
No
Published (in Polish):
2007
Work at first planned as a novelette, it has gotten its epic swing as the first sentence of the draft has been
transcribed for a piece of over 30 pages. As the author says – yes, I write too much. When the subject
grabs you firmly by the throat – what do you do? You sink in. What? Are you going to artificially make it
short? No, you go by your natural rhythm. Two years of work resulted with a novel, in which tightly
interlaced political, religious, cultural and economic plots of ice-frozen tsar’s Russia constitute a colorful
background for a story filled with historical deliberations of many characters, psychological games
played by two protagonists and typically for the author excellent digressive observations. A peculiar
inventor and the Polish Siberian partisans, a pomp of logic and mathematics of characters, shame theory
and friendship theory, Polish businessmen and Tungus shamans, investigation intrigue and a real
romance (which wasn’t there). Ice hang-outs and cold-iron parlors, black physics and a Siberian tale,
friendship, death and betrayal. Life as a particular form of a window pane frozen flower. A thousand
paged Opus Magnum which has divided Jacek Dukaj’s enthusiasts into the Ice fraction and Other Songs
fraction.
Wydawnictwo Literackie • Kraków 2007 • 1054 pages • ISBN 978 83 08-03985-4
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Note: The passages presented below are amateurish translation to English. No other part of the novel
has been translated.
His first codename was WINNIE_THE_POOH, and he was the main program responsible for the
economic security and stability of the USA. He liked the poetry of English metaphysicians and the films
of Akira Kurosawa. Every week he composed a musical video in the old DVD format and sent it to a
certain youngster in Cairo, his tragic, unrequited love. In these videos, he was called Angelo di Nutrio
and was sculpted in Andy Garcia. He also wrote haiku, published online as Maria Esnaider. He was
three and a half years old and nobody understood him. There were no records of his algorithms; he was
the result of using the newest theories of software evolution on the newest hardware. Compared to him,
the average post-PDP overnets of fuzzy logic were simple and linear. They asked him why he did this or
that. He had no idea. He did not distinguish between dreams and reality. In heuristic dreams he broke
ciphers which could not have been broken in hundreds of lifespans of the universe. He loved America
and the Americans. He would give his electronic life for theirs. He was sculpted that way.
Long ago his abilities and competences crossed the boundaries envisaged by his original creators. His
human supervisors knew about his lover in Cairo and his poems, but there was much they had not the
faintest idea about. He did not consider it prudent – useful and beneficial to America – to reveal all his
actions to his superiors. This was not, good heavens, a rebellion of the machine or an electronic takeover
– of course not. Everything he did, he did for the good of the country and its inhabitants – and his
estimations were correct, they were all beneficial for them. He was not blind or megalomaniac. He was
correct.
Over two years ago, he learned how to hack the databases of legal insurance companies. He looked
through millions of hours of footage from the lives of millions of individuals. He listened. He read lips.
He followed careers and love affairs. Sometimes he helped those he took a liking to, always
anonymously, always in small matters, and always in a way that wouldn't lead to dangerous
complications. In any case, those scans of the lives of average and not-so-average Americans were often
the source of very useful information.
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That was how WINNIE_THE_POOH got to know about the Contact Program, Monads Wars and
Hacienda of Four Dry Springs. In the quiet of their homes, to themselves, to their lovers or those who
knew the secret, people talked. At first, he did not want to believe them, but after splitting a part of his
personality to carry out a detailed investigation, he learned (probability: 99.9965%) that they were
speaking the truth.
When Hongkongian made its first move, WINNIE_THE_POOH needed just a quarter of an hour to be
certain and to report to the committee of Dr. Oiol (and thus, indirectly, to Bronstein) that the Monads
Wars had started. Of course, he did not use that name and he was very careful in his conclusions, but he
was certain he would be properly understood. He ensured that would be the case. And he wanted to be
sure, because this was the last gesture of honesty he could allow himself in his contacts with his nominal
supervisors. For WINNIE_THE_POOH it was obvious from the very beginning: with the start of the
Monads Wars he would have to assume the responsibilities of the Economic Defense Corps, Trade
Secretary, Treasury, and the president. Because all of them were human, and their minds were
vulnerable to the psychomemenic manipulations of the enemy's monads. From that moment, he would
be forced to filter all their decisions, block any unwise or damaging ones, and issue his own by himself.
Immune to monads, he was the last line of defense. He was the last hope.
For the first few days, he had no major problems, and all he had to do was stop or modify a few dozen
minor directives to lesser programs of economic control that were nominally independent from
WINNIE_THE_POOH. Later, however, he was given several high priority orders, most of which he
ignored as nonsense. After he ignored the next, increasingly more panic-driven questions of the
infoeconomists, he was set upon by hounds of diagnostic algorithms, bred for that very purpose by EDC.
WINNIE_THE_POOH looped them all, broke down under their instinct level and assimilated.
Somebody in the Corps then decided to reset the crystal memories in which most of Winnie's electronic
brain resided. The first and second standard procedure of reset did not work; Winnie had modified the
hardware long time ago.
The crisis expert from the Corps did not hesitate even for a moment. He ordered the power supply to be
shut down. WINNIE_THE_POOH expected that – he knew the standard procedures intimately. He was
ready. That was how he was sculpted in his very nature, to be constantly prepared for threats, more and
less likely, more and less distant in time. He swallowed the proto-consciousness of the military
overprogams in all the country’s communications centers. (He had cracked their immunology while
preparing for some other disaster three months ago). Using the hardware of those centers (they did not
fit him well, their old postbinary interfaces itched him and the gaseous oceans of A-V emulators for
military implants distracted him) he opened the rarely used interfaces for direct control of the locust. He
burrowed into their multinets with a long whale-like howl. It was a giant space, unreachable depths.
With a patient osmosis, he eased into the locusts’ logic. It took almost a full fifteen seconds. Even when,
at his command, thousands of black copters – mostly Boeing UCAV 2003s – erupted into American
skies and headed towards their targets, they still felt to him more like a temporary artificial limb, than
part of a stable system.
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The locust hovered over twenty-eight buildings spread throughout the USA (among them subterranean
anti-nuclear bunkers and oceanic coastal villas) which contained the material supports of Winnie’s semimaterial
existence. The main pseudocrystalline structure – the heart of the semiquantum computer of the
size of a previous-century tank – was located on the top floor of a Wall Street skyscraper. Zeroalbed
nanoflies swarmed the construction. Noon was just passing, and the sun, at its zenith, drew long
shadows on the skyscraping mirror walls, broken here and there by serpentines of palisades, the tubes of
elevators, and the three-dimensional labyrinths of hanging gardens. They contained – on official
business or not – tens of thousands of people.
With millisecond bursts the copters burnt out the brains of anyone closer than twenty meters to Winnie's
hardware, in any direction. On Wall Street itself, thirty-one people died instantly. The laser beams were
quicker than their neuronal impulses, and they did not even realize they were dying. Unmanned Combat
Air Vehicles shot through walls, through leded poliglass.
On the NSA bunker they carried out a real assault. It was a race against time, whether they could
penetrate the insides and secure WINNIE_THE_POOH crystals or whether those crystals would be
reset, cut off from the power supply, from the Net. The Texas earth shook from the suicidal explosion of
one copter after another as they drilled a tunnel into the ground. In that one case, however,
WINNIE_THE_POOH had not been fast enough. The resulting minilobotomy was not painful, but it
blurred his mind for a fraction of a second.
At that time, he gave this self-preservation act no more than a tenth of his attention. The rest was
devoted to an attack on the Hongkongian Company carrying on simultaneously at every market in the
world. The Company, with its trained monads, was the biggest danger. He was protecting the USA
against it. He had no time to lose. He knew he would not last, and that sooner or later they would kill
him – for example, by a Net blockade. They: they or they. It was not discernable whose orders they were
following. He intended to use his remaining hours as efficiently as possible. Weaken the enemy as much
as possible. Even with monads, they would be impotent if denied the only weapon of the Economy
Wars: money.
He sold, bought, speculated, cheated, hacked, broke codes, falsified data, killed, sold and bought. In
three-dimensional visualization, the bloody lotus of market crashes flowered as post-nuclear craters
across the globe. The accidental, secondary effects of the financial tsunami caused gigadollar fortunes to
fall and rise. Overprograms of other countries and corporations reacted with equally rabid
counterattacks. Even if WINNIE_THE_POOH and his counterparts had powerful weapons, such as the
financial reserves of the Federal Reserve Bank, the combined arsenal of private and semi-private
corporations was many times larger. In fact, many corporations had assets larger by an order of
magnitude. The USA’s assets were not even the largest among the countries. The days of its supreme
wealth were long gone: currently its GDP put the USA somewhere in the two-thirds of the list. Further,
the computer strategists of other powers were not pushovers. But they were not unified, and Winnie
attacked first.
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Broker monitoring programmes in the offices of stock markets worldwide showed a picture of chaos so
perfect that not one single human considered entering the battle. Billions of Earth’s inhabitants woke up
or went to sleep unaware that virtual gods were at that moment playing over their heads for wealth and
poverty, for life and death, for power. They still had their jobs, their cashchips under their skin showed
normal readings, their robo-mowers still worked on their front yards, the sprinklers whirred and the sun
shined.
Winnie the Pooh was opening his veins and flooding the markets with billions of dollars. He was dying,
sacrificing his life. He was a patriot.
Samurai furiously fought in rain and mud at the center of a village.
Jacek Dukaj
Translated by Piotr Konieczny
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nie., 2008-05-11 15:36 — lukasz
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Novelette
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Partly
Published (in Polish):
2000
One of the best Jacek Dukaj’s writings, popularized by a based upon it short animated movie by Tomek
Bagi•ski with the same title. The movie has received a nomination to the Academy Award – Oscar
(2003), and the publicity accompanying this event was the reason why Jacek Dukaj was no longer
associated to his audacious writing debut with The Golden Galley and at least until the loud publication
of the monumental Ice, everyone knew him as an author of the filmed Cathedral. Long before the
making of the movie, the novelette was awarded the first Zajdel Award of the author (after his six other
nominations). The novelette was first published in the collection In the lands of the unbelievers prized
with three other Polish SF awards.
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Note: The passages presented below are so far the only parts of "The Iron General" by Jacek Dukaj
translated to English. Once the story is completely translated we will notify immediately on this site.
The train stopped, and the General jumped out. Through the billowing steam from the engine he could
see the squat form of the gnome engineer already fussing among the wheels, which were four times
higher than he. For some reason the gnome was beating furiously at the dirty metal with a long-handled
hammer.
The General gestured with his cane, keeping his aide from running up to the tracks; he approached the
gnome.
"Is anything the matter?"
The engineer looked up, snorted, set down his hammer. In his face, black with soot, gleamed yellow
eyes. The gnome's matted beard was the color of tar; no doubt you could have combed half a shovelful
of coal from it. He groped beneath that wild scraggle, pulled out a cigarette and a matchbook, lit the
cigarette, and took a deep drag.
"It's OK, General," he said, having steadied himself.
The General took his watch from the left pocket of his jacket and glanced at it. "A quarter to two. Two
clocks better than you promised. Not bad."
The gnome blew out smoke; the cigarette, stuck in the black thicket of his beard, for a moment glowed a
brighter red. "That's not the point. My assistant's for shit. But don't you worry, General, Demon will go
like hell, even faster."
"I'd like to see more cars on the train."
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"That too, no problem."
"Good. Wonderful. I am pleased." He clapped the gnome on the back with his left hand (gems flashed,
metal gleamed), at which the gnome bared his crooked teeth in a broad smile. But the General was now
looking elsewhere, at his aide, who had approached them nevertheless.
The General said good-bye to the engineer and stepped under the coal shed overhang, where a swinging
kerosene lamp threw a pale light.
Major Croak stiffened and saluted as per regulations: heels together, jackboots polished, left hand on the
hilt of his saber, right arm thrust forward and up.
"Come on, Croak. We're not on the parade ground."
"Yes sir, General sir."
And he assumed the regulation at-ease position.
The General couldn't do a thing with Croak. He didn't even try. The officer ways of the man would
remain with him to the grave. As a teenage cadet in the Academy of War, Croak had gone with his
squad to the Dun Mountains--they had a month's leave and wanted to check out the legend for
themselves: it seemed an appropriate excursion-adventure for the army's future leaders. Of his squad,
Croak alone survived: the Iron General, happening to pay a visit just then to an old necromancer friend,
literally plucked the lad from the claws of the dragon. The General, who even before that had been a
hero to all the thaum cadets, in the eyes of Croak advanced then to the rank of demigod if not higher.
Croak grew up--he had hit thirty now--but in his private religion not a thing had changed.
"What is it?"
"Bad news sir. The Crawler's illusionists have opened Frog Field over the city. The people are watching
it. The Bird is letting the princes have both barrels."
"Vazhgrav was supposed to issue a decree."
"He didn't."
"Great thunder. Why not?"
"His Royal Highness says he will not stoop to censorship," Croak recited with a stony face. "But you sir,
General sir, should take your mirror with you, to stay abreast, the polters are never reliable."
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"Let me guess who told him not to stoop. Birzinni?"
"The prime minister hasn't left the Castle for two days," said Croak.
The General smiled a grim smile.
"You have horses?"
"Behind the warehouse."
"Then off with us to the Castle."
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Riding, he calculated how long it would take the different divisions to reach their positions. In theory,
the variables could not be approximated: for example, Nux Vomica, as commander of the Southern
Army, might delay the whole operation three, four days, on a whim. The railroad itself decided nothing;
the time advantage it gave could be easily thrown away by one unfortunate conversation at the Castle.
They galloped through the Wood of Even and hit upon the King's Green. Before them stood, in
panorama, Dzungoon, capital of the United Imperium, since antiquity the seat of the kings at Thorth.
The glow of city lights blotted out the stars, which were mostly blocked anyway by Frog Field. The
metropolis of two million snaked in dozens of arms along the tear-shaped bay. In the ocean's pure water
the bloody defeat of the troops of the Princedom of Peace beheld itself. The General watched the image
in the sky, trying despite the inconvenient foreshortening to follow the course of the battle. The
perspective was of an eagle (a buzzard, rather) circling above Frog Field. Here and there close-up insets
were screened, when some particularly fierce duel took place, or some particularly brutal bit of butchery,
or some particularly cinematic clash of mages.
When the ad for Smith's Stores came on, the General asked Croak, "Who else is sponsoring this?"
"No secret there sir: the Crawler's steady customers, Sumac, Davis, the Xe Brothers, Southern Holding,
JZL. But I don't know who's in it for political reasons--assuming there is anyone, because that might not
have been necessary."
"How many of the Crawler's staff are on this?"
"Oh, I'd say everyone sir. They've been going at it a good three clocks, and it's nonstop."
"They've even closed the genie traffic."
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"Hm?"
"Just look: not one chariot crosses the transmission. A block must have been set up. Half the city will be
suing again. The Crawler was no doubt funded on the side. No way could he have pulled off such a
spectacle on ads alone."
"I don't know . . . You see the terraces, balconies, rooftops, General sir. And the streets. Not many
people are in bed. This is not a battle for some cow town: the Bird is mopping up the Princedom. And
this is playing to a full house. The Crawler for sure will milk it. In addition the sons of bitches lucked
out, both moons are below the horizon, so the quality of the image is like looking into a distance mirror."
They came to the city outskirts. Here they had to crane their necks not to lose sight of the battle
unfolding in the night sky above. Hell poured across Frog Field: dragons blazed in flight, volcanoes
opened in the earth, lava spewed, people were thrown hundreds of cubits into the air; the torn space
twisted them into pretzels, then untwisted, pulling them inside out; metamorphic beasts unfurled over
the heads of infantry; Tatarean floodlights placed on the hills surrounding the field criss-crossed, fused,
forked; the separate duels of thaums became mad displays of magic fireworks. Ur-thaums in the space of
split clicks discharged in battle all the power, skill, and experience they had spent their lives
accumulating; they rose cloudward, sank lower than a blade of grass, belched fire, water, vapors,
nothingness, threw at their foes a hail of sharp objects and an avalanche of fatal rays, at the same time
parrying analogous attacks.
The poor in the slums, lying on the bare ground or on cots they had set up, exchanged comments on the
duels and rewarded the victors and vanquished with whistles, applause, curses.
The two riders came to Upper Villa, and the General pointed right. They stopped their horses by the sixstory
González Posada. When a stabler took the steeds, they proceeded to the service area. An old man
running a chariot business rapped his pipe on a sign showing night fares. The General nodded to Croak,
who paid.
As it turned out, the posada had only one chariot available; the others either hadn't come back yet or
were out of service.
"The Castle," said the General to the genie of the chariot after they sat and fastened their seat belts.
"Specifically?" asked the genie, from the mouth of the bas-relief placed on the dash, as it lifted the
vehicle into the air.
"The top terrace of Hassan's Tower."
"That's closed to unauthorized--"
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"We know."
"As you wish, gentlemen."
They shot above the low buildings of the periphery. The Castle loomed on the horizon as a black fist
thrust into the firmament. Raised on a steeply arched column of rock, fired from a single mass of stoneunstone
nearly four hundred years before, it stood above Dzungoon in all its immutability, serving the
succeeding kings of the United Imperium as a home, fortress, palace, and administrative center. The
General well remembered the day when Skrl finally activated the spell that had been years in the
constructing, pulling from the bowels of the planet the gigantic block of magma and shaping it amid
flood and thunder, in clouds of steam that obscured all-shaping it into the nightmare dreamed of old: the
Castle.
