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 that discusses the paths taken by European music at the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century—Theodor Adorno, in reference to Stravinsky’s compositions, uses the expression “music squared.” He means music that prefers to manipulate historically established forms 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 is no longer simply fiction projecting a future, but fiction recombining the historical forms of Star Trek itself. The musical, black-and-white noir, animation, puppets, the deliberate recreation of 1960s television: all of this suggests a franchise increasingly conscious of itself as an aesthetic r...