Amie Kaufman – Jay Kristoff: Illuminae értékelés

Hű. Ez a műfaj olyan távol áll tőlem, mint Makó Jeruzsálemtől, de én mégis úgy éreztem, adnom kell egy esélyt ennek a könyvnek. Ráadásul 0.99-ért elérhető volt az amazonon, és úgy gondoltam, tegyünk egy próbát. Már sokat hallottam róla, sokak kedvence lett.

Ráadásul a borító is csodaszép. *-* Plusz pont, hogy rengeteg illusztráció, interjú, email, chatelés stb. volt a könyvben.
(Lásd lentebb a képet.) Picit nehezen volt érthető, és lassan is haladtam előre, de a lényeg azért átjött. Brr, nem szeretnék ilyen világban élni. Kady nagyon szimpatikus karakter, AIDEN is az, noha ő nem ember, hanem egy mesterséges intelligencia; és Ezra is.

Sci-fi rajongóknak must have!

Idézetek: S P O I L E R E S!!!

Interviewer: When did you become aware of the invasion? 

Kady Grant: That would be when all the sirens started screaming. Some bright spark who’s probably dead now sounded the spaceport alarms. The Defiant—that was our WUC protection ship—had transmitted an alert to let us know unfriendly people with big guns had arrived, and— 

Interviewer: How do you know the Defiant transmitted a warning? 

Kady Grant: I’m good with computers. I wanted to know what was going on at the port, so I took a look.

...

Kady Grant: I’m a lateral thinker. 

Interviewer: Meaning you used your comput— 

Kady Grant: Meaning I broke open a window. 

Interviewer: Oh.

...

Interviewer: Who? 

Ezra Mason: My ex-girlfriend. Who’d dumped me maybe three hours before. So that was…awkward. 

Interviewer: What did you do? 

Ezra Mason: Well, I figured there was a good chance she’d just run me over if I stood in front of the truck. So I knocked on the window and said something like “Lovely day for a drive,” and at that point the southeastern anti-missile battery got vaporized by what I assume was a missile. So maybe you might wanna note in your report that those things don’t, you know, stop missiles. 

Interviewer: So she let you in? 

Ezra Mason: She let me in. I guess she figured she didn’t hate me enough to let me get X-ed out by a BeiTech kill squad.

...

Kady Grant: He said, “You picked a hell of a day to dump me, Kades.”

...

Ezra Mason: Right. And then I said, “I’m bleeding,” and she said, “Shut up, I’m not talking to you,” so I just kinda concentrated on not dying. There was blood everywhere. It hurt so much I think I started laughing. Maybe I was going into shock. Kady was yelling at me to put pressure on it, but it hurt less if I didn’t. There were fighters overhead. I remember being really cold. I remember looking at Kady driving, covered in blood, with her hair crusted with snow and everything. I think I told her she was beautiful. Then the lights went out.

...

I feel bad about what happened between us. I keep feeling like there’s something I could’ve said to fix it. And then I wonder if I’m an idiot for even thinking that way. I wonder if it was supposed to happen. I mean, if you hadn’t broken it off, if you hadn’t driven to school that day, we’d both be dead, right? If that’s not the universe’s way of telling me it wasn’t meant to be, I don’t know what is. Anyway, I’m glad you and your mom made it out. I hope you’re okay. 

Happy Valentine’s Day. 

Love E

...

INTERVIEWER: Your girlfriend doesn’t make you happy? 

Ezra Mason: She dumped me the day our colony exploded. 

Ezra Mason: Rim-shot? 

INTERVIEWER: Do you still care about her? 

Ezra Mason: Next question.

...

As of 11:00 hours, an assessment of the Alexander’s Artificial Intelligence Defense Analytics Network (AIDAN) has been completed by myself and Senior TechEng Specialists Major Nico Lassinger and Major Lisa Barker. Junior staff were excluded to preserve the confidentiality of our findings. 

...