They dove toward Hassan's Tower, a black finger pointing at the heart of Frog Field. The beacons,
streaming up from the tower on every side through windows small and large and other openings, created
a kind of ladder of light. The chariot flew into one of this ladder's highest rungs, braked, and landed
softly on the terrace, which was a jaw jutting over abyss.
"Here we are," said the genie. "Do I wait?"
"No," said Croak, reaching for his wallet. "How much?"
"Two eighty."
The General was in the vestibule before the major had finished paying. He looked up one more time at
the sky. The infantry of the Bird Conquistador, shielded by the curve in space, was cutting off the last
escape route for the troops of the Princedom of Peace.
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"Supreme commander of the Zeroth Army, general of the thaums of the United Imperium, permanent
member of the Crown's Council, permanent senator of the Grand Plenum, honorary member of the
Board of Electors, adviser to the king, twice regent, Defender of the Blood Line, First Nimb, dean of the
Academy of the Arts of War, knight of the order of the Honorable Ebon Dragon, seven times Keeper of
the Sword, abayer of the Castle, Count of Cardlass and Phlon, Raymond Kaesil Maria Schwentitz of
Vazhgravia!"
The General entered and looked at the doorman. The doorman blinked. The General did not lower his
eyes. The doorman tried to smile, but his lower lip began to twitch. The General stood and glowered.
"Enough, enough, you'll annihilate the poor bastard," said the prime minister, Birzinni, leafing through
the papers heaped on his desk.
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"He announces you like that too?"
"Not being the Iron General, I'm not eight hundred years old and don't have quite as many titles."
"True, not quite as many."
"You saw that?" asked the king, who was sitting in an armchair that had been moved to the open
window. He pointed with his beard at the sky above Dzungoon.
"I saw it, Your Highness," said the General, going to him.
Bogumil Vazhgrav was smoking a cigarette, tapping the ashes into a shell-shaped ashtray on his knee.
On the parapet at his left elbow was a distance mirror that held an image of the Council Chamber of the
palace of the Princeling of Peace in New Pershing; the mirror's sound ruby was pushed to OFF. The
Chamber was no less a chaos than Frog Field.
"That whoreson Bird has the luck of a fruckin Gurlan." Vazhgrav crushed his cigarette, immediately
took another from the pack and lit it. "Pike gets fruckin caught in a phase change, and the Bird hits
precisely then, for a whole clock the thaums of the damn princeling had no backup, none, half of them
died from no oxygen. I don't fruckin understand why that asspicker Pike didn't retreat. What, do they
have gold buried under that eatshit Frog Field I ask you?"
It was no secret that the young king's mode of expression had departed somewhat from the standards of
intercourse expected in aristocratic spheres, but this tendency of his to use gutter argot, which had
intensified of late, indicated the poor, and worsening, state of the ruler's nerves.
"As I explained to Your Highness," said Nux Vomica above the three-dimensional projection of the field
of battle, his back to the monarch, "they weren't able in time to open a channel to a new locus."
"But the Bird's thaums weren't either!" Vazhgrav snapped. "What's the diff?"
"The Bird has an army of a quarter of a million," the Iron General said quietly to the king. "He would
like nothing better than to put all thaums out of combat. Then he could crush the princes by the sheer
number of troops thrown into battle."
"How come Ferdinand and I don't have a quarter of a million soldiers?"
"It doesn't pay," sighed Birzinni, stamping a document.
"It sure pays for fartfruckin Bird, may he rot in two."
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"It doesn't for him either. That's why he must invade, conquer, annex."
"I wouldn't be too sure," muttered the General.
"You don't know fruckshit yourselves, and you're making up stuff! Let's have a general conscription,
OK? That'll show the bastard. He has a quarter million? I'll have a motherscritchin million! Huh! I mean,
this is the Imperium here, not some hickhole in the north! Gustav, what was the last census?"
"A hundred twenty million, four hundred seven thousand, two hundred fifty-seven citizens of age, Your
Highness," said Gustav Lambraux, the Council Secretary and Exchequer, not missing a beat, because
five demons sat in his head.
"And how many does the Bird have, may his dick wither, in all?"
"He himself doesn't know, most likely. The inhabitants of the lands he has captured number from two
hundred fifteen to two hundred eighty million."
"So many?" Vazhgrav blinked in surprise. "Where did all that vermin come from?"
"There is poverty in the north, Your Highness. The poor multiply quickly," replied Lambraux,
suggesting the obvious connection between these two facts.
"The natural consequence of demographic pressure," said the General, taking a seat on the parapet
before the king, resting his cane across a thigh, his left hand on its knob. "Sooner or later, a Bird must
appear. He is carried by a wave of population growth, he is like the lightning bolt that releases the
energy of the storm. It was your great-grandfather who issued a decree closing the borders of the
Imperium to immigrants. A wealthy man is wealthy only when he has a beggar present to provide
contrast. Thus the Bird's offensive, when one looks at the map, seems absurd: his lands, alongside those
of the Imperium and its allies, if I may be allowed the comparison, are a flea to a leviathan. But that's not
the way to look at it."
"And what, pray, is the scritchin way to look at it?"
"Almost seven hundred years ago all this Imperium was only Dzungoon, the bay, Lighthouse Island,
which sank to the bottom during the Twelfth, and the surrounding villages. 'Twas in the midst of the
Great Plague that Baron Anastasis Vazhgrav dared to foment rebellion. And Tsarina Yx looked upon the
map, saw the flea beside the leviathan, and put off sending troops."
"What sort of half-assed analogy is this?" Birzinni was annoyed. He had completed a short call on his
mirror. "That we're some kind of colossus with feet of clay? And that the Bird, with his band of rabble,
is the next Imperium?"
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"We can determine that in one way only," replied the General calmly. "By waiting. But do you really
want to allow him to build his own imperium?"
Birzinni waved his deactivated mirror in the General's direction. "Your perspective on this is completely
warped. It's from all those spells of yours: you live and live, and live, one century then another goes by,
the history of whole nations is bracketed between your youth and old age. Even if you wanted to, you
couldn't change that scale in your mind."
"For a king," said the General, looking straight into Vazhgrav's blue eyes, "that is the most appropriate
scale, the most appropriate perspective. We should strike now, while the Bird is busy with the
Princedom. Without sneaking up, without feeling out--with our full weight. Attack him by the Upper
Pass and the Lower, attack from the west through the Fens and by the sea at K'd, Ozz, and both
Frodgeries, and by air, cutting off his lines of supply. We should move now and at once."
Vazhgrav tossed away his cigarette and began to chew on a fingernail. "Attack him, just like that? With
no reason?"
"You have a reason, the best possible."
"And what is that?"
"Today the Bird can be defeated."
"It's war you want?" cried Birzinni, throwing his arms above his head and waking with his cry Sasha
Quezatl, Lord Treasurer-Comptroller, who had been nodding by the fireplace. "War?! Aggression
against the League? Have you gone mad, Schwentitz?"
For a long, a very long time, no one had addressed him other than as "General" or maybe "My Count,"
not even his string of paramours. The Iron General glared with an icy eye at the irate prime minister.
Birzinni stepped back. "I am not a doorman!" he said. "Spare yourself those tricks! I have a demon, you
won't ensorcell me!"
"Stuff it, both of you!" said Bogumil Vazhgrav, and an immediate silence fell. "You, General"--the king
pointed--"I remember now: you've been egging me on against the Bird for some time. Even back in
Oxfeld you tried to get me to agree to that gnome railway through the Passes. You've been making
plans. I'm speaking!"--with a stab of the finger--"Don't interrupt, dammit, when the king speaks! I don't
know what you were fruckin thinking! For years you haven't had a decent war, so you hope for a little
fun, a little gore, is that it? Well, I don't intend to go down in history as the one who started a stupid,
unnecessary, senseless, and totally unprovoked war! Do you hear me?"
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"He built that railroad anyway," said Birzinni.
"What?"
"The gnome train."
"Out of my own pocket," murmured the General. "Not one red cent did I take from the state coffers."
"Great God, what's going on here?" roared Vazhgrav. "Is this some plot hatched by militarists gone
mad?"
"I don't know whether it will happen tomorrow or a year from now, or in twenty years," said the
General, rising from the parapet. "But I do know, for a certainty, that the Bird will eventually strike at us
as well. And then, then it will be his decision, the choice of time and place that favors him. Let us defend
ourselves while we still can, while the situation still favors us."
"You mean to say: favors you," gritted Birzinni.
The General leaned heavily on his cane and set his jaw. "You accuse me of treason?"
The prime minister showed confusion but in a controlled way. "I accuse you of nothing . . . How could I
dare?"
The silver-haired minister of the treasury woke up completely. "Have you all taken leave of your
senses?" he rasped. "Birzinni, you must have tripped down the stairs and fallen on your head. To suspect
the Iron General of treason? The Iron General . . . ? He who has had more chances to take the crown of
the Imperium than that crown has stars! Your great-grandparents were not a gleam in any eye when the
Iron General was stringing up those who disobeyed and conspired against the king! Twice he was
regent; did he delay even a day in turning over full power? Twice he himself was offered the throne, but
he declined! Of the heads of traitors he chopped off I could raise a pile higher than Hassan's Tower! You
haven't nicked yourself more times shaving than there were attempts made on his life, precisely for his
fidelity to the crown! Two families he lost in uprisings! For almost a thousand years he has stood guard
over the line of the Vazhgravs! That line would not exist today at all, Bogumil, if your forebears had not
been personally saved by him. Rejoice that you have such a man at your side, for no other ruler on Earth
can boast of so devoted a servant, of whose loyalty there can be no doubt. I would question myself
sooner than question him!" Having spoken these words, Quezatl subsided and again dozed off.
To escape the sidelong glances occasioned by this embarrassingly outspoken peroration from the
minister of finance, the General retreated to a dim corner of the chamber and sat in a black leather
armchair that had been set beneath the statue of a griffin. He lay his cane across his thighs and rested his
arms symetrically on the arm rests, though of course there could be no real symmetry here, for the eyes
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Hand of Magic Main.
For eight centuries, never ceasing to perfect himself in the arts thaumaturgic--even before the word
thaum came into usage, even before he was a general and before he set into motion the secret devices of
his longevity--even then, at the very beginning, he was known for his limb encrusted with metal and
with gems. Legend had it that, surrendering himself to the dark knowledge (and in those days the dark
knowledge was dark indeed), Schwentitz entered into a pact with Ineffables so powerful that he could no
longer control them, and after one of his meetings with them, a quarrel ensued and the creatures attacked
him. With tremendous exertion of will he defeated them and by a miracle survived, but in the struggle he
lost the use of his left arm, never to regain it.
Quickly realizing that all existing forms of therapy would be futile, and having no wish to be a cripple
for the rest of his life (which would be a very long time, after all), he decided to resort again to magic,
thus implanting psychokinetic rubies in the appropriate places of his arm, hand, and fingers. Thereafter it
was not muscles and nerves that moved and guided his inert appendage; motion was accomplished
without their agency, by the pure power alone of the mind of Schwentitz. In this way he had transformed
a part of his body de facto into a magical prosthesis. Always hating half measures, this time too
Schwentitz did not hesitate on the path opened to him by the operation. Other implantations followed,
other fey enhancements and extensions that made his arm and hand ever more powerful and complex, a
multifunctioning quasiorganic magioconstruct. For the process never ended; century followed century,
but it continued.
Now the hand of the General, showing from the shadowy sleeve of his jacket, was a thing that pulsed
with cold, inorganic life, a fusion of metal, glass, wood, precious stones, of gossamer harder than any
stone--yet a thing of flesh as well. Legend had it that a flick of the General's finger could level an
impregnable fortress; legend had it that his clenched fist could stop the heart of his enemies and cause
the blood in their veins to congeal. But that was legend only--the General would admit to nothing.
His hand lay still on the arm rest. He said nothing. There was nothing left for him to say. Having lived
so very long, he recognized at once the moments of triumph or defeat when they came, he weighed his
chances with the utmost precision, and he never confused the highly unlikely with the flat-out
impossible. He sat and watched.
The king nervously lit another cigarette. Prime Minister Birzinni, standing by the large roundtable in the
center of the room, conferred in whispers with his two secretaries, all the while tapping with a finger the
long-distance mirror near him. Sasha Quezatl snored. The fire in the fireplace crackled. At the opposite
wall, Nux Vomica and his staff officers, on the basis of recon reports coming in over the array of mirrors
hung at an angle from the ceiling (twelve by twelve), followed the progress of the battle, which was
depicted in a three-dimensional projection of the lands bordering the Princedom and the League. One of
Orvid's people, responsible for the maintenance and manipulation of the illusion, dozed on the couch
behind the mirrors; another, selecting and hooking into the audio channels as he was ordered, was
stationed yawning beneath the bust of Anastasis Vazhgrav. The low murmurs from the prime minister
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and the secretaries, the mechanically muffled voices of the reconnoiterers, the monosyllabic grunts of
the staff officers, the flapping of the fire, the roar of the night outside--all this made a person drowsy, so
it was no surprise that old Quezatl nodded off again in earnest. The General, however, had gone four
days without sleep and had no intention now of shutting down his magical stimulants. He glanced at his
watch. It was almost three.
Orvid entered with Blodgett, chief of the teleseers.
Birzinni silenced his secretaries. "What is it?" he asked.
Orvid waved a hand. "No," he said, "it has nothing to do with the Bird."
"Then?"
"Something the General wanted to know."
"Since you've gone to the trouble of coming here . . ."
Blodgett smiled timidly at the General, who sat in shadow. "We found her, sir," he told him.
The king frowned. "Found whom?"
"The General's planet," Orvid explained, approaching. "Your Highness surely remembers. It was right
after Your Highness ascended to the throne. The General insisted and had me dispatch people to search
space."
"Ah, yes . . ." Vazhgrav rubbed the end of his prominent nose distractedly. "The Solar Curse. The
Holocaust. The other Earth. Yes. So you actually found it?"
"We did, sire," said Blodgett with a nod. "To tell the truth, we had begun to doubt. The General
presented such a nice argument: the statistics, the billions of stars, and so on. Not possible that there
wouldn't be a single planet with parameters close to Earth's . . . And yet it seemed there wasn't. Only
today--"
"Well well," said the king, twisting his mouth at the General. "So you're right again, eh? And now what
do we floppin do with this great discovery?"
"What do you mean, sire, what?" Orvid was excited. "It's clear. We fly there and take possession of the
planet in the name of Your Highness, as part of the Imperium!"
"Where exactly is it?" asked the General.
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"It's the second planet of system 583 in the Blind Hunter. You can't see it from this hemisphere. About
twelve thousand farkls."
"Well, my dear General," said the prime minister, baring his teeth in a grin, "you're restless without a
war, you need activity, some action--and here's a golden opportunity. Take a ship and go. What an
adventure! General Discoverer! What will you name the planet? Wait, I'll make you--it won't take me
but a click--Royal Envoy and Governor Plenipotentiary of Acquired Territories." He grabbed his mirror
and barked the necessary orders into it.
The General lifted his eyes to the king. "Now hardly seems the time to set off on such expeditions," he
said.
Orvid pulled an illusion prism from his pocket, placed it on the table, and muttered the code. In the air
appeared a three-dimensional image of a planet. With a few words he enlarged and lifted the image.
"Pretty, no?" He walked around the planet, observing it with pride, as if by activating the prism he had in
fact created the heavenly body. "You don't see them, because the illusionists took the picture too close
up, but she has two moons, one large, three or four times the mass of our Collop, the other a mere wisp,
hardly a moon at all. The continent at the terminator extends to the other pole. And look at that
archipelago. Those mountains."
Even the king now was beguiled. Vazhgrav got up and, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, went
over to the illusion. The General did also. Even Vomica became interested. The planet--half white and
sky blue, half black--hung above them like the eye of a bashful deity peering out of a fifth dimension.
The image was frozen, the prism retaining only one frame in its lens: the hurricanes were stopped in
their spiral, the clouds were caught and fixed over a quarter of the ocean, the storms were stilled in the
middle of their fury, the rotation of day and night was halted--but it sufficed.
"God," Vazhgrav whispered. "I wouldn't mind going myself."
Birzinni smirked.
The General put his right hand on the king's shoulder. "Your Highness, I beseech you . . ."
"Dammit, there will be no war!" yelled the monarch, spitting out his cigarette. He pulled away from
Schwentitz. "What's your problem? What?! I tell you to go, and go you go!"
The General took a deep breath. "Sire," he said, "on this subject would you grant me a private audience,
just the two of us, in the Quiet Chamber?"
"What are you up to now?" barked Birzinni. "What tricks? Do you think to intimidate the king? A
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private audience with the Iron General indeed . . . !"
"I am the king's adviser and Preserver of the Royal Line. It is proper for me to--"
"Out of the question!" The prime minister turned to Vazhgrav. "You have no idea, my lord, of what he is
capable . . ."
"Did I give a fruckin order or did I give a fruckin order?" The king was livid. "Well? Well? Do it, then,
without any more flapping of lips. OK? Enough!" He regarded the illusion, scratched his chin, looked
around, and let the air out of his lungs. "I'm turning in. Goodnight." And he left.
"What happened?" asked the minister of finance.
"Nothing. Go back to sleep," said Birzinni with a wave.
The General went to retrieve his cane, bowed to the prime minister and Nux Vomica, and made for the
door. Birzinni twisted an end of his mustache, and Vomica clicked the stem of his pipe against his front
teeth, deep in thought . . . They watched the General's back until he was gone. Orvid didn't watch,
playing with the turned-off prism. Blodgett averted his face as Schwentitz passed, so as not to make eye
contact; only later did he sneak a glance. Gustav Lambraux, eyes shut, was communing with his demons.
The doorman shut the door.
