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του πλανήτη:

http://www.amazon.com/Return-to-the-Future-ebook/dp/B009Y79N6M

Το 4^ο βιβλίο της 5/λογίας:

Η άλλη αστυνομική και όχι μόνο Λογοτεχνία

Η ΕΝΤΡΟΠΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΔΑΚΡΥΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΒΕΛΟΥΔΙΝΟΙ ΤΡΟΜΟΚΡΑΤΕΣ

Κυκλοφόρησε και σε έντυπη έκδοση.

Το 4^ο βιβλίο της 5/λογίας:

Η άλλη αστυνομική και όχι μόνο Λογοτεχνία

Η ΕΝΤΡΟΠΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΔΑΚΡΥΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΟΙ ΒΕΛΟΥΔΙΝΟΙ ΤΡΟΜΟΚΡΑΤΕΣ

Κυκλοφόρησε σε pdf

Και το 1^ο 5/θήμερο του Μάρτη σε έντυπη έκδοση

Με το σύστημα:

ΔΙΑΒΑΣΕ ΠΡΙΝ ΑΓΟΡΑΣΕΙΣ

Για να κρίνετ αν αξίζει να το αγοράσετε.

Γράψτε μας για να σας το στείλουμε όλο ΔΩΡΕΑΝ: fd@ath.forthnet.gr

Ο christianleonard έγραψε για την αγγλική έκδοση του

ΕΠΙΣΤΡΟΦΗ ΣΤΟ ΜΕΛΛΟΝ

★★★★☆ Return to the Future was a recommendation which came up in the context of philosophical sci-fi, and yup. It does fit the bill. This is a very interesting book, and unlike anything I've read before. The setting is a future world in which everything (with one or two exceptions) is literally figured out. Everything is done, judged, and rated by numbers. Birth, life, death, and everything in between is quantified and optimised according to how things should be. It's perfect. So why is it that people seem to be clinically unhappy? This is the backdrop in a story which does a lot of interesting...

 

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Απόσπασμα από την 3^η έντυπη έκδοση (που ετοιμάζεται)

του μυθιστορήματος:

Ο ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ ΠΟΥ ΔΕΝ ΧΡΕΙΑΖΟΤΑΝΕ ΚΑΝΕΝΑΝ

Έμαθα ακόμα, από τον Ρόλλαν, πως η μοναξιά είναι το πεπρωμένο των όντων, το μεγαλείο τους γιατί ποθούν το ανέφικτο του αντίθετου...».

ΑΠΟΣΠΑΣΜΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΟ ΗΜΕΡΟΛΟΓΙΟ

 

ΕΝΟΣ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΑ

 

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Ø Σκέφτομαι αυτή την άποψη του Σοπενχάουερ: «…Η ουσία του Εγώ συνίσταται στη θέληση για ζωή. Το να γνωρίζουμε ότι όλοι θα πεθάνουμε δεν έχει και μεγάλη σημασία. Το ένστικτο της επιβίωσης εκτός από αιώνιο και γενικό είναι τυφλό και παράλογο. Εκατομμύρια όντα, φυτά, ζώα, άνθρωποι ζουν μονάχα για να ζουν και να συνεχίσουν να ζουν».

Και λέω: Ναι, εκατομμύρια άνθρωποι ζουν, έζησαν έτσι. Κάποιοι όμως έζησαν και πέθαναν προσπαθώντας να κερδίσουν τον τίτλο του Ανθρώπου, δείχνοντάς μας έναν δρόμο. Τον ΔΡΟΜΟ μας.

 

ΑΠΟΣΠΑΣΜΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΟ ΗΜΕΡΟΛΟΓΙΟ

 

ΕΝΟΣ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΑ

 

(1999-2015)

 

2015-02-19 (548)

?Σκέφτομαι: Το γεγονός πως δεν κάνουν δημοψήφισμα με το ερώτημα: Με την Ευρώπη και τους όρους της ΝΑΙ ή ΟΧΙ; Μαρτυρά το που, σχεδιασμένα, μας σπρώχνουν… Έρχονται δάκρυα και πόνος…

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/381261

ΑΠΟΣΠΑΣΜΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΟ ΗΜΕΡΟΛΟΓΙΟ

 

ΕΝΟΣ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΑ

 

(1999-2015)

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? Σκέφτομαι: Το πραγματικό πρόσωπο της χώρας μας έχει αρχίσει να αχνοδιαγράφεται μέσα στην ομίχλη της αυταπάτης μας.

 

ΑΠΟΣΠΑΣΜΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΗΛΕΚΤΡΟΝΙΚΟ ΗΜΕΡΟΛΟΓΙΟ

 

ΕΝΟΣ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΑ

 

(1999-2014)

 

2014-09-28 (524)

 

? Είπε ο Κομφούκιος: «Το να δούμε ποιο είναι το Δίκαιο και όχι το συμφέρον μας, αυτό είναι ανδρεία».

 

Και ξανασκέφτομαι: Ναι. Η ανδρεία (και το αίσθημα δικαίου και αλληλεγγύης) ήταν που έλειψε από τη συντεχνία των πολιτικών και των υπολοίπων συντεχνιών, που αρνήθηκαν να  μοιραστούν με το 1.400.000 ανέργους του ιδιωτικού τομέα, αλλά και τις επόμενες γενιές το κόστος του παράλογου δανεισμού που, για χάρη των συντεχνιών έγινε, και τραυμάτισε τη χώρα μας. Τη θλιβερή, αλλά αγαπημένη χώρα μας, όπου οι μη ανήκοντες σε συντεχνίες πληβείοι πληρώνουν 300+ φόρους υπέρ τρίτων! Και κανένα κόμμα (ούτε καν αυτά που τάχα μου υπερασπίζονται τους αδύναμους και φτωχούς) δεν ζήτησε να καταργηθούν! Ναι, η δυνατότητα να επιβάλεις σε βάρος των άλλων το συμφέρον σου, είναι η κυρίαρχη φιλοσοφία που επικρατεί, κρυμμένη πίσω από ανθρωπιστικά πολιτικά πιστεύω.

 

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/381261

 

 

 

Είπαν για την Αγάπη εδώ:

http://www.lifo.gr/team/readersdigest/34527

Αγάπη είναι το αγκάλιασμα όλων με όλους, στην πορεία μας προς το Επέκεινα, μέσα στην αινιγματική όλο πόνο και αίμα έρημο της Ύπαρξης, ξανασκέφτομαι…

Τι είναι;

31^η  Άποψη (από 117):

Η Kathleen είπε:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13413155-return-to-the-future

Feb 11, 2012HYPERLINK "https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1513908-kathleen" \o "Kathleen"Kathleen rated it 5 of 5 stars

 

Shelves: science-fiction

 

So I found this book in a used book store in San Jose, no ISBN, no identifying numbers whatsoever except the Greek publisher's mark in the cover, and I've never seen this author's work anywhere else. I take it this book is a rarity (and I've seen it called a "curiosity" when I google it) these days.

Paul Di Filipo says on Sfsite.com:
31,450,670. No, that's not a mistranslated title to Alfred Bester's famous story, "5,271,009." It's the actual name of the protagonist of the debut novel by a talenthttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show/261826280So I found this book in a used book store in San Jose, no ISBN, no identifying numbers whatsoever except the Greek publisher's mark in the cover, and I've never seen this author's work anywhere else. I take it this book is a rarity (and I've seen it called a "curiosity" when I google it) these days.

Paul Di Filipo says on Sfsite.com:

31,450,670. No, that's not a mistranslated title to Alfred Bester's famous story, "5,271,009." It's the actual name of the protagonist of the debut novel by a talented Greek sf author who is, sadly, little-known in Anglophone territories. Diamandis Florakis, still with us today, produced ten novels in his "Decalogy of Eschatological Utopia,"... If subsequent volumes rival the first, it's a monumental accomplishment.

With a definite Age of Aquarius vibe, the novel still remains timely, pondering such eternal conundrums as this: "Murdering, they spoke of peace; in envisioning peace, they warred." Stylistically reminiscent of Zamiatin, Lem, Bunch, and van Vogt, the book reads like the libretto for the next great rock opera by the Flaming Lips.
-sfsite.com

Here's my favorite passage:

"Did we ever happen, when communicating with beings of higher intellect, to ask them whether God exists?" asked a pupil.