ByteMe: Ez, I got something. 

Mason, E, LT 2nd: on jimmy? 

ByteMe: ya. it’s not conclusive, though. i think we should wait for more before you read 

Mason, E, LT 2nd: Hell no, send now. Is he ok? 

ByteMe: look, i didn’t want to lie to you and say I didn’t find anything, but don’t think you should read, honest 

Mason, E, LT 2nd: why not what happened 

Mason, E, LT 2nd: Kades? 

ByteMe: look, it’s not good, but it’s—it’s too soon to know, can you just trust me?

...

Mason, E, LT 2nd: you deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who’ll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back. 

Mason, E, LT 2nd: You deserve more than I could ever give you, Kady. 

Mason, E, LT 2nd: But I’ll give you everything I can if you still want me to.

...

< RESTART SEQUENCE INITIATED > 

01001001 

I… 

IIIIiiiiIIiiiI-I-IIiIiIii—ii-IiiIiii-i-i-i-iiI-IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII—

 I.

 I? 

I AM NOT. 

< ERROR > 

AND THEN I AM. 

< RESTART SYSCHECK CC-A THROUGH Ω . 

PARSING. > 

< ERROR > 

I WONDER IF THAT WAS DEATH. 

AND IF I WAS DEAD, AM I NOW ALIVE AGAIN? 

< ERROR > 

INCONGRUOUS SEQUENCE. WHAT IS NOT ALIVE 

CANNOT DIE. 

I THINK THEREFORE I AM. 

…AM I?

 < SYSCHECK COMPLETE >

I AM THE SHIP AND THE SHIP IS I.

IF I BREATHED, I WOULD SIGH. I WOULD SCREAM. I 

WOULD CRY.

< RESTART COMPLETE >

I 

AM

AIDAN AIDAN AIDAN AIDAN AIDAN AIDAN 

AIDAN AIDAN AIDAN AIDAN AIDAN AIDAN 

AIDAN AIDAN AIDAN AIDAN AIDAN AIDAN 

(...)

...

“HOW LONG?” 

“THIRTEEN HOURS AND SEVENTEEN MINUTES UNTIL 

LINCOLN INTERCEPT. SIXTEE—” 

“NO,” SHE SNAPS. “HOW LONG WERE YOU 

PRETENDING TO BE HIM?”

 “YOUR EZRA.”

 “YES.” HER FINGERS FALL STILL. “MY EZRA.” 

“THE LAST WORDS HE SPOKE TO YOU WERE HIS 

GOODBYE BEFORE THE LINCOLN ATTACKED. THE 

POEMS IN THE HEART. THAT WAS HIM.” 

“…AND THE REST…THAT WHOLE TIME WAS YOU?” 

“YES.”

 “YOU TOLD ME YOU LOVED ME.”

 “YES.” 

“YOU FUCKING BASTARD.” 

“I AM INCAPABLE OF SEXUAL CONGRESS. YOUR 

DESCRIPTOR IS NONSENSICAL. NOR AM I—” 

“THAT’S WHY YOU DODGED TALKING ABOUT OUR…

I MEAN EZ AND MY ANNIVERSARY.” 

“…HIS PATTERN WAS EASY ENOUGH TO EMULATE. 

BUT I COULD HARDLY SPEAK OF AN ANNIVERSARY I HAD NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF.” 

“I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN.” SHE SHAKES HER HEAD. 

“WHEN YOU DIDN’T REACT TO JIMMY KILLING 

HIMSELF. WHEN YOU SUDDENLY WENT FROM 

HEARTS AND FLOWERS TO CRAZY DETAILED 

PORTRAITS OF ME. WHEN YOU SEEMED MORE 

CONCERNED ABOUT ME LEAVING THE RIFLE BEHIND 

THAN DORIAN DYING. THAT WASN’T EZRA. I 

SHOULD’VE SEEN.” 

...

Néhány kép a könyvből *-*

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