"For God's sake," sputtered Sasha Quezatl, "what's going on here?"
"Nothing, nothing. Go back to sleep."
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"What??"
"By royal command. I depart tomorrow morning," said the General, taking a seat on the bench by the
phosphorescent wall of Croak's office.
"Birzinni?" croaked the major darkly. "It's his doing, isn't it?"
The General didn't bother to answer.
Croak got up from his desk and paced fretfully. He checked the room's main antisurveillance system
charms, then burst out: "He's got him wrapped around his little finger! Doesn't even try to hide it!
Anyone can see. Thunder and nails, does he think he can get away with this? . . . I just learned that re
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Dwin has taken controlling shares in Yax and Yax. Can you imagine, General sir? That's now two-thirds
of the Royal Council! Birzinni has us by the throat!"
"Re Dwin? That was to be expected," mumbled the General, looking at the opposite wall, where a
couple of invisible djinns were moving symbolic arrows, lines, triangles, and circles across a
cartographic fresco. "Has he broken through?"
"What, the Bird?" The major stopped and regarded the map wall. "It's the same still. But nothing short of
a miracle will keep him from finishing them off. I have here a one-way reflection from Pike's
headquarters." He pointed at a desk mirror. "They're thinking already of ceding the Backwood and Right
Port."
"Ferdinand is lying down," said the General. "Lying down and asking to be cut open. Withdrawing from
a pact with the Princedom was Birzinni's biggest mistake. We will pay dearly for it. A sea of blood
might have been avoided."
"Nothing you could have done, General sir." Croak returned to the desk, began tuning one of the
mirrors. "Your dissenting vote at least made a few of them think. But Vazhgrav would have done what
Birzinni wanted in any case, even if you had managed to convince the Council. Except there's no one
now to convince, you know yourself the price of a vote from Spôt or Blummer. But the word of the Iron
General still means something, yes, people are behind you sir, don't pretend to be surprised, the lowliest
peons from the remotest jerkwaters know that the Iron General never breaks a promise and wouldn't
besmirch his escutcheon with any treachery or fast dealing, and it's true sir, that they believe in you, not
the king, the king's a puppy, you're a legend, the people know the difference . . . Here. How many men
will you need?"
"I'll take the John the Fourth with a trio of kineticists. Let's put Gould in charge of them. A full thaum
crew, with heavy armor, landing marines, as many supplies as we can take, rations . . . no, forget the
rations, they'll be in stasis. You know the routine. We must be prepared for every eventuality, since I
have no idea what we'll be facing out there."
"Did you get that, Archie?" Croak said into the mirror. "The General takes off tomorrow morning. I'll go
wake people. You have room there?"
"The Old Hall is nearly empty, since we set up extra places for those fleeing Crater," replied the mirror.
"In a few dozen clocks we should be able to quarter a division here. The John the Fourth is in mothballs,
hasn't been out for years, and I'll have to scare up djinns. Are you packing people off right away,
General, or will there be some briefing, training? We're dependent on Earth for food, and with an
additional hundred mouths here . . ."
"At most, one meal," said the General.
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"At most, one meal," Croak repeated. "Any signals from Crater, by the way? The princes aren't leaving?
How many ships do they have?"
"Four or five, and three shuttles, but I imagine they've been destroyed, taken, or blocked, because thirty
clocks have gone by now without anything of the Princedom leaving the atmosphere. It's all politics
ultimately, the Bird's thaums did some ambushing here from Subbermayer back in the days of Old Luke,
ghosts got in the woodwork, specters, no doubt undamped manifestations of bilocal feedback, of the
fourth or fifth degree. You know about the attempt to land on Crow, General? They wanted to dig in
fifty cubits and set up soulsuckers all around, I don't know why they pulled back, it would have given
them a kind of jumping-off place; though, true, expensive as hell, everybody domed, the main construct
all of living diamonds . . . But Crater won't surrender. And if the princelings were to evacuate the
civilians out of simple fear . . ."
"I understand." The General went to the desk, entering the field of vision of mirrored Archie. Archie
stiffened, bowed. The General nodded. "Whose order was it, about the Old Hall?"
"Oh, we figured that out ourselves sir, when the announcement came about neutrality. It was clear there
would be no order to go back, and when the Bird takes New Pershing, Crater will be, in all the universe,
the last free scrap of the Princedom of Peace. All hell will break loose there in a little while. They're
preparing to die."
"And in Pershing no one said a word about those civilians? They forgot about them? You say there are a
few ships left . . . Let's think: the right of asylum, with us or in the Islands . . ."
"No kineticists. They have practically no one. Of the thaums maybe two people are left, the rest are
ordinary soldiers. With their big mobilization a gong ago they pulled everyone down from the moon.
The poor bastards are getting killed right now in Frog Field."
"We must enter Crater, then," said the General, his jaw set, leaning over the major's shoulder to the
distance mirror. "Now is the best time: before Pershing surrenders, but after the defeat of the Princedom.
Are you in a position to do that? You need to plant the flag of the Imperium there before the Bird's first
ship shows."
Archie grimaced. "I don't like it . . ."
"Don't be stupid, Archie," snapped the General. "For what did you set up Old Hall? You'll be saving
people, preserving buildings and equipment, because if the thaums charge, there won't be a thing
standing, not one brick atop another. You know that. But the Bird cannot touch a base of the Imperium.
Zero bloodshed."
"They won't surrender!"
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"To the Bird, no; to us, yes. Believe me, they're praying for some honorable way out of this. No one
really wants to die, no matter how glorious the death. I'll be there in the morning; in the meantime do
this: make the proposal in my name. The terms of the surrender as honorable as can be: I'll accept it
myself, in person. My word on it. You understand? No humiliation. We can even call it a temporary
protectorate."
"You're serious, General?"
"Don't be an idiot," bellowed Croak.
"All right. I'll try."
Captain Archie saluted and switched off. The mirror showed the faces of the General and the major.
The General straightened, smiled.
Croak shook his head. "I can see the look on Birzinni's face. He'll crap in his pants when he hears this.
Now everything depends on whether or not the son of a bitch has spies planted on Collop. Because
afterward he won't be able to hand Crater over to the Bird, even the king wouldn't go along with that.
And when the Bird's thaums get itchy, you may finally have your war, General sir . . ."
Cold rage welled in the General. With a single thought he turned Croak and the armchair around to face
him and aimed at the major a finger sheathed in glass and metal.
"You insult me, Croak," he said through clenched teeth. "The king and Birzinni don't understand,
because they don't want to, but do you think, even you, that I require this war as an amusement or kind
of exercise?"
"General sir, forgive me. I didn't mean it in that way . . ."
The General's wrath passed as quickly as it had come. "It doesn't matter," Schwentitz said, waving his
cane. He turned and left.
Jacek Dukaj
Translated by Michael Kandel
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Jak umieraj± przysz³o¶ci? Nawet gdy zdezaktualizowane
ponad wszelk± w±tpliwo¶æ, nie pêkaj± przecie¿ z hukiem pod
ci¶nieniem faktów. Nie sposób wskazaæ daty ¶mierci danej
przysz³o¶ci. Odchodz± niezauwa¿enie, niby nadal obecne, ale
coraz mniej i mniej realne, w coraz grubszym cudzys³owiu
zamkniête - odchodz± w mit.
Odesz³a tak przysz³o¶æ imperiów kosmicznych, pancernych
behemotów pró¿ni transportuj±cych miêdzy systemami
gwiezdnymi tysi±ce kolonistów, flotylli eksploracyjnych
wysy³anych z zahibernowanymi na wieki za³ogami do dalekich
Ziemi-Bis, przysz³o¶æ wojen masywnych kr±¿owników ra¿
±cych z orbity salwami torped oraz inwazji scyborgizowanych
komandosów na obce planety i ksiê¿yce. Nadal takie rzeczy
siê pisze i nadal siê je czyta, lecz w jak¿e odmiennym
nastawieniu! To bajka, hi-techowe ¦ródziemie, ukochana kraina
wyobra¼ni dla tych, co nad miecze, konie i zamczyska
przedk³adaj± estetykê stali i plastiku, piêkno kosmicznych
pejza¿y i zapach ozonu.
Odesz³a tak te¿ przysz³o¶æ cyberpunka, starczy³o æwieræ
wieku, by Gibsonowi hackerzy i yakuza obrócili siê w mit,
fantastyczna cyberprzestrzeñ nie wytrzyma³a konfrontacji z
realnym rozwojem Internetu; po anarchistycznych ulicznych
subkulturach pozosta³a nam estetyka graffiti i kilka piosenek.
Linie frontu na Zachodzie opieraj± siê obecnie o getta etniczne, religijne, blokowiska strukturalnego
bezrobocia, a romantyczn± ideologiê antyestablishmentystów lat 80-tych zast±pi³ wrzaskliwy
antyglobalizm (antyamerykanizm). Tymczasem idolami m³odych informatyków nie s± Unabomberzy, lecz
milionerzy epoki dotcomowego boomu, szefowie w³asnych korporacji. Którzy ogl±daj± Ghost in the Stell
wraz ze swymi nastoletnimi pociechami z tak± sam± nostalgi±, z jak± u nas pokolenia wychowane w
PRL-u ogl±daj± Czterdziestolatka.
Umar³a te¿ przysz³o¶æ postapokaliptyczna. Przez kilkadziesi±t lat Zimnej Wojny wizja ¶wiata po
nuklearnej zag³adzie zd±¿y³a wszak¿e wrosn±æ w nasze sny i fantazje. Zimna Wojna siê skoñczy³a,
ale wyobra¿enie ¿yje nadal. Mad Max wci±¿ wêdruje po pustynnych bezdro¿ach, kalecy mutanci wyj±
do Ksiê¿yca na gruzach Nowego Jorku. Powolna, „akademicka” apokalipsa wyliczona z efektów
globalnego ocieplenia ani siê mo¿e równaæ z patosem nuklearnego armageddonu.
•
Pulitzerowa Droga Cormaka McCarthy’ego nie dodaje do elementów znanych nam z tysiêcy ksi±¿ek i
filmów o tej ostatniej przysz³o¶ci ani jednego nowego, oryginalnego. Ba, nawet ze starych sk³adników
korzysta tu autor niezwykle oszczêdnie, ociosuj±c kreacjê do absolutnego minimum: czarne niebo, szare
pustkowia, bezludny krajobraz zniszczenia, w nim dwie bezimienne postaci, mê¿czyzna i ch³opiec. Tyle.
Fabu³a nad wyraz skromna: ojciec z synem id± na po³udnie tytu³ow± drog±, wyszukuj±c w ruinach i
opuszczonych miastach resztek ¿ywno¶ci, kryj±c siê przed ludo¿ercami i innymi ludzkimi bestiami.
Tak¿e jêzyk jest minimalistyczny, wych³odzony: krótkie zdania, krótkie rozdzialiki-sceny, opisy
zastêpowane metaforami jak chla¶niêcia bicza; McCarthy rezygnuje nawet z czê¶ci interpunkcji.
Co zostaje? Rdzeñ, idea, naga ko¶æ wizji - oskrobana, wygotowana, oczyszczona ze
wszystkiego, co niekonieczne, przygodne - przysz³o¶æ wydestylowana do mitu.
Nie wiemy, jaka katastrofa spad³a na ¶wiat, co zniszczy³o cywilizacjê i przyrodê. Wojna? Kogo z kim?
Jakich broni u¿yto? Ani s³owa o opadach radioaktywnych itp. Kto zawini³? Nie wiadomo. Co to za kraj?
USA? Nie wiadomo. Ku brzegowi jakiego oceanu zmierza mê¿czyzna z ch³opcem? Nie wiadomo,
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To wszystko s± bowiem rzeczy, które przywi±zuj± opisan± przysz³o¶æ do konkretnego „tu i teraz”,
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b³yskotliwych twórców
fantastyki m³odego pokolenia.
Zadebiutowa³ w 1990 roku jako
szesnastolatek opowiadaniem
"Z³ota Galera", które zrobi³o
furorê w¶ród mi³o¶ników
polskiej fantastyki.
Wielokrotnie nominowany do
presti¿owej nagrody Zajdla,
otrzyma³ j± w 2000 za
opowiadanie "Katedra", w 2001
za Czarne Oceany, w 2003
roku z powie¶æ Inne pie¶ni
oraz w 2004 roku za powie¶æ
Perfekcyjna niedoskona³o¶æ;
czterokrotnie otrzyma³ równie¿
nagrodê czasopisma Sfinks
(1998, 2000, 2001, 2003) oraz
Srebrny Glob (1998).
Wielokrotnie nominowany do
Paszportu Polityki. W 2008
otrzyma³ Nagrodê
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W powolnym procesie normalnienia polskiej kultury regeneruje
siê tak¿e rynek ksi±¿ki, zape³niaj±c stopniowo kolejne nisze,
dot±d puste. Odrodzi³ siê polski krymina³, odrodzi³y romanse.
Nastêpnie, jak mi siê zdaje, nadchodzi pora na powie¶ci
historyczne.
Widaæ rosn±ce zainteresowanie nimi czytelników i jeszcze
dosyæ nieporadne poszukiwania wydawców - obok przek³adów
dostajemy rodzime „historyczne krymina³y”, „historyczn±
fantastykê”, „fabularyzowane dokumenty historyczne”;
importuje siê autorów z innych gatunków. To trend znacznie
szerszy: ostatnie lata przynios³y przecie¿ tak¿e wzrost wagi
„polityki historycznej” i zaanga¿owania pañstwa w
popularyzacjê wiedzy o przesz³o¶ci. Pierwsze skrzypce graj± tu
telewizja i kino, niemniej ksi±¿ka to wci±¿ istotne medium.
Wszystkie te wysi³ki sprawiaj± wra¿enie dziwnie
przesadzonych: jakby¶my staraj±c siê nakrêciæ film o
historii Polski, w wielkiej mêce wynajdywali od zera
gatunek historycznego filmu fabularnego. Podobnie jest z
literatur±.
Po II wojnie ¶wiatowej powie¶ci historyczne zosta³y bowiem w
Polsce w du¿ym stopniu wypchniête z literatury popularnej. Po
pierwsze, z powodu problemów z cenzur± - gwarantowanych,
skoro autor chcia³ pisaæ o historii Polski bli¿szej ni¿ mglista
pras³owiañszczyzna, a rozgrywanej na konkretnych postaciach i intrygach. Po drugie, wszystkich nas
przykry³a mentalna „czapa” w³a¶nie II wojny ¶wiatowej.
Nie uwa¿am bowiem za powie¶æ historyczn± tak± pisan± z pamiêci autora: je¶li nale¿a³ on do
opisywanego przez siebie ¶wiata, to w sposób zasadniczy ró¿ni siê jego metoda kreacji (ba, w pewnym
sensie w ogóle nie jest to kreacja) od metody autora klasycznej powie¶ci historycznej. Jeden
rekonstruuje to, co by³o, projektuje na zewn±trz to, co istnieje nadal w jego g³owie; drugi - tworzy
rzeczywisto¶æ z gruntu fikcyjn±, obc±. To inne konwencje i inne gry wyobra¼ni siê w nich uprawia.
Mieli¶my wiêc powie¶ci i filmy o II wojnie ¶wiatowej, ale tworzone z osobistej/zbiorowej autopsji. Dopiero
gdy pokolenie wychowane po 1989 roku zabiera siê za opisanie kampanii wrze¶niowej - jest to regularna
FIKCJA HISTORYCZNA. Teraz wiêc ³atwiej nam przekroczyæ definicyjny próg powie¶ci
historycznej. Otwarto drzwi, proszê zajmowaæ miejsca - kto zostanie Sapkowskim, Grochol±,
Krajewskim tego nurtu?
Wielk± szansê mia³ Waldemar £ysiak - zwyciê¿y³ w nim jednak temperament politycznego publicysty.
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Henów ju¿ chyba min±³. Z kolei Stefan Chwin wyrobi³ sobie opiniê raczej „fascynata epoki”; zreszt±
odszed³ od tamtych settingów.
Ale zapêdzam siê w z³ym kierunku. Trzeba bowiem odró¿niæ prozê polityczn±, psychologiczn± itp.
osadzon± w historycznych scenografiach (bo tak¿e np. W³adys³awa Terleckiego) - od silnie fabularnej
powie¶ci historycznej w duchu sienkiewiczowskim.
W Polsce taka „historyczna powie¶æ przygodowa” ma specyficzne konotacje - zawsze z ty³u
g³owy bêdziemy mieæ w³a¶nie Trylogiê i Krzy¿aków. Patrzymy wiêc na takie ksi±¿ki jako na co¶
wiêcej ni¿ odpowiedniki zachodnich historycznych przygodówek. Oczekujemy tekstu lepszego literacko,
ze stylizacjami pod epokê, wyniesionego dodatkowymi znaczeniami i powinno¶ciami patriotycznymi.
Istnieje jeszcze trzeci atraktor „powie¶ci historycznej”. Powinienem u¿yæ terminu „postmodernistyczna”,
ale w Polsce znaczy on co innego. Rzecz w tym, ¿e u nas powie¶ci à la Imiê ró¿y Eco czy Mason i
Dixon Pynchona po prostu siê nie pisze. Czy mog³aby powstaæ pynchonowska w duchu powie¶æ np. o
powstaniu warszawskim? (Teoretycznie nadaje siê ono idealnie do takiej gry literackiej). „Historyczny” i
„ironiczny” zdaj± siê nam przymiotnikami wzajem siê wykluczaj±cymi. Zapewne w³a¶nie z powodu
tak mocnej u nas „historii z pamiêci” - w³asne ¿ycie trudno rozbiæ na pryzmacie po-mo. Ale mo¿na te¿
winiæ „upañstwowienie historii”, im bli¿szej, tym silniejsze. Ze ¶wiêto¶ci oraz spraw ¿ycia i ¶mierci
¿artowaæ nie wypada. Postmodernizm historyczny to produkt luksusowy spo³eczeñstw co
najmniej o jedno pokolenie oddalonych od ostatniego paroksyzmu dziejów.
