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СССР и РФ в зеркале американской фантастики
В 1974 году, в цикле «CoDominium Universe» Ларри Нивена и Джерри Пурнелла было так:
Ну а так вот сегодня, в цикле отца киберпанка Уильяма Гибсона «The Peripheral», говорится о будущем, где рассматривают параллельную ветвь мультиверса:
(Agency by William Ford Gibson, 2020)
Вместо предполагавшихся в 1970х CoDominium и The Imperial battleship Lenin двадцать первый век принес социальные медиа и русских хакеров...
Chronology
1969—Neil Armstrong sets foot on Earth’s moon.
1990—Series of treaties between United States and Soviet Union creates the CoDominium.
2008—First successful interstellar drive tested. Alderson Drive perfected.
2020—First interstellar colonies. Beginning of Great Exodus.
2040—CoDominium Bureau of Relocation begins mass out-system shipment of convicts. Colonization of Sparta and St. Ekaterina.
2079—Sergei Lermontov becomes Grand Admiral of CoDominium Space Navy.
...
(The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, 1974.)1990—Series of treaties between United States and Soviet Union creates the CoDominium.
2008—First successful interstellar drive tested. Alderson Drive perfected.
2020—First interstellar colonies. Beginning of Great Exodus.
2040—CoDominium Bureau of Relocation begins mass out-system shipment of convicts. Colonization of Sparta and St. Ekaterina.
2079—Sergei Lermontov becomes Grand Admiral of CoDominium Space Navy.
...
Ну а так вот сегодня, в цикле отца киберпанка Уильяма Гибсона «The Peripheral», говорится о будущем, где рассматривают параллельную ветвь мультиверса:
“How far back did Vespasian go,” he asked her now, “to initiate this stub?”
“Mid-2015.”
“When is it, there, now?”
“2017,” she said, “fall.”
“Much changed?”
“The outcome of the previous year’s American presidential election. Brexit referendum as well.”
“As the result of his initial contact?”
“Could have been the butterfly effect, of course. Though the aunties, in both cases, lean toward something causing a reduction in Russian manipulation of social media. Which we assume would have had a similar result in our own time line. But without the aunties being able to chew over a great deal of their data, there’s no assigning a more exact cause.”
“Mid-2015.”
“When is it, there, now?”
“2017,” she said, “fall.”
“Much changed?”
“The outcome of the previous year’s American presidential election. Brexit referendum as well.”
“As the result of his initial contact?”
“Could have been the butterfly effect, of course. Though the aunties, in both cases, lean toward something causing a reduction in Russian manipulation of social media. Which we assume would have had a similar result in our own time line. But without the aunties being able to chew over a great deal of their data, there’s no assigning a more exact cause.”
(Agency by William Ford Gibson, 2020)
Вместо предполагавшихся в 1970х CoDominium и The Imperial battleship Lenin двадцать первый век принес социальные медиа и русских хакеров...