Reviews and Comments

After a half, it's good ... classical Cixin with mindf**king ideas.

Fino se mi zdi, da zgodbe niso povsem neodvisne druga od druge. Nekatere so ohlapno povezane, preko kakšnega dogodka, predmeta. Najboljša mi je Izpit (za mesojedce), ki bi ga kar takoj uzakonil. Njegove kratke zgodbe me bolj pritegnejo, kot romani. Kaj pa vem, zakaj. Morda zaradi raznolikosti in ker so 'straight to the point'. Skoraj vse se zaključijo presenetljivo. Še več, nekatere so krožne - konec je povezan z začetkom. Vse so mi dale misliti.

Fine kratke zgodbe. Zadnje čase mi bolj sedejo kot dolgi romani. Manj navlake.

I almost like his short stories more than full books. Less slack.

Until now I liked the best the following 2 short stories: - Village teacher - Sea of dreams Not my cup of tea: Full Spectrum Barrage Ramming.

I still like that every story is built around a central astrophysics phenomena. I found out that many ideas from these stories are later re-used in the Three body problem. Or maybe it was vice-versa?

The strong point of stories is that they induce a strong feeling of hopelessness in me.

Če bi to knjigo bral kot najstnik, bi mi verjetno sedla. Sedaj pa... niti ne. Nenehno poudarjanje, kako je treba biti močan in pregristi skozi težave diši po toksični moškosti. Avtor se še posebej pohvali, kateri deli so resnični, da slučajno ne bi spregledali imenitnosti njegovega osebnega potovanja. Ok, saj smo dojeli, da je svoje potovanje zapakiral v roman.

The 'walking' part is poetic and a nice read. I can't identifiy with the narrator constant drinking and attitude towards women. A bohemic and drunk life is not romantic as someone might imagine. It's also not the hard way. The hard way of living is to accept the responsibility (if you decided to have a family) and live in the system. If you don't want responsibility, then don't make a family, and no one will get hurt, as simple as that. Damn, I sound like old people.

Original title: Gå. The book started with some witty remarks about one's profession and writing that I can identify with. "If the (writing) idea is good, it's impossible for me to write it down."

Po 4. zgodbi se sprašujem, zakaj se vse nagrajene zgodbe v tej antologiji dogajajo v Ljubljani. Ali so res vsi pisatelji iz Lj ali je komisija podzavestno pristranska ali kaj tretjega? Zgodbe so ok, samo vedno ista lokacija je precej sitna.

It's rare to see a man talk openly about his vulnerabilities, personal faith, mourning and creativity process. It's far more common for a man to drug himself to death than to talk about the pain. That's why we need such books.

Could be shorter, it starts repeating after 3/4.

Redkost je, da moški govori o svoji ranljivosti, osebni veri, žalovanju in kreativnosti na takšen odprt način.
Bolj pogosto se moški raje zadrogirajo do smrti, kot bi govorili o bolečini. Ravno zato nujno potrebujemo takšne knjige.

Lahko bi bila krajša, po 3/4 se začne ponavljati.

I found the physics-related ideas very exciting, although probably not true. It doesn't matter. Good sci-fi aims to excite the mind, and this book achieved that. In several places of this book I thought: "I've never thought this way." Physics-related parts are mind-provoking. I found social and relationship parts less so. It's too bad that the author confirms man-woman stereotypes such as: woman will cry even if previously shown as a strong character, and men will never show tears. This can be quite damaging (to men), maybe it's related to the author's cultural background. The sci-fi ideas are further developed in his 3body problem.

Macro-electrons? The effect of a good sci-fi: The book made me google it but found nothing about it.