Ian McDonald - Bespuće
Desolation Road
Od prve stranice autor otvara začudni svet dvostruke fantastike: prva je ona standardno naučnofantastična (dakle, druga planeta, tehnologija daleke budućnosti koja određuje međuljudske odnose, tačnije modifikuje njihove osnovne interakcije), a druga je primarna, mitska.
It is the story of a community that grows systematically from founder to boom town to bust. On a Mars far in the future, a Mars just recently – over the last 700 years - made habitable for humans by the Remote Orbital Terraforming and Environmental Control Headquarters, ROTECH, Desolation Road comes into being in a place it should not be, at an oasis that should not have been, next to a railroad track.
