Автор:Damien Broderick Год: 2015 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 174 ISBN: 9781479404735 "Before Isaac Asimov's first novel Pebble in the Sky, there was "Grow Old Along with Me," its original version lost in a library vault for nearly 40 years. Before Sir Arthur C. Clarke's masterpiece The City and the Stars there was Against the Fall of Night. Clarke wrote: "I assumed that new version would completely replace the older novel, but [the original] showed no tendency to fade away; and indeed... some readers preferred it to its successor." And before the 2002 Year's Best award winning Transcension, there was The Valley of the God of Our Choice, Inc., a rousing adventure of a future culture clash between machine-hating fundamentalists and haughty high-tech urbanites. For years, this germinal novel was lost in a series of unfortunate events. Now it's been recovered from an old disk, and lets us see two views of the same unfolding future. It's a wildly fun and often funny story of dangerous romance between farmboy Mathewmark and daredevil Amanda (not to mention the buzzing...