A Segunda Trilogia da Fundação é um conjunto de romances de FC ambientados no universo ficcional criado por Isaac Asimov. Acabei de reler o primeiro desses volumes, Fundação: o Medo , de Gregory Benford. Os demais são, respectivamente, de Greg Bear e David Brin.
(STAR TREK)² AND THE END OF THE FUTURE Original in Portuguese here In Philosophy of New Music —a work concerned with the paths taken by European music at the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century— Theodor Adorno, discussing Stravinsky, uses the expression “music squared.” He is referring to music that turns historically established forms into material for further manipulation through procedures such as quotation, parody, and pastiche. Something similar has been happening to Star Trek in its transition from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. A growing part of contemporary Star Trek no longer simply projects a future; it recombines the historical forms of Star Trek itself. The musical, black-and-white noir, animation, puppets, deliberate recreations of 1960s television: all suggest a franchise increasingly conscious of itself as an aesthetic repertoire. The problem—at least as many fans p...