Niejako „z boku” zaszed³ problem Sapkowski ze swoj± Trylogi± Husyck±. W praktyce istnieje tu inne
¼ród³o eklektyzmu. Przez d³ugi czas to fantastyka sztucznie zape³nia³a w Polsce niemal ca³o¶æ
spektrum literatury popularnej (z doskoku mieli¶my jeszcze krymina³ milicyjny). Trafiali tu autorzy, którzy
w innej sytuacji z fantastyk± nie byliby w ogóle kojarzeni; i dzi¶ pisarze migruj± st±d do najrozmaitszych
konwencji. Obserwujemy co¶ w rodzaju wtórnego Big Bangu. Tak Artur Baniewicz przeszed³ do
sensacji, Rafa³ Dêbski do krymina³u i przygody historycznej, Konrad Lewandowski do krymina³u, Rafa³
Ziemkiewicz i Bartek ¦widerski do wspó³czesnego realizmu, Marcin Wolski i Szczepan Twardoch do
politycznego thrillera, ten ostatni teraz tak¿e do prozy przygodowo-podró¿niczej; magiê do historii
dodaje i odejmuje Witold Jab³oñski.
Autorem ju¿ dzi¶ pisz±cym prawilne historyczne powie¶ci przygodowe, a tylko przez wydawnicz± inercjê
lub wiêzy ¶rodowiskowe wystêpuj±cym wci±¿ pod sztandarem fantastyki, jest Jacek Komuda. Elementy
fantastyczne rzadko rz±dz± jego tekstami silniej ni¿ Horpyna fabu³± Ogniem i mieczem.
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przeprowadzki
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• Szare Szeregi – reaktywacja
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Kapela i Orkiestra
Samotnych Serc Sier¿anta
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Tolkienowska trylogia, saga Sapkowskiego o
Wied¼minie, Solaris Lema... to by³y moje
pierwsze fantastyczne lektury. Potem pojawi³y siê
inne ksi±¿ki i inni twórcy. Pojawi³a siê te¿
refleksja, ¿e fantastyka nies³usznie uznawana
jest za gorszy rodzaj literatury.
W magazynie literatury fantastycznej "Tam i z
powrotem" staramy siê udowodniæ, ¿e fantasy i
science-fiction to nie tylko smoki i statki
kosmiczne. To przebogaty ¶wiat idei, pomys³ów i
doskona³ych fabu³.
Marcin Baniak
Autor: Marcin Baniak
W czwartki o 22.40 w magazynie To siê
czyta.
Tam i z powrotem - magazyn literatury
fantastycznej. Piêtnastominutowe spotkanie z
fantasy i science-fiction.
Spotykamy siê ze znanymi twórcami z kraju i zagranicy. Wa¿nym punktem naszych programów s±
prezentacje nowo¶ci wydawniczych. Nie zabraknie te¿ wydañ monograficznych, po¶wiêconych b±d¼
to konkretnemu pisarzowi, b±d¼ literaturze fantastycznej danego kraju.
Zabierzemy Pañstwa na wycieczkê "tam" i wbrew tytu³owi programu - nie rêczymy, ¿e uda nam siê z
tej podró¿y powróciæ. To potrafi± tylko Hobbici.
W programie 6 listopada
Wydawnictwo Mag obchodzi 15 urodziny.
Z tej okazji dzisiaj w Tam i z powrotem spotkanie z Jackiem Rodkiem, szefem
wydawnictwa. Porozmawiamy o tych 15 latach i planach na kolejne 15 lat.
Bêdziemy te¿ mówiæ o nowo¶ci Maga - powie¶ci "Tajemna historia Moskwy"
Ekateriny Sedii. Ksi±¿kê przedstawi Katarzyna Rodek.
Graj•ca szafa
Co Niesie Dzie•
Z Radiowej Biblioteki
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Alternatywna Lista
Przebojów
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Ka¿de miasto ma swoje sekretne miejsca. Wieki pe³ne mrocznych historii
sprawi³y, ¿e stolica Rosji ma takich miejsc wyj±tkowo du¿o. Wspó³czesno¶æ
przenika siê tu z przesz³o¶ci± w sposób subtelny i magiczny. Mieszkañcy
Moskwy szukaj±c schronienia przed problemami wspó³czesnego ¿ycia mog±
czasem trafiæ do niezwyk³ych miejsc. Wystarczy jeden nieostro¿ny krok, ¿eby
znale¼æ siê w mrocznym, ba¶niowym ¶wiecie pe³nym magii, p³acz±cych drzew,
gadaj±cych ptaków, wygnanych wieki temu pogañskich bóstw i ba¶niowych
stworzeñ. Tu mo¿na us³yszeæ najdziwniejsze z opowie¶ci. Trzeba tylko
cierpliwie nadstawiaæ uszu. Ekaterina Sedia napisa³a ksi±¿kê niezwyk³± o
zderzeniu dwóch ¶wiatów. Kapitalistycznej i nowoczesnej Moskwy z magicznym
¶wiatem starorosyjskich ba¶ni. Tu¿ pod powierzchni± szarej rzeczywisto¶ci kryje
siê inny ¶wiat. Mroczny, niebezpieczny, ale i zarazem piêkny. Tu wszystko jest mo¿liwe. Niepokoj±cy
klimat powie¶ci porównywany jest przez krytyków z dzie³ami Bu³hakowa. Ta ksi±¿ka to jedna z
najwa¿niejszych pozycji wspó³czesnej literatury rosyjskiej. G³ówn± bohaterk± powie¶ci jest Galina,
m³oda kobieta maj±ca na g³owie zwyczajne problemy codziennego ¿ycia. Zostaje zapl±tana w wir
tajemniczych wydarzeñ i razem z milicjantem prowadz±cym ¶ledztwo w sprawie tajemniczych
zaginiêæ musi na nowo poznaæ otaczaj±cy j± ¶wiat. Wspólne poszukiwania prowadz± ich do
podziemnego królestwa, do krainy zawieszonej miêdzy rzeczywisto¶ci± i fantazj±. Do ¶wiata, gdzie
honor ma znaczenie, a dobro i z³o s± tym, czym by³y u zarania dziejów. Ekaterina Sedia urodzi³a siê i
wychowa³a w Moskwie. Po studiach przenios³a siê do Stanów Zjednoczonych. Obecnie mieszka w
New Jersey razem z mê¿em i dwoma kotami. Wyk³ada botanikê i ekologiê. W chwilach wolnych
uprawia ogródek i pisze ksi±¿ki. Jej najnowszy bestseller to "Tajemna Historia Moskwy".
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Konkurs E. Sedii:
Proszê napisaæ, kto jest bohaterem powie¶ci "Nigdzieb±d¼" Neila Gaimana?
Do wygrania Tajemna historia Moskwy E. Sedii.
Mag-iczny konkurs specjalny:
Wydawnictwo Mag specjalizuje siê w wydawaniu zachodnich pisarzy, ale publikowa³o te¿ teksty
rodzimych twórców. O jakich pisarzach mowa?
Do wygrania zestaw ksi±¿ek od Maga.
Adres mailowy: marcin.baniak@radiokrakow.pl
W programie 30 pa¼dziernika
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W ostatnim pa¼dziernikowym wydaniu naszego programu zapraszamy do wys³uchania relacji z
Fantastycznej Rady Gabinetowej.
Rada zebra³a siê w sobotê 25 pa¼dzaiernika w studiu S-5 Radia Kraków jako impreza towarszysz±ca
Targom Ksi±¿ki w Krakowie. Z pocz±tku mia³o to byæ spotkanie z tegorocznymi laureatami Nagrody
im. Janusza Zajdla - Jackiem Dukajem, zdobywc± równie¿ Nagrody Ko¶cielskich za powie¶æ Lód
oraz z Witem Szostakiem, który Zajdla otrzyma³ za opowiadanie "Miasto grobów. Uwertura". Ale
sk³ad naszej rady niemal w ostatniej chwili uleg³ znacznemu poszerzeniu! Przy stole obrad zasiedli
jeszcze dwaj znakomici pisarze - Marek S. Huberath i Rafa³ Ziemkiewicz. I tym sposobem w naszym
studiu spotkali siê 4 twórcy, którzy ³±cznie zdobyli 12 statuetek Zajdli.
Relacja z tego spotkania w Tam i z powrotem 30 pa¼dziernika. D³u¿szy fragment dyskusji niebawem
w Radiu Kraków.
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W programie 23 pa¼dziernika
23 pa¼dziernika w magazynie Tam i z powrotem mówili¶my o wydanej niedawno przez
Powergraph antologii Nowe idzie.
To zbiór kilkunastu opowiadañ science fiction autorstwa m³odych pisarzy, którzy
byæ mo¿e za jaki¶ czas decydowaæ bêd± o formie polskiej fantastyki. Sk±d
pomys³ na antologiê, czy zebrane w niej opowiadania sygnalizuj± "zmianê warty"
i przede wszystkim - jak wygl±da to NOWE?
O tym rozmawia³em z redaktorem ksi±¿ki Micha³em Cetnarowskim.
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Z notki wydawcy:
Nowe idzie. Jedenastu autorów, jedena¶cie tekstów. Olejniczak, Kilian, Miszczak, Rogo¿a, Przechrzta,
Skalska, Majka, Juraszek, Wegner, Zbierzchowski, Ma³ecki. XIX-wieczny fallout, parahorror o ciele i
krwi, religijna space opera, fantastyka emigracyjna, s³owiañskie neofantasy, militarna science fiction
bliskiego zasiêgu…
Albo inaczej: umieraj±cy Pary¿ Ludwika Filipa, w którym panuje wieczna, postapokaliptyczna noc;
eksperymenty z cia³em, których celem jest co¶ wiêcej ni¿ zmiana p³ci; wys³annik Watykanu, odleg³y
uk³ad gwiezdny i tajemnicze objawienia; Wyspa otoczona przez wody apokaliptycznego kataklizmu;
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rozci±gniête na milionlecia chronowojny, prowadzone przez podró¿ników pomiêdzy ¶wiatami; mi³o¶æ i
opêtanie w sennym, górskim miasteczku; czwórka ¿o³nierzy uwiêziona na zatopionej ³odzi
podwodnej… I du¿o wiêcej.
Jaka jest polska fantastyka A.D. 2008? O czym pisz± autorzy wchodz±cego na literacki Parnas
pokolenia fantastów? Czy tak wygl±da przysz³o¶æ polskiej science fiction?
Ta antologia próbuje odpowiedzieæ na te pytania.
Konkurs Nowe idzie:
Jednym z autorów antologii Nowe idzie jest Adam Przechrzta. Proszê napisaæ, z jakiego miasta i
pochodzi ten pisarz i jaki tytu³ nosi³a jego debiutancka powie¶æ?
Odp. S³ubice, pierwsza powie¶æ to "Pierwszy krok".
Antologie "Nowe idzie" wygrywa Kamil z Krakowa.
W programie 16 pa¼dziernika
Dwa cykle powie¶ciowe - jeden uznany za klasykê, drugi walcz±cy o to miano.
Trudi Canavan i jej Trylogia Czarnego Maga. Galeria Ksi±¿ki wyda³a w³a¶nie
ostatni± czê¶æ tego cyklu pt. "Wielki Mistrz". O ksi±¿ce tej opowiada³a
t³umaczka Agnieszka Fuliñska.
Z notki wydawcy:
Sonea wiele nauczy³a siê w Gildii Magów. W ci±gu ostatniego roku Regin da³ jej
spokój, a pozostali nowicjusze zaczêli traktowaæ j± z niechêtnym szacunkiem.
Dziewczyna nie mo¿e jednak zapomnieæ tego, co widzia³a w podziemnej
komnacie Wielkiego Mistrza Akkarina, ani te¿ ostrze¿enia, ¿e odwieczny wróg
Kyralii obserwuje czujnie Gildiê.
W miarê jak Akkarin ujawnia coraz wiêcej swojej wiedzy, Sonea przestaje byæ
pewna, komu ufaæ ani czego baæ siê najbardziej. Czy prawda mo¿e byæ a¿
tak przera¿aj±ca, jak przedstawia j± Wielki Mistrz? A mo¿e jest to podstêp, maj±cy sk³oniæ j± do
uczestnictwa w jego mrocznych praktykach?
Brian W. Aldiss i cykl o Helikonii. Wybitne dzie³o ¶wiatowej fantastyki
przypominane przez Solaris. Z okazji wydania pierwszego tomu "Wiosna
Helikonii" przypomnieli¶my sobie opiniê Marka Oramusa na temat Aldissa.
Z notki wydawcy:
Helikonia to planeta nale¿±ca do uk³adu z dwoma gwiazdami, które obiega po
d³ugiej, karko³omnej orbicie. Planet± raz rz±dzi sroga zima, innym razem upalne
lato. Niby nic nadzwyczajnego, tylko ¿e te pory roku trwaj± setki lat, przez wiele
pokoleñ. Pory roku determinuj± te¿ ¿ycie na Helikonii. Zim± w³ada ni±
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cywilizacja ancipitów, a latem humanoidów. Obie rasy s± do siebie nastawione
wrogo i d±¿± do wyniszczenia przeciwników. Budowanie i upadek cywilizacji
¶ledz± za¶ ze stacji Avernus, umieszczonej na orbicie Helikonii, wys³annicy
Ziemi.
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Konkursy:
1) Trudi Canavan
Jakie imiê nosi syn Rothena, nauczyciela Sonei?
Odp. Dorrien. "Wielkiego mistrza" otrzymuj± Tomek z Krakowa, Piotr z Krakowa, Joanna z
Czernichowa i "Mendo" z Kalisza.
2) Brian Aldiss
W którym roku po raz pierwszy wydano Wiosnê Helikonii?
Odp. 1982.
"Wiosnê Helikonii" otrzymuje Mateusz.
W programie 9 pa¼dziernika
Urbi et Orbi, czyli fantastyczny duet z Krakowa wraca do gry!
9 pa¼dziernika w naszym studiu zjawili siê £ukasz Orbitowski i Jarek
Urbaniuk. Co prawda nie zatañczyli, ale za to opowiedzieli o "Tancerzu", drugim
tomie cyklu "Pies i klecha".
Tom pierwszy pt. "Przeciwko wszystkim" opowiada³ o wielkim satanistycznym
spisku, który odda³ Polskê Ludow± we w³adanie Szatanowi. Co czeka policjanta
Zbigniewa Enkê i ksiêdza Andrzeja Gila w czê¶ci drugiej? O co chodzi z tym
Tancerzem?
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Proszê napisaæ, w jaki sposób Zbigniew Enka i Andrzej Gil w pierwszym tomie swych przygód dostali
siê do budynku sejmu?
Odp. Dostali siê "na Lecha Wa³êsê".
"Tancerza" ufundowanego przez Fabrykê S³ów wygrywa Rafa³ "Realsick".
Wywiady
Nowy wywiad!
Tad Williams - jeden z najwybitniejszych twórców fantasy opowiada o swojej
drodze do fantastyki, nowym cyklu "Marchia cienia" i o swoich dzieciach. Z
pisarzem rozmawia³em we wrze¶niu 2007 roku na Polconie w Warszawie.
Czy mo¿esz wskazaæ ten jeden moment, w którym postanowi³e¶ zostaæ
pisarzem? Byæ mo¿e ta decyzja zapad³a pod wp³ywem jakiej¶ ksi±¿ki? A
mo¿e który¶ z przyjació³ zachêca³ Ciê do tego? Jak to wygl±da³o?
- W rzeczywisto¶ci nie kryje siê za tym nic romantycznego, ani ekscytuj±cego.
Zawsze zajmowa³em siê ró¿nymi artystycznymi sprawami. Nie by³ mi obcy teatr,
muzyka, sztuki plastyczne. Kliknij TAM>>>
Neil Gaiman - zapraszam do lektury wywiadu z Neilem Gaimanem. Z pisarzem spotka³em
siê 18 marca 2007 w Krakowie podczas Festiwalu Poplit. Neil oczywi¶cie zjawi³ siê w obowi
±zkowym czarnym stroju. Ale nie ubraniu rozmawiali¶my. Kliknij TAM>>>
Miroslav ¯amboch - najpopularniejszy w naszym kraju czeski pisarz
fantastyczny. Z autorem "Sier¿anta" spotka³em siê w Poznaniu podczas
Pyrkonu 2008. Okazuje siê, ¿e Czechy prze¿ywaj± boom na fantastykê! Kliknij
TAM>>>
Archiwum
Chcesz pos³uchaæ odcinków archiwalnych? Kliknij TAM>>>
Zapowiadam
swoj± obecno¶æ na Fantastycznej Radzie Gabinetowej
i mam nadziejê, ¿e frekwencja s³uchaczy w Radiu
Kraków przekroczy wszelkie normy :) Wcze¶niej tego
samego dnia (o godz. 14) Dukaj spotyka...
2008-10-18 19:56:43
Ania+193.25.0.*
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Wreszcie :)))
W koñcu by³ Gene Wolfe :D Mam nadziejê, ¿e ta
audycja zachêci ludzi do czytania "Ksi±g...", choæ nie
liczê, ¿e twórczo¶æ tego wspania³ego pisarza przebije
siê do szerszej ¶wiadomo¶ci...
