stormy-mondayDanke für den Tipp, Nicht_vom_Forum. Scifi geht nicht so an mich, dafür „Die letzten ihrer Art“ umso mehr. Wobei die Sprengung der Erde wegen einer Umgehungsstrasse schon lustig ist.
Adams nutzt SF eigentlich nur als Aufhänger. Der Plot ist völlig egal und dient nur als Gerüst für seine Beobachtungen der allgemeinen menschlichen Absurditäten der modernen (also ungefähr Mitte der 70er bis Ende der 80er) Gesellschaft.
Ich lasse mal einige Zitate aus der Anhalter-Trilogie da:
zuletzt geändert von nicht_vom_forum„The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.“Über die lauteste Band der Galaxis:
„Their songs are on the whole very simple and mostly follow the familiar theme of boy-being meets girl-being beneath silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason.
Regular concert goers judged that the best sound balance was usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles away from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves played their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship which stayed in orbit around the planet – or more frequently around a completely different planet.““In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
„The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.“
„A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.“
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Reality denied comes back to haunt. Philip K. Dick