"of course; this was one of our first questions," replied the teacher.
"And what did they reply?" the pupil asked again.
"That there is a third condition beyond the yes or the no concerning God's existence - a view they expressed for us in a mathematical equation."

"Have we solved this equation?"

"Not yet, because they are still dictating it to us."...

"Was it not possible to express the equation in a more condensed form?"
"Of course it was. But this would require an intelligence 81 times higher than that of the most intelligent human being."

-pg 52

THIS PART CONTAINS SOME MILD SPOILERS- PURISTS BEWARE
This book is so weird- at some moments it's so fast-paced and cataclysmic it almost seems Axe-Cop-esque; I mean like as though a 5-year-old boy thought this up (a whole planet-full of people are crucified by attackers, the robots become angry and slay all the attackers, then they grow remorseful for what they did and all commit suicide-- all in one paragraph, practically-- robots committing suicide!)
But this book is also highly philosophical- it culminates with one population which is striving to be "genuinely evil" exterminating a population which is striving to be "pure good" - and both sides seem at different times to be trying to PROVE that they are truly good and truly evil, and both sides encounter difficulties with this! The leader of the truly evil side finds himself realizing that he LOVES destruction, and that he therefore has something in common with his foes in that he LOVES-- and on the other side, the "good" leaders wonder whether they ought to retaliate by exterminating the evil population, which they could easily do, but this would compromise their ethos- even restricting others freedom of choice would be contradictory to their desire to be pure good. Thus in this book, goodness can only prove itself by way of self-sacrifice: in fact, the book goes so far as to propose that true and absolute goodness would sacrifice itself to save evil-- a rather extreme view, it seems to me, but interestingly executed. It is interesting that both those striving-to-be-evil and those striving-to-be-good find themselves grappling with how not to be tainted with their opposite, and evil seems not to be able to absolutely extract itself from good completely, while good has a way to extract itself from evil: through self-sacrifice, which is argued as a kind of absolute pinnacle of goodness.

I find alot of what Florakis has to say about good and evil very interesting, though I don't find myself agreeing whole-heartedly with what seems to be his view on the absolute-good, but I do appreciate a sci-fi novel that dives fully into the realm of philosophy and transcendental thought, and I think he executes it very well. For me personally, Florakis' ideas on goodness as that which would sacrifice itself for evil (which, logically, means that goodness will self-destruct as soon as evil enters the picture) makes me think back on this particular depiction of heaven and hell which I think might have begun in Medieval art and I think has continued in the present day. In this depiction, the saints and 'saved' are in heaven looking down on the sinners who are suffering in hell; and those looking down from heaven seem to have no reaction at all, or at times are even jeering at what they see. I feel like I still hear people refer to this idea in speech: "I'll be in heaven laughing when you're burning in hell!" I can still remember being a kid and hearing this kind of talk and thinking, if there was a person that was completely good, like angelic, and if they were shown people suffering in hell, they would surely say 'someone do something! help those people!', they would certainly never laugh at the sight- and perhaps, if they were really truly good, they would even say 'take me in their place!' but this is never the kind of scenario which seems to arise in stories of heaven and hell. (Really that whole depiction always seemed more like an elaborate revenge fantasy than anything else). So for me, Florakis' whole trajectory of goodness-as-self-sacrifice makes me think back on that picture of heaven and hell and how contradictory it always seemed-- and it makes me wonder whether Florakis is contemplating, commenting on, or reacting against Christian ideas of heaven and hell. It's possible.

All in all, a very very strange book, but I do think there is alot of very interesting thinking going on in it and it is very interesting to watch how Florakis takes this crazy extreme story and makes this deeply Philosophical statement through it, and plus there's lots of very interesting anecdotes and phrases throughout the book (note, this edition that I've got is absolutely LITTERED with typos, misspellings, and possibly translation errors, but I think the book I've got went through odd venues to get published) And I do think I

will read it again in the future, because I think this is the kind of book that gives you something different each time you return to it.

http://www.amazon.com/Return-to-the-Future-ebook/dp/B009Y79N6M

Ο τυχερός της 155^ης χιλιάδας δεν παρουσιάστηκε.

Πάμε για την 160^η  χιλιάδα με το ίδιο δώρο.

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