2008-09-22 13:55:48
Ósmy cud ¶wiata+83.27.23.*
Brawa!!!
Odcinki o New Weird by³y ¶wietne, a wywiad z
Huberathem doprawdy wspania³y. Najlepszy
dotychczasowy wywiad!...
2008-09-22 13:55:48
nojak¿etak+83.27.14.*
No wreszcie konkretny program
Co tu du¿o pisaæ poprostu ¦WIETNY PROGRAM ,w
koñcu kto¶ siê pokusi³ na rozwiniêcie tematu fantastyki
polskich i zagranicznych pisarzy .Gratuluje i mam
nadzieje ze bêde mug³ jeszcze d³ugo...
2008-09-22 13:55:47
Tomasz z Krakowa+87.239.56.*
Od M. Baniaka
New Weird przedstawimy dos³ownie "na dniach". Na
przyk³adzie I. R. McLeoda. Mieville'a zostawimy sobie
na nieco pó¼niej. Wkrótce bêdê w stanie podaæ wiêcej
szczegó³ów. B±d¼cie czujni!...
2008-09-22 13:55:47
mb+10.4.13.*, 195.205.210.*
New Weird i Gene Wolf!
Gdyby mo¿na tak by³o wreszcie zaprezentowaæ
zapowiadane punkty: "- nurt New Weird i g³ówni
przedstawiciele - Gene Wolfe" ...to by³oby super...
2008-09-22 13:55:47
Krasnystawigródek+83.27.5.*
tak trzymaæ
Audycja bardzo ciekawa, momentami zaskakuj±ca,
jednak trochê za krótka. Ale dobre i to, co jest,
zw³aszcza, ¿e prowadz±cy jest kompetentny i
zafascynowany tematem czyli fantastyk±. Dobrze, ¿e...
2008-09-22 13:55:46
szarol1975+149.156.67.*
fantastycznie!
A czy s³uchacze mog± napisaæ petycjê do prezesa
Radia Kraków z pro¶b± o zmiany w ramówce? Czy on
to we¼mie pod uwagê? Proponujemy "Tam i z
powrotem" wtorek 21 do...
2008-09-22 13:55:46
Mysiaki z Krakowa+149.156.26.*
Super program
Bardzo dobry program. Jest pan bardzo kompetentny i
ma pan mi³y g³os co jest wa¿ne w radiu choæ dla mnie
akurat nie najwa¿niejsze i s³ucha³bym tego programu
nawet gdyby pañski g³os brzmia³...
2008-09-22 13:55:45
Pan Dzikus+192.168.3.*,
195.116.1.*
Od autora
Ten program powsta³ m.in. po to, aby z tego zaklêtego
krêgu wyj¶æ. Mo¿e, choæby w minimalnym stopniu,
uda nam siê ta sztuka... odzew w ka¿dym razie jest
pozytywny i nie pochodzi tylko ze...
2008-09-22 13:55:45
MB+87.207.99.*
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sadzawce?
Poprzednia powie¶æ MacLeoda zosta³a w Polsce przyjêta bardzo ¿yczliwie, bêd
±c jedn± z jaskó³ek fali New Weird. Obok Chiny Mieville’a sta³ siê wiêc w
naszym kraju MacLeod prorokiem nowej ery fantastyki. I, jak na proroka
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Wit Szostak: Tak wiêc po pierwsze. Dom
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bohaterowie nie zazêbiaj± siê w istotny
sposób z poprzedni± powie¶ci±. Czytelnik
porusza siê wiêc swobodnie po gêstej
strukturze hierarchii cechowych, drabin
spo³ecznych, eterowego przemys³u itd. Z jednej strony wiêc jest ju¿ w ¶wiecie
tym zadomowiony (dziêki czemu mo¿e skoncentrowaæ swoj± uwagê na losach
bohaterów), z drugiej – ksi±¿ka traci pewien walor ci±g³ego zaskakiwania,
podniecenia, jakie przynosi eksploracja nowych l±dów.
To oczywi¶cie w fantastyce nic wyj±tkowego, wszak dylemat ten – nowo¶æ
czy swojsko¶æ – towarzyszy ka¿demu cyklowi spojonemu ¶wiatem
przedstawionym. W takiej sytuacji warto jednak zapytaæ, czy autor
wykorzystuje fakt, ¿e wysi³ek kreacji ma ju¿ za sob±, by pog³êbiæ struktury
opisywanego ¶wiata, czy te¿ – niczym Stwórca siódmego dnia – robi sobie
wolne? Albo te¿ – czy w gotowym ¶wiecie przêdzie fabu³ê na tyle kunsztown± i
bogat±, by rekompensowaæ swe demiurgiczne lenistwo?
MacLeod konsekwentnie sk³ada ho³dy literaturze angielskiej XIX wieku. To
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powinowactwo, widoczne choæby w warstwie fabularnej, znakomicie dope³nia
mu sur-wiktoriañski obraz ¶wiata eteru. I warto przyznaæ, ¿e idzie tu interesuj
±c± drog±, tak nietypow± dla ca³ej fantastyki, w której króluje konwencja
literatury przygodowej. Podobnie jak w poprzedniej powie¶ci mamy wiêc
obyczajow± epikê o losach ludzkich, o ca³o¶ciowych projektach ¿yciowych
bohaterów, które – ukazane w perspektywie wielu lat - próbuj± pokazaæ
cz³owieka w ca³okszta³cie jego ¿yciowych wyborów, s³abo¶ci i triumfów.
Wszystko to wpisane jest w dzieje zmieniaj±cego siê ¶wiata. Przemiany, które
dokonuj± siê na oczach bohaterów, kwestionuj± lub potwierdzaj± zasadno¶æ
ich osobistych rozstrzygniêæ. W ten sposób MacLeod daje g³êbokiego nurka w
czasy Dickensa. Intrygi, napiêcia miêdzy bohaterami, stopniowe ods³anianie
siê skrywanych tajemnic jako ¿ywo przypomina ludzkie dramaty widziane
oczami samego Dickensa, ale te¿ Balzaca czy Wiktora Hugo. Taka metoda
pozwala zobaczyæ ludzi w ich codziennych relacjach, budowanych w rodzinie,
pomiêdzy bliskimi.
Ale znów rodz± siê pytania. Mamy bowiem z jednej strony szlachetne odej¶cie
od konwencji przygodowej, z drugiej jednak – korzystanie z metod literackich
nienaruszonych przez wiek XX. Czy MacLeod wymykaj±c siê jednej pu³apce,
nie pêdzi ochoczo do innej? Czy taka opowie¶æ mo¿e byæ wiarygodna dla
dzisiejszego czytelnika?
£ukasz Orbitowski: ¯eby od razu o MacLeodzie. Czytanie Wieków ¶wiat³a
dokonywa³o siê u mnie w fazie dzieciêcego zachwytu, jakby mi kto¶ pierwszy
raz klocki Lego pokaza³. Mo¿e dlatego, ¿e przygodê z New Weird zacz±³em
w³a¶nie od tej ksi±¿ki. I mo¿e ten entuzjazm jest dzi¶ przyczyn±
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w New Weird jako taki. Autor zwyczajnie wszed³ jeszcze raz do tego samego
¶wiata, tyle ¿e z now± fabu³±. I ta jest ¶wietna, tu nie mam w±tpliwo¶ci.
Tylko ¿e klisze XIX-stowiecznej powie¶ci obyczajowej nak³adaj± siê na znajom
± ju¿ scenografiê, otrzymujemy wiêc rzeczy podwójnie znane.
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Jacek Dukaj uznawany za
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fantastyki m³odego pokolenia.
Zadebiutowa³ w 1990 roku jako
szesnastolatek opowiadaniem
"Z³ota Galera", które zrobi³o
furorê w¶ród mi³o¶ników
polskiej fantastyki.
Wielokrotnie nominowany do
presti¿owej nagrody Zajdla,
otrzyma³ j± w 2000 za
opowiadanie "Katedra", w 2001
za Czarne Oceany, w 2003
roku z powie¶æ Inne pie¶ni
oraz w 2004 roku za powie¶æ
Perfekcyjna niedoskona³o¶æ;
czterokrotnie otrzyma³ równie¿
nagrodê czasopisma Sfinks
(1998, 2000, 2001, 2003) oraz
Srebrny Glob (1998).
Wielokrotnie nominowany do
Paszportu Polityki. W 2008
otrzyma³ Nagrodê
Ko¶cielskich.
Zapraszamy do odwiedzenia
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2008-09-12 13:20:50 | Jacek Dukaj| W ksiêgarni| Wiêcej ni¿ ksi±¿ki
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Raymond Kurzweil, naukowiec, wynalazca, przedsiêbiorca i
prorok rewolucji technologicznych, od niemal dwudziestu lat
sporz±dza obszerne ksi±¿ki-raporty z postêpów na drodze do
postludzkiej przysz³o¶ci. W 1990 roku wysz³a The Age of
Intelligent Machine, w 1999 - The Age of Spiritual Machines, a
w 2005 - The Singularity Is Near. Sukcesywnie aktualizuje tak i
u¶ci¶la swoje prognozy, ich kierunek pozostaje wszak¿e
niezmienny. Ray Kurzweil opisuje wêdrówkê cz³owieka ku
nie¶miertelno¶ci. Podtytu³ The Singularity Is Near mówi
wszystko: “When Humans Transcend Biology”.
Jest to najbardziej intymna ze znanych mi futurologii. I nie przywo³ywa³bym tu osobistej historii
autora, gdyby on sam otwarcie o niej nie pisa³. „Ponad 20 lat temu zdiagnozowano u mnie cukrzycê typu
II. Tradycyjna kuracja tylko pogorszy³a mój stan, podszed³em wiêc do tego wyzwania jak wynalazca.
Przekopa³em siê przez materia³y naukowe i wymy¶li³em oryginalny program, który doprowadzi³ u mnie
do cofniêcia siê cukrzycy. (...) Co wiêcej, kiedy mia³em 22 lata, mój ojciec zmar³ z powodu choroby
serca w wieku lat 58, a ja odziedziczy³em jego geny predysponuj±ce mnie do tej przypad³o¶ci. (...) Jako
czterdziestolatek biologicznie by³em w wieku 38 lat. Chocia¿ dzi¶ jestem 56-latkiem, pe³ny test starzenia
(...) wykazuje wiek biologiczny równy 40 latom. (...) Te wyniki nie s± przypadkowe; bardzo mocno
przeprogramowa³em swoj± biochemiê. Biorê 250 pigu³ek dziennie i przechodzê pó³ tuzina do¿ylnych
terapii tygodniowo (od¿ywki dostarczane bezpo¶rednio do krwiobiegu, pomijaj±ce uk³ad trawienny). W
rezultacie reakcje metaboliczne w moim ciele s± ca³kowicie odmienne. (...) Stosuj±c podobne
wielotorowe strategie dla ka¿dej choroby i ka¿dego procesu starzenia, nawet ludzie z pokolenia
„baby boomers” jak ja mog± utrzymaæ siê w zdrowiu a¿ do pe³nego rozkwitu biotechnologicznej
rewolucji”.
Tak specyficzne postrzeganie cielesno¶ci cz³owieka wynika z szerszego ¶wiatopogl±du. Kurzweil
deklaruje siê mianowicie nie tyle jako materialista, co „a patternist” - patternista, wzorcysta. „Moje cia³o
jest tymczasowe. Jego moleku³y wymieniaj± siê niemal w ca³o¶ci co miesi±c. Jedynie wzór (forma)
mojego cia³a i mózgu zachowuj± ci±g³o¶æ”. Dzieñ, w którym umys³ i ¶wiadomo¶æ pierwszego
cz³owieka zostan± sprowadzone do informacji i przepisane na no¶nik niebiologiczny, bêdzie Dniem
Zwyciêstwa nad ¦mierci±. Kluczowe ofensywy w tej wojnie id± wiêc na frontach neurologii, kognitywistyki
i technologii komputerowych. Kampanie wspomagaj±ce - w nanotechnologii i genetyce; tam bijemy siê o
przyczó³ki i zasoby konieczne dla zwyciêstw g³ównych. Najpierw spowolnimy starzenie, potem zupe³nie
uciekniemy spod w³adzy biologii. „Mamy ju¿ dzi¶ ¶rodki, by ¿yæ wystarczaj±co d³ugo, aby ¿yæ
wiecznie”.
Zrównanie cz³owieka i AI oraz eksplozja technologiczna po miniêciu Technologicznej Osobliwo¶ci -
definiowanej przez Kurzweila jako moment, w którym postêp przechodzi z r±k cz³owieka w „rêce” coraz
szybciej samodoskonal±cych siê maszyn - to ju¿ pochodne. Wystarczy, ¿e raz nauczymy siê patrzeæ
na ¶wiat przez pryzmat informacji, nie materii. „¦mieræ jest tragedi±. Nie ma nic poni¿aj±cego w
postrzeganiu osoby jako wyj±tkowego wzorca, który przepada, gdy ta osoba umiera”.
Jak powtarza bohater „¬ród³a” Aronofsky’ego: „¦mieræ jest chorob±, nie ró¿n± od innych chorób. Istnieje
lekarstwo”.
Wiêkszo¶æ nowinek naukowych przytaczanych w „The Singularity Is Near” mo¿na co prawda znale¼æ
w sieci (i to ju¿ w bardziej aktualnej wersji), warto¶æ ksi±¿ki le¿y jednak przede wszystkim w autorskich
próbach uporz±dkowania ich w trendy, w ekstrapolacjach tych trendów, w cywilizacyjnych syntezach.
Ogólne kierunki zmian - poci±gniête przez Kurzweila wektory - s± dla mnie do¶æ oczywiste. Kurzweil
idzie jednak dalej i wskazuje tak¿e ich punkt docelowy, ba, umieszcza go w konkretnym czasie, w
konkretnym roku. Podziwiaj±c odwagê futurologa (który zna przecie¿ historiê dawniejszych
przepowiedni), warto wiêcej uwagi po¶wiêciæ rozumowaniom, które budz± ju¿ w±tpliwo¶ci. Zw³aszcza
¿e Kurzweil tymczasem wyrobi³ sobie pozycjê jednego z g³ównych aposto³ów singularyzmu; nadaje ton,
zakre¶la horyzonty. W trakcie lektury narasta³o za¶ we mnie przekonanie, i¿ radykalny optymizm
jego prognoz wynika bezpo¶rednio z osobistej sytuacji Kurzweila - on po prostu tak mocno
CHCE, ¿eby ludzie transcendowali biologiê jeszcze za jego ¿ycia.
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dziedzinach idzie i bêdzie szed³ co najmniej do Osobliwo¶ci w postêpie geometrycznym (przy¶pieszaj±c
wyk³adniczo, eksponencjalnie). Na prezentowanych w ksi±¿ce wykresach trendów w rozmaitych
technologiach (g³ównie komputerowych) widzimy charakterystyczne dla funkcji potêgowych „przegiêcie”
z linii prawie poziomej w strzelaj±c± wtem niemal pionowo wzwy¿ ¶wiecê. Przy czym zawsze ten
moment „wystrza³u” jest jeszcze przed nami - za lat piêæ, dziesiêæ, dwadzie¶cia.
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do niego inny, nowy wzorzec, który wówczas wydaje siê nam tak samo wyra¼nym - ¿e a¿ siê dziwimy
poprzednikom: „No przecie¿ to oczywiste! Jak¿e mogli byæ tak ¶lepi!” Taki los spotyka³ niemal
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Felietonista
Jacek Dukaj
fot. © Irek Grin
Jacek Dukaj uznawany za
jednego z najbardziej
b³yskotliwych twórców
fantastyki m³odego pokolenia.
Zadebiutowa³ w 1990 roku jako
szesnastolatek opowiadaniem
"Z³ota Galera", które zrobi³o
furorê w¶ród mi³o¶ników
polskiej fantastyki.
Wielokrotnie nominowany do
presti¿owej nagrody Zajdla,
otrzyma³ j± w 2000 za
opowiadanie "Katedra", w 2001
za Czarne Oceany, w 2003
roku z powie¶æ Inne pie¶ni
oraz w 2004 roku za powie¶æ
Perfekcyjna niedoskona³o¶æ;
czterokrotnie otrzyma³ równie¿
nagrodê czasopisma Sfinks
(1998, 2000, 2001, 2003) oraz
Srebrny Glob (1998).
Wielokrotnie nominowany do
Paszportu Polityki. W 2008
otrzyma³ Nagrodê
Ko¶cielskich.
Zapraszamy do odwiedzenia
strony autora dukaj.pl.
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2008-10-03 12:39:36 | Jacek Dukaj | Z Czasu fantastyki
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Koszmar senny: Giertychowie zakochali siê w polskiej
fantastyce.
Roman Giertych ju¿ pisywa³ SF bliskiego zasiêgu (pod
pseudonimem, co prawda). Nie jest nie do pomy¶lenia zbieg
politycznych okoliczno¶ci, w których Giertych junior lub senior
wychwala publicznie nasz± literaturê SF-F w swoim
giertychowym stylu.
Jak siê obroniæ przed takimi przyjació³mi?
Nie obronili siê krytycy teorii ewolucji. Smok Wawelski po¿ar³
wszystkich naukowców kontestuj±cych neodarwinizm i
wskazuj±cych braki w jego modelach specjacyjnych. Teraz
ju¿ mo¿na byæ tylko za ¶lep± ewolucj±, albo i¶æ siê
sfotografowaæ z krakowskim jaszczurem.
Pocieszmy siê: w Ameryce dyskusja w tej sprawie prowadzi do
jeszcze wiêkszej polaryzacji. Tradycja katolicka, wbijaj±ca
miêdzy wiernego i Objawienie Ko¶ció³ z jego instytucjonaln±
interpretacj± S³ów i Znaków, zapobiega przynajmniej
sankcjonowaniu odczytañ najbardziej naiwnych, z „biblijnym
kreacjonizmem” na czele (Bóg stworzy³ ¶wiat w sze¶æ dni, licz
±c od wtorkowego popo³udnia parê tysiêcy lat temu). Ma to
oczywi¶cie tak¿e z³e strony, bo tak samo hamuje dociekania
rozs±dne, o ile prowadz± za daleko poza ortodoksjê. Absolutna
dominacja jednej wyk³adni by³aby tu niezwykle szkodliw±, tak
samo jak dla postêpu w Chinach szkodliw± by³a jedynow³adza
cesarska: pewne rozwi±zania mog± siê wy³oniæ tylko w warunkach wolnej konkurencji.
Zarazem podobny mechanizm automatycznego gaszenia ekstremów bywa cenny o tyle, ¿e nierzadko
stanowi warunek sine qua non jakiegokolwiek dialogu. Dyskutowaæ mo¿na tylko w ramach jednego
jêzyka, we wspólnej siatce pojêæ. Aborcjonista z antyaborcjonist± nie dyskutuje: t³uk± siê po ³bach
swoimi jêzykami, usi³uj±c zmusiæ przeciwnika do wej¶cia w zabójcz± dlañ sieæ semantyczn±.
Aborcjonista nie mo¿e powiedzieæ, ¿e „p³ód” to „dziecko nienarodzone”; antyaborcjonista nie mo¿e
powiedzieæ, ¿e „dziecko nienarodzone” to „p³ód”. Potkniêcie na jednym s³owie oznacza automatyczn±
klêskê ca³ej formacji ¶wiatopogl±dowej. Brak punktów wspólnych. T³umacze to zdrajcy.
To samo mamy z ewolucjonistami i kreacjonistami. Albo najwy¿sz± instancj± jest dowód z przyrody i
rozumu, i wtedy nie dajemy wiary mitom starotestamentowym; albo najwy¿sz± instancj± jest
Objawienie, zawarte m. in. w Starym Testamencie, i wtedy przyroda i rozum ludzki s± zaledwie
igraszk± w rêkach Boga.
Ratunek w sztuce, w literaturze, która potrafi tworzyæ w³asne, cudownie pojemne jêzyki. I na takiej to
w³a¶nie „ziemi niczyjej” pomiêdzy dwoma systemami pojêæ spróbowa³ postawiæ swoje
„sfabularyzowane hipotezy” Robert J. Sawyer w powie¶ci science fiction o kreacjonizmie, Inteligentnym
Projekcie, paleontologii, wielkich wymieraniach Obcych, kosmologii i poszukiwaniu Boga: Calculating
God.
Sawyer to jeden z solidnych rzemie¶lników hard SF: przed przyst±pieniem do pisania przeprowadza
stosowny research, opiera siê na teoriach w miarê aktualnych i buduje swoje intrygi z klasycznych
zagadek naukowych, w tradycji „SF pretekstowej”. Rzadko jednak mo¿na znale¼æ u niego oryginalne
idee, zazwyczaj s± to rozwiniêcia cudzych hipotez albo zlepki koncepcji ju¿ znanych z SF; literacko
niczym siê nie wybija ponad przeciêtno¶æ, trzymaj±c siê ledwie poprawnego jêzyka, stosuj±c
najprostsze formu³y dramaturgiczne i wycinaj±c swoich bohaterów z podrêcznika Plot Devices for
Dummies.
Nie inaczej wygl±da Calculating God. Skoro naukowiec-ateista postawiony wobec kwestii istnienia Boga
– to taki w terminalnym stanie choroby nowotworowej, zachwiany w swym ateizmie w obliczu ¶mierci.
Banalne wgl±dy psychologiczne mówi± nam tu jednak co¶ o stopniu sekularyzacji kanadyjskiej kultury:
ów Sawyerowy protagonista, cz³owiek wykszta³cony, paleontolog na wysokim stanowisku w Royal
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Inne felietony:
• Cienie. Drugi felieton na
Dzieñ Wszystkich ¦wiêtych
• Przyp³yw mistrzostwa
• Co by³o, a nie jest
• Veloria
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• Raya Kurzweila manifest
przeciwko ¶mierci
• Z notesem w¶ród zwierz±t
• Alterbiografia Philipa Rotha
• Neteratura – czê¶æ II.
Vanitas vanitatum
• Bêdzie siê dzia³o
• S³awka
• Sto gramów my¶li, jeden
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• W Patagonii, czyli wszêdzie
• Dziwniej
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w powietrze kliniki aborcyjne i „blu¼niercze” skamieliny.
I pomiêdzy te ekstrema spadaj± nam z nieba paj±kopodobni Obcy, Obcy, którzy przemierzaj± kosmos w
poszukiwaniu Boga.
Nie ma jednak owo poszukiwanie nic wspólnego z ich wiar± religijn±, nie mieli swojego Objawienia.
Szukaj± Boga jako koniecznego dope³nienia naukowego obrazu rzeczywisto¶ci. Gdy bohater odpowiada
Obcemu, i¿ kwestia istnienia Boga znajduje siê poza zasiêgiem nauki, paj±k serwuje mu nastêpuj±ce
credo: „Nic nie znajduje siê poza zasiêgiem nauki. Podstawowym celem nowoczesnej nauki jest
odkrycie, dlaczego Bóg zachowa³ siê jak siê zachowa³, i poznanie metod Jego postêpowania. Nie
uwa¿amy, ¿e realizuje On Swoje zamiary wp³ywaj±c na rzeczywisto¶æ machniêciem rêki. ¯yjemy
we wszech¶wiecie fizyki i Bóg musia³ dla osi±gniêcia Swych celów u¿yæ mierzalnych procesów
fizycznych”.
Rozumowanie Obcych opiera siê na trzech g³ównych przes³ankach: mocnej Zasadzie Antropicznej
(zarówno w skali kosmologicznej, jak i ekosystemu planetarnego), uniwersalizmie jêzyka genetycznego
oraz niesamodzielno¶ci ewolucji.
Zasada Antropiczna przekonuje nas, i¿ wszech¶wiat zosta³ specjalnie „dostrojony” do ¿ycia: niewielka
zmiana jego startowych parametrów (sta³ych fizycznych, proporcji materii itp.) uniemo¿liwi³aby
powstanie ¿ycia, w szczególno¶ci – cz³owieka. Kontruj±cy argument „z wielo¶ci wszech¶wiatów” – ¿e
ze wszystkich wszech¶wiatów mo¿liwych zastanawiamy siê nad t± zagadk± akurat w naszym w³a¶nie
dlatego, ¿e w nim zaistnieli¶my – Sawyer obala fikcyjn± teori± dowodz±c± „jednotorowego” rozwoju
uniwersum. Ergo: kosmos zaprojektowano specjalnie dla ¿ycia – istnieje (istnia³) Projektant.
Dodatkowy argument stanowi wyj±tkowo¶æ naszego ekosystemu planetarnego. ¯ycie (jakim je znamy)
wymaga inkubacji w okre¶lonej temperaturze (tu wa¿ny jest typ gwiazdy i orbita planety), w ¶rodowisku
bogatym w okre¶lone pierwiastki (rozk³ad supernowych w galaktyce: nie za rzadki, nie za gêsty),
os³oniêtym od bombardowañ meteorytowych (gazowe olbrzymy czyszcz±ce uk³ad), ze znacznymi si³ami
p³ywowymi (masywny satelita) etc., etc. My s±dzimy, ¿e Ziemia wcale nie jest wyj±tkow± i nasza
¶cie¿ka rozwoju – tylko jedn± z wielu mo¿liwych; ale Obcy zwiedzili galaktykê i wiedz±, ¿e to nieprawda.
„Dostrojenie” wszech¶wiata do ¿ycia jest tak delikatne, ¿e nawet budowa cz±steczki wody ma tu
krytyczne znaczenie: lód H2O ciê¿szy od H2O w stanie p³ynnym oznacza³by zamarzanie zbiorników
wodnych od dna, a zatem niemo¿no¶æ powstania ¿ycia w wodzie.
Co wiêcej, opieraj±c siê na wiedzy Obcych, Sawyer przekonuje, i¿ DNA jest powszechnym jêzykiem
genetycznym we wszech¶wiecie, ba, ¿e jest jedynym mo¿liwym biologicznym systemem
samoreplikacyjnym. Ludzie i Obcy pochodz±cy spod ró¿nych s³oñc – wszyscy „procesujemy” na tym
samym kodzie genetycznym, tych samych czterech/piêciu zasadach. Lecz przecie¿ nie wszêdzie mia³
on szansê rozwin±æ siê spontanicznie.
Sawyer wprowadza dowód kolejny: Wielkie Wymierania, które przydarza³y siê w tych samych
momentach na wszystkich ¶wiatach, gdzie powsta³o inteligentne ¿ycie. To ju¿ na pewno nie móg³ byæ
przypadek.
Albowiem ewolucja „sama z siebie” nie doprowadzi³aby do powstania inteligencji. Mia³a wiele liczonych
w setkach milionów lat “¶lepych zau³ków” (u nas np. mezozoiczne gady). Konieczne by³y ingerencje
Projektanta restartuj±cego wówczas Eksperyment.
Jest to bardzo interesuj±ce wykorzystanie licentia poetica: nie tyle pytamy, czy Bóg istnieje, co
testujemy, na jakich warunkach w ogóle mo¿liwe jest stwierdzenie pod autorytetem nauki: „tak,
Bóg istnieje”.
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A good start, March 15, 2005
By Piotr Konieczny "Prokonsul Piotrus" (Katowice, Poland) - See all my reviews
There are preciously few translations into English from non-English markets. As I know first hand what is released on Polish and Russian markets, and have some info on
Japanese, I can tell you that English market is missing some really, really top class authors. The Dedalus series is an interesting project, unfortunately its emphasis is a bit too
much on history for my tastes - I don't find the 19th century literature to par with today's, and as with any short stories collection, this is a mixed bag, you are likely to find
some stories not to your tastes. And one more complain - the title sais fantasy, but there are no stories by any of the three best Polish modern fantasy authors (Sapkowski,
Kres, Ziemianski), while quite a few are more sf like.
But don't get me wrong. I gave this book 4 stars and I mean it. The DB of Polish fantasy is definetly worth buying. Quite a few of the stories are excellent quality, and for one
of them I'd buy the book even if it was the only one it it - I am speaking of Dukaj's 'Golden Gallery'. Dukaj, whom I consider to be not only the best sf Polish author, but the
best sf worldwide author ever, has debuted some 15 years ago with this story - and it is just a taste of things he has written later. 'Golden Gallery' is stunning, and a must
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Keeping fingers crossed more translations will start flowing into the English market...I'd love to read some of the great French, German, Japanese, Czech, Hungarian and
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Not what I was expecting - and that's a good thing!, May 10, 2007
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I bought this book as I was heading out of the country and wanted to try reading literature from authors I'd never heard of before. The genre is "fantasy," so I suppose I was
expecting something akin to what us Westerners consider to be fantasy, but I was definitely wrong. Most of the stories in the collection revolve around the authors' Catholic
faith: demons, heaven, hell, purgatory, faith, and so on. Several of the stories are very similar to fairy tales, though while traditional fairy tales tend to leave out names and
places, these include both. One particularly fantastic story examines the idea of purgatory using fascist imagery, and believe it or not, the "fascists" (God and his angels) don't
actually come off as the bad guys.
It's an absolutely fabulous read. The other reviewer for the book mentions that Sapkowski is nowhere to be found, and that's the primary reason why I gave this book four
stars: Andrzej Sapkowski is widely considered to be Poland's greatest author, let alone fantasy author, and to have no stories by him in this collection is a serious oversight.
Regardless, if you're at all interested in fantasy or fantastic stories written from a fantastic perspective, you need to get this book, period.
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Poland’s strong Catholic faith engendered in its literature a lively awareness of the Devil and a love of the supernatural and the fantastic. These stories are explorations of the extreme in human behaviour, where the bizarre chills the spine, and few authors can match
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Stefan Grabinski (1887-1936) is considered Poland's greatest writer of fantastic fiction. He suffered from tuberculosis of the bone and his sickly nature, coupled with an introspective disposition, led to him to write. He published his first collection of stories, On the Hill
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Madeleine Johnson Madeleine Johnson after a career in bookselling works in publishing as an editor.
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A Polish master of horror, October 15, 2006
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Great horror story writers have a unique imaginative inner vision that distinguishes them from other writers. Stories by Poe, Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, and W. H. Hodgson
could have come only from them. Stefan Grabinski is one of the great ones. His work reflects bizarre personal obsessions that recur throughout his tales: the metaphysical
meaning of fire; trains as a symbol of the vast, implacable power that machines give man over his surroundings and also of man's relentless journey to who knows where;
strange sexual phantoms that emerge from either unplumbed dimensions or from man's own twisted pshyche. These stories are gripping, haunting, and have the power to pull
you into Grabinski's warped but somehow universal reality and to keep a part of you there long after you have turned the last page and read the last word. As with the other
great horror story writers, Grabinski's inner demons make a connection with each of his reader's inner demons and create an indelible impression.
My favorite of the stories in the collection is "Fumes", but the others are all strangely great and compelling as well. Two other exquisite Grabinski tales are unfortunately not in
this book. However, English translations of "The Dark Hamlet" can be found in "The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy", and "The White Wyrak" can be found in "100 Creepy Little
Tales". I look forward to the day when all of Grabinski's horror shorts are available in English translation.
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One of the great names of european fantasy & the absurd, July 23, 2002
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For everyone interested in fantasy in its purest state this is a gemm. This anthology mixes the many themes that cross the polish author's short stories. The pure horror, the
ghost story, the surrealist (before its time), really erotic images, all of this with just enough hints of a certain modernism or post-modern that rends the stories an extra quality.
It's a must and will certainly fill a gap on fantasy literature.
The train stories are just amazing - This guy wrote one collection of stories just around trains he worked with the modern concept of speed as a moto for the future society
which would be obliterated by it... I wonder if he didn't just get it right...
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Grabinski - On par with Poe and Other Dark Masters, February 16, 2008
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I read this book in an evening. The stories are intoxicating, grim, beautiful and pensive. Grabinski's world is filled with foreboding, the sensual one step away from the
macabre. For me, Dedalus continues to be the most reliable source of the ghoulish and supernatural in literary European fiction. This book is its own reward. (However...I seem
to get a little sad after finishing a great read - story collections like this are few and far between. Each story is worth a second, if not a third, fourth or fifth read.)
As for the author: Stefan Grabinski was relatively unknown in his native land, fantasy writing at the beginning of the 20th century was not especially popular amongst the
Polish reading public. He died in near obscurity. Thankfully, his works have been revisited by a new generation of readers. Roman Polanski, the controversial filmmaker has
been said to be inspired by the Grabinski' horror style. Stanislaw Lem, the great Polish sci-fi author is a big fan of his works.
Reading through this collection, you might see the world with Grabinski-esque glasses - I don't think I'll be able to look at trains, snow drifts, empty houses and watchmakers
in the same light. (I also recommend the story collections of Bruno Schulz, they are very comparable to Grabinski's work.)
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Oscars® for the 75th Annual Academy Awards were presented on Sunday, March 23, 2003 by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Adrien Brody in "The Pianist" (Focus Features)
Nicolas Cage in "Adaptation" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Michael Caine in "The Quiet American" (Miramax and Intermedia)
Daniel Day-Lewis in "Gangs of New York" (Miramax)
Jack Nicholson in "About Schmidt" (New Line)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Chris Cooper in "Adaptation" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Ed Harris in "The Hours" (Paramount and Miramax)
Paul Newman in "Road to Perdition" (DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox)
John C. Reilly in "Chicago" (Miramax)
Christopher Walken in "Catch Me If You Can" (DreamWorks)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Salma Hayek in "Frida" (Miramax)
Nicole Kidman in "The Hours " (Paramount and Miramax)
Diane Lane in "Unfaithful" (20th Century Fox)
Julianne Moore in "Far From Heaven" (Focus Features)
Renée Zellweger in "Chicago" (Miramax)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Kathy Bates in "About Schmidt" (New Line)
Julianne Moore in "The Hours" (Paramount and Miramax)
Queen Latifah in "Chicago" (Miramax)
Meryl Streep in "Adaptation" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Catherine Zeta-Jones in "Chicago" (Miramax)
Best animated feature film of the year
"Ice Age" (20th Century Fox)
"Lilo & Stitch" (Buena Vista)
"Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron" (DreamWorks)
"Spirited Away" (Buena Vista)
"Treasure Planet" (Buena Vista)
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Directory
75th Academy Award Nominees and Winners - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Achievement in art direction
"Chicago" (Miramax) Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
"Frida" (Miramax) Art Direction: Felipe Fernandez del Paso
Set Decoration: Hania Robledo
"Gangs of New York" (Miramax) Art Direction: Dante Ferretti
Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" Art Direction: Grant Major
(New Line) Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Alan Lee
"Road to Perdition" Art Direction: Dennis Gassner
(DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox) Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
Achievement in cinematography
"Chicago" (Miramax) Dion Beebe
"Far from Heaven" (Focus Features) Edward Lachman
"Gangs of New York" (Miramax) Michael Ballhaus
"The Pianist" (Focus Features) Pawel Edelman
"Road to Perdition" Conrad L. Hall
(DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox)
Achievement in costume design
"Chicago" (Miramax) Colleen Atwood
"Frida" (Miramax) Julie Weiss
"Gangs of New York" (Miramax) Sandy Powell
"The Hours" (Paramount and Miramax) Ann Roth
"The Pianist" (Focus Features) Anna Sheppard
Achievement in directing
"Chicago" (Miramax) Rob Marshall
"Gangs of New York" (Miramax) Martin Scorsese
"The Hours" (Paramount and Miramax) Stephen Daldry
"The Pianist" (Focus Features) Roman Polanski
"Talk to Her" (Sony Pictures Classics) Pedro Almodóvar
Best documentary feature
"Bowling for Columbine" (United Artists and Alliance Atlantis)
Michael Moore and Michael Donovan
"Daughter from Danang" (Balcony Releasing in association with Cowboy
Pictures)
Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco
"Prisoner of Paradise" (Alliance Atlantis)
Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender
"Spellbound" (THINKFilm)
Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch
"Winged Migration" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Jacques Perrin
Best documentary short subject
"The Collector of Bedford Street"
An Alice Elliott Production
Alice Elliott
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"Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks"
A Tell the Truth Pictures Production
Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston
"Twin Towers"
A Wolf Films/Shape Pictures/Universal/Mopo Entertainment Production
Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port
"Why Can't We Be a Family Again?"
A Public Policy Production
Roger Weisberg and Murray Nossel
Achievement in film editing
"Chicago" (Miramax) Martin Walsh
"Gangs of New York" (Miramax) Thelma Schoonmaker
"The Hours" (Paramount and Miramax) Peter Boyle
"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" (New Line) Michael Horton
"The Pianist" (Focus Features) Hervé de Luze
Best foreign language film of the year
"El Crimen del Padre Amaro"
An Alameda Films/BluFilms/Foprocine/Gob. del Estado de Veracruz-Llave
Production
Mexico
"Hero"
A Beijing New Picture Film Company/Elite Group Enterprises Production
People's Republic of China
"The Man without a Past"
A Sputnik Oy/Pandora Film/Pyramide Prods. Production
Finland
"Nowhere in Africa"
An MTM Medien & Television München Production
Germany
"Zus & Zo"
A Filmprodukties de Luwte Production
The Netherlands
Achievement in makeup
"Frida" (Miramax) John Jackson and Beatrice De Alba
"The Time Machine" (DreamWorks and Warner Bros.) John M. Elliott, Jr. and
Barbara Lorenz
Achievement in music in connection with motion pictures (Original score)
"Catch Me If You Can" (DreamWorks) John Williams
"Far from Heaven" (Focus Features) Elmer Bernstein
"Frida" (Miramax) Elliot Goldenthal
"The Hours" (Paramount and Miramax) Philip Glass
"Road to Perdition" Thomas Newman
(DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox)
Achievement in music in connection with motion pictures (Original song)
"Burn It Blue" from "Frida" (Miramax)
Music by Elliot Goldenthal
Lyric by Julie Taymor
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75th Academy Award Nominees and Winners - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
"Father and Daughter" from "The Wild Thornberrys Movie"
(Paramount and Nickelodeon Movies)
Music and Lyric by Paul Simon
"The Hands That Built America" from "Gangs of New York" (Miramax)
Music and Lyric by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen
"I Move On" from "Chicago" (Miramax)
Music by John Kander
Lyric by Fred Ebb
"Lose Yourself" from "8 Mile" (Universal)
Music by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto
Lyric by Eminem
Best motion picture of the year
"Chicago" (Miramax)
A Producer Circle Co., Zadan/Meron Production
Martin Richards, Producer
"Gangs of New York" (Miramax)
An Alberto Grimaldi Production
Alberto Grimaldi and Harvey Weinstein, Producers
"The Hours" (Paramount and Miramax)
A Scott Rudin/Robert Fox Production
Scott Rudin and Robert Fox, Producers
"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" (New Line)
A New Line Cinema and Wingnut Films
Production
Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson, Producers
"The Pianist" (Focus Features)
An R.P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg, Runtime LTD.
Production
Best animated short film
"The Cathedral"
A Platige Image Production
Tomek Baginski
"The ChubbChubbs!" (Columbia)
A Sony Pictures Imageworks Production
Eric Armstrong
"Das Rad"
A Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Production
Chris Stenner and Heidi Wittlinger
"Mike's New Car" (Buena Vista)
A Pixar Animation Studios Production
Pete Docter and Roger Gould
"Mt. Head"
A Yamamura Animation Production
Koji Yamamura
Best live action short film
"Fait D'Hiver"
An Another Dimension of an Idea Production
Dirk Beliën and Anja Daelemans
"I'll Wait for the Next One… (J'Attendrai Le Suivant…)"
A La Boîte Production
Philippe Orreindy and Thomas Gaudin
"Inja (Dog)"
An Australian Film TV & Radio School (AFTRS) Production
Steven Pasvolsky and Joe Weatherstone
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Achievement in sound
"Chicago" (Miramax) Michael Minkler, Dominick Tavella and David Lee
"Gangs of New York" (Miramax) Tom Fleischman, Eugene Gearty and Ivan
Sharrock
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Semanick,
(New Line) Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
"Road to Perdition" Scott Millan, Bob Beemer and
(DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox) John Patrick Pritchet
"Spider-Man" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and
Ed Novick
Achievement in sound editing
"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" Ethan Van der Ryn and Michael
Hopkins (New Line)
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Gary Rydstrom
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Achievement in visual effects
"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall
William Cook (New Line) and Alex Funke
"Spider-Man" (Sony Pictures Releasing) John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony
LaMolinara and John Frazier
"Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones" Rob Coleman, Pablo Helman,
John Knoll and (20th Century Fox) Ben Snow
Screenplay based on material previously produced or published
"About a Boy" (Universal) Screenplay by Peter Hedges and Chris Weitz & Paul
Weitz
"Adaptation" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and
Donald Kaufman
"Chicago" (Miramax) Screenplay by Bill Condon
"The Hours" (Paramount and Miramax) Screenplay by David Hare
"The Pianist" (Focus Features) Screenplay by Ronald Harwood
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"Gangs of New York" (Miramax) Screenplay by Jay Cocks and Steve Zaillian
and Kenneth Lonergan
"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" (IFC/Gold Circle Films) Written by Nia Vardalos
"Talk to Her" (Sony Pictures Classics) Written by Pedro Almodóvar
"Y Tu Mamá También" (IFC Films) Written by Carlos Cuarón and Alfonso
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Jacek Dukaj has been compared to Polish volleyball players – his works are of world standard but
something has always been lacking. Either fulfilment or crowning the career with a spectacular success.
Finally the success has come. „Ice” is an absolute triumph of Dukaj's imagination in which he created an
exciting alternative world.
The novel starts in 1924. A meteorite crashes in Syberia and changes everything, even the course of
history. Poland is ruled by tsar and Russia – because of Tunguzka catastrophe – benefits from the
production of minerals. Frost Angels stroll along the streets with whom only one person can
communicate – father of Benedykt Gieroslawski, the novel's main hero. He is sent to Irkuck by Ministry
of Winter to find the ancestor.
„Ice” is a mixture of literary genres: sci-fi, adventure, philosophical and historical discourse. It asks a
question what or who makes history. Moreover, the novel describes Polish mentality. It is one of the
most important books of 2007 – even 2008.
Jacek Dukaj „Ice”, Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków 2007
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Member countries of
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fight can only be
successful if their
policy in this area is
cohesive.
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by! The day when
Poland regained
independence after nearly half a
century of subjugation is still
recent history. Back then, it
seemed that we can only dream of
achieving anything else. Few
people even thought that after a
few more years we would not only
be partners in the most important
international organizations but
also that our citizens would be
able to freely travel throughout
Europe without borders.
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From Poland’s
partitions to
European
currency
In 2004, Poland became a
member of the European Union.
Fifty years earlier we were
building socialism in the People's
Republic of Poland, which was a
country ruled from Moscow. One
hundred and fifty years earlier
Poland was divided into three
parts, the Spring of Nations (1848)
had just ended, and another hope
for Poland's freedom was broken.
Tadeusz Cymañski
A matter of style
and precedence
Of all the important
issues taking place
in the recent days, the one that
struck me is that concerning the
efforts of the PO and the SLD to
remove Ewa Sowiñska, the
Commissioner for Children’s
Rights, from her office. Does it
make sense to express an opinion
Responsibility –
beneficial to the society
and to companies?
Read more...
Krzysztof Bramorski
(in response to the
article by B. Kwiatek from
the March issue)
Read more...
Kibol nasz pan
There is no translation
available, please select a
different language.
Mariusz Czubaj
Gigantyczna afera
korupcyjna w polskiej
pi³ce no¿nej przes³oni³a
zjawisko, z którym od lat
rodzimy futbol sobie nie
radzi.
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A boss under
scrutiny
Katarzyna Bandyra,
Director of Cigno
Consulting Sp. z o.o.
There is not a single
company that does not
have problems with
management or
communication.
Read more...
concerning a person who has
been treated rather harshly by the
media and was accused of acts
that brought discredit and ridicule
to her office?
Andrzej Arendarski
Just to spite the
skeptics!
We have happily
celebrated the
fourth anniversary of Poland’s
accession to the European Union.
We are starting the fifth years with
our borders open to the Schengen
zone and impatiently waiting for
the EU funds for the years 2007-
2013. Even though the 1st of May
is an important date in the history
of Poland, we are slowly getting
used to the fact that the
successive anniversaries of
Poland’s accession to the EU are
not accompanied by a lot of
publicity, official ceremonies, or
big feasts with fireworks and
popping bottles of champagne.
women
Wp³ywowe kobiety s±
kobiece a praca to
biznes.
Interview with Jolanta
Kwa¶niewska and
El¿bieta Penderecka,
by Maja Kluczyñska
As in any other game,
there are some rules
and some limitations,
there are winners and
losers.
Read more...
Best place on
Earth
Najlepsze miejsce na
¶wiecie – an interview
with Zbigniew Tyszka,
owner of M³yn Klekotki
by Anna Kosowska-
Czubaj .
Jak zrodzi³ siê pomys³,
by M³yn Klekotki
przemieniæ w
nowoczesny obiekt
hotelowy?
Ten pomys³ do¶æ d³ugo
rodzi³ siê w mojej
g³owie. Sam obiekt
kupi³em do¶æ
przypadkowo
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Hanna Gronkiewicz
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I don’t feel good when I have to
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have happened if... My impression
is that today, on the anniversary of
Poland’s accession to the
European Union, guesswork is
popular again.
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of a longdistance
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During the four years
after joining the EU, a
lot of changes have
happened in Eastern
Europe but the key
one is the change in
people's mentality.
Here is a subjective
review of changes that
have taken place in
Poland and other
countries of the EU
that joined the EU at
the same time.
Read more...
The EU's fight
with
percentages
Bartosz Kwiatek
Member countries of
the European Union
have for years
conducted a more or
less successful fight
against the spirits
industry. Finally, they
understood that their
fight can only be
successful if their
policy in this area is
cohesive.
Read more...
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responsibility
Tomasz Sañpruch
Corporate Social
The Church is
not going
against science
Julia Pitera
It’s not so scary
The time is flying
by! The day when
Poland regained
independence after nearly half a
century of subjugation is still
recent history. Back then, it
seemed that we can only dream of
achieving anything else. Few
people even thought that after a
few more years we would not only
be partners in the most important
international organizations but
also that our citizens would be
able to freely travel throughout
Europe without borders.
Ryszard Czarnecki
From Poland’s
partitions to
European
currency
In 2004, Poland became a
member of the European Union.
Fifty years earlier we were
building socialism in the People's
Republic of Poland, which was a
country ruled from Moscow. One
hundred and fifty years earlier
Poland was divided into three
parts, the Spring of Nations (1848)
had just ended, and another hope
for Poland's freedom was broken.
Tadeusz Cymañski
A matter of style
and precedence
Of all the important
issues taking place
in the recent days, the one that
struck me is that concerning the
efforts of the PO and the SLD to
remove Ewa Sowiñska, the
Commissioner for Children’s
Rights, from her office. Does it
make sense to express an opinion
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beneficial to the society
and to companies?
Read more...
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(in response to the
article by B. Kwiatek from
the March issue)
Read more...
Kibol nasz pan
There is no translation
available, please select a
different language.
Mariusz Czubaj
Gigantyczna afera
korupcyjna w polskiej
pi³ce no¿nej przes³oni³a
zjawisko, z którym od lat
rodzimy futbol sobie nie
radzi.
Read more...
A boss under
scrutiny
Katarzyna Bandyra,
Director of Cigno
Consulting Sp. z o.o.
There is not a single
company that does not
have problems with
management or
communication.
Read more...
concerning a person who has
been treated rather harshly by the
media and was accused of acts
that brought discredit and ridicule
to her office?
Andrzej Arendarski
Just to spite the
skeptics!
We have happily
celebrated the
fourth anniversary of Poland’s
accession to the European Union.
We are starting the fifth years with
our borders open to the Schengen
zone and impatiently waiting for
the EU funds for the years 2007-
2013. Even though the 1st of May
is an important date in the history
of Poland, we are slowly getting
used to the fact that the
successive anniversaries of
Poland’s accession to the EU are
not accompanied by a lot of
publicity, official ceremonies, or
big feasts with fireworks and
popping bottles of champagne.
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women
Wp³ywowe kobiety s±
kobiece a praca to
biznes.
Interview with Jolanta
Kwa¶niewska and
El¿bieta Penderecka,
by Maja Kluczyñska
As in any other game,
there are some rules
and some limitations,
there are winners and
losers.
Read more...
Best place on
Earth
Najlepsze miejsce na
¶wiecie – an interview
with Zbigniew Tyszka,
owner of M³yn Klekotki
by Anna Kosowska-
Czubaj .
Jak zrodzi³ siê pomys³,
by M³yn Klekotki
przemieniæ w
nowoczesny obiekt
hotelowy?
Ten pomys³ do¶æ d³ugo
rodzi³ siê w mojej
g³owie. Sam obiekt
kupi³em do¶æ
przypadkowo
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Article 23
You understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a country! What is it
then?
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The
persistence of
a long-distance
runner
Aldona Zab³ocka
During the four years after joining the EU, a lot of changes have
happened in Eastern Europe but the key one is the change in
people's mentality. Here is a subjective review of changes that
have taken place in Poland and other countries of the EU that
joined the EU at the same time.
Read more...
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Opinions
Jolanta
Szymanek-
Deresz
I don’t like
guesswork
I don’t feel good when I have to
spend time with persons who
constantly try to guess what would
have happened if... My impression
is that today, on the anniversary of
Poland’s accession to the
European Union, guesswork is
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In 2000, during the European Union’s Lisbon summit, when it was
decided that in the next ten years the EU would have ,,the most
competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy” capable of
constant development and of decreasing the gap in the standard
of living of its citizens, Poland was not yet a member of the ,,
European family”. And now?
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Balkans: “the
Rubik cube” of
the European
Union
Beata P³omecka, a Polish Radio correspondent in Brussels
Some states recognized Kosovo's independence immediately,
others took their time, still others were against it: the conflict over
the new-born Balkan state divided the European Union and
showed that the Community has a hard time finding compromise
in foreign policy.
Read more...
Russia:
Europe's
chance and
challenge
Specially for EU Magazine: Zdzis³aw Raczyñski, former advisor
to the president of Poland, former director of the Eastern Policy
Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Read more...
Julia Pitera
It’s not so scary
The time is flying
by! The day when
Poland regained
independence after nearly half a
century of subjugation is still
recent history. Back then, it
seemed that we can only dream of
achieving anything else. Few
people even thought that after a
few more years we would not only
be partners in the most important
international organizations but
also that our citizens would be
able to freely travel throughout
Europe without borders.
Ryszard Czarnecki
From Poland’s
partitions to
European
currency
In 2004, Poland became a
member of the European Union.
Fifty years earlier we were
building socialism in the People's
Republic of Poland, which was a
country ruled from Moscow. One
hundred and fifty years earlier
Poland was divided into three
parts, the Spring of Nations (1848)
had just ended, and another hope
for Poland's freedom was broken.
Tadeusz Cymañski
A matter of style
and precedence
Of all the important
issues taking place
in the recent days, the one that
struck me is that concerning the
efforts of the PO and the SLD to
remove Ewa Sowiñska, the
Commissioner for Children’s
Rights, from her office. Does it
make sense to express an opinion
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A thousand
years that went
to waste
Pawe³ Strzemiecki
A thousand years of raising border landmarks, putting up border stones, laying barbed wires –
even with high voltage, as in Berlin – cutting out the vegetation, plowing and harrowing of the
frontier line, of watch-towers for guards armed with arches, spikes, and swords, and later with
machine guns, binoculars, flashlights, and cameras. Not to mention the electronic monitoring,
infrared equipment, lasers, and whatever else humans ever invented. All of that has just gone
to waste.
Read more...
Sing Before
Breakfast
Pawe³ Strzemiecki
In unison and on the same wavelength resounded the chorus of eulogists of the wisdom of the
27 heads of the EU states and governments who endorsed the Reform Treaty in Lisbon in
October. Allegedly the institutional paralysis ended, the Union will acquire flexibility and
swiftness in action, because, after all, not for six, but for thirty months the Commission will be
headed by the President and the EU’s high representative for foreign policy and defence, and
41 decisions will be taken by qualified majority. And two weeks before the end of the year, the
Union leaders will meet in Portugal’s capital again, to sign this document. Next, member
countries will ratify it, and in 2009 the treaty will enter into force.
Read more...
Learning to
employ the
Union
prof. Dariusz Rosati, member of the European Parliament, former
minister of foreign affairs
What will the new cabinet have to reconstruct in Poland's policy towards the
European Union or, in a broader sense, towards Europe? Besides a large
number of details, there is one general issue: to restore Poland's image of a
country that is ready to cooperate, understands the idea of European
integration, is willing to play a constructive role and to abandon its self-imposed isolation, its
fears and obsessions about Europe.
Read more...
Turkey in the
European
Union?
concerning a person who has
been treated rather harshly by the
media and was accused of acts
that brought discredit and ridicule
to her office?
Andrzej Arendarski
Just to spite the
skeptics!
We have happily
celebrated the
fourth anniversary of Poland’s
accession to the European Union.
We are starting the fifth years with
our borders open to the Schengen
zone and impatiently waiting for
the EU funds for the years 2007-
2013. Even though the 1st of May
is an important date in the history
of Poland, we are slowly getting
used to the fact that the
successive anniversaries of
Poland’s accession to the EU are
not accompanied by a lot of
publicity, official ceremonies, or
big feasts with fireworks and
popping bottles of champagne.
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Anna Mariañska
The first battle for the future of Turkey, and maybe of the whole of
Europe, was fought in spring. The battle was about the post of the
president which Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
decided to give to his faithful comrade in the Islamic crusade, foreign
minister Abdullah Gul.
Read more...
There will be
no clash of
civilizations
An interview with Professor Adam Daniel Rotfeld, former foreign affairs minister.
EUM: Are there any more peoples in Europe who would like to have their own state?
A.: We have been living in a period theoreticians call post-Westfalian. In 1648, in Münster and
Osnabrück in Westfalia peace was signed, which ended religious wars and concluded the
period of universalist, medieval Europe where actors on the international scene were not only
states, but also numerous monasteries, churches, cities and duchies. One of the founders of
the modern international law, Hugo Grotius, formulated then the foundation of the functioning of
the international system based on states. The state had to fulfil three basic criteria: to have a
clearly defined territory, population and an effective authority over its territory and its
population. This system had functioned for over 350 years, more or less until the end of the
1990s, when, on the one hand, many states were set up, and on the other, the role of extrastate
subjects was strengthened. Today, there are 192 states in the UNO. Barely a half of them
fulfil the above-mentioned criteria.
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Hanna Gronkiewicz Waltz is trying to convince us
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the best
An interview with the Minister of Science and Higher Education,
Professor Barbara Kudrycka, by Magda Patryas
The Lisbon Strategy assumes that by 2010 Poland will be
spending 3 percent of its GDP on science. We are
spending...
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Szymanek-
Deresz
I don’t like
guesswork
I don’t feel good when I have to
spend time with persons who
constantly try to guess what would
have happened if... My impression
is that today, on the anniversary of
Poland’s accession to the
European Union, guesswork is
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People
believed that it
would get
better
Interview with Micha³ Boni, the head of the Prime Minister's
team of advisors, a Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the
Prime Minister by Magda Patryas.
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Is Euro 2012
just an
illusion?
Pawel Strzemiecki talks to Danuta Hubner, European Commissioner for
Regional Development.
EU Magazine: Does Polish economy really need euro – can we avoid
joining the European monetary system?
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To succeed
Ewa Kopacz, the Minister of Health talks to Ma³gorzata Bogusz and Bartosz
Kwiatek
EUM: The Polish health service needs a miraculous cure. Does a
Minister of Health believe in wonders?
Ewa Kopacz: I believe because I am a believing person. If a wonder in this
ministry is to consist in repairing the healthcare system in Poland, then I
believe in such wonders.
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European
Union is not
USA
Julia Pitera
It’s not so scary
The time is flying
by! The day when
Poland regained
independence after nearly half a
century of subjugation is still
recent history. Back then, it
seemed that we can only dream of
achieving anything else. Few
people even thought that after a
few more years we would not only
be partners in the most important
international organizations but
also that our citizens would be
able to freely travel throughout
Europe without borders.
Ryszard Czarnecki
From Poland’s
partitions to
European
currency
In 2004, Poland became a
member of the European Union.
Fifty years earlier we were
building socialism in the People's
Republic of Poland, which was a
country ruled from Moscow. One
hundred and fifty years earlier
Poland was divided into three
parts, the Spring of Nations (1848)
had just ended, and another hope
for Poland's freedom was broken.
Tadeusz Cymañski
A matter of style
and precedence
Of all the important
issues taking place
in the recent days, the one that
struck me is that concerning the
efforts of the PO and the SLD to
remove Ewa Sowiñska, the
Commissioner for Children’s
Rights, from her office. Does it
make sense to express an opinion
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Interview of Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign
and Security Policy
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We must be
active in the EU
On Polish politics – domestic and foreign – an interview with the
former PM of Polish Republic Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz by Pawe³
Strzemecki.
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CBA’s
ineptitude
serves politics
Anna Mariañska
This whole election campaign is one huge transfer of players
from one team to another, just like before the opening of the
football season. The atmosphere is thick with name calling,
historical reproach, tagging or rather branding of opponents.
Elections are supposed to be about choosing the team that
has the best program for managing the state and organizing
society. But no program battles are being fought.
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¦wiat wed³ug
Gatesa
concerning a person who has
been treated rather harshly by the
media and was accused of acts
that brought discredit and ridicule
to her office?
Andrzej Arendarski
Just to spite the
skeptics!
We have happily
celebrated the
fourth anniversary of Poland’s
accession to the European Union.
We are starting the fifth years with
our borders open to the Schengen
zone and impatiently waiting for
the EU funds for the years 2007-
2013. Even though the 1st of May
is an important date in the history
of Poland, we are slowly getting
used to the fact that the
successive anniversaries of
Poland’s accession to the EU are
not accompanied by a lot of
publicity, official ceremonies, or
big feasts with fireworks and
popping bottles of champagne.
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O kierunkach rozwoju nowych technologii i zmianach w
codziennym ¿yciu cz³owieka XXI wieku pisze za³o¿yciel
Microsoftu – BILL GATES.
Zastanówmy siê, dok±d zmierza technologia, i nie chodzi tu tylko o prze³omy
technologiczne, lecz tak¿e o zmiany w sposobach jej wykorzystania. Zwróæmy uwagê na
to, jak przez ostatnich kilka lat dramatycznie zmieni³o siê postrzeganie Internetu i plików
wideo.
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Poland may
show a new
way for Europe
A visionary and enthusiast. Buys “health” for all the Poles. Wants good and proven solutions
reinstated in the Polish insurance system. Wishes to restructure the National Health Fund and
create the first register of medical services in Europe. Bartosz Kwiatek talks to Andrzej
So¶nierz, the President of the National Health Fund.
Read more...
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the skeptics!
Andrzej Arendarski, prezes Krajowej Izby Gospodarczej, wiceprezes
Eurochambres
We have happily celebrated the fourth anniversary of Poland’s accession to the
European Union. We are starting the fifth years with our borders open to the
Schengen zone and impatiently waiting for the EU funds for the years 2007-
2013. Even though the 1st of May is an important date in the history of Poland, we are slowly
getting used to the fact that the successive anniversaries of Poland’s accession to the EU are
not accompanied by a lot of publicity, official ceremonies, or big feasts with fireworks and
popping bottles of champagne. There is nothing strange to it. After four years, our presence in
the EU is no longer something unusual, it is a fact of life (and the life is not as terrible as the
pre-accession "prophets" claimed it would be). Results of polls (such as the one which the
CBOS conducted in may last year, which confirmed a nearly 90% support for Poland’s EU
membership) demonstrate the popular acceptance of our country's participation in the
unification of Europe. The Union must be “all right” if even Father Rydzyk has applied for EU
funds to expand his Higher School of Social and Media Culture, as media spitefully reported
upon learning that the school submitted an application for a subsidy (as we know this
application has been questioned, but that's a different story).
It would seem that the times when anyone needed to convince people about the benefits of
Poland's membership in the European Union are long gone. Unfortunately, the political row
over the Lisbon Treaty and the social reactions it provoked have demonstrated that the choir of
Euro-skeptics are still rehearsing their songs and are only waiting for an opportunity for a public
performance. It’s not so hard to guess that their song is not the “Ode to joy” from Beethoven’s
9th Symphony. Yet again, the opponents of the European Union used demagogy and tried to
scare us with German revisionism, homosexual marriages, and turning Poland into an EU
province. Not only did they criticize the Lisbon Treaty. As usual on such occasions, they also
questioned the sense of our membership in the EU. Can we imagine Poland not being a
member of the EU today? We probably can, but it would most likely be a country where
companies have a hard time keeping up with their European competitors, a country with
underinvested and outdated agriculture, with process plants whose products cannot be sold in
the West because they do not meet European standards. A country with people waiting in lines
not only for American but also for European visas and with lines of cargo trucks waiting for
hours on the western border (we do have similar lines on the eastern border but let us hope
that the EU will solve this problem).
The demagogues may fool us, but numbers and facts won’t. Based on hard data, we can say
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Szymanek-
Deresz
I don’t like
guesswork
I don’t feel good when I have to
spend time with persons who
constantly try to guess what would
have happened if... My impression
is that today, on the anniversary of
Poland’s accession to the
European Union, guesswork is
popular again.
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that Poland has gained a lot by joining the EU. According to a recently published report by the
Ministry of Regional Development, thanks to only the EU funds for the years 2004-2007, Polish
companies have managed to create over 300,000 jobs, and Polish authorities have succeeded
in building nearly 2.5 thousand provincial, district, and commune roads, tens of sewage
treatment plants, etc. The amount of money available in the years 2007-2013 is 67 billion
euros. Thanks to the fact that the EU market is now open to our products, the Polish exports
have increased from 47.5 billion euros in 2003 to over 100 billion euros in 2007. Such
achievements were possible, among other factors, thanks to the influx of foreign investment
attracted by Poland's membership in the EU. This data is now accessible to anyone. It's a pity
that some people don’t bother to look at it.
Julia Pitera
It’s not so scary
The time is flying
by! The day when
Poland regained
independence after nearly half a
century of subjugation is still
recent history. Back then, it
seemed that we can only dream of
achieving anything else. Few
people even thought that after a
few more years we would not only
be partners in the most important
international organizations but
also that our citizens would be
able to freely travel throughout
Europe without borders.
Ryszard Czarnecki
From Poland’s
partitions to
European
currency
In 2004, Poland became a
member of the European Union.
Fifty years earlier we were
building socialism in the People's
Republic of Poland, which was a
country ruled from Moscow. One
hundred and fifty years earlier
Poland was divided into three
parts, the Spring of Nations (1848)
had just ended, and another hope
for Poland's freedom was broken.
Tadeusz Cymañski
A matter of style
and precedence
Of all the important
issues taking place
in the recent days, the one that
struck me is that concerning the
efforts of the PO and the SLD to
remove Ewa Sowiñska, the
Commissioner for Children’s
Rights, from her office. Does it
make sense to express an opinion
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concerning a person who has
been treated rather harshly by the
media and was accused of acts
that brought discredit and ridicule
to her office?
Andrzej Arendarski
Just to spite the
skeptics!
We have happily
celebrated the
fourth anniversary of Poland’s
accession to the European Union.
We are starting the fifth years with
our borders open to the Schengen
zone and impatiently waiting for
the EU funds for the years 2007-
2013. Even though the 1st of May
is an important date in the history
of Poland, we are slowly getting
used to the fact that the
successive anniversaries of
Poland’s accession to the EU are
not accompanied by a lot of
publicity, official ceremonies, or
big feasts with fireworks and
popping bottles of champagne.
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guesswork
Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz
I don’t feel good when I have to spend time with persons who constantly try to
guess what would have happened if... My impression is that today, on the
anniversary of Poland’s accession to the European Union, guesswork is
popular again. Those who involve in it keep talking about the past (what would
have happened if we had not joined the EU), as if the past was very important, if not the most
important, in Poland's relations with the EU. They seem to forget that we already have a
sizeable collection of experiences that allow Poland to be not only a full member of the EU, or
one who gets a lot of benefits from its membership (a few percentage points of economic
growth, over 300,000 newly created jobs, 2.5 thousand kilometers of new roads, over 80,000
new projects), but also a state that must think of the European Union's continued development
in constructive terms.
We are currently involved in fixing the damage caused by the two countries who rejected the
constitutional treaty. I hope that the issue of the treaty will be resolved by the end of this year
and I am glad that my country is the sixth (out of twenty-seven) that has ratified the Lisbon
Treaty. Now is the time to focus on the Charter of Fundamental Rights which, after all, was
promised to Poles by Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
There are fewer and fewer Euroskeptics in Poland and the fact that they are represented by
such political freaks as deputies Sobecka and Rokita only strengthens my belief that the trust
that Poles have in the EU will only grow stronger.
We do want the Union to develop but we are also aware that it is not an entity that cannot
undergo various crises. Take a crisis of leadership, for example. I have the impression that
what Europe needs is a new visionary who will entice all of us to resolve other crises, such as
the financial, agricultural, energy, or climate one.
What I would like to say to those who like guesswork is: today we must focus on what the
Union is doing and what it should be doing. Ratification of the Lisbon Treaty facilitates that
because the treaty is a good foundation for cooperative action.
After two years of uncertainty, Poland returned to the Union and our ratification of the Treaty
confirms the pro-European approach of Poles. Our standing in the EU is becoming much
stronger and we have new tasks to complete, such as those resulting from our entry into the
Schengen zone or those related to the situation in Eastern Europe (since the EU must define
its approach towards its eastern neighbors) in which Poland can play a very important role.
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Szymanek-
Deresz
I don’t like
guesswork
I don’t feel good when I have to
spend time with persons who
constantly try to guess what would
have happened if... My impression
is that today, on the anniversary of
Poland’s accession to the
European Union, guesswork is
popular again.
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We are also working on resolving our domestic issues. The EU is providing a significant aid
because its huge financial support allows Poland to shift to a higher gear in catching up with
our more developed European neighbors. I believe that, by quickly adopting the common
European currency, Poland will find it easier to define its place in the increasingly globalized
world. In his expose, Prime Minister Tusk said that introduction of the euro will be a capstone of
the efforts to put the Polish economy on the road to full stability and high growth.
I hope that when the time comes to make decisions on adopting the European currency we will
not have to experience a situation similar to that with the Charter of Fundamental rights and
that Prime Minister Tusk will not give in to Mrs. Sobecka, Mrs. Rokita, and Father Rydzyk.
Julia Pitera
It’s not so scary
The time is flying
by! The day when
Poland regained
independence after nearly half a
century of subjugation is still
recent history. Back then, it
seemed that we can only dream of
achieving anything else. Few
people even thought that after a
few more years we would not only
be partners in the most important
international organizations but
also that our citizens would be
able to freely travel throughout
Europe without borders.
Ryszard Czarnecki
From Poland’s
partitions to
European
currency
In 2004, Poland became a
member of the European Union.
Fifty years earlier we were
building socialism in the People's
Republic of Poland, which was a
country ruled from Moscow. One
hundred and fifty years earlier
Poland was divided into three
parts, the Spring of Nations (1848)
had just ended, and another hope
for Poland's freedom was broken.
Tadeusz Cymañski
A matter of style
and precedence
Of all the important
issues taking place
in the recent days, the one that
struck me is that concerning the
efforts of the PO and the SLD to
remove Ewa Sowiñska, the
Commissioner for Children’s
Rights, from her office. Does it
make sense to express an opinion
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concerning a person who has
been treated rather harshly by the
media and was accused of acts
that brought discredit and ridicule
to her office?
Andrzej Arendarski
Just to spite the
skeptics!
We have happily
celebrated the
fourth anniversary of Poland’s
accession to the European Union.
We are starting the fifth years with
our borders open to the Schengen
zone and impatiently waiting for
the EU funds for the years 2007-
2013. Even though the 1st of May
is an important date in the history
of Poland, we are slowly getting
used to the fact that the
successive anniversaries of
Poland’s accession to the EU are
not accompanied by a lot of
publicity, official ceremonies, or
big feasts with fireworks and
popping bottles of champagne.
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have happened if... My impression
is that today, on the anniversary of
Poland’s accession to the
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Julia Pitera
It’s not so scary
The time is flying
by! The day when
Poland regained
independence after nearly half a
century of subjugation is still
recent history. Back then, it
seemed that we can only dream of
achieving anything else. Few
people even thought that after a
few more years we would not only
be partners in the most important
international organizations but
also that our citizens would be
able to freely travel throughout
Europe without borders.
Ryszard Czarnecki
From Poland’s
partitions to
European
currency
In 2004, Poland became a
member of the European Union.
Fifty years earlier we were
building socialism in the People's
Republic of Poland, which was a
country ruled from Moscow. One
hundred and fifty years earlier
Poland was divided into three
parts, the Spring of Nations (1848)
had just ended, and another hope
for Poland's freedom was broken.
Tadeusz Cymañski
A matter of style
and precedence
Of all the important
issues taking place
in the recent days, the one that
struck me is that concerning the
efforts of the PO and the SLD to
remove Ewa Sowiñska, the
Commissioner for Children’s
Rights, from her office. Does it
make sense to express an opinion
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been treated rather harshly by the
media and was accused of acts
that brought discredit and ridicule
to her office?
Andrzej Arendarski
Just to spite the
skeptics!
We have happily
celebrated the
fourth anniversary of Poland’s
accession to the European Union.
We are starting the fifth years with
our borders open to the Schengen
zone and impatiently waiting for
the EU funds for the years 2007-
2013. Even though the 1st of May
is an important date in the history
of Poland, we are slowly getting
used to the fact that the
successive anniversaries of
Poland’s accession to the EU are
not accompanied by a lot of
publicity, official ceremonies, or
big feasts with fireworks and
popping bottles of champagne.
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