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    Outros Dias, Outros Olhos (Argonauta #457) -

    Bob Shaw

    Livros do Brasil
    1995
    224 páginas
    7h 28m
    ISBN-13: 9789723814989
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    "Other Days, Other Eyes", 1972. Bob Shaw, um dos mais prolíficos e respeitados autores britânicos de ficção-científica, é já bem conhecido dos leitores desta colecção, bastando recordar, por exemplo, Os Balonautas (nº408 e nº409), As Naves de Madeira (nº439 e nº440), Os Mundos Fugitivos (nº447 e nº448) e A Era das Aves 8nº454). Agora, em Outros Dias, Outros Olhos, surge Alban Garrod, cientista e detective-amador, que cria um novo tipo de vidro - slow-glass (vidro lento), que grava e armazena os acontecimentos vistos através dele, podendo revelá-los meses ou anos mais tarde. O vidro lento proporciona a Alban fama, riqueza, problemas com a sua vida amorosa e perigo, muito perigo, quando o Governo, como um super Grande Irmão, pretende usar micro-captores para espiar todos os aspectos da vida dos cidadãos. A história de Alban Garrod inicia-se com ele ao volante de um potente Turbo-Lincoln: A princípio, o outro carro não passava de um minúsculo ponto vermelho de sangue ao fundo da auto-estrada, mas mesmo a grande distância - e apesar do clarão provocado pela íris em forma de buraco da fechadura do seu olho esquerdo - Garrod conseguiu identificar o ano e o modelo. Era um Stilleto de 1982. Levado por uma apreensão ilógica, levantou um pouco o pé do acelerador, reduzindo a velocidade de 150 km/h a que tinha vindo a conduzir, em média. Apesar da moderação do movimento, a turbina emitiu um gemido de desapontamento mecânico. - O que sucedeu? A sua mulher tinha ficado previsível e instantaneamente alerta. - Nada. - Mas por que motivo abrandaste? Esther gostava de controlar todas as suas propriedades, categoria em que incluía o marido, e o seu chapéu de aba larga rigidamente envernizada fez alguns movimentos de investigação, como a antena parabólica de um radar.

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    Bob Shaw

    Bob Shaw, born Robert Shaw,[1] (31 December 1931 – 11 February 1996) was a science fiction author and fan from Northern Ireland, noted for his originality and wit. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 1979 and 1980. His short story "Light of Other Days" was a Hugo Award nominee in 1967, as was his novel The Ragged Astronauts in 1987. Shaw was born and raised in Belfast, the eldest of three sons of a policeman.[2] He learned of science fiction at about 11 years old when he read an A. E. van Vogt short story in an early edition of Astounding Science-Fiction magazine. He later described the experience as being more significant and long-lasting than taking LSD.[3] He attended Belfast College of Technology.[4] In 1950 he joined the group Irish Fandom which met at the house of James White, another Northern Irish science fiction writer, on Upper Newtonards Road. The group was influential in the early history of science fiction fandom and produced fanzines Hyphen and Slant, to the latter of which Shaw contributed material.[2] Shaw acquired the nickname "BoSh" during this period.[5] He published his first science-fiction short story in 1951, followed by several others. He gave up writing and went with his first wife Sadie (née Sarah Gourley) and their son and two daughters to live in Canada from 1956 to 1958. His novel Vertigo is set in Alberta, and Orbitsville's limitless grasslands may have been influenced by this period in his life.[6] Originally trained as a structural engineer, he worked as an aircraft designer for Short and Harland, then as science correspondent to The Belfast Telegraph from 1966-1969, and as publicity officer for Vickers Shipbuilding (1973-1975), before starting to write full-time. In April 1973, during the Troubles, Shaw and his family moved from Northern Ireland to England, where he produced the majority of his work: first to Ulverston, then to Grappenhall in Warrington. Sadie died suddenly in 1991 and Shaw lived alone there for some years. Shaw had nearly lost his sight through illness, and suffered migraine-induced visual disturbances throughout his life. These, and references to eyes and vision, appear as a theme in some of his works.[5] He was known as a drinker, and at one stage considered himself an alcoholic.[7] He was quoted in 1991 as saying: "I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction." He married American Nancy Tucker in 1995 and went to the US to live with her, then returned to England in the last months of his life. Shaw died of cancer on 11 February 1996